Halft way through the year!

Can you believe that we are officially half way done with 2009? This year is flying! A couple of things to mention, I added the two market totes mentioned in my post below to the Etsy Shop


I have 3 more completed totes that will most likely go up this weekend as well!


Also, I wanted to take a moment to talk about my long distance book club I have with my BFF Leanne. This has pretty much turned out to be the year of The Vampire or Immortals as some authors call them! I am on my 36th book for the year! My original goal was to read one book a week, for a total of 52 books this year, but its becoming more and more likely that i will surpass this goal! Here is my book list for 2009:

Standalones:

1. Peace Like A River
2. Pygmy
3. My Sweet Audrina

Twilight Series:

1. Twilight
2. Eclipse
3. New Moon
4. Breaking Dawn
5. Midnight Sun – Partial

Sookie Stackhouse Novels:

1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
5. Dead as a Doornail
6. Definitely Dead
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
9. Dead and Gone

The Immortals After Dark Series:

1. Playing Easy To Get
2. A Hunger Like No Other
3 No Rest For The Wicked
4. Wicked Deeds On A Winter’s Night
5. Dark Needs At Night’s Edge
6. Dark Desires After Dark
7. Kiss of A Demon King

Vampire Diaries:

1. The Awakening
2. The Struggle
3. The Fury
4. Dark Reunion

The Little Goddess Series:

1. Vulnerable

The Darkest Power Series:

1. The Summoning

Immortals Series:

1. Evermore

Cutler Family Saga

1. Dawn
2. Secrets of the Morning
3. Twilights Child
4. Midnight Whispers
5. Darkest Hour

Dollanganger Family Series

1. Flowers in the attic
2.Petals in the Wind


And what's a post without any pics! Here is some Etsy love:

Whimsical Nature Book Plates - The Poppy Tree

Pale Blue Washi Paper Bookmark - Nhubs
Pocket Notebook 3 pack - The Black Apple

Back in the game!

After my long and relaxing hiatus, I have decided to get back into the crafting game. To celebrate I created a new banner! Here a few things that will be in the shop in the next week or two:

No Hunting Market Tote

Dainty Bunny Market Tote

I'm on my way to Mexico next week, and will be picking up more totes while I'm there so keep an eye out for an update!

Magpie? What's that?!?!

It sounds intriguing, but I must find out more info on it! Anyone have cliff notes?

From what I gather so far, you allow Magpie to use your twitter profile to place ads in your name.

The ads will be relevant to what you are twittering about of course. You decide how often the ads show up, every 1 tweet, 5 tweets, 20, tweets, etc.

You get paid a certain amount depending on the "hotness" of your twitter profile and the ads that are chosen for you. Then after you have a certain amount, you can cash out with paypal!

Ok, I think I got it now, I had to talk myself through it!

If you are interested, check it out HERE

Obama on Etsy's Front Page!!!

TWICE!!!!!!

History In The Making

I need to take a moment to stop and take this all in.

Today is day for the history books. Not only did we

just elect our first black president, but we elected

someone who FINALLY will lead the US to greatness.

This has been a long time coming, and I think the

whole world partakes in our excitement today. The

world looks bright and hopeful again. We feel like

we can achieve anything again!

My parents came to this country to achieve The

American Dream, and after so many years of it

being a nightmare for some, it seems achieveable

once again!

Jake and I are in a scary situation right now, we

are in the middle of purchasing a house and people

are being laid off at Jake's work; all hope felt lost,

but starting today, it seems so much brighter. I am

not afraid anymore, because I know Barack Obama

will not let us down.

I know he cannot do it alone and I am prepared to

help in anyway I am asked to. For once in my life

I feel proud to be an American and I feel patriotic,

and I feel hopeful for my future!

HOST TRUNK SHOW on Etsy

HOST is putting on a sale! Woohoo!!!

Vibrant Etsy Treasury

The wonderful Cynmb has been kind enough to feature one of my Note Scribblers in a treasury!

Check it out!

Thank you Cyn! What wonderful company you have me in!

Treasury

New Frontiers

I ventured into new and unknown territory this past weekend. I received some beautiful felted beads from HandBEHG and decided to make some earrings, and a few necklaces. I have to say I was very surprised at how difficult it was! I now have an even GREATER appreciation and admiration for all the fabulous jewelry artists on Etsy! Its hard work what they do!

So this weekend I made two necklaces: a simple one with ribbon and beads, and a more complicated one with ribbon, beads, felted balls and chain. It was so pretty and I wish I would have taken a picture (I'll post it later). I showed my little sister, who is my toughest critic and to my surprise she loved it - so I gave it to her.

The necklaces will have to be my next project but, what I want to show you now are the earrings! My good friend Maisy from Etsy, encouraged me to list them, so they MIGHTgo up this weekend...if I don't chicken out!

She gave me some awesome tips on wire wrapping and how to use the pliers, so I hope I can master it! I gotta say though, its not as easy as it looks! And Maisy has A LOT more experience than I do. If you haven't already, check out her shop - it's absolutely fabulous!!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!

And now for a display as to how a professional does it...

Sodalite drops - Maisyh

Cherry Flower Earrings - MCNovelties

I HEART white howlite brushed sterling - MCNovelties

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If you haven't already, head on over to her shop, its filled with eye candy!

Maisyh and MCNovelties.

Etsy's New Feature

Refer a friend!

Its not like people weren't doing this before but now they have a way for you to send a message out to specific email addresses. It's an invite to join Etsy and it gives the person a direct link to your shop!

So if you haven't done it already, check out Etsy!!! Hello and welcome to your new addiction...

Click Here

Hello - SarahJaneStudios - $24

Recent Etsy Purchases

LAOriginals

I got this AWESOME Plum Crocheted Flower Brooch from LAOriginals. I have been coveting one of her flowers for a long time and trust me, her work is even more fabulous in person! Check out her shop for more crochet goodness!

OurLadyOfTheUnderpas

I have been watching and watching this sweater FOREVER! I even convo'd the seller about measurements and everything but one thing or another kept coming up, so I couldn't get the cash to buy it... Then the other day, I was cleaning up my favorites and HOLY COW it was on super sale!!! So I picked it up right away! Check out the shop for other yummy vintage goodies!

Brookerpie

So I was browsing around Etsy and I came across Brookerpie. She has an amazing shop perfect for scrapbookers. Luckily on the day I found her she was having a sale of buy one roll of lace get one FREE! She has white, puple, red, yellow and green currently in her shop. Check it out!

MixedSpecies

And last but DEFINITELY not least, ihis awesome shirt by MixedSpecies.

It reads: "Jesus gives me a huge resurrection" I'll leave that one to your imagination...

Happy Birthday To Me...

Holy crap, I am 23 today! Eeeeeeek. Just had to share how cute Etsy is: when you log in you get a little welcome message wishing you a Happy Birthday! Can you find me? I am on there twice, with my seller and buyer account!

Also when I got in my car this morning to go to work, I found this waiting for me!!! The new Yael Naim CD!!! Hubby put it in my CD player for me so it started playing as soon as I turned on the car! He is so cute! I have been listening to it all day at work! Check it out if you haven't already, its great! She also sings in Hebrew.

I have to show off the other stuff I got as well: an awesome Slash T-Shirt that I have been wanting forever! I love Guns N' Roses - what can I say?! Oh guess what I heard on the radio this morning? Dr. Pepper has offered Axl Rose a deal that if he finishes his CD "Chinese Democracy" which has been in the makings for 17 years (!), they will give each person in the United States a FREE can off Dr. Pepper! How awesome is that? I am not a fan of Dr. P but the owner must be a pretty dedicated fan of Axl Rose!!!

Also I got an awesome Hello Kitty easter basket filled with my favorite candy - which means it was all Reeses's Peanut Butter cup related, and these earrings!!! AHHHHH! I love Tokidoki, and I love even more that Jake knows exactly what I like! Yup, I think he is definitely a keeper! Thanks babe!















He is throwing me a Hello Kitty themed party on Saturday, so I will keep you posted... It snowed today so not too sure how its gonna work out but we'll see!

I Love My Husband

I have to show off what my hubby made me! I wanted to make a business card or a post card that I could put in with my finished orders... Just something pretty to look at with all my Etsy and blog info - and he did it - and totally surpassed my expectations!!!

(click the image for higher resolution)

What do you think? I am trying to convince him to open up his own Etsy shop. He also did my banner. Tell him how cool he is so he joins Etsy!!!