Getting ready for the holiday season

Making and selling handcrafted items makes for a strange summer. I have just completed the prototype for a Christmas ornament kit. It's almost 100 degrees outside and I'm in shorts, so gathering up the red and green beads is pretty weird. With this done though, the kits will be printed and packaged and ready to go by September.
It is an odd, but neccessary thing to get the Christmas season underway in the dog days of summer. Right now, my bead tray is full of warm fall colours. I'm working on pieces for fall and Christmas shows.
Hopefully, this will mean that I am prepared for the upcoming holiday season. I've got some shows that I am really looking forward to and some ideas for earrings that I can't wait to try out. Better get back to work!