Costumes!

Well, what a day! Last evening was my open studio night. I hold my studio open on the first and third Thursday of every month and last night was fun. My sister is here to work on some costumes for the Nutcracker (she is the costumer for the Paso Robles Ballet) we painted circus animals and entertained my guests. As well as being an illustrator and designer I also make lampwork beads and design jewelry with them. Last night I put out a bunch of loose beads (about 150) that I had not made into jewelry yet. A woman came in and bought all but about 20 of them!!! I about died! I have a trunk show next week at a local bead store and now I have NO inventory! I have deadlines for Illustration work, costumes to work on and NOW I have to try to generate 200+ beads in 7 days. OK let me pull out the calculator here... I can make 10 - 12 beads in an hour so thats about 20 hours of bead making, thats 3 hours a day! Normally I only make beads for 1 to 2 hours a day....SOOOOOO I guess I will be working overtime this week!!!!