Aaron Aiken

Time for some magic 🪄

💆‍♂️ Massage done. Everything back where it needs to be.

Will be adding photos later today.

✅ ok, just a wall of text for now, but have the site published for those that would like to do some reading: https://theoceanfrontbag.com

💻 Working on a dedicated website for the new Ocean Front bag in the Strathmere Leather product line. Keeping it dead simple, keeping the assets simple, using what I have (photos only at this point), and will hopefully just get the thing up later this evening.

Current status.

Grateful Log for Tuesday July 16, 2024

1. Quick bike ride to this morning’s writing spot
2. 8 hours of sleep
3. Mozzie’s ideas

Grateful Log for Monday July 15, 2024

1. Great weekend with Mozzie
2. Successfully and fully disconnecting from work for the entire weekend
3. Making a pancake breakfast for Mozzie and I before he left for VBS this moning

Grateful Log for Saturday July 13, 2024

1. Friends over last night, good time catching up
2. Almost ended the week getting everything finished
3. Good pool forecast for this weekend.

🥃 working on a few things

☺️ doing good.

Grateful Log for Thursday July 11, 2024

1. Yesterday’s productivity
2. Not worried about pleasing or impressing
3. The no-stress mindset that I’ve had now for the past few weeks

Back to cigar cases

telling me to go 🌊

Grateful Log for Wednesday July 10, 2024

1. Another successful extraction from my brain and into reality…Ocean Front, another bag to add into my portfolio, turned out great!
2. Excellent sleep
3. The hot and humid weather we’ve been having!

Finally get a chance to flip this thing right side out! Excited!

visualizing.

Another extremely enjoyable project to get out of my head, onto paper, and made in the real world. Will go through final assembly tomorrow: Ocean Front. A few teaser photos below.

The best part ✏️📓

Creating new things, that’s what I love to do.

The next product in The Strathmere line is going to be called Ocean Front.

Grateful Log for Monday July 8, 2024

1. Great pool day yesterday
2. More great sleep
3. A new week

interactions

I walked into the lake house weighed down with bags. Everyone ooo’d and ahh’d about my tan. “You must be traveling, you look so tan!” I’m just looking for a place to put everything. My dad is watching tennis on TV (when is he not watching tennis on TV?), he speaks up, “He goes to a tanning salon.” I try to explain that I don’t over the Summer, I go to the pool over the Summer and enjoy very much my time in the sun. “Oh, you’re going to get skin cancer,” they all exclaim. My dad again, “I don’t support it either.”

Grateful Log for Sunday July 7, 2024

1. A great time with Mozzie at the lake yesterday
2. Still had time for a pool sesh beforehand
3. Hand delivering a customer’s order

Grateful Log for Saturday July 6, 2024

1. Wrist is getting better
2. Design for the next bag in the Strathmere line is coming together pretty well.
3. Ideas