Happy Thursday!
What a busy day today was. I was so busy the entire day I never even got a break for lunch or anything.
Jon had a small task for me to do once I got there - ordering a cake for Chatu's baby shower next week. I don't know why he didn't just do this himself because he's always so picky about things. But whatevs. He threw a little fit when I went back to his desk to see what kind of frosting he wanted for it because there were so many options and he came back and said how i'd basically blown the surprise and that he just wanted their basic coconut cream cake - to not pick out anything different then their original. Well how was I supposed to know that was an option? I've never eaten there before... sheeesh.
Ellie asked for some help from one of the interns around 10:30 and since I was the only one not currently busy, I volunteered. She was getting things ready for a meeting she had with the Alexandra at 12. I helped her by cutting out and mounting a some furniture images, pining up elevations, and printing off some images - easy stuff. But it all takes time and I was happy to help out. We don't want to do anything wrong to upset the boss...
We had the reps from Texstyle come in today for a vendor presentation.. but I never got to see it. Soon after I was done with Ellie, Stella asked if I could help her with a presentation board downstairs. I didn't really know what that would entail, but I said i'd love to help. It took the rest of the day...
So we've already mailed out two material boards representing different rooms to Indonesia for the St. Regis Hotel. And now we're getting a third one ready to send out to the clients over there and I'm putting it together. It's stressful because Stella told me that these are super picky clients and they actually chewed us out over the last boards we sent over due to stupid little minor things that a normal person wouldn't even care about. Sounds like they're just difficult to be difficult because they can. And because this is a really high end expensive project.
And I'm now the only one putting it together... great. At least I know i'll be gone if we get bad feedback after we send it out. Won't be my problem anymore. :)
Anyway, it's a huge 36"x36" board and she had a printed out template of how everything was supposed to be arranged on this board. Basically I had to mirror the template. SO MUCH harder said than actually done. All the drapery fabrics had to be cut and arranged a certain way - and of course in all exactly equal sizes with the trims pricisely arranged on top. She made a note of telling me that everything needed to be arranged to a T. Every fabric that represented either a headboard, pillow fabric, or chair, etc had to be made into a little 'pillow'. I was supposed to cut out a square of foam board for each fabric represented on the board, put some batting on top of the foam board, then wrap it in the fabric that each piece of furniture was representing. Which was literally taking me hours. It is so hard to get a perfectly straight rectangle, or square, or whatever when I was wrapping foam board with fabric. I actualy didn't even realize I was supposed to be making fabric 'pillows' the first time I cut out fabric. I thought I was just cutting out a square of each fabric for the baord- so I lost a few hours when I thought I was done only for her to tell me that I wasn't at all... oops. I didn't know - I've never had to make a material board. Who would have thought we take the time to make a little pillow for each represented fabric on a material board?
And some of the fabrics were representing chairs with a nailhead trim. So I'd even have to create this trim by putting brads into the trim and them attaching that to the fabric pillow. It was a stressful day because my pillows weren't turning out right. And I kept burning my fingers on hot glue!! I swear I'll have no tips left by tomorrow.
I wish I would have been able to take a picture of this board.. it'd all make a lot more sense. But this took the rest of the day, and I'm not even done at all, and I need to remake a lot of the pillows because I found out right at the end of the day that the second way I made them was still wrong. All four corners had to be turned under and glued. I hope I will be able to somehow get more fabric since I can't really reuse the ones I already hot glued around pieces of board... It's really stressful that I'm preparing this board basically by myself. And that it will be shipped across the world to a super picky client for our super high end luxury/expensive hotel. No biggie.
But that'll be my problem for tomorrow - I still need to cut some gold trim, find an alternate flooring wood sample, and order some extra wood trim. I think tomorrow will be just as busy, busy day. And a very last day at that!
I was starving by the time I got home. STARVING. The only other thing I had had to eat today since 7:30 in the morning was half a scone at work. Our lovely little rep from TRI-KIS, Lauren, almost always brings treats when she brings by requested samples. They are the best days ever! Last week she brought doughnuts! And today she brought scones from this cute little place:
http://alicesteacup.com/
I want to go there before I go home. Their menu looks divine. And so cute! So besides the scone, I had eaten nothing all day and I was so hungry. So it became a sushi night. :)
One more day of work!
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