Showing posts with label PonderandStitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PonderandStitch. Show all posts

Ponder&Stitch! Ponder&Stitch!



Okay my lovelies, I'm back! So much has gone on in the last little while, some days I was so busy I didn't have time to turn on the freakin' computer :) Of course I wasn't busy selling things LOL, all I currently have up is Christmas cards still. Oy. And I haven't spent much time on the photography shop, but atleast I took some more pics of my photos in frames, so I can add those to the listings. I know how much it helps sell photos when people can see what the photo will look like framed and up on a wall!

So it'll take a while to update you all fully, but I do apologize as I whole heartedly meant to continue with the blogging over the Christmas season! But with the parents coming home, and the family get togethers, and my husband's over night shifts, and the crocheting all night (which reminds me, I have to get some pics of what I made for the fam! Yikes... Forgot to do that!) I just didn't have the time to sit down :)



Now you may all be wondering why I'm screaming Ponder&Stitch in my blog title this morning!! Well!! Let's just say that I LOOOVE my husband. Ponder&Stitch has always been one of my absolute favourite etsy sellers. Not only does she have incredible products (All of which I want!), but she's so incredibly sweet!! She had made this one tote bag that I fell in love with, but just couldn't afford. And one day, I clicked on her etsy shop to gaze at the bag longingly, and alas, it was sold. Come to find out, it was sold to MY HUSBAND!! Yeeee!! AND I got a quadruple strand grey cuff! Thank you SO much Amy! - My hubby gave me the note along with my presents! :)  Lemme tell ya, I haven't taken off this cuff. Well, I don't shower with it on, but it's my absolute favourite accessory! I will try to get some photos soon with me donning my new accessories!! :) I'm just so excited that I own Ponder&Stitch products, I've been showing everyone!  And now I'm showing all of you, because all of the photos in todays blog are all from Amy's shop. Just note that the yellow vintage fabric bag will not be linked to it's listing, because it's MINE. :)



I got so many great gifts this Christmas - my hubby pretty much stocked me up with sooo many crafting supplies that I desperately needed, and I just can't wait to get started again! Plus, he got me a light box!! I am ecstatic! I will definitely be spending lots of time retaking photos!



Plus, I have new additions to my craft room, so I spent all day yesterday organizing it all over again. I'll definitely take pics of that too, just incase anyone's curious of where I spend most of my time :) My parents had this old antique gigantic desk in the office, but when they were moving to The Netherlands (but they now currently reside in Vienna) it was too big and heavy to ship, and it was way too big to stay in the room it was in. Their office became my husband's office, but my husband's office consists of his computer, a gigantic comic book collection, a star wars collection, and he sounds like a big geek, but I promise he's not! hehe. So it just wouldn't fit. Well, my cousins were starting up a business down the street and were looking for a desk for the staff room, and it was a perfect fit! But recently they've decided to close the shop, and asked us to take the desk back, or they'd just throw it out. Hmm.. My parents didn't like the idea of throwing out an antique desk! So since my sister FINALLY got rid of the couch she got at the reuse center for her 80's party last July and it was still sitting in my dad's garage, my dad replaced the space the couch was in with this desk. But upon hearing my husband's complaints that I don't actually *use* my craft room to craft since I have no tabletop space to do it, so I bunk out in the diningroom for weeks on end, my daddoo got a great idea! So, I now have the desk in my craft room! Yeah me!



Once I take pics I can explain where I do all my crafts :) I'd say that will be soon, but today my ma'am wants to shop, then my hubby's off early, then we're going to Ikea to buy a bed since my hubby and I both wake up every morning without the ability to walk, then we're cleaning up a bit tonight, since we're having another family get together tomorrow which means I'm spending a large portion of tomorrow baking and cooking chili! Woohoo chili! And I know there's going to be lots of things in store for the following days, so I'm not going to make any promises!



Okay, this is actually all I have time for lol. Hope everyone had an absolutely fantastic Christmas!! And dammit, Theresa, I just remembered I still haven't given you the stir-me-not recipe! lol. Yeesh. Hopefully I'll find it today!

Have a great day my lovelies!!

Pooholes and cards and all that jazz

I thought I'd just write a short little blog to let you all know I'm still here! Been super busy colouring my ass off, and driving myself crazy by brainstorming for a new shop name...

The colouring my ass off (wish that really worked.. huh) is for my new line of Christmas cards, which I'd like to add in sneak peeks here. These aren't all of them, but they're the ones I'm currently working on. These are just the first draft line drawings, and of course, just little peeks. And I'm not even going to explain what any of them are! HA!


Okay so, I'm seeing a theme here. Huh. Bum holes and screaming. Wow, my Christmas cards are festive aren't they?!

As for brainstorming for a new shop name, I'm gonna take the lazy route and just paste in a little excerpt from my other blog "That's gonna leave a stain" where i discussed my dilemmas just last night!

In etsy news, still desperately trying to think of a shop name for my photography. I desperately want to split the shops, but figuring out a name is driving me crazy. I want something original. I want something professional. I want something humourous. And all those things combined makes it extremely difficult. When i type in "sassmowth" into google, ALL i get is my stuff. Of course it does the "did you mean sassmoUth" and i say loudly everytime "NOOOooooOOO i did NOT mean sassmoooouuuuuuuth! Thank you very much!" Great thing about using a different spelling means you have a better chance of finding your stuff. BUT a different spelling also means people will forever be spelling your shop name the *correct* way, and never finding you. (Do you know how many emails i haven't gotten because of this?!) So that's why I'm not naming my shop SassmowthPhotography. Things that I have come up with so far: Crosseyed Photography, PoorHouse Photography, (and thanks to my daddoo) Wandering Eye photography. (just so we're all clear - i *have* a wandering eye. And I'm poor. So that's the reason for these names being the first to mind!) But, can you believe wandering eye photography is already a photography shop? geez. So is crosseyed AND poor house. I've been trying to find tweaks on photo related words (EyesWideShutter - already taken! ShutterYourMouth - already taken! I think i should give up on "shutter") But to no avail. Then i read an interesting forum on etsy about how people came up with their shop name. I'm like ooh hey, maybe I'll get some ideas of what i can use. So a lot of people were talking about using their name "meaning" for their shop. So i was like, cool, I'll type in my name for the "meaning" and i got "VIRGINAL". There we go. That'll do. Yup. Sounds great.

Does sound great doesn't it? I certainly thought so. Oh, got all the info I need for my upcoming Feature Friday! So excited for starting this... and i already have the second installment underway. Hopefully it'll be a success!

Okay, before i run off, there's one more thing. The other day on the chats, Ponder&Stitch and I happened to be talking about pictures of ourselves, and she was saying there's one in particular that she hated 'cause she looked bad, and I kept saying 'puh! do NOT'. Well then i brought up Weird Al. Basically it was along the lines of me saying atleast you weren't a spitting image of Weird Al, and all i really had to do was draw on a moustache! So, here ya go Amy, see for yourself m'dear! Enjoy!

Okay so I also drew on the chesthair! Just so you all know! :)

Ponder & Stitch is having a giveaway!


Amy at Ponder & Stitch is having a giveaway!! Her work is absolutely amazing - she's incredibly talented. I've been following her blog for just about 3 weeks now, and am blown away every time she posts about a new item on her Ponder & Stitch esty shop. She's reached her 2 month "blog-iversary", and is celebrating with a fantastic giveaway for one of her amazing cuffs! (shown above) So go check out Ponder & Stitch's blog and enter! You won't be disappointed!




(In other news, YES! my contest is still going on, so don't you all forget to enter it!! If you missed that blog, check it out here. So far I've had 10 or so people enter (and are collecting lots of entries!) but there's still plenty of time to participate! Everyone likes free stuff right? Especially when it's shipped free, AND you pick the photo that you want to win! How great is that?!)




Oh, and in even other news, I'll be posting again in the next 2 days with photos of the 5 billion things I'm currently working on! PLUS I'll be heading out to the printers tomorrow to get some quotes on some stuff!! Very excited, because October is gonna be one busy month. My shop is getting a complete overhaul as I'm splitting my work and getting an entirely new shop.. (and new blog? Hmm... ) and hopefully if all goes well, I'll be having lots and lots of new and exciting merchandise for sale like Christmas cards! Woohoo.. hope you have a sense of humour :)

Have a great night!