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The entrepreneur struggle is real! ..so take that break!

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Me daydreaming about weekends!! It's the weekend! Yay! How many of you out there are just dying each week for the weekend to hit?  How many of you spend your entire week making lists of to-do's?  You're motivated!  You're excited!  You are brimming with inspiration!! ..and you are stuck at your day job doing something entirely different, that you don't want to be doing! Ugh, the struggle ..it's real! After years and years of working for myself and also for someone else, I have come to the conclusion that sometimes your best inspiration strikes when you have no way to do anything about it?  Why, why does this happen to us time and time again?  I have an entire fridge door covered with "to-do" lists that have been started at my day job, when I had no way to do them!  The only conclusion that I have come to is that when you take yourself away from your passion (x), to do something for someone else (y), you continually yearn to be doing (x

Miss Whimsberry and The Magical Pattern Computer

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Hi, howdy, hello, and welcome the my first blog post as The Pinup Seamstress! I am currently sitting (sigh) in front of my TV, with a delicious beer from the Rogue Tiki collection waiting to be open by my side, and I AM TIRED.  I am a nine to fiver, yes, I have a day job.  Think Dolly Parton with smaller boobs and a lot less advances from my co-workers!  Think coffee, loads of coffee and perpetually running late while always trying to be on time.  Think lunch, from the same place, every single day .  Ha!  It's true, I'm just like you!  Unless you are super cool and don't have to work, and in that case my hat is off to you.  Please, tell me all of your secrets. Also, I have a side hustle (don't we all).  I spend all of my, very limited, free time designing, pattern drafting and sewing for a company I own call Whimsberry.   Click on it, I dare ya!  What you will find is my colorful mixed salad of prints and stripes, colors and vintage inspiration.  Just picture