Sunday on a Monday

Stefni Studio is officially up and running outside of home premises.

The past two weeks were spent setting up shop and manufacturing space and it has been quite a push to get things up to standard. I have two main mottos in life ‘keep things simple’ and ‘everything within capacity’ and although I stuck to these mantras most of the time, the tiredness that hit today was colossal.

I’ve gotten stuck on a conveyor belt of sorts. Wake up; coffee; pack car; drive; work; connect; close up shop; home; sleep and doing it all over the next day. Two weeks later I’m finally in a position to set shop hours and enjoy a weekend albeit on a Monday.

I’ve always found extreme satisfaction from working on days others are not and taking off on days that others are working. It has meant years of Cederberg campsites and South African National Parks all to myself, as if nature existed for me alone. It’s something I have cherished deeply and something I have cultivated my life around since my solo adventuring started.

Today, after weeks of being mind-bendingly busy I could tap into hours of silence in nature once again. Nothing restores hope and settles the unsettled in me like a long solo run in the Cape Point Reserve and since I live just down the road from this majestic playground my run started at the front door. I cleared my entire day just for this run and it ended up being a day of running, marveling, breathing, thinking, bathing, tea in the sun, listening, witnessing, napping. A day of deep restoration. A day of simply ambling, flowing and being.

I wasn’t sure how not having a studio in my house would affect me, but to be honest going back to Mondays being my Sundays I have nothing to complain about.

Maybe next week I’ll actually start writing about jewellery related stuff but for now here’s a little visual documentation of just how incredible nature is captured while on my run this morning: