The last two weeks have been crazy.  I mean flat out, full speed, no time to
breathe. 

This blog is for those of you who are toying with the idea of becoming a stager, because it will be fun and you can make your own schedule.  These are just a few of the things I have had to do the past three weeks:

• One Redesign Consult - must produce CG image for client
• Swich inventory from one builders model to another, but make it look completely different
• Take my Daughter to the dentist
• Complete inventory shopping for investment property to be staged 5/8
• Regular property checks of investment property to be staged 5/8 - Scratch that it's not done - to be loaded in 5/14 staged 5/15
• Complete one bid for investment property #2
• Complete consultation for investment property #3
• Complete inventory shopping for investment property #2 to be loaded in 5/15 staged 5/16 (after the 8 a.m. State academic meeting at my daughter's school)
• Purchase, tag and distribute 50 staff gifts per day for 5 days for Teacher Appreciation week
• Plan and execute a gift basket raffle for the elementary school fun fair
• Take daughter #1 to "Annie" Auditions
• Take Daughter #2 to 4 softball practices
• Take daughter #1 to 3 "Annie" Rehearsals
• One of my most loyal agents calls to say that our $1.2 milllion listing client is not happy with the photos that the professional photographer took.  Meet the photographer at the listing at the clients request to 'help' him take new ones. Made a new photographer friend :)
• Bill all of my monthly rentals.
• Wrap up the "School Toolbox" campaign at the elementary school
• Coordinate a teacher appreciation luncheon -scratch that - find someone else to coordinate the luncheon
• Plan a 38th birthday party for my husband.
• Play phone tag with a new agent to schedule a bid appointment for a partial vacant.
• Attend daughter #2's school music program
• Attempt - and fail- to stay in contact with my partner agents, but get calls from some of them saying they have reffered me to new agents.
• Moderate 'Stage it Forward' - Thank God (literally) that Craig Schiller is back from vacation and not completely out of the picture.
• Plan and shop for our upcoming vacation, because heaven knows I need one...

If you are considering becoming a stager because you think it will be fun and easy, think again.  Your life does not - and shouldn't- stop for you to get your staging work done.  You have to find a way to get it ALL done.  Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, because the speed of staging is faster than you think...

BTW, potential clients don't hesitate to call, next week is only half booked  and the week after is empty (so far). ;)