56 posts tagged “work”

Because I LOVE Brian, his line and the amazing show he put on.. here's the video from the Femme Athletic show atr Axis-Radius, May3 08

Franci and I are sitting on the right hand side, you'll see me pointing obnoxiously at the AMAZING detailing on the clothes.. triple stitched trousers & bras, fabric crosses in the back for support, the cutest tees ever, and def one of the best tennis dresses I've seen in a long time. Check out the full line at FemmeAthletic.com - he also has an amazing line called iFemme.. made to hold your ipod when you're working out. Genius!

Franci and I always manage to run into the coolest people when we're out networking. Good connections were made last night, and what started as a routine networking event, ended up as a night at a local bar in Mesa.

So after a week of manicures, hair, massages & facials.. Franci and I were invited to the launch of the Femme Athletic show. Hosted at Axis/Radius in Scottsdale, it was a great show, with great clothes and great cosmos!

Here are a few pics, taken with my Centro camera... more to come as I find them online

...hey, if you're going to do it, you might as well do it somewhere beautiful. :)

Monday:
8am-12: work in office
12-1: lunch
1-2: personal trainer
2-6: work in office

Tuesday:
7am - 1 hour workout
8am - design newsletter
930am - website/email marketing consult with hip little hair salon
1200-130 - brainstorm in-house email marketing
130-230 - lunch
230 - 5pm - email campaign design for awesome bartending company
5pm-6pm - meeting/follow up with lovely financial advisor
6-645 - dinner
645-11pm - in house marketing campaign design

Wednesday:
8am - website design for client
930 - drive to north end of town
10am - website/directmail/email consult
12 - LUNCH
1 - 3: Brainstorming for client
330-6pm - Feel overwhelemed and as if sleep hasn't happened in years. Remedies this by manicure & massage. Ahh, much better.

Thursday:
630-945 - Meeting with local Chamber of Commerce
10-11 - Personal trainer
1115-1230 - Consult with prospect
1230-130 - Lunch
130-430 - Consult with client who has NINE LOCATIONS (WOOHOO!)
430-6pm - Visit with Kade
6-8 - Wrap up emails, designs, cook dinner
8-10 - Pretend the world doesnt exist and watch GREYs & LOST. Turn off phone. Bless.

Friday:
730am - Conference Call
830 - wrap up blog
830-9 - shower/dress
9-12 - work with client at client location
1230 - HAIR!
130 - Lunch meeting
230 - work on laptop at some coffee shop in Scottsdale with wifi.
345 - FACIAL!
5pm - Home & possible date night. AMEN!

Saturday:
630pm - Networking/Pre-party
830 - Fashion Show at Axis/Radius to support new awesome client
930-?? :  PARTAY! :D

LA VIE EST BELLE, YO!

Life for the past month or so, in photos. Roughly 50 new pictures, ranging from the Ren Fest last month, to a seminar, to a night at Salty's, a trip to El Paso, and of course, some of me and my new lovely VERSA <3 Oh, and can't forget little Harley pup!

Enjoy!

So.. my day didn't go according to plan, but I suppose it going the way it did prevented me from a huge dramatic escapade later this week. First off, I woke up, had a nice quick breakfast and got to work... emails, phone calls, the usual. As I'm getting ready to go to Favorite Client's office, I get a phone call from Old Colleague saying his ex's father is ill, and Oh, I forgot about appointment and can you please watch the kids?
A wrench in my day, but yes, fine, sure. A friend in need, etc etc, right?
So I spend three aggravating and homicide inducing (due to the environment, not the children) in the Chuck E Cheese. Why is there not a warning about places like that? Where the music is so loud you can't hear yourself think and the parents who come up to you and are like "Your kid hurt my kids feelings!" and the way the place turns the most amazing kids into screaming, greedy, crazed maniacs who will lie, cheat and steal to gain the 10,0000 tickets needed to redeem for an eraser that one could easily find at the dollar store, FOR A DOLLAR, and certainly in a pack of 10!
I was unprepared. But I digress.
On the way to return Lovely Children (who really are lovely, I swear) I hear Insanely Loud Screech coming from my beloved Blue Machine (aww, Jeepie<3) I drive cautiously and scared out of my mind to the appointment so he can pick them up. Turn off the Jeep, unbuckle Lovely Children and take a look at the Blue Machine as we're saying goodbye, and yep, there it was.
A puddle. Oh yes! A PUDDLE, coming from my Jeep, pouring onto the ground.
Old Colleague looks down and then at me and says "Yeah, you're not going ANYWHERE."
Oh, great.
So now, my beloved Jeep in stranded in Scottsdale at a clients, while Nick takes me home and I stress the entire way and a good bit into the night as well. I know what the car being stranded in Scottsdale means. NO CAR = NO BUSINESS and then, of course NO BUSINESS = NO MONEY.
Breathe calmly, breathe calmly.
So now, it's 1030 at night, and 2 conference calls later, I'm sketching out site ideas for a foundation as part of a volunteer thing. It will really help get my company name out there. More on that later.

Until then, wish that my car sitch gets resolved by the weekend, or things will REALLY get rough.

Couldn't be more on target!

I redid my home office. I've been spending so much time there, I thought it was time to get it to look decent. That, and since Franci is always here, it makes more sense to have 2 good sized workspaces. The problem was, though, that my office room is quite small... but I think we did a good job, It isn't completely done, but it's about 75% of the way done. Furniture is courtesy RedSeven Computers in Tempe.

The old office:

Workspace for one, big yucky chair, oversized desk with much less useable space than youd think. Big hutch, etc.
And now, the new office:

1. Spending the evening talking work with amazing women in amazing fields. My dear friend Erica invited me to a "Women in Design" networking group tonight and I met women from all different aspect of business, and the common thread was design and a desire to move forward. How refreshing!

2. My business cards. They were a great conversation starter. Remind me to post a picture of them, they are such a cute way to break the ice!

3. Going to a new restaurant. There are so many here in the Valley, it's lovely!

4. Chai. It's freezing out, and nothing warms you up like a steaming cup of Starbuck's Chai tea.

5. Busy days. I can't believe it's 20 to 9 already. I have been up/out since 8am and I didn't even feel the time go by!