Aaron Aiken

Chiseled, dyed, and oiled the wallet parts today. Tomorrow is balm and assembly!

Grateful Log

• Time with Mozzie last night.
• Breakfast with my brother yesterday.
• Recovery sleep.

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• Monday was a success!
• Idea in the brain to tangible thing in my hand.
• Writing session at the diner this morning.

In the works.

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• Fun time watching football again yesterday, even though the Steelers (Mozzie’s NFL team) did absolutely terrible. The Packers won though (my NFL team), so I’m happy about that :-)
• MONDAY!!!!!
• A good weekend with Mozzie.

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• Strong sale day yesterday
• Good progress on the wallet project, eager to see how it turns out. (Trying to think of a name for it, for when I offer it as an item in my shop…)
• My college football team (Penn State) and Mozzie’s (Michigan) both won yesterday.

Next steps: map each piece on the leather (calfskin for this project) and cut it out. Then shape and mark everything.

First step is telling the story (the size and location of each part) on a “Story Strap”.

I am so excited to get started on this project. Replicating a wallet from c. 1928 that was carried by my customer’s grandfather. He has the original and wants one for himself and his uncle.

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• Prototype of a custom project sent off to a customer to end the week yesterday.
• Starting the next custom project this morning.
• Cloudy mornings.

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• ☕️ Coffee
• ☀️ Friday
• 🏈 Football

Football on. Using the “downtime” to bulk-prep the paper items included with each leather order.

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• Clouds
• Light
• Breath

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• More monopoly last night
• Fresh haircut
• So many ideas

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• Bonus day with Mozzie yesterday
• Passing football with him
• Approaching change

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• More good family time yesterday
• Shabatt
• Babbling on about things I am excited about and being heard

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• Intentional rest
• Creative rest
• Physical rest

A reminder to be kind to yourself. Forgive yourself. Show yourself some grace. Being flawed, making mistakes, is part of being human. Learn from them, do better next time. Be thankful for your present and hopeful for your future.

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• Great end to the work week yesterday
• Having the time and space to completely focus
• Saturday morning coffee

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• One step at a time
• Informed decisions
• That massage yesterday, everything is back where it should be. Good to go for another three weeks.

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• The colors in the sky this morning with the sunrise
• Using time well (thankful for when I do!)
• Massage later today

New custom project in motion. Prototype time.

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• Random but good evening with Mozzie yesterday
• Diving back into the world of SEO and keywords
• Good days

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• Restful sleep
• Productive day yesterday
• Fear

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• A great birthday party for Mozzie on Saturday with his friends and family.
• A great family day yesterday for his actual birthday.
• He’s 10 and we’ve managed to keep him alive so far and, I think, he’s turning into a pretty good human being.