Goals

During my blog absence, I sat back and thought about some things I'd like to do with this blog, and my shop.

I flipped through my craft selling books, and just wrote down some of my goals.

And, if you can't read my handwriting, they are as follows, with an addition,

• Be in a craft fair, or an Artist Alley.
• Be featured in a craft magazine, or another craft blog.
• Do some guest blogging spots.
• Make tutorials.
• Hit 100 fans on facebook.
• Hit 50 sales on Etsy.
• Interview bloggers/shop owners.
• Be interviewed.
• Hit 100 followers on twitter.

And the addition:

• Be a more confident blogger.

My confidence wanes and waxes a lot, I'll get that 'Oh are people even reading/ do they even care' feeling all too much. But I'm slowly building it up. I have a lovely team of motivational friends keeping me going, so I'm sure I'll do great.

I'm even going to try one of the goals on my list in a few minutes! If I succeed, you guys will be the first to know.

Edit: Oh yeah, I installed Disqus, so I can actually reply to your comments! It's a bit difficult when someone comments, and I have no way of contacting them to reply, so this will help a lot!

Edit 2: I realized some of these are larger long term goals. I should probably make another blog list with smaller goals next time.

Take Care, and Happy Crafting

Little Smiles

During the weekend, I was working like a mad-woman to finish my wristwarmers. For a while, I'd just hear 'click-click-click-SIGH-...why is it dark outside?' and realize I worked a good bit of my day away. I'd look around at a few happy things that made me smile, and I decided to share them with you.

I had a commission to fill out, and two personal projects as well in the flurry of knitting. I decided to stack up the yarn cakes as a quick relaxing thing, and I really liked how the colors look.

I bought these embroidery threads a while ago to make something (which I unfortunately lost the doodle to), and just felt the urge to line them up.

Last X-mas, my dear friend Gabriel gifted me with this lovely Sooty Owl painting. I really adore it, and smile at it each time I sit at my computer and create. Owls are one of my favorite creatures (Dolphins are the other, you might be quizzed on this xD), and it was just so sweet to be presented with this lovingly painted Sooty. [G, I know you're reading this. Hi! Thanks again <3 ]

Anything make you smile lately?

Take Care, and Happy Crafting

Cyber Monday!

Hey guys, this little ship in the great sea of blogs should be back to normal on Tuesday!

But, I wanted to inform you all on a little Cyber Monday FREE SHIPPING special I'll be having in the shop.

I'll be restocking it, and everything in the shop will ship to you for the low low price of FREE on Monday.

So, from 12:15am PST to 11:45pm PST, everything in my shop will have free shipping!

Here's a little sneak peek of something I've been working on.