Happenings

So I have been working a number of different projects, not limited to my recycled items, hats, rugs, and my first Amigurumi, which ended up looking slightly retarded. In my defense though I have never really made anything of the nature, and I didn't have any clay to make actual eyes for them, so I thought it a wonderful idea to use clay. I enjoyed making it though and perhaps my subsequent ones wont look like their mother drank while they were in utero...

In other news I am finally forcing Aydan to do his summer homework... which I got all sorts of pissy today (excuse my language) because on were on the internet is the reasonable questions for the books that he is reading. So I am starting yet another blog in which I am going to create a resource for parents who would like to know if their children are retaining the information. I will update soon with specific information

Frustration

I am a bit frustrate with my Etsy store, I am paying for advertisement, I am adding all sorts of new stuff and it feel like I will NEVER enjoy the fruits of my labor. I called the only stores in the area that I thought would potentially allow me to put items on consignment to no avail. I am beginning to wonder if this is all a flop, a waste of my time. I am not sure what more energy I can devout to all of this. I finally have forty likes on Facebook which took me a ton of work to get to that point.

I hate to say it but I feel like my friends and family(not that there are many)  are growing tired of my  "pipe dreams". I know that people have been successful on Etsy, but seriously, what does it take that I am not doing. I am looking forward to craft shows this fall but I surely hope that by then my spirit isn't broken.

And it starts

I have been up to a lot, I cant say that I have been 100% as productive as I could be. It has been so hot that I am really dragging and not wanting to do a lot. I have made somethings, and found plenty of new websites that will add to the chaos that I like to call my pintrest. I cant say that the 100 hat challenge is going as well as it was in the beginning but I did start adding my products to etsy. Not that I have made any sales, I still havent sold anything. Etsy did their revamping this morning and all of my shop information disappeared.  It would be nice if I knew what I had written originally. I suppose that this is a time for me to renew and get the shop the way that I want it to be from a professional standpoint. 

I am putting Aydan back to work and give him the opportunity to make a little bit of money also over the summer. I am going to try to teach the nifty knitter . We shall see how it goes.

More to come soon!!

Nostalgia

I dont know what it is about the 90's and the feelings that listening to the music again creates for me. It always starts as someone posting something on facebook  and it unleashes a flood of music. I dont like very much new music, in fact I think the only new artist that I have even bothered to listen to is Adele. Once I start listening to the music from the 90's it brings me back to a place of innocence when most of the things that have shaped me as a person had not happened. I feel so creative, perhaps it is a touch of my teenage angst returning but what ever it is it works.

100 Hat Challange update 1

Apparently I am a copyright infringer... Etsy dropped one of the hats that I had made, which probably was the hat that had the best outlook for sales. It kind of bothered me because it was a Bender hat inspired from Futurama and  I created the pattern myself. I do not see Fox producing such a pattern, which means it is not covered under a "copy right" perhaps a trademark but not a copy right.  I have to figure out how to sell them on here because I am going to continue to make them, just in a different fashion. I am also bothered  by the fact that this had got deleted but the Hello Kitty one did not!

In other news I am 18 hats in on the 100 hat challenge. Some days I make as many as 4 others I am lucky if I get 1 done. It depends on the kids and the amount of energy that I have. At first I was just going to make 100 of the same hat. That got really redundant really quick so now I am allowing myself the chance to be some what creative with it.  I will be making animals and other character hats  but that will only happen after all 100 hats are made. I think it will let me be truly open. As of right now I am having fun with it. I kind of wish that I would have been more productive last week and gotten more done. I am aiming for at least 2 hats, every day this week. I am not going to stop at 2 though just in case there are days that I can  not get 2 done, if I make extra at the end of the week it just adds  to the total count.  I may even have Aydan make some of his own with the nifty knitter loom. Even if he does I am not going to add them to my final count.

My next project will be a leash of some sort for the beast baby . However cute I think it is she will be the death of me. Just now she was trying to climb in a box she fell in, she didn't cry, no she just started throwing all the clothes out of the box until it was empty. She even managed to  get her self out of the box with out hurting herself!

100 Hats

Right now I am lacking inspiration  so I have decided that I am going to crochet 100 hats in varying sizes and colors and materials. I really need to start pushing some of this stuff out. Not to mention I am a yarn hoarder this just may give me the revenue  to buy my sewing machine and to purchase some new yarn.  I  do not have the slightest clue of what I am going to make half of these hats I bought the yarn merely because I needed them for a single project or I thought that the color was pretty. I know Chris thinks that I dont need anymore craft stuff, if I use everything then I will be justified  to buy MORE!! I have a few down... many more to go, I will keep you guys informed.

Busy bee

I feel like I have been going non-stop for the past few weeks, just when I may get a chance to relax bam something else  seems to get added to my  to do list. Today me and Scar are going to go to the park, take pictures so that  I can revamp etsy... yeah I am have been slacking on this and that alike. I will make sure to post some pictures and their links later today!