before I get into a rant about how ridiculous my life is right now, meet margaret =]. she's the newest monster in my shop right now who I haddn't showed to my blog flowers =]. you probably want to quit reading now because the rest is just me whining about my life. =]. On a more depressing note - my life is beyond chaotic right now. I was dumb enough to try to take 17 credits at once, because my school offers a deal where if you pay for 12 credits (12 credits is a full time student) you can Read more [...]

So, I had no idea that my old layout wasn’t allowing people to comment me! But, I got a new layout (which is a lame blogger provided one for now) that does allow comments. Anyone know where a good place is to get professional looking blogger layouts at? I’ve searched a little but kept finding sites that only had teenage-looking layouts.

i'll continue to update this post a rolled canvas print from uprinting.com another urprinting.com rolled canvas print yet another uprinting.com rolled canvas print a poster print from uprinting.com for prehistin allergy relief medication for hand soap and a reusable bag for a memory quilt for a soda stream machine another u printing rolled canvas print LOTS of yummy smelly stuff! stuff from fruit2day.com a uprinting poster solar hybrid flashlight Read more [...]

sorry for the lack of blogs! i had a kitchenfire 3days ago and we've been so busy cleaning and what not. also -hurry and get your entries in for a chance to win a giftcard to my shop or one of 6 other awesome prizes! ends tomorrow (monday) at noon! http://jewelrybysolange.blogspot.com/ there will be 7 winners and there are only 37 comments so far! that's good odds! and i snagged a treasury! clicks and comments are appreciated! leave a link to YOUR treasury and i'll return the favor! =] http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=92844 Read more [...]

there’s a giveaway going on over at jewelry by solange’s blog that my etsy store is participating in. there are 6 shops besides mine that are giving something away in this giveaway! you don’t wanna miss it!

So for halloween my bf & i were gonna be mario and luigi. well then his buddy wanted to go with us to the party we were going to go to at my cousins. So he decided to be Toad to go along with us. He called like 3 hours before the party we were gonna go to was suppose to start and cancelled on us. So I had made him a toad hat that was sweet so i wound up deciding to be toad and my bf still was luigi. we didn't feel like going to the party so we just stayed home, handed out candy and watched Read more [...]

If you have a moment please check out this shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7925371 the shop owner left this summary on a thread I had started. With our economy the way it is I'm sure everyone here needs a flurry of sales?? My husband is in the hopital's ICU battling cancer, Multiplymeloma and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and a biopsy of the brain recently revealed plasmsarcoma. Due to his compromised immune style he's also asquired the swine flu and has be on a ventilator. This past week Read more [...]

I'm part of an Etsy team called tradaholics. I just joined a couple of weeks ago so my first real tradeaholics event was today, at the trading frenzy. How it worked was there was a list of 11 shops who started off. and to get put on the list, we had to trade with someone already on the list. So then anyone after that who wanted on the list could trade with any of the original 11 or anyone who had already traded with one of those 11 and gotten themselves added to the list. so the list just grew Read more [...]

For those of you who don't know, Lou Designs is, in her sisters' words "a mix of old not so famous quotes, new sayings by Lou and paintings by Lou." What stands out the most to me about the site, is the unique way that Lou draws people. Here are a few examples I really like her style. They seem a little 'dark' but cute at the same time. I love it! a lot of the items on Lou Designs are themed around the author Jane Austen, who is Lou's favorite author. Jane Austen is most well known Read more [...]