nothing to read!

Friday, April 17, 2009

So there are 18 days until the new Charlaine Harris book comes out... May 5th.. The 'Sookie Stackhouse' series. Most people may know it from the 'True Blood' HBO TV series. I'm addicted to both. I know there is this HUGE vampire craze right now. With 'Twilight' and 'True Blood' taking over the planet. But I have to say, I see nothing wrong with jumping on either bandwagon. I have always been a huge fantasy fiction fan. I never really got passed the wizards and magic until I read 'Twilight'. And then again after watching my first episodes of 'True Blood' last summer, I am hooked. I've read both of the series at least twice already. And I can't wait for the new 'Sookie' book, or the next 'Twilight' movie... I love how normal and every day each series seems. Not so 'out of this world'. I have tried reading other vampire series, but I just can't seem to click with them.

*sigh*

I wish I had something to read until then. But I am... picky.

nummy in my tummy

Sunday, March 29, 2009

I have always been intrigued by those cupcake in a jar sellers on Etsy. I have never purchased from one, because the shipping is INSANELY expensive. But tonight I had a hunkering for some brownies.. and I haven't any unsweeted chocolate squares so I sort of improvised. At first I was going to do some easy quick microwaev brownies.. but then I couldn't find a glass pan. So I went in search of regular recipes, when I found out they all require baking squares **ugh**. So I sorta winged it... used like a bunch of cocoa plus some soybean oil to replace them.

Anyhow. I wanted to try that fluffy vegan icing I always see those sellers using on their cupcakes and I found a recipe that is just AMAZING! I am not a vegan, but the frosting always looked so fluffy to me. I didn't use vegan margarin/butter. But other than that I pretty much went by the recipe. Except I melted the butter and crisco together first then I poured everything else in after and beat it for a few minutes with my french beaters.

here's the link to the recipe i got. If anyone has a sugar craving.. MAKE THIS FROSTING! it rules.

http://www.chow.com/recipes/10856

locally sustained

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A fellow artist from Etsy that is actually a local artist from my area wrote a very informative blog entry about handmade and supporting local artists. She says it much better than I can so I thought I would share her blog with everyone.

http://lenoxknits.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-shop-local.html

It's a very interesting read and only takes a minute or two. So go ahead and click!

The Land of Odd

I really need to get it in gear. I am so lazy!!! I love making jewelry. But every piece I start, I put down, and start another one, then I put that down and start yet ANOTHER one! I am not really sure where this comes from. It's getting worse and worse as I get older, and I'm only 23.

I make so many things and then they sit around 1/2 finished and then get lost among the muck of metal I have in gobs everywhere in this room.

Tonight (really early morning actually) I've posted 3 items to my Etsy. That's not to say it's an accomplishment, because those things were already made, I just never bothered to photograph them. Which is my second biggest problem. I hate taking pictures SO much! It sucks a lot because all of my items for the most part are One-of-a-Kind. So I have to take pictures and create listings for every single item I make. A lot of jewelry artists make the same earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets over and over again. I guess they just have styles they want to stick with. And I wish I did too just to make it easier on myself.

Does anyone else have these problems?

Anyhow, here are a few things I just listed. Click on em if you want to see the listings.


Queen of the Class:



Goblin King:



Gwyneviere:

craft show epilogue

Sunday, March 22, 2009

So the 'Green With Indie' craft show is over and done. I've had a very eventful weekend. I think I did pretty well. But as this is was my first craft show I cannot compare. But I think I could do pretty well if I choose to do some more. I got a bunch of information on 3 more shops coming up this year and I will definitely be applying to them as soon as possible. I sold quite a bit of my LlewNaTique jewelry. Everyone wanted to know where I got the novelty vintage charms from. So that was definitely a hit.

If anyone that makes handmade items hasn't done a craft show before, you should totally look into it. It's definitely worth it. Even if someone only walks away with your business card.

I also met some really awesome crafters. Some I've seen online before on Etsy and others I was just now getting to see their crafts. It was pretty awesome. I also got to meet Tammy who is the inventor of STLHandmade.com. So all in all it was a great weekend!

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