Oops she did it again!!!!

Treasury hotness!

I'm featured in this very awesome Halloween treasury did by my friend Holly. I'm very honored to be in it and am hoping it will hit Etsy's Front Page. Can you help? Go visit and give it some love!

Wanted:

It has come to my attention that my darling Bear might be lonely. I went outside this afternoon to photograph my new shop listings, and came back to find this:

For a bit of explanation, this is Bear (and the bull Toledo) surfing the web in my absence. What was he looking at, you might be asking? How about this??

So, my Bear needs a friend. And it would appear it might need to be a girl. :) We are seeking young, cute female teddy bears about the same size as Bear who would be interested in being Internet Penpals. Bear is not ready to make a big commitment, so having a new roommate might be too much at this time. Bear likes hats, books, and the ocean. Let us know if you know somebody!

Just Watch This!

Loved it! Made my entire night!

Rethinking Shipping...

I'm a die hard ship from the post office person. I always have been. I live within ten minutes walking distance from the post office, and it's a nice, good for me walk, and I usually go a few times a week. Hell, I'd go every day if someone bought something. :)

BUT

Last week I went to mail a package (which was Holly's Scarf ). There were two people in line in front of me, one at the counter. This is about normal for our small little p.o., but the line normally moves quite quickly.

EXCEPT

the lady at the counter was getting a ton of certified letters, so many that those little slips they give you back, the stack was like 3 inches tall! I stood in like for 40 minutes waiting to send that package.

For the first time I'm leaning more towards starting to ship from home, but I wouldn't even have a clue about how to start.

Anyone who reads this ship from home? Have suggestions for me?

Wanna Win FREE stuff?!?! Join the Owls for Owl-O-Ween!!

The Etsy Owls are having a FANTASTIC HALLOWEEN contest for the next two weeks. To be entered, all you have to do is purchase anything from any of the participating shops and then you are automatically entered into the drawing for 3 fabulous prize packages from the Owls! You can click on the title of this entry, or here to see the entry on our team blog that explains the fine print details, links to the participating shops, AND has pictures of some of the amazing prizes to be given away.

No minimum purchase. Two entry maximum per shop. Feel free to post comments or questions if you have them.

Available in my Etsy Shop...

What I'm listening to lately...

For My Inner Nerd...

Oh Where I Come From...

As if Outsider's Inn were not enough to make me love the image East Tennessee gets in the larger scope of the world, Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported about little old Knoxville today. It doesn't seem to be on the Countdown website as it was just a little blurb, so here's the Knoxville News Sentinel version:

Man Stuck On Stopping Blue Cow

Apparently someone tried to break into the Knoxville Museum of Art through the air vent shaft, and then when he got stuck, called 911. Brilliant. More so brilliant was the fact that he explained it by launching into some explaination involving being a special agent sent to stop a Russian bomb planted in our museum. Yeah. Thanks for making us look good.

Spain has made my day, for real....

This hasn't hit the American news yet in any scope other than through Talking Points Memo but in Spain today there's a lot of news coverage on McCain. In an interview done for a Spanish radio station (I think), McCain talked at length about various Latin American countries and how he wanted to try to establish relationships with countries that could be our allies. In the ending part of the interview, the reporter asks McCain if he were elected president, would he want to establish relations with Zapatero (the current leader of Spain). McCain then reiterates the fact that he wants to establish relationships with countries that are deserving of our allegiance. The reporter goes back and forth like four times with him, and he continues to talk about Spain as if it were a Latin American country. Finally, the reporter is actually like, I'm talking about Spain, in EUROPE.

omg.

As of this point, the only audio available is a Spanish recording of the interview. I listened to it and can, even with my Spanish being what it is, understand the parts at the end where he seems to seriously not know where Spain is. There is a English version of the interview, because you can hear English in parts of it, like McCain talking in the background behind the voice over translation.

I really hope this hits our news, it's making waves in Spanish news today. I don't know when the interview was done, but the coverage is today's, so I'm hopeful it's worth picking up on. And knowing the way some news coverage LOVES McCain, I'm really hopeful.

Guess what is mostly black and has three columns?

My blog has moved up into the world of three columns! I'm so freakin excited!!! I've been sad over the left hand space on my blog for a loooonnnng time, and I keep hoping that Blogger will release a template that uses that extra space. Well, they haven't.

Finally deciding to see if I could solve my issues on my own, I went out and started looking to see if I was alone in my desires. Turns out I'm far from not alone, and I found Blogger Buster, this amazing little article that told me exactly how to add a third column to my blog using HTML editing! How exciting!

So, now I'm rolling in third column status. The only bad thing about this is I lost all the blogs on my 'I Like To Read' list (now heading up my left hand column), so if you're reading me and you think I used to read you but have forgotten your blog address (I know I lost several funny blogs in this process) PLEASE comment. Or just comment anyway. I love blogs, and have a whole column with room for them now!

This made my entire day...

feeling reflective...and sad :(

There's been a lot of sad things happening, on various scales of sadness. I've been really freaked out by the Spanair plane crash in Madrid , which rattles me somewhat because I've flown that airline and been in that airport, more than once. That's probably really silly, to be freaked out by that, but I am. It could've happened months ago and I could have been there...

I don't know.

Closer to home, there was a shooting at a school in Knoxville, apparently for once NOT a random act of violence but an intended act of violence, one kid against another... and not too long after a guy stormed into a church there and shot a bunch of people. Knoxville's still very fragile, for obvious reasons...

These last two are nowhere near the scale of the first two, but still hit my mind as highly annoying. The first one is a sad day on the Harry Potter front, as they are pushing back the release of the Half Blood Prince to stinking July 17th, 2009. I just don't get it, because they have already released previews and already got us all excited, and the pulled it right out from in under us. I'm really angry, and if it were anything else I'd be pissed off enough to boycott the movie alltogether, except, who boycotts a Potter film?? Well, I guess these people do, oh, these people too... way to piss off a massive Fandom, Warner Bros. Seriously.

The last bit of icing lately is the fact that they are making a reality show just a county over from where I live. Called Outsider's Inn, it's about a bed and breakfast ran out in the sticks and it supposedly is really, really stereotypical of Southern people. As someone who lives right next door, I'm pretty angry about the portrayal of such a stereotype. But, also, I know that in some ways some of those stereotypes ARE true...lol. But it really upsets me that Tennessee's hit the television in such a bad way.

Okay. I guess that's the end of the rant.

on the second try...

So after last night's entry and posting my first squash, I tried again.
And I still got squash! I guess I just have squash on the brain. :) I've decided to name these guys Buttercup and Hubbard (Buttercup's the short, plump one...) and put them on sale on Etsy. They are $10 for the pair, as after taking this picture I couldn't bring myself to seperate them...and can be seen by clicking the title of this entry or by clicking here.

If you want one of your own, and only one, I can make one special squash just for you. Just convo me and we'll get squashing!

I like Veggies...

I'm trying to get better about blogging about some of the stuff I'm working on, as I work on it, versus after it's finished and already on Etsy. In a harvest frame of mind, I've been thinking about pumpkins and squash. This was my first pumpkin, but he decided he was a squash instead. :)

I just finished this little guy and wanted to share. Look over the picture, it's late and the best I can do. :)

because i like music...

because I love Garfield...

...I am slightly upset by and then amused by this concept at the same time.

I mean, it's Garfield, but without Garfield. What the hell? Called Garfield Minus Garfield this webcomic only features Jon...and eliminates everything else.

This one's quite funny...

when life gives you lemons...

make lemonade and then cry about it?? Because that's seriously what I feel like doing...

I don't really want to whine through an entire blog entry about how much workplace drama makes me want to sit and cry...but I really want some advice, or some feedback, or at least a public place to admit that I am 1)a pushover and 2)a doormat.

To make a long story shorter the entire episode is over me doing something at work that a coworker felt was her place to do. Only one of us were there, so she got sent somewhere else, and as a natural, logical response, is now mad at me over it. It wouldn't bug me so much except this person is someone i considered a work friend, and now I've basically been agonizing over it since it happened last week. To the point where I'm even thinking about trying to fix it tomorrow at work, when I didn't break it to start with. Thus me being a doormat.

On a more fun note, I made a meal yesterday that was so pretty I decided to take pictures of it to share with the world! This is my meatloaf baking bag, with potatoes, bell peppers, and green onions. No lemons :) It was yummy!

because nothing gets better than this...