Today’s shipments: leather match box (hand dyed in Spanish brown) with 100 hand-carved matches, leather pen case (pens not included). Both a classic part of my portfolio at this point.
🌹 Funeral this morning and afternoon. Did some work before and a few shipments now. Eating a dinner, sitting for a few, then back down to the workshop for the evening.
Accurate. Looking forward to some rest this weekend, hopefully.
Today’s completed projects (so far).
Both hand-dyed. English bridle humidified cigar tube case. Mahogany tobacco pouch, satin-lined.
💆♂️ Massage done. List of areas to work on over the next month determined.
Continuing to enhance. Added two deerskin lace bookmarks.
Will finish this later this evening.
Hard to believe it is that time of year already 🎄🎅🎁
A very simple leather pouch I put together a while ago for keeping various cables and such in one place.
Using the case with a third notebook now (added the 56-week date book from Field Notes).
Grateful Log for Tue, 13 Aug 2024
🥱 Close to 6 hours of sleep, good enough I guess. Odd bad night of sleep, not sure what triggered it.
🙄 Eesh. A sleepless night so far. Brain is too active. Not tired but want to be sleeping.
Planning.
back of the napkin scribbles vol. 1
1.75 hrs of hand-dying reduced to 27 seconds.
Late night stamping. Dye will be applied (to A LOT of projects) tomorrow.
Saturday. Pancakes & Monopoly.
Grateful Log for Sat, 10 Aug 2024
Grateful Log for Fri, 09 Aug 2024
🌧️ Lots of rain today. Great day to focus!
Another Strathmere bag in progress.
Doesn’t take long for me to get carried way 🙈
Thinking these will fall into an “accessory” item of the Strathmere Leather line. Going to keep using mine to see how things hold up, so far very pleased with it.
☁️ Boots on. Harry Potter playing in the background. Drinking water then switching to coffee. “Back half of the year” vibes are beginning to kick in.