It has been a very busy and long week here in SoCal. My husband had his gallbladder out last week which meant he was home this past week relaxing and healing. Something popped this week and made me really focus on Perfectly Paper. We’ve both been slacking the past 5 or 6 months on our new businesses just not doing what we needed to do. This week, nothing but productivity. I made a to-do list on Monday of everything I wanted to get done and it kept growing as the week went on. I managed to work on the flower business every day this week, and mostly that’s all I did. Work during the day, work on the business at night and so far this entire weekend has been filled with productivity. I’m tired and a bit exhausted, but I think it was well worth it! I’ve decided to continue on this path of making smaller, achievable to-do lists each week and I’ll post on Sunday as to what I got done throughout the week. One, to keep my fellow readers informed on what I’m working on, and two, to try and force me to continue being productive knowing that others are watching over me.

So, here was this week’s list (which started out as only the first 5 items and grew along the way):

• Write at least 2 random blog posts – I managed to write 3!
• Write at least 2 blog posts concerning Perfectly Paper – including this one, I did 4
• Corsage – create, photograph, replace photos on Etsy
• Pomander – create, photograph, add Etsy listing
• Send in business paperwork
• Post on Etsy forums at least twice – I did this three times this week, but say in chat rooms twice and attended a virtual lab
• Set up TweetDeck and start using Twitter more – done and done!
• Create and ship new order for Poms
• Redesign Twitter background
• Redesign product tags
• Set up Paypal survey – this I found on the Etsy forums.  You can set up a survey so that your buyers can answer a question.  I chose to ask how people found me so I can get a better idea where my shoppers are coming from.
• Set up shop tracking – this is something I’ll blog more about this next week, but I am tracking my shop hearts, views, unique users as I do more marketing, etc to see what methods seem to create more views for me.
• Create Facebook Ad
• Design Shop page for new web design – this accounted for 15 hours of my weekend – Photoshopped 120 imagines, created 60 pop up windows and 8 gallery pages – lots and lots of work but it’s going to look so great!
• Cut petals – this is what I’ll be doing the rest of the day.  I’ve decided I need a new set of photos for a lot of my roses (they get better looking each time I do them so my photos to reflect that), so I need to make 108 new roses.  It’s going to take a few weeks and a LOT of hours, but I gotta start somewhere!

Whew!  That’s what I’ve been up to this week.  Time to erase the board and make a new to-do list for next week.  I hope I have a ton to report again next Sunday.  I’m expecting some cute little glass bud vases to arrive in the mail this week as I’m going to create listings for single roses in my shop (which means new roses, new photos and new Etsy listings are in my future) and I have a couple new product ideas I want to work on, along with a ton of other great stuff!

Thanks to everyone for reading!  Hope I’m able to keep you intrigued and entertained throughout your week!

And now, a kitty picture: