Week 3 No Car

Not my car but its what it looks like : P

So I have been without my lovely Maroon Car for "3" weeks now and summer semester if almost over I mean like days away. SO excited about it but the SUN is killing me with heat. I swear I get close to an hour+ of walking down in the heat of the SUN and then I tell myself I'm going to work out in the garage before bed. *hahaha* Yeah so I did it Monday and (Tuesday).... I really wish my memory was better but oh well. I had a Calendar going but it has fallen my the wayside. So yeah  I am working on a queen size knit blanket and it is taking FOREVER!!!!!  but in the mean time  I made a new bag (the one I bought ended up having too much metal on it for my skin and I looked like I had a  gotten bitten my hundreds of little ants on my arms).  So I made a nice purple and "pearl" colored bag and again (do but don't like the way it turned out).  I will post pictures at a later time I swear!  Monday my coworker came it with a question about crocheting a hat and I tried to help her, but she didn't bring it with her. However she brought it the next day and I figured out where her problem was and why it didn't match the picture. Oddly enough I have found a lot of Crafty people at work, more then I thought there would be. (I work with Computers all day)..  


.... Okay I'm done for now.

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Quickie

So I haven't been working out this past week. I have been walking to the buss stop everyday >.< my car broke ( steering colum) *sigh* one more week but I plan on staring back up again. I have been trying to get a second job and so have been busy with that as well. Also Toro is now living with a friend of mine till I move to a new place (wont go into details but its dumb). Got too stressed out this past week and said screw exercising (not a good idea but that's how I justified it in my head) I promise by Monday I will be back on track, You can hold me to that :) I think I will do a weight up date and measurements ^.^ That way you have more proof I'm trying and not just telling you lies.

Strawberries

 So I decided to make a few cat toys  and put them up in my shop. The pattern for them came from UME Crafts, I just love her work (and yes I did get her permission though I have to say its been a few years, I hope she remembers : /  ....)

How's it going?

So I started core exercises which  I feel the most,  I swear I can do the cardio for hours and feel nothing the next day but WHOLLY COW I was sore from the cores :) I started Wednesday June 27th I skimped a bit last night but did them in the morning and will do today's before bed. I got too say nothing like a Toro "helping" as your planking and he starts attacking your head >.< *sigh* I can't even do the full version yet and he has to hang off my head. I will start doing cardio hopefully by the end of next week but I'm not sure where. I have an elliptical in my garage that has no power and its awkward to use hence the garage banning there is also a bench press that I'm hoping my Hubby sets up soon as I only have 5 pound weights right now I ended up leaving my set of  weights at my sister Red's (yes yes I used to work out, remember the before pictures).  So I know that the first few weeks you don't see much of a change and because I swear I  just eat my weight in unfrosted cupcakes this weekend (not really but still)  >.< next week will be better.  Good thing I have two broken teeth because they keep me from eating the little candys that I do eat. (not really on the teeth >.< ) Sorry for the blurry pic but he just gets way too excited when it comes to pictures.

 This is my wonderful drawings of some of the core exercises I do.

Updated

So as you might have guessed  by the title and the newer look I have updated my blog. Its less drab looking and so far I'm happy with it.

Let me know what you think :)

Counted Cross Stitch

 So I wanted to work on something different lately. I rummaged through my craft closet for something, anything that strikes my interest.





I ran across this and was like hay I'll start working on it.

 Working on the inbetween part of the wing section, the above pic is going the  wrong direction lol I was almost done when I noticed ---->

 I took it out and started going in the right direction. *sigh*  but I know it would bother me later, like bad. I have taken out an entire cross stitch because it look awkward to me. I am super picky some times.

Here is where I left off so I could upload a few pictures and tell you about it. This is only one wing of a rather large dragon.










-Zethan

Remember When ...

So remember how I said I would update when I bought and sold on Tophatter and Yardsellr well so far here it goes

Tophatter : I finally sold on  and  they ask for 10% of sale unless it comes to under a dollar. $1.00 is the lest amount you can pay  once your item has sold. Which is not bad because there is no member fee, no listing fee (I haven't gotten to buying quite yet I keep getting out bid ) it would be fine because they allow you to link your shop so people can but directly from you but some of the deals people put up are just too hard to pass up and so you bid war with others hoping to get it. Also if your item doesn't sell the first time relist its free and chances are the next group someone will buy it. I have also found that the lower the starting bid the higher the bidders will go. Take listing something for 1.00 and 2.00 shipped has the potential to go really high verses starting at 15.00 and 5.00 shipped. People like to feel they got a deal whether they did or not. So just a heads up if you are wondering about using this site. So once I shipped my item  I went in and changed the statues to shipped and added tracking number, super easy and simple but just a little confusing to get to that page on their site. Other then that its a fun site to try out.

Yardsellr : Not must to say yet I haven't sold anything on here and while I am given the option to change the price of my listed items I don't know that making them cheaper will make people buy it more.

               Though like I said before everyone loves a deal. However there is a line between handmade and made in a sweatshop. As my Husband put it they want handmade for sweat shop prices and it doesn't get crafters anywhere when they are paying to to take their items they worked hard to make. Like I could list a Queen size hand crochet blanket on my shop but to even make it worth my time I would have to list it for $250+ not including the ungodly shipping I would have to add to that 25+ if I'm lucky. So yeah

OH also if you have been thinking about selling on Amazon.com give it a try I have sold a ton of books on there, its always been a good experiment and if your worried about taxes they have included a (1090?) tax form that you can use during tax time.

Over and Out
-Zethan

Keeping Busy

So I have been trying to get to an art show as a vendor but I always hear about it a little too late >.< . I have been looking for a job out in Arizona (Queen Creek)since I moved here back in January, and its been looking grim to say the lest. I had a few interviews but nothing good yet. *fingers crossed* So I have been keeping busy doing crafts to pass the time. I am so LUCKY to have Family that will let me stay with them for the price of cooking dinner and helping around the house ( don't know how much longer I can do this, but I hope they can ride it out till I get a job).  Here are a couple of pictures of thing I have been working on.

My Husbands Last Name begins with an M so I thought well I wanted to try this out cause how cute would it be to have a Monogram Pillow in the Letter Of your Last Name Right? Not just a pillow with the letter on it but the letter its self. I thought about buttons  but in the end decided not to.

Here you can see the finished product .. lets just say I didn't like the way it turned it out and almost throw it away but I think I might be able to do something with it to make it more appealing for me, but we will see how long that takes me to do.

OKAY so here it that thing I was making the other day I finally wrapped the hoop and sewed the crochet piece around it. Thinking of adding a Pink ribbon so that you can hang it nicely from a hook.

Here you can see how big it actually is. The hoop before wrapping and covering it was a 6" hoop which I had thought was a 5" hoop till I measured it, to my surprise. It finished out at roughly 8" from the outsides but still turned out SUPER CUTE!!! YAY! I used a variegated pink 100% cotton 10 count yarn, sadly I had old yarn and a brand new one which caused a different pattern color on it but because its a hoop and no one really studies them it looks perfect!.

Oh if your wondering what the green yarn is for that is another project I have started, sadly I had to take it out because I forgot if I was on a purl or knit  and messed up the pattern. So no picture of that untill I restart it and have some work done ^.^ .

-Zethan

Year of The Dragon

Year of the Dragon Crib Mobile, now available in my store as a custom made item!Each mobile will be made with 4 Dragons and 2 clouds along with 4 cute owls(this can be changed if you would like something else) LOTS of detail goes into each one!
Hung by a 2 hoop system made of wood covered in ribbon. I use lots of colors to catch the attention of the child.
Simply point a fan at it to make it move or touch it while you watch your little one.

Super cute and simple AND if you keep the mobile as your child gets older you can cut the stuffties off the ribbon and now they have a bunch of soft toys to play with.