Lunch Dish

So I’m going to take some time every day to dish about what’s up (at lunch). We still have client from hell right now. Hoping to resolve that – positively if we can, and completely if we can do that too – soon. Meeting with one of our advisors today about it. The project was challenging, but the company culture – which is secretive, and not inclusive – is hampering efforts further. We love challenging projects with clients who are open, helpful and engaged. This isn’t that client. I’m sure it’s culture now. They seem to have a lot of lower-level employees who are not empowered to make decisions or move ahead in their learning or skillsets. Whereas equally challenging project with clients who love their jobs has been a delight. Still difficult technically but they’re ‘let’s brainstorm what we can do together” instead of “we don’t want to be bothered.”In that case we’ve come up with some amazing creative suggestions to get their projects done, and they’ve assigned people to learn and grow with us, who have become an extension of OUR staff in getting the projects done!

I’ve set up a personal social media strategy too – twitter is for crafty and marketing tweets, including RTs designed to attract a craftista audience who has a business on the side and wants to move that ahead. Facebook is a semi personal, crafty post place where I can move ahead the craftista agenda in my life (including promoting friends’ craft blogs & facebook fan pages). Linked in is purely marketing and web biz designed to appeal to prospects and potential clients, as well as present us as experts in our area. I think going to this strategy will help some of my friends move their agendas ahead too.

Personally, I think I’m more settled now than I have been recently. I still love my work minus the PITA client. If I can jettison them, I’m golden. Sales has been fun, even joyful lately.

this summer i really want to slide back into motherhood and move my sewing blog in the space of a fashionista, crafty but not crunchy mama. I’ll have a garden, but still wear designer ballet flats with my skinny jeans. I might cloth diaper, baby wear and breastfeed but I’ll be doing it in a strapless sundress and 3″ wedges. And I’ll be posting about making of things – dresses, diapers, handbags.

I’ll be 41 in the early fall. 41! That’s middle aged! what’s a middle aged mama who looks 15 years younger (even my casual friends cannot believe I’m in  my 40s) doing raising a newborn and a preschooler?! And doing it in size 4 skinny jeans and (nursing) tank tops no less! (hey, the girls haven’t slid too far south, with the right support they’re still at attention).

Back to work! It was a nice dish.

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