Aaron Aiken

Starting the next scarf 🧣 Will be making a bunch of these in various colors as Christmas gifts 🧶 🎄

Grateful Log

1. 8 hours of sleep
2. A new week, Monday’s are the best day of the week
3. A fun different day with Mozzie yesterday

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/U1oFjHWmG…

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Shipping this leather order out today. Will be a fun one to open :-)

• 2 leather fountain pen pouches
• 2 hand-dyed mahogany leather cigar tube cases (with 4 tubes)
• 2 hand-dyed dark brown leather oven mitts
• 150 3.25” hand-cut cigar matches

Grateful Log

A stack of cherry wood parts to eventually become a tool tote (photo from 2020).

1. Making things
2. Finishing large/complex orders
3. Clarity of the future

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Grateful Log

1. Late night productivity
2. Good coffee
3. The move from full-time salary to part-time hourly is making progress

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Tweaking some things.

Grateful Log

1. Finished knitting another scarf, first one since January 2021
2. Time with Mozzie yesterday
3. Positive conversations with Lindsay

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: https://youtu.be/eZbfmVZJM8I

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Grateful Log

1. Being able to remind myself of my goals, what I am working towards
2. Good evening with Mozzie
3. Morning pages to plan the day

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: https://youtu.be/-DvX7C4XxHQ

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Grateful Log

1. Getting an early start
2. Having a backup shower head
3. Today is not yesterday

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/E2O2SY828…

Time for more coffee ☕️

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🌪️ Insane morning so far.

🌪️ Insane morning so far.

Starting a new scarf 🧶

Grateful Log

1. Had a good football weekend with Mozzie
2. Actually had some downtime yesterday
3. Idea for a new leather product

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How and where a lot of my leather ideas start out, after a few days of percolating in my head. Once I get this one to a good spot will likely look for a few folks to beta test.

Outside.

Grateful Log

1. Church
2. The way I’m feeling about things right now
3. Time and space to just be

The custom stamp on this leather cigar case 😍

Grateful Log

1. Massively productive day yesterday
2. Rainy weather today
3. The weekend

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iPhone 15 Pro Max delivered earlier today and just now setting it up. Starting from scratch this time around.

Long but successful Friday.

Wine and John Wick Chapter 4 now.

Focused day. Catching up on @HemisphericViews as-well :-)

Grateful Log

1. Rediscovering past interests
2. Morning pages
3. Planning, even if late

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/GbVRmj2jM…

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Grateful Log

1. Excellent sleep last night
2. Having a flexible schedule
3. Striving to keep things simple

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/k4TkMBa_g…

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Grateful Log

1. Getting closer to having some sense of what the future will look like
2. Bike ride with Mozzie last night
3. Jabbering with him and Lindsay around the kitchen table last night, way past his bed time

Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/9jSIqINdm…

Grateful Log

• Submitting my resignation went well
• Out early to write at the diner before breakfast with my brother
• Honest conversations

(Have begun to roll these into a daily vlog/podcast of sorts, I think :-) Audio file is included, also video here if you’d like: youtu.be/2iMArs4p-…)

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A few more photos of the leather wallet replica project. First up is one of yours truly measuring and sketching out the original into my notebook earlier this year. Then a few showing the original and replica side-by-side.