I just was pointed to an article on squidoo and found it intriguing… I just set up an account but I’m not really sure what to do with it…
If you’ve used it, or know much about it, please share :)
Done wif/da old
I haven’t been posting much lately, because I’ve been too busy and tired. Now that the huge show is over hopefully I’ll be able to get back to some sort of normalcy.
In any case, I did keep reading, and I finally finished my read-through of the JPS version of the old testament the other night. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to continue another read-through of the new testament, or switch to topical studies, and since I haven’t made up my mind yet, I’ve decided to do neither for a little bit.
I’ve been collecting old (70’s and earlier) biblical studies books and such off of PoshPoints lately, and I decided to take the opportunity to read through them before I move on to other study. I don’t know how many of them will be any good, but since some of them are prophecy books, from the 70’s, it should be interesting at least lol
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Update
Okay I’m just posting this because I haven’t blogged (or even logged in here) in forever. I haven’t been around etsy for a long time, I haven’t been checking in with my yahoo groups…
I’ve been working like crazy on StoryBlox, doing tons of required summertime family stuff (including ball games, 2 weddings, and an 80th birthday party), doing some very part-time web report work, tons of yard work and garden stuff, listing/buying on PoshPoints (which has been my only real hope of getting decent birthday presents for anyone this year), and I’m starting to get more involved at church. Add in the disability and that means I’ve been drugging myself up enough to run nonstop for about 5 days a week, and then crashing for at least 2 days a week…
So…I just figured I’d drop by and let people know I’m not dead (if anyone even reads this lol).
I’ve had nightmare after nightmare trying to get blocks in stock for this wholesale show. It didn’t work out, so I have just enough blocks to do one set of each type of StoryBlox for the show, and no extras to take to sell! Gah! At least I have extras of most every other product, so I’m working ike crazy trying to get enough stock of everything else together. The show is this weekend and I’m SO not ready!
Mom’s been coming down almost every other day trying to help get stuff made, but as soon as we get stuff done more people order!! I wasn’t expecting orders to pickup this early… I finally took all of my personalized items off of etsy the other day, and someone came and ordered a full block set instead! I would normally be ecstatic over the sales, but right now it’s just stressing me out cuz I’m afraid I won’t have enough products to take lol.
In any case, the wholesale show is this weekend. After that I’ll have who knows many orders to fill (hopefully a lot, cuz it was like $700 to get into the show in the first place), like 10 birthdays, a labor day party here (I’m having a big cookout, Lindsey, if you’re reading this you’re invited), and who knows what else. By that time, Christmas orders will be pouring in, and I won’t get another break until at least January!!
I’m really hoping I get enough orders at this wholesale thing that I can hire people to help me, cuz I don’t know how long I’m gonna hold out at this rate.
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Breaks & Blocks
I feel like I’ve been absent from most everywhere for weeks. I think I forgot to check into Flickr for something like 2 weeks straight. I only go to Etsy once in a while to convo a customer or relist expired items items, and I haven’t posted on here forever. The only thing I’ve kept up with is PoshPoints, because dang, I’m getting some awesome stuff through there :P
I had my brother’s youngest girl (13) for a week the week of the fourth, and started a new part time telecommuting job. Once my niece left, I think I slept for almost a week straight. I finally made a phone call to a friend:
Me: “I’ve been tired for a week straight, I can’t get ANYTHING done, and I can’t figure out why! I’ve been taking my pills regularly (I got that new daily pill box thing and have been using it) any ideas?”
Him: “Uhm, how many muscle relaxants have you been taking?”
So yeah, I felt like an idiot, because even though I’ve been taking muscle relaxants for years, and even though I’ve been measuring out my pills into my daily pill organizer, and even though I have been actually remembering to take the pills I put out for a change… I somehow managed to FORGET to put out ANY muscle relaxants for an entire week!
My muscles stay spasmed if I don’t take the relaxants, which uses way more energy and zaps my strength, so that’s why I’ve been sleeping all day, and been more sore than usual. Sheesh! So I’m finally back taking ALL of the pills I’m supposed to, and I feel much better. I’ve started getting stuff done again, and my brother’s middle girl (15) is staying here this week.
Today we painted. All day. I think we used every paint brush I had out, and something like 20 different paint colors. I finished some NameBlox™, a couple of Birth Announcement Blocks that were ordered for twins, painted 4 sets of 8 1″ colored cubes, a pair of 1″ color dice, a set of “painted yahtzee” dice, 4 pairs of standard dice (stained, not painted), a set of dice with 18kt gold pips that look awesome!, and uhm… oh yeah about 6 NameBlox™ benches. Whew.
Elizabeth painted animals and designs on every little piece of wood she could find, I’m not quite sure what’s she’s doing with them all, but I’ll try to upload a pic to flickr of her creations sometime in the next few days.
I also found time to fix an awesome dinner of Zataran’s Herb Rice (with pieces of chicken breast instead of the hamburger it called for), sauteed zucchini and homemade cole slaw. And we spent about an hour trying to get Elizabeth into a maple tree with a hand saw so she could help get a couple of limbs down that’d been hit by lightning (she got up there, but dropped the saw, and by the time we got it back up to her she was too tired to fight with the limb that refused to come down lol). We’ll probably try again tomorrow because she really liked the idea of being that high up in a tree. The limbs have been dead for a year or so, but they twisted funny and are hanging on by a bit, and refuse to want to come down the rest of the way.
How’s that for an update? lol
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Derr… Where did Dan go?
We were going over Revelation 7 in a Bible study Friday, and one of the ladies noticed something was off in the listing of the 12 tribes. Dan isn’t mentioned in Revelation, but both Joshua and Joshua’s son Manesseh are mentioned. This is bizarre, since every account of the 12 tribes mentions Dan, even the one in the end-times prophecy in Ezekiel.
So, what happened to Dan?
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There are times when I love VistaPrint
| Product Total Before Discounts: | $215.32 | |||||
| You Saved: | ($205.32) | |||||
| Product Total After Discounts: | $10.00 | |||||
| Shipping & Processing (Slow 21 Days): | $8.05 | |||||
| Total: | $18.05 | |||||
This total is for
10 Sheets of Custom Letterhead (my graphics)
250 Premium Business Cards (my graphics)
100 Post Cards (their graphics, my text)
10 Flat Invitations
25 Brochures (my graphics, both sides)
25 Business Card Magnets (my graphics)
10 Calendar Magnets (my graphics)
10 Folded Note Cards W/Envelopes (their graphics, my text, plain envelopes)
1 Custom Stamp – Fragile/don’t bend/keep cool (for my crayon shipments)
1 Note Pad (my graphics)
1 Pad of Post-It type Notes (my graphics)
1 X-Large T-Shirt (my graphics, front AND back)
This is today’s order. The other day I got 1500 business cards, a sticky-note pad, a custom address stamp, and 25 business checks for $27.27 shipped.
If you’re looking to score some promo stuff, this is a good time to get it, use the link: http://www.VistaPrint.com/minicatalog then go through and look at each one of their products. Every single item above would have been completely free had I not opted to upload my own graphics — with that link, graphics uploads are still half off though, and you can use any graphics you’ve already paid to upload in the past, for free.
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Special UPS Pricing for PayPal Shippers
If you sell (or have sold) on eBay, and still have a current account (actuallly, I think it will work even if you don’t), and you ever ship via UPS through PayPal, you might wanna really look at this:
http://www.upsdelivers.com/ebay/
UPS is pleased to offer eBay Sellers the opportunity to save big – up to 31%* – on U.S. outbound ground, air, and international shipping. You’ll start saving with the first package you send. Then, the more you ship, the more you save.
*Savings when compared to UPS Retail Rates.
Offer is available to US-based UPS account numbers for US domestic and international shipments. The UPS Special Pricing Program for eBay Sellers is brought to you by UPS and is available for packages processed on eBay or PayPal. Savings begin 1 to 6 business days after sign-up.
A few days after you sign up you’ll be enrolled for “UPS Daily Rate” pricing, instead of the retail pricing, which appears to be the same discount that high volume shippers get.
This works for current UPS accounts, as long as you’re not already setup for the special Daily Rates, just imput your current account number on the signup form. If you don’t have a UPS account you’ll need to create one.
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Suggestions Welcome
Okay, so Etsy is driving me nuts. If I had to take my StoryBlox™ shop off of etsy tomorrow it wouldn’t be a problem, as a lot of my sales come through my main site, or elsewhere.
The tmbmt shop is another issue though, because it’s odds and ends and stuff that I don’t really want to bother with selling more than one place.
So, does anyone have any good suggestions for a place to move to? It’s mainly for paper beads, random crafts, and odds-and-ends supplies. I don’t want to make a custom store just for the tmbmt stuff. I won’t merge it with StoryBlox™ stuff, and I can’t afford ebay.
Problem is, I’m not sure there’s an alternative to eBay, other than etsy, that has much traffic sales-wise. Someone please let me know if I’m wrong.
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New Etsy Listings – Paper Beads & Bubble Mailers
Since etsy’s search and category functions have been screwed up for a couple of days (at least) I figured I’d drop a note here.
I just added a number of new paper beads, and I’ll have a few more to list over the next couple of days.
I also got a shipment of bubble mailers, if anyone needs any (size #00, listed in packs of 10 on etsy).
** If you can’t get to etsy, you can check my flick account for photos, contact me for purchasing info **
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