Shit is About to Get Real

If you know me, you know the holidays are my favorite time of the year. The music, the lights, the smells…alllll of it! As I write this, I am playing Christmas carols and burning my @thymes Frasier Fir candle. It's a weird dichotomy, all of these things bring me comfort & they equal home to me, however, it also gives me MAJOR anxiety because it means I will soon be doing overnights for @bristolfarms and then going to set up my regular retailers holiday merchandising and decor. Adding to this, I have Stephen Young's new showroom in Vegas that is thrown into the mix as well.

My days will look a little like this:

Going to bed at 5 or 6pm. 

Blackout curtains are a must in order to get to sleep when it's still light out. 

Thank god daylight savings starts literally the night before we start setups. 

Our alarm goes off at 11:30 pm

Get up, have coffee like it's the morning.

Drive to one of the 14 locations, deck the halls

Wrap it up around 5am and drive to either the SY showroom DTLA (January show set up starts now) or to one of my retailers to set their holiday.

Wrap up and head home.

The trick for me in order to actually be able to go to sleep at that stupid early hour is to not go home after Bristol Farms, but to stay awake. By the time I get home, I am so ready to sleep. It gets easier after the first 2 nights. All along, I will be playing my Christmas carols and burning my candle. It's what keeps me in the mood and to be honest, keeps me going. We wrap up just before Thanksgiving. 

If you feel like following along, check out my stories. You can see all the madness first hand as well as watch the bags under my eyes get darker with each day.

xo,

M