by, FashionMista 
One of the important things to do, or to understand from the Incubator experience, is to do nice things for ourselves. It's nice to think about what you'd like to do for yourself, and then execute it. I've been thinking about quite a lot of nice things to do for myself, and some have become my Goal Nice Things. For example, right now this minute, a nice thing for myself would be an express facial with my old waxer (before she switched to her upper east side location, and before I started lasering), buy my favorite foundation from Fresh and to try Dior mascara Sefora, and buy my dog an Orvis fleece cumfy dog bed (which led me to a new idea for Katie James dog beds...I'll just make really pretty covers for when you want to jazz up the dog bed instead of re-inventing the wheel of finding fill, etc.).
A super nice thing I did do was to commit a personal day from work to attend the Ladies Who Launch Live event on Oct. 19th in NYC. I paid for it (again, not investing into a production run for some beautiful fabric I have in the corner of my sewing room), but I got a surprise...I made it my first charge on my new business Amex Open card, and since it was over $100, Amex credited me $100!! So that was like a bonus nice thing for myself.
Other nice things from the group have been:
- pedicures, for sure (I snuck in a 10-minute chair massage mid-week)
- Judith at MakeMyReel.com cut up her visions from last week and made them into a sort of motivational mobile above her desk - cool!
- making time to floss and apply Clay Umbrian face Mask from Fresh (i'm in love with it)
- visits with friends
- tea at Alice's Tea Cup on the upper west side
- walks in central park (I sat for an extra long time with my dog Sunday morning during the windiness while doing my launchwork...she loooved sitting on a rock in the breeze, and i sketched her...she was soo cute)
- naps on Saturday afternoons
So all in all, it's been a pretty great experience so far! The nice thing I'm going to do for myself right now is to publish this post and shut down my computer and read from the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia!!
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