ETSY Update #5

My ETSY shop has been updated with some holiday cheer! Go check it out!

Tonight I plan on SCRAPBOOKING (this is such a momentous occasion, it, like the LANDSCAPING PROJECT, deserves all caps and a bigger and bolder font) I don't think I've done a page in almost 3 months! YIKES!

Here's a little collage to brighten your Thursday.

Some New Creations...

Happy Friday!!!

First things first... Today is my friend, Jeanna's BIRTHDAY!!! She is an old lady, but I love her still! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY! Here she is! I wish you guys could hear her sing and play guitar... it's so beautiful!

(Renee, remember you posted that entry about today being one of the most common birthdays?)

My good friend's house mom just opened up her own ETSY shop. You guys HAVE to check it out! Her knit sweaters are SO ADORABLE! And the Heart Baby Blanket is just TOO sweet! I was at M's house all night yesterday helping Barb set up her shop - I hope it is a HUGE success!!!

The local scrapbooking store called me this morning to invite me to their "BUS TOUR". They take these ladies around town and go to various scrap stores - The stores offer freebies, discounts, etc. They called me today to tell me that since I'm one of their best customers (translation: I spend WAY too much money there!) that they are offering me a BUY ONE GET ONE FREE deal on their bus tour next Saturday. I got all excited until I realized that the only people I know that would be interested in this kind of thing live on the other side of the country!!! I need some local srappies... Maybe instead of going on the bus I'll just follow it in my car and then pretend I am part of the group to get the discounts... Maybe it's better that I don't know anyone to go with - I can save some money!

And last but not least, here is my PICTURE OF THE DAY. This Japanese Maple sits right outside my scraproom window. It's leaves are browning and starting to fall off, which is a sign that cold weather is coming. By the time November rolls around, it is COMPLETELY bare and looks like Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree. But once the cold moves and the sun starts beating down, its leaves come right back out - red and orange and burgundy and wine. I love this tree. We are planning to landscape our front lawn area and my only stipulation was that I get to keep this tree!

Have a great weekend!!!

ETSY Update # 004

There's more in the SHOPPE - Go check it out!

Just Another Manic Monday

My new favorite feltie:



A layout I did forever ago but never posted here:

Been craving mango ice ever since we got back from our East Coast Trip. We stayed with this couple in Brooklyn and would go to this ice cream stand every night for dessert. They have the BEST Mango ice.

My sisters are back from Hawaii now, so I don't have to be jealous any more!

Have a good week!

ETSY question

Some people have been asking about the durability of my felties in the interest of using them on apparel, so I did a little experiment to test out the felt I use:

This first picture is a piece of felt with various yucky things on it - from left to right, we have ketchup, soy sauce, mustard, syrup, chocolate syrup, orange Gatorade.

Then I let it dry outside for about 6 hours, cut half of it and washed the bottom half. I used Dial hand soap and a toothbrush. (Since I waited a while for the stains to set, the lighting a bit different. The first was shot with natural sunlight, and the second in my kitchen under fluorescent lights.)

The stains came out pretty easily, though the chocolate needed some extra coaxing to finally come out. I think rubbing it with the toothbrush kind of made the felt "hairy" - if I hadn't used it, I think the felt wouldn't have been so fuzzy after its cleaning.

So, there it is. I don't want to say either way whether or not I would recommend my felties on clothing. I guess it depends on how long you expect it to last, or how messy the wearer is going to be!

Hope that helps!

Friday Randomness

*** I went to a private school when I was a kid. My mom tells me that she would come to pick me up and see me sitting all by myself at a desk, OUTSIDE of the classroom. She would ask me why I was sitting there all alone, and I would tell her it was because I got in trouble for talking too much in class. She says that even though I was in trouble and outside all alone, I would be singing to myself, laughing, and having the best time!

*** My oldest sister and I are exactly alike. She is 12 years older than me and 2 feet shorter than me, but other than that, we have a ton in common. My friend used to say, "If you cut Candice off at the knees, you'd get Frana."

*** Wade thinks Lucy Liu is hot. I found a picture of her online wearing a bikini and I put it on our desktop as wallpaper because I think she's hot too.

*** I have been told that I have a very good ear for foreign language. I can mimic words in different languages and people always say that I my pronunciation is almost perfect.

*** My mom used to make me dress up as a clown for Halloween. I think that's why I don't like clowns now.

*** Wade and I have about 400 movies on DVD and about 50 on VHS (just can't let go!). We have so many because we don't have cable (not just cable-cable, we don't have ANY channels... in fact, our tv isn't plugged into any cable at all). If we ever broke up, figuring out who gets which movies would be the end of us.

*****I'm going to be sewing a lot today, so keep an eye out for another ETSY update!

Do you guys have any random junk that you wanna share? Leave a comment! Have a great weekend!

Oh, and if you are bored, check this out. It makes me smile!

I've been doing a TON of felt+sewing this weekend - partly because I am BROKE (I keep losing at poker EVERY WEEK!) and partly because I've got the itch (not the kind that needs ointment, the kind that keeps me going, you know, creatively...)

I made a tree - it's simple, but I like it:


A girlie ghost... thinking of putting some HALLOWEEN felties on my ETSY:

Punky Pumpkin. I just came up with that name JUST NOW! I know - so ingenious!


My new favorite - The Cassette. Reminds me of my old cassette collection - Informer by SNOW, The Dirty Dancing Soundrack, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson... ah, the memories!


Taken from some Tim Burton drawings - The Skull Card #002 and Voodoo Heart:


That's about all I did this weekend. Well, that's all I did worth talking about, anyway. I'm getting a bit bummed on my blog as of late because I'm not getting the abundant feedback I was before I went on my SF trip. Is it that school has started so students are busier, parents are busier and teachers are busier or is it simply that my life has gotten THAT mundane. I think a little of both, though I hope more the former than the latter. Perhaps it was my comment about how I hate it when people write ALOT instead of A LOT. Maybe I pissed everyone off.

Well, to those of you still reading this despite me being a grammar snob...

HELLO!!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Etsy Update and other news

My ETSY shoppe had been updated - I've got some fun clay embellies and some cool felt birdies!

Thanks again to all of you that have been supporting my little shop of embellies!

In other news....

I've been so busy this week with work and the house, that I missed the Scrap*Jacked deadline for their UBER jack. It totally sucks too, because I made a point to keep up with the four jacks I needed to be eligible for the BIG jack. They posted that it needed to be turned in on Saturday the 5th and I saw the "saturday" part and put it off, when it was the "5th" I should have been paying attention to because that was the one that was correct!!! CRAP CRAP CRAP...

I saw my sister and her family yesterday. They stopped by Southern California on their way to Hawai'i - their first family trip! The kids were great, my brother was as silly as ever and me and my sister laughed all night. It was great. Thanks to my sister's friends Andrew and Katie for hosting the shindig at their house so we wouldn't be stuck at Mom's!!!

I haven't been getting any calls for private tutoring. I am trying not to freak out about it. I should find out in October if I am going to be hired as a full time employee at the school, and if so, I won't be able to do ANY private tutoring, so I guess I am just waiting to hear what the school will offer me. Stupid red tape is the only thing preventing me from working right now - it sucks.

I haven't scrapbooked at all lately. Maybe tomorrow...

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Sneaky Peaky

I'm going to be adding some more goodies to my ETSY shoppe at the end of this week - here's a sneak peak at some of the new stuff that I have been making:

Hope you like them!!!

Almost Famous

I woke up this morning and found out about this. How fun! Check me out!

Jumping On The ETSY Bandwagon

Yesterday I took a blank planner that I have been holding onto forever and decided to personalize it.

I LOVE the cover of the planner AS IS, so I didn't touch that:


And the note pages in it are so adorable, those had to stay too:

But the inside cover was boring, so I punked it up a bit:

And the blank agenda pages just didn't fit my schedule needs, so I printed out my own pages from the computer:

And then used yummy Hambly Overlays for dividers:

Now maybe I'll stay more organized!





Oh, and by the way...

I did it! Come see my arts and CRAPs

HERE!

Thanks to all of you ladies who encouraged me to do this.

If you have any suggestions or problems accessing the shop, please let me know so I can fix it!

To Etsy or Not To Etsy

It has been suggested (by this lovely) that I open up an Etsy shop and sell my felt and clay embellies... and I have been contemplating this idea all day!!!

Of course, there are concerns... Will anyone even be interested? Will people like them? Will it be a waste of my money and time?

Have any of you guys ever sold or bought something from Etsy? If so, I would love to hear about your experiences!


On another note, I read this article this morning and was cracking up!!! Silly Asians...

Have a good day!