Aaron Aiken

Grateful Log

• Ideas I had while trying to fall asleep (I’m also not grateful for this though)
• Passing football with Mozzie up at the Riverfront Park yesterday
• The awesome weather for this weekend
• Happy October 🎃🍂

For those interested, here’s the leather wallet I finished making recently. Includes a longer video discussing the making process.

Initial leather wallets were a hit. Three more have sold locally 🙂

Ready for assembly.

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• Eventually falling asleep
• A day to focus
• More rain

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• More football with Mozzie last night
• And a quick bike ride after dinner!
• Making progress towards taming the chaos in my apartment

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• Coffee
• Phenomenal sleep
• Passing football with Mozzie

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• Getting organized, such a great feeling
• Rainy and colder weather
• Coffee

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• Successful IKEA trip over the weekend
• Final improvements to the apartment to last until I move out in May
• A new week

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• Finding flow
• Knowing what to do next
• Coffee in the morning

Long but good day coming to an end. Sleep is going to be to be a nice break! Have some news to share, probably in a week or so.

It’s that time of year when I rotate through Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies on in the background while I work.

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• Evening at Church yesterday with Mozzie
• Healthy sleep routine
• The cooler mornings (but still in the sun…I do so miss my Summer mornings outside but appreciate the change in seasons as-well).

I understand the sentiment, but I actually believe to “take back your mind” one needs to simply get out of apps, get off of devices, and simply be.

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• Fresh haircut
• Compliments from a stranger
• Traveling alone

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• Got out for a ride yesterday
• Good sleep
• Being calm

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• Passing football with Mozzie
• Rain
• Getting organized

Before settling into football, going to make a leather case for my study Bible. Been on my mind for a while to do so.

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• Incredible clarity on the immediate future.
• Nice simple bike ride along the river with Mozzie yesterday.
• Breakfast with the “Aiken Men” of the family (a monthly gathering with my dad, uncle, brother, nephew, and Mozzie and I).

And…the wallet! This is the final prototype and I’m very happy with how it turned out. Just a few minor things to tweak. Features hand-waxed thread, completely hand stitched. Dyed by hand, etc etc etc 🙂

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• Friday evenings
• Slowing down on the weekends
• The change in seasons

Thinking wine and Chinese for dinner tonight.

Absolutely thrilled with how this laptop sleeve turned out! Shown with my 13” MacBook Air, also shown with a notebook inside.

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• Great cigar event at the Hill Society last night, awesome time being with friends and making new ones.
• The feeling of having discovered what I’ve been looking for: that thing that aligns passion, skill, and is viable in the market.
• The wallet project…a success :-)

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• Bike ride with Mozzie yesterday.
• His interest in technology.
• The opportunity (coming up) to relate some of my leather processes to something he is learning in school (special guest, homeschool edition).