My first month in business is officially in the books. June flew by! Here’s what I’ve accomplished this month:
Check it off: I am officially official with the local government. I’ve got my permits, licenses, and sales tax IDs on file. Taking care of these three items were my biggies for the month and there were a few moments in the process of filling everything out that made me want to run for the hills. Had I known that I would be visiting the court house so many times in rapid succession, I would have paid closer attention to the tour we took in high school. The more you know!
Bills Bills Bills: I sent out my first round of invoices this month and received a few of my own. What goes around comes around. I actually find that I enjoy the invoicing process. I’m using a cloud-based accounting system that’s easy to follow and is improving my personal accounting habits as well. (In case you were wondering, it’s called Wave. Check it out!)
Tangible Creativity: I’m always designing *something* on my computer, but I took my creativity from digital to physical this month. Here are three new things I created just for me:
- My first mosaic piece. Klimt and his Byzantine-like, mosaic style have long been some of my favorite works of art, long before my first art history class. Not that I’m saying this piece is up there with Klimt, but the gold Venice glass I used reminds me of one of my favorite pieces of his, The Kiss.
- Painting. Blues and golds are some of my favorite colors to combine. I am working on a series of six square canvases painted in various shades of blues, aquas, greens and golds to hang on the “empty” wall in my room. Pictured is the first and I love how it came out.
- Gardening. In its own way, gardening is a creative process. I love the colors and textures of the flowers: spindly lavender stalks that seem to be growing at an alarming rate (on my second round of repotting to give it more room to grow!), vivid impatiens that I saved from “death row” for plants, and big hibiscus flowers that last only one day. There are peaches, pinks, reds, purples, periwinkles and violets all growing on my porch. I’ve been banned from bringing home any others.
Phew! All in all, I think it was a successful month. Now I’m enjoying the holiday weekend and the start of one of my favorite months of the year. Enjoy your 4th everyone!
