{"id":1976,"date":"2011-01-19T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:13:39","slug":"easy-as-1-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/01\/easy-as-1-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy As 1-2-3&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4-5-6&#8230;.127-128-129&#8230;462-463-464&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a counter.  I admit it.  I enjoy counting things, and have all my life.  The steps I take on my walk, the pieces of wood I&#8217;m loading into my wood stove, the ceiling tiles in my office.  I usually forget these numbers as soon as they&#8217;ve been counted.  It&#8217;s the act of counting that I find pleasing, not committing the numbers to memory.<\/p>\n<p>This counting habit is rarely bothersome and often comes in quite handy.  Like when counting the stitches in a knitting pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn.jpg\" alt=\"coned yarn\" title=\"coned-yarn\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/coned-yarn-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Counting is not fun at this time of year, though.  Why?  At year end, I have to inventory everything for tax purposes.  I have to count both my raw materials and my completed stock.  For my fiber addiction, this isn&#8217;t overly onerous: cones of yarn and scarves count  relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>For the jewelry end of my business, it&#8217;s another story.  Counting literally thousands of beads in hundreds of stones is amazingly boring and tedious.<\/p>\n<p>Every year I make an improvement to my process, so the job is a little less ugly.  In fact, dreading it is often worse than actually doing it.<\/p>\n<p>This year I dragged the process out, doing it in 4 sections: jewelry raw materials; completed bracelets, necklaces, and earrings; yarn; finished scarves, shawls, and baby blankets.  I didn&#8217;t finish that last piece until this week.<\/p>\n<p>Whew&#8230;I won&#8217;t have to do that for another year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn: what do you put off until you MUST do it?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.v7n.com\/forums\/blogging-forum\/228150-v7n-blog-challenge-participants.html\" target= \"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/v7n-sm.jpg\" alt=\"v7network logo\" title=\"v7network logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"17\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1850\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4-5-6&#8230;.127-128-129&#8230;462-463-464&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a counter. I admit it. I enjoy counting things, and have all my life. The steps I take on my walk, the pieces of wood I&#8217;m loading into my wood stove, the ceiling tiles in my office. I usually forget these numbers as soon as they&#8217;ve been counted. It&#8217;s the act of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}