I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Hey everybody, welcome back to Seamwork Radio this week.

So we are talking about how to make more time for your creativity.

And we're going to cover today figuring out how much time

you really want to spend on your creativity, determining which activities bring you joy and which

don't, and how to make sewing feel more like playtime and a little less like work. So I'm

really excited to talk about this today because it's something that

comes up a lot for our members. We hear it a lot. So I just wanted to start with our icebreaker for

makers today and ask you, Haley, what's your favorite time of data so? Yes, I definitely have a

favorite time of data. So It used to be the morning because

I'm a morning person and I always feel like I'm most productive before noon. But now I have a

daughter and so my most favorite time to sew is when she's in bed because I know like I'm not going to be interrupted or like have like a diaper to go attend to or like big feelings to help her work through.

So from like 7 p.m. on is my kind of me time. And sometimes I choose to sew with that me time and sometimes I don't. What about you?

Do you have a favorite time of day? I do. And it's kind of surprising. I think my favorite time of

day to sew is the afternoon, actually. And there's very little that I actually enjoy doing in the

afternoon more than at other times of day because

I always get really, really sleepy after lunch. I'm a morning person too. When I do anything that

is very mentally taxing, like writing or any sort of creative brainstorming or anything that

really takes a lot out of me, I always have to do that in the morning because I feel like I'm kind of shot after lunch.

So it's kind of surprising, but sewing is one thing that I do really enjoy doing in the afternoon.

I think because it gives my brain a little bit of a break from that mode of thinking, thinking, thinking all the time and doing

with my hands. And I think that really helps to energize me because it gets my brain going in a

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