Filed under: Etsy | Tags: banners, coffeyhouse collection, decafjnr.etsy.com, Etsy, jewelry, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com
September 30th, 2008
I feel like I’ve been away from my Etsy shop for too long! So many other things clamoring for my attention and I’m finally breaking free from that unhealthy pattern. I don’t know why when the going gets tough I let go of the things that keep me happy?
So I’m finally getting back into the pattern of creativity, at least again with my hands and not just with my words. Channeling what’s in my mind emotionally into the physical world is a challenge for me, but I’ve just finished some new pieces for my jewelry shop, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com that I am extremely excited about and will be listing in the next few days.
I also gave my shop a little refurbish, sorely needed too. I love this banner and avatar artist, CoffeyHouse Collection by decafjnr. She makes some really beautiful shop banners and the one I had previously I loved so much I decided to go back to her and chose a new one. Here it is, isn’t it wonderful:
It really fits the feel of my shop now, or at least the feel I had imagined in my head and now the two match. I’m excited for what I’m starting to put out there now, it energizes me and makes me feel good again, creatively.
Filed under: Work, holidays | Tags: costume, halloween, photographs, Ricky, shopping, Target, Work
September 23rd, 2008
Historically working for a manager who has enough kids to start her own basketball team I have never ever had a Halloween night off. This year is different, I work with a bunch of whippersnappers and gracious ones at that, and Emily (just about the nicest person on this planet) offered to close that night, so I will be able to partake in some kind of sugary festivities. I’m looking forward to it, now of course the conundrum is having to think up a costume. But maybe I don’t have to… I received this text tonight from Ricky and it is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Not only did he get into this costume in the aisle of Target but he had the presence of mind to have his shopping companion snap a picture, because, and I quote: “I saw it and said TARA!!!”
I mean, how great IS that!?!
Filed under: Etsy, Living, TV, To Do List | Tags: Etsy, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com, TV
September 22nd, 2008
Tonight Heroes premieres, finally. And Prison Break is in full swing. Unfortunately I won’t be able to record Dancing With The Stars because there are just so many things I can record at once, so I’ll be having to watch that on-line tomorrow. New TV update in my abode: it looks like I will be getting the hook up to the satellite dish in my room soon! Sweet, seriously get me a toilet, a fridge and a hibachi and will I ever really need to leave the confines of these walls?
I know, I’m lame.
Now that the “neutral” situation is taken care of I look forward to photographing my new necklaces for my Etsy shop and finally getting them listed. I’m working on a special order and it has been so long it feels good to get back into it all. I like the direction my shop is taking in my head I just need to translate that into my shop, and I think it’s time for a policies and profile change too. In light of recent events and feedback maybe it’s time to be more concise and more resolute on my whole approach to the business end of my jewelry making.
Maybe I just need to be a bitch, you know, like I am in mostly every other part of my life.
Filed under: Etsy, youtube | Tags: Etsy, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com, TLC, youtube
September 21st, 2008
Ah, there are rational feeling people out there in the world… still!
This has all been resolved and I am so happy for it. All’s well that ends well, I suppose. And there is nothing gained if nothing is ven… tured, er, something like that. I love cliches.
In short, I ain’t too proud to beg.
(And you were expecting The Temptations.)
September 19th, 2008
I received a neutral rating from a buyer in my Etsy shop on the 10th of September and I just clicked on it tonight and saw it. Nothing like falling from the highest high to the lowest low in about a millisecond.
She used the word “flimsy”. It’s like a knife in the heart.
She bought them on July 14th and didn’t leave the feedback until September 10th. Odd. She said she wore them once and they fell apart. She also said that I gave her good customer service. Well, I guess there’s that.
I want to pour a beer into a tub of ice cream, eat it and then die.
And here on the eve of when I was about to photograph these brand new necklaces I just finished making. I was so excited about them too. Now I have no fire.
I offered to make her new ones or to refund her money, I also initiated the “kiss and make up” feature… I don’t care how pathetic that may be, I don’t care if that’s like begging. I’m in a desperate place. Just when I started to get back into my craft after taking so much time off to reflect… and my psychic told me to leap in because I have something really special to share with the world… I get slapped with this. I can handle a neutral, I can handle a negative but what I can’t handle is not being able to remedy the situation at all. At least ask first.
So I sent her the offer to replace or refund… the decision is in her hands. Is it so hard to believe that there are good people out there willing to make things right?
September 18th, 2008
I’m so behind on my blogging.
My Google Reader runneth over.
Smallville and Survivor start tonight.
I really don’t want to do anything I should be doing. I want to make necklaces and watch old Stargates.
This juice is really good.
Filed under: dork-out | Tags: dork, dork-out, dorking, Living, Star Trek
September 16th, 2008
Since I have new living quarters I have come to affectionately name parts of my room after certain particular dorky things.
My desk with my computer = the helm or the bridge
My work area where I craft = engineering
My bed and my TV = the holodeck
My night table with all of my assortment of pills and what-nots = the infirmary/mess hall
And just like on Star Trek, I don’t have a toilet.
September 14th, 2008
Things that are keeping me sane right now:
-Food porn with Ricky
-My sister’s generosity in buying my plane ticket to see her and my brother in NYC from October 24th to the 30th. I am jumping up and down inside constantly.
-”masturbates to his tears” shmaa shmaa… (I don’t do this, it’s just a personal joke; in case you were wondering and if you were wondering you’re a sicko)
-my new tv/dvd
-High School Musical 3 comes out on the 24th of October… in theaters!!!
-Going to see The Cab play on September 28th
-my bedroom is actually starting to “make sense”
Filed under: Music, iPod offering | Tags: iPod offering, ready when you are, trapt
September 13th, 2008
Are you having trouble keeping up?
Seeing this thing through?
I want to know who you’re running from,
Me or you?
You’re too confused to open up,
Feel the way I do
I want to know who you’re thinking of
Cause I really have no clue
Another game of charades
Don’t you know everybody plays?
I don’t want to lose to you that way
Maybe we’ll be different this time around
Maybe we’ll be different I don’t know
Don’t want to strangle this, so I’m holding back for now
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Are you having trouble keeping up?
You know that I will wait
I wonder if it’s good enough
To make you stay
You’re too confused to open up
You don’t know what to say
Well you can tell me if you think it’s love
I won’t be far away
Another game of charades
Don’t you know everybody plays?
I don’t want to lose to you that way
Maybe we’ll be different this time around
Maybe we’ll be different I don’t know
Don’t want to strangle this, so I’m holding back for now
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
I want to know if you’re thinking of me
I’ll be counting the hours even though I know I’m free
Too soon to take a chance
No more questions left to ask
I could be anything, but the one thing I’m not sure you want to be
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Calm down, don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal scars
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Tied down
Don’t want any false starts
I can do without the time apart
So I’m ready when you are, when you are
I’m ready when you are
Calm down, I’m ready when you are
