Pajama Day

It's such an icky day out so we're staying inside and working on things around the house. I'm trying to get more items online but then something distracts me every now and then. I though I would share a few photos of my fancier plugs with you guys today :)



I updated my etsy avatar and still need to update my banner so slowly getting things together! Also looking into other websites so I can switch to my own, of course I'll still have my etsy! But I also want to focus on selling other jewelry at reasonable prices.

Still going through stuff and cleaning :)
I figured if I'm going to start it I might as well go all out and organize everything again. I am getting rid of tons of fabric, even some decent knit I never used to if anyone is in the southeastern part of WI and would like to take advantage of some free fabric send me an email at arksendeavors@yahoo.com
On the other hand I'm still holding onto some fabric I've had for at least 5 years!! Yeah I know it's kind of insane....not sure what I want to do with it but I need to do it soon so I'm giving myself a deadline for certain things. If I don't use it within the next month or so it's gone.
I am also looking at houses again (not sure if that was mentioned in any other posts) and would like to be out of my apartment by the end of my lease (July) so I def need to cut down on a lot since I really don't want to go through the hassel of moving tons and tons of crap again.
Wish me luck!!! Right now I'm at the point where I would like to get rid of 90% of my stuff and start over so if it comes down to it that may happen. I still need to get my vintage items on etsy and everything too. Ugh so much to do!

Happy late Valentines Day! Hope yours was as awesome as mine! Actually I didn't really do much of anything for v-day but I did get a special gift from a certain someone and it was totally unexpected :)

Right now I'm taking a little break from working. I'm going through one of my get rid of everything moods right now so there will be a bunch of new stuff in the shop for pretty cheap the next week or two (mostly vintage and some old stock plugs I just want to get rid of will be $7 a pair!).

I was also working on some new screens, last week I made some tiny ones (like 4x6 super cute!) that I wanted to put sizes on so I can screen sizes on my clothes rather than sewing in. The first go around of burning the screen was horrible and I had to wash them all out! Ugh and now one of them washed out already and one worked so fingers crossed the third will come out good. Now I understand far to well why some of my friends are very frustrated with screen printing at times!

Hopefully I will get some pictures up here very soon of things I have been working on. Have a good week!

Question

Yay!!! Over 100 posts!

Okay now onto my questions for you lovely lady's that have etsy accounts and follow me. How the heck do you keep track of things?!?! I'm horrible at making logs and remembering who to contact about what. Do you have any special tips? I'm just now starting to write down etsy names and what they need/want to contact them back because I get so many convos during the week it's hard to go back and find them!
Am I the only one with this problem??? It's crazy overwhelming sometimes!

I also need to get on top of what size plugs sell more than others, it seems like I'm making an order to my tunnel supplier every two weeks! That leads to waiting for them to ship and paying for shipping. That and keeping other items in stock. After the blizzard the other day EVERYTHING was closed, I drove around like a mad woman because I wanted to get orders done but didn't have the correct supplies! Agh! I'm learning though.

Still looking into opening a brick and mortar store but I'm not the best at jumping head first into long term commitment things so we'll see. Not a problem though because I wouldn't want to start it up until late spring/early summer.

Hope you all have a great weekend! I'm off to have a sushi date tonight so that should start mine off great :)

SNNNOOOOWWWW!!!!

Last night we got hit pretty bad. I stayed at my parents so we could just kind of bum around because I knew for a fact I would not be able to make it anywhere in the morning and this way Milo gets to play with his uncles. Here's a little view from my neighbor from downtown where my apartment is

It's pretty much like that everywhere. I'm going to try and relax today but I'm already feeling antsy and it's only 9:30am :/
Maybe we'll go hop out in the snow soon :) Then back to work!

Oops!

Okay so anyone that knows me knows I get a little out of control when I start certain projects. Maybe not the worst character flaw but def not good for the bank!

I've done it again! I was going on Jerrys Artarama (where' I've gotten screen printing ink before that I love!) just to check out prices and whatnot....well they had a 12% sale and free shipping on everything if you spent over a certain amount (I will not say what amount, it's not a ton but it's not cheap) AND IT ENDED TODAY!! So of course I had to get in on this and by things (even though they have these deals quite frequently).

Hopefully having all this stuff will get me to make more screens and use them! I hope I haven't gotten in over my head again but we shall see.

I'll never learn.

Who can now add screen printing to one of their many crafty skills???? THIS GAL! I'm sooo happy I finally did it! Last night I also made some of my own screens with some fabric from Joann Fabrics and picture frames from Value Village so hopefully those will work out! If they do I'll have a pretty cheap way to make my own screens. Now just to finally put down all my ideas onto screens, that will take some time for sure. I did snap a few pictures for you guys, horrible pictures but you get the idea.



If I didn't have enough to worry about I found this little bugger on my eye today. It's from either yesterday or today. No puking, sneezing, coughing or anything else that happened in that time to cause it so I'm assuming it's from stress :/


Things that have been stressing me out lately in no specific order
-taxes
-court
-the weather (and hating how it makes me feel)
-relationship stress
-work
-appointments
-my wisdom tooth coming in and chipping one of my other teeth
To fix all this I'm taking a night off and having craft night at my place, it's been way to long since I've had it. And all together just not worrying about anything. We all need to step back sometimes and relax! I need to remember this more often. I even took off this Sunday from bartending so I'm really trying to make this work out to my benifit.

Have a good weekend everyone!