Filed under: Etsy, Good day, Photos | Tags: earrings, Etsy, jewelry, photograph, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com
Filed under: Etsy, Photos | Tags: Etsy, jewelry, photograph, sadieandleo, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com
Filed under: Etsy, holidays | Tags: birthday, Etsy, jewelry, Ricky, ricky doo, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com
October 2nd, 2008
First off let me say Happy Birthday to Ricky Doo! He’s 20 today so I have to stop using words like “kid” and “teenager”, not that I did in the first place. Anyhow, here’s to many more, kiddo!
I wanted to share some new pieces I’ve recently created for my Etsy shop:
Thanks for everybody’s kind and encouraging words so far on these new ideas and where I’m taking my shop, it means the most!
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: 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?
June 22nd, 2008
is on Tuesday and to celebrate selling on Etsy for one year I am offering free shipping on all of my listings!
I am amazed and proud that I have stuck with this for an entire year, and actually now that I think of it I never doubted that I could do it for a year. Sure I questioned my choices, relearned things, found out new ways of expressing myself and sometimes, maybe just a little, tiny, wee bit doubted my worth. But that’s growing and improving and challenging myself to be better.
I thank you for supporting me, encouraging me and believing in me. You have done so much more than look on as a friend, you have helped me as a person, an artist and as an achiever. I am forever indebted to your strength, thank you.
Here’s to my next year with Etsy and with you…
Filed under: Baby!, Bad Day, Etsy, Food, Good day, Living, Work, love | Tags: Baby!, Etsy, Living, love, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com, Work
June 15th, 2008
I had Nicco’s for dinner, holy goodness from Mexico.
I couldn’t print postage from Paypal tonight for my orders going out tomorrow, so that means right after work tomorrow I must make it to the post office before it closes.
I blurted out the ending to The Happening to Mike and he admitted that he wanted to see it even though it has only received bad reviews.
I forgot my sunglasses at home today so my eyes hurt.
I am so tired I want to cry but we have to try baby making tonight again… this shit’s hard work.
I found out today that I don’t have to go to the store manager’s regional meeting in Texas in a week, thank the gods. We’re down to three part management coverage and it would have been damn near impossible for me to go and for all of us to get our days off too.
iTunes is down.
Someone is getting stronger and finding that he has a voice and that he can use it.
I had a brand new buyer purchase from my jewelry shop today.
(You guess which is good and which is bad.)
June 9th, 2008
I finally put everything else aside tonight and put a little much needed love into my shop, SadieAndLeo.etsy.com Considering I have been up since 5 o’ clock this morning I got a lot accomplished. I have been working heavily with cabochons, natural stones and a lot of vintage and I love the ready-madeness* of these pieces, they are so wear and go. I suppose that is a lot like my life right now. I owe so many people contact and messages and emails and what-nots but I have been living myself so thinly, I feel like the next step is a coma, or just a really long sleep in the fetal position. But for the sake of the accessory world, and for my creative sake, I have these new offerings: bobby pins!
