My latest project

The boy's class is doing a Wax Museum presentation. The boy is Neil Armstrong. Guess who got to make the costume:

Tip 'O the Day

You know that old trick where you use steam from a teakettle to open a sealed envelope, so that it's not damaged and you can glue it closed again and no one will know you opened it?

It really works.








*whistles innocently*

Look what I just received!

A 2007 Fold-a-Day Origami Calendar!



It's a (very late) Christmas gift from my friend Marlene at work. Apparently she'd had to do some seriously quick tidying before Christmas and then couldn't find where she'd tucked this away. Today is her last day*, so she made the effort to find it for me before she was gone. I yuv it. I can now go origami crazy to make up for that month and a half that I'm behind. But something tells me my boss won't like that! (I can't fold paper and type at the same time.) I am absolutely delighted by it.

*In much sadder news, today is Marlene's last day. Not by her choice. She started here two Novembers ago, right after me. But she's still a temp. And now we're back into our 'slow' season, and they just can't keep her. She can get another assignment from the temp agency, so she'll have work. But we all love her here and are so sad to see her go. And she is too. She doesn't know it yet, but we've all got little presents and goodies and a card and stuff to suprise her with. Party should be commencing in about 20 minutes.

Big News!

My website, www.LollyBeads.com, is up and running. I've had shops at Etsy (which I'll still be keeping for a while) for almost a year now to sell my little jewelry; and I've been learning html and tinkering with building my own web shop since the summer. It's finally all ready! I'm rather excited about it.


Also, if anyone would be interested in posting a banner for the shop in the sidebar of their blog or on some other web site they own, I could pay you with a free bracelet. Please contact me either in a PM or email me: service(at)lollybeads.com; I will send you the code.

Thanks!







(I know I already posted this on the WD, but I wanted to do it here too, in case I have other readers here. Trying to get maximum exposure, and all.)

QUICK -- FOR GOD'S SAKE! SOMEBODY GET ME AN "L"!!!

It was going way too easy.

I was contacted yesterday from someone wanting to buy a Christening bracelet (and may want to buy more bracelcets in the future). She is leaving on the 6th for the Christening and needs it delivered by the 5th. It took until today for her to send payment and give me the details (size, name, etc). So I got to work on it tonight. Luckily, I had all the letters in stock. Perfect. I could make it tonight, ship it tomorrow, and she'd have it by Wednesday. No problem.

So I made the bracelet.

But just after I printed out the shipping label, I received an email from her: I made a mistake in my original order! The child's name is spelled Lilly - not Lily. That's two l's. I'm sorry for the confusion!
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX






I...I don't have another "L".

I just placed an order for more letters, including "L"s, but it will be a few days before I receive them.

I can cancel the shipping label, and I can go to the bead store tomorrow after work, and I can ship it Saturday. It will work out.

But I'm just a bit...crushed.

It was going so well!




I need some chocolate now.

Hot Damn!

I've already received an inquiry on MySpace about making a custom rosary for someone.

Sweeeeeet

This just in:

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I've finally broken down and created a MySpace. I was feeling kind of left out. And I've set it up to further whore myself out regarding my jewelry.

I've requested to add several people as friends, so if you're one of them, I'd really appreciate it if you'd accept. If you have not recieved a request, and you have a MySpace, please invite me!

New Products

I've been working on some new products, and I've finally got them up at my shop.

They're healing stone bracelets, and the idea came compliments of my Aunt Barbie. I think they're kind of neat. I've made one for myself, and custom picked all the stones I thought I could benefit from best. :-D

[/frustrated] aka: I Want What I Want, When I Want It!

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Hmmm. Setting up my own web shop is becoming more complicated than I expected.

Paypal's free shopping cart is not providing me with:

• enough customer options for each item
• enough shipping options to cover the shipping methods/costs I want to offer
  

Have spent the day exploring various other shopping cart options. Have not made any progress.

Any writers looking for a job (just a small job)?

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I have a terrible fear of writing. Not here on this blog, but for things like school papers and reports for work and stuff like that.

And so I'm finding I'm having trouble writing the cute little blurbs that would go with each bracelet I'm offering on the website I'm trying to build.

I know we have some writers out there in Blog land.

Would anyone be interested in helping me out with writing some blurbs for my bracelets? We're talking about maybe 10 or 12 bracelets; and possibly a handful of headings. I could send you the pictures and list what each bracelet is about. I've no idea what someone might charge for this kind of thing, but I'm willing to pay.

Please pm me if you're interested.

Thanks.

Busy little bee...er...mouse.

In school, my son's class has been doing a unit on the Revolutionary War. Next week they are putting on two presentations: a play, and a living museum. My boy has two very different roles: in the play he is British Captain Thomas Preston, and in the living museum he is Samuel Adams. Which means he needed two very different costumes. Last week I bought all kinds of fabric, thread and buttons, revved up the sewing machine, and plunged in. I finished tonight. The costumes are due at the school tomorrow, as dress rehearsals begin then. I did the sewing, but he made it clear what he wanted for the costumes. (I personally think that Samuel Adams looks a bit more like Albert Einstein, but hey, it's not my gig.) He also has a (toy, wooden) musket, which I made him ask his teacher twice if it was ok to bring in to school. We'll see if he gets suspended or arrested!

Here are the results: