A Day In the Life: Kim of BBBellezza

Hello everyone! I am Michelle Harvey, one of the newest contributors for Handmade in PA! I am excited to bring you the “Day in the Life” series, starting with Kim of BBBellezza. Enjoy!

July 15, 2009

6:00 a.m.   Alarm goes off…hit snooze

6:23 a.m.   I finally quit hitting the snooze and get out of bed and get ready for work (I hate mornings, but once I’m up, I love them).

7:20 a.m.   Leave for work at my day job (I am a paralegal)

7:30 a.m.   Check my email for B.B. Bellezza, log into Twitter, check facebook.

8:00 a.m.   Type up 2 blog posts for Outta the Way. My boyfriend and I write a zine and have a blog about traveling to out of the way places.

8:36 a.m.   Since I am actually at work, I start doing some work for my employer. ( I will spare you all the very boring details.)

8:45 a.m.   Realized that I meant to re-open my Etsy Shop, which was on vacation because I took extra inventory to an Open House I had over the weekend.

8:50 a.m.  Back to day job things. While there, I usually am on twitter and check email after I complete tasks or in between work projects. I may be online constantly, but I do actually get a lot of paralegal work done, too. I love twitter since you can check in really quickly.

11:30 a.m. I start to write out my blog post for my upcoming virtual open house (although, by the time you read this, it has already past!)

12:00 p.m. Take lunch break!

1:00 p.m. Back to day job: meetings, preparing documents (see, I told you boring!)

4:00 p.m. I leave my day job and take my boyfriend to work (we’re sharing a car at the moment since mine died!)

4:30 p.m. Finally home. Take a 30 min. break to veg in front of the TV. Normally I would just play a game on Facebook or something like that to chill out.

5:00 p.m. Take photos of new jewelry outside.

6:00 p.m. Taped a video for my Virtual Open House.

6:30 p.m.  Upload photos from earlier photo session and start to edit photos. Lots of photos to edit from previous day, too.

8:00 p.m.  Price and package products to take to the Hodege Podgery.

8:30 p.m.   Leave to pick up boyfriend from work

9:15 p.m.    Eat supper that we picked up on the way home. (Usually I cook something at home, but didn’t feel like it tonight.)

9:45 p.m.    Changed a necklace for someone who needed a different type of clasp.

10:00 pm.   Finally make jewelry!

11:30 p.m.   Bed

I am a graduate of Albright College with a B.A. in Visual & Apparel Merchandising. After years in the fashion/ retail industry, I am now a WAHM. I am a self-taught jewelry designer and owner of Michabella Creations.