It's official. I am running away.

After a rough week last week and all the goings on with work and Etsy and the like, I am running away to the mountains this weekend with my husband.  I am taking no work with me, not even a ball of cotton yarn.  The plan is to runaway early Friday morning and eat lunch at the Bush's Baked Beans factory. 

Then we will go to Dollywood to renew our season passes and enjoy the shows and rides and each other. 

Then we will run away to our "Little Cabin in the Woods"

(ok so it's not "ours" we've just rented it before and therefore we say it's ours.  Plus we also say that we are going to buy it when we get old and work at Dollywood.) and we will enjoy a movie and popcorn.  No real job, no Etsy, no blog, no computer, just me and my hubby.  It's going to be great! 

Friday morning can't get here fast enough... 

Magic Ring Video

So after much fighting, I got the videos to work somewhat.  This is what I did all evening instead of testing patterns like I should have been doing.  At least this is a step in the right direction.  This is the video that I most wanted.  The quality is nowhere near what it is straight off the camera, but what's a girl to do?  Hopefully in the next few days I'll have a post up with all the stitch videos I made today and then I'll have patterns for sale on Etsy.  We'll just test this and see how it works.



It's supposed to be silent.  Don't try to adjust your speakers.  Would some background music help this?  Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe sometime in the near future...

I keep hitting brick walls.  Over and over it seems.  Despite the fact that it was cold and overcast, and thus my photography "studio" aka dining room, was dark, today, I spent half the day making lovely videos teaching different crochet stitches.  Only to find that my computer has coverted file types and it's taking an eternity to convert the videos and I still can't edit them.  My yet to get off the ground pattern business depends on these videos and pictures.  I'm just in a slump with work and (lack of) vacation, and hitting walls in my one outlet to everything.  I know I'm a grown-up and everything, but work just never seems to end, and I'm not just talking about housework.  Really makes me wonder sometimes if this creative thing should stay around, or if I should just give it up to the "real world." 

Sorry for the rant.  Maybe sometime in the near future I will get going on what I wanted this blog and my Etsy shop to be.   

Thursday Ramblings

So it's Thursday.  I have to keep reminding myself of this.  I've been working crazy hours to help cover for third shift at the hospital and will be working this weekend too.  I worked til 3am last night to help a sick coworker, and I'm supposed to stay til 3am tonight too.  So I keep thinking that yesterday was Thursday and today's Friday, but really it's just my Tuesday since I have to work Saturday and Sunday too.  Follow?  No?  I didn't expect you to.  But I didn't have to go in until 6pm tonight, so I got a little running around done. 

I went to Michael's.  :D  I got paint for the birdhouses that our Middle School girls are going to make.  I got more cotton yarn.  I've started a love affair with that stuff.  But the reason I got more cotton is because I have a request for big people sized Grayson Leigh hats, so I'm going to try it out at some point in the near future.  I also bought ribbon and elastic to finish my "Pattern Designer's Notebook."  And some pretty ribbon out of the clearance bin. :)

Then I got my hubby a polo shirt for just $2.11 at JC Penney's cause I had $10 off any purchase.  I also found some cute crop pants that I really like but won't buy for myself until I get my first Etsy sale.  Hopefully that will happen soon since I'm working on writing patterns and making them all pretty for sale in said Etsy shop.  Be on the look out!

Then tomorrow is Freebie Friday, and I will get off work at 6:30pm.  Yay!  See y'all then!

Freebie Friday has been postponed

Sorry for those of you who were anxiously awaiting this week's Freebie Friday.  I promise I have the pattern written and it is for a Twisted Candy Cat Toy.  I just didn't have time to make pictures.  Or really write the pattern down where someone else could understand it.  Sorry guys.  But I have almost a whole Saturday to myself, so the pattern should be up by the end of the weekend. 

I did find this on Etsy.  The artist is YirehJewelry.  She lives in Hawaii and is using her Etsy sales to help fund a mission trip to Indonesia.  You should check her shop out here --> http://www.yirehjewelry.etsy.com/

Happy Friday Everyone!

Almost Friday...

So I have no idea what I'm posting for Freebie Friday.  None.  No clue.  It should probably be a crochet pattern, since that's where most of my traffic comes from.  But I've been wrestling with a pattern for Mary Jane style booties to match my Grayson Leigh hat for most of the week.  I've made 3 booties and none of them look the same.  Well, they look alike, but none of them are the same.  Now I'm working on #4 and it's just as different.  Hopefully this is the last one.  I'm writing my pattern, again, and hopefully this time it will go into the new composition book that I just bought to write all my patterns in.  And Saturday is reserved for putting those patterns into PDFs with pictures and then listing them.  I really need to do some big time digital admin type stuff this weekend.  Should be an eventful weekend. 

See y'all tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll have something good here!

Happy Monday!

Ok, so I didn't really feel very happy while trying to find a place to park when I got to work this afternoon.  In fact, this may be the most unhappy Monday of the year since the weekend was gorgeous and DST started yesterday and I'm all out of whack. 

But I don't have a cold anymore, and the weekend was amazing.  I went shopping with Mama on Saturday, then Dave took me out to dinner Saturday night.  Sunday morning church was just what I needed.  Middle School Small Group's Service Night went very well.  The boys made birdhouses and the girls made cards for the shut in members of our church.  Next Service Night the girls will paint the birdhouses and the boys will make cards.  And I'm sore from doing cartwheels and wrestling with said middle schoolers in the front yard.  I know I'm about 10 years older than they are, but most of them are bigger than me, so it's ok! 

I guess overall it's a happy Monday.

In craft news, I did some research this weekend regarding selling my crochet patterns online.  I'm thinking that this may be beneficial for me.  Right now, my key blog traffic comes from Crochet Pattern Central, a site that I love and adore.  But it seems that people want the patterns for things I'm selling in my Etsy shop, which is no way to make money.  So I think I'm going to sell patterns, as well as submitting my little freebies to CPC.  I may also start selling some SVG files for the SCAL and Make the Cut software and Cricut machines.  To say the least, I've got to get busy whether or not I sell patterns because I have so many ideas in my head and none of them are in yarn yet. 

In the meantime, I found this on Etsy today.  I know I'm not a knitter, and this particular item was a custom listing that sold already, but I had to share

Is that not the cutest thing?  The creator is wearthou.  Here's the link to her shop, you should go check it out http://www.wearthou.etsy.com/

I'll see y'all later for another Freebie Friday!