Sep
11
Poor unloved bloggy blog
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So, I’ll admit, I don’t update enough. I guess I’d just rather be making stuff, than writing about making stuff. Or actually, these days, it might just be that I’d rather lay around and read. I’ve been so lazy lately, and I have so much to do. My baby (5) girl is going to be a flower girl in one of my oldest friends wedding, and I have only 95% finished her shrug so far. Sigh, I really need to get sewing.
I’m making her this dress:
in a precious pink satin that has all these little glittery sparkles all over it. Oh how I love lined dresses. They just make the dress that much sweeter. (And then my daughter prefers them cuz they don’t itch!)
I also promised to make her a She-go costume (a la Kim Possible). Ugh!!! There are no patterns for this! So, for fun, (right) I’m going to alter a power rangers costume into a cute little-girls-gone-evil-side-kick costume. At least she wants to be a villian this year. I’m tired of princesses.
And I haven’t even started with all the clothing supplies I’ve bought for myself. I guess I feel like, “what’s the point? I have no shoes to wear with all these great things?” Not that I’m the queen of fashion or anything, but someday, I’d like to give it a try. And I keep finding great fabric. Sigh, if only I could bring myself to cut it.
God, I’m a mess!
Aug
31
Top Ten Reasons I am NOT a g33k.
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My friends keep swearing I’m a geek. Mostly because they all are. And I’m talking full on, I-can-take-this-computer-apart-down-to-it’s-chips-and-put- it-back-together-again-so-that-it-runs-faster geeks. Geeks who are so damned good they could re-write Linux and it would be better, AND they could do it in less than a week. True, caffeine molecule wearing, hAx0r hating, reading the code specs for fun geeks.
And then there is me. I can’t even figure out how to install a printer on my mac. Sure I can write java code (or perl, C, and maybe a little php) until the cows come home, but that’s it. Ask me to configure a piece of hardware or low level software, and I panic. The compulsion to run to the medicine cabinet and down 3 xanax with a beer overcomes me.
So I present to you (because i have nothing interesting photographed) the top 10 reasons why I am not a geek.
10. I hate video games. I mean, come ON BOOOOORING. I want to shoot people in real life, at least with a lazer gun. My husband and my friends were playing this game on line, and all I could think was “What is the point of mining shit in a virtual outer space? As if your day job isn’t boring enough, lets come home and pretend to be blue collar workers! Now that’s my idea of a good time baby.” NOT.
9. I don’t own a single article of clothing with an operating system logo on it. I mean, really, what *IS* the difference between RedHat and Ubuntu. And while we’re at it, what the hell is KDE and Gnome? I’m so confused.
8. My webpages don’t have a black background. Oh, and they have some thought to them. Not just the boring ass default monospace font in white on a black background. I HATE the black background. I even have my Terminal set up with a white background at home. So there.
7. Mac is better than Linux. Why? because I don’t have to install it.
6. My monitor is a measly 17″ and that’s just fine with me. I really don’t need the wrap around screen with the chair of doom in the center. So that I can turn around when those less worthy than me enter my cubicle and give them the evil eye over my steepled fingers, a la, Mr. Burns.
5. I don’t have a rear-view mirror on my monitor at work, and I sit w/ my back to the door. No self respecting geek would do that. They’re all too paranoid that the boss man will walk in while they’re ripping the company’s software to shreads and starting all over again.
4. I can find the top of my desk. Easily.
3. For the life of me I can’t stay up past 10pm or sleep beyond 8am in the morning. It’s probably my measley caffiene intake. I should really up that.
2. I know nothing about processor speeds or gigahertz or whatever it is that makes one computer better than the other.
And the number one reason…
1. Would a geek make something like this?
Jul
6
Yay for Etsy!
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So not long ago one of my items made the front page on Etsy:
And last night, my treasury made the front page!
I’m trying not to get overly confident, but I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere on Etsy. All I can hope is that I’ll keep being this lucky.
I know one thing for sure, top notch photos are super important on Etsy. Probably the most important thing of all.
Jul
5
Too long
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It’s been too long since I posted. But, well, life gets in the way so often.
I actually took pictures of my latest pots, but haven’t gotten the chance to upload them anywhere that they could be viewed from.
So I can leave you with this little picture of my new favorite thingy… Apparently the buyers on etsy like it too, I sold 2 last week, and a total of 6 items! That’s a record for me. Yay for great photos… Now I just have to figure out how to do it w/o my free trial of Photoshop CS3.
I’ve also been crocheting again and have come up with this little number, which was actually kind of a screw up gon right. :)
I likey. I hope someone else does too…. Little purses are just too much fun!
Jun
13
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Wowza! So I just sold a bunch of pillows and bags to Aravelle.com . Hopefully they’ll be up on her site in the next few days. :) Sheena is such a nice lady! I really enjoyed getting to meet her and show her my things.
I’ve also recentlylisted a bunch of new stuff on my Etsy shop, but the favorite seems to be the elephants.
I also bought a new jelly roll of fabric. Oh geez do I not need more fabric. But I just can’t resist such wonderfully packaged little useless strips of fabric. Especially when they are cut with a pinking edge!!!
So here I sit trying to think how I will trun these little lovelies into a fantastic modern and mature baby quilt. Because, is there any other kind of quilt? Ok, yes there is. There is the quilt that sits on the back of my sewing chair that has been waiting patiently for about 7 years for me to finish quilting it. One day it will happen. I swear.