For us, anyway. I know a lot of people who are WAY more busy than us, and I really don't understand how any of them do it. But in our standards, we've been busy lately. We've had football games to go to the last 3 Saturdays in a row, we've had voice, violin and piano lessons, we've been getting ready to move in about a month, and I've been really busy with my crochet. Not really a lot, but, like I said, for us it is.
About the moving: We are FINALLY getting ready to move to the farm! Yes! There is finally a light at the end of a 5 year long tunnel. When we first bought the property Mom and Dad said that it was probably gonna be about 5 or 6 years before we would be able to move down there, but I seriously thought they were out of their minds! 5 YEARS??? That was like half of my life at that time! (I was 10 when we bought the property) Now, originally when we bought the place we were going to just 'fix up' the house that was already there really quickly (yeah right!) and use that for a guest house, and build ourselves another house for us to actually live in. Like I said earlier, yeah right. I think it was probably about a year into it that we decided that that was NOT gonna happen. No way, no how. So we decided that we were just going to live in the house that was already there, put an addition on the back of it, and we'd be fine. Well, we still don't have the addition, but it'll take a really long time to build with the whole 1-day-a-week thing, and we all really don't want to wait. So it'll have to wait until after we've moved.
So anyway, we've been getting ready for that lately! Which means going through all our stuff and getting rid of a bunch of it. You know, it's amazing how much stuff you can collect in 10 years. It is CRAZY how much stuff we have here that we don't need. Well, in general, that is. I really don't have that much extra stuff. I do not like keeping stuff that I don't need, so I am CONSTANTLY going through my stuff trying to decide what I can get rid of. And I do that with my iPod too, I am going through on about a once a week basis getting rid of songs that I don't listen to and apps that I don't use. Which I suppose is good, considering I really don't have that much space on it. It's only an 8 GB iPod, and the software takes up a quarter of that. :D
So anyway, I have been going through all my stuff, and I've been realizing that I really don't have that much that I can get rid of. Seriously. I need to keep all of my craft stuff because I use it for my business, (all the stuff that I don't need I've already gotten rid of) I don't have a lot of shoes, and the few pairs that I do have fit me, (I've never understood the whole women with shoes and purses thing. What's so special about shoes and purses?) Probably the only thing that I really could get rid of is clothes. I have a LOT of clothes that I don't wear. The only thing is that Mom won't let me sell them in the yard sales that we've been having, and she won't let me take them to church to put in the front hallway for other people to take, because I have several little sisters who will soon fit into them. And it drives me crazy. I HATE having lots of excess stuff, so the fact that she won't let me get rid of any of it is making me a little insane. Of course, she does have a good point. All of my sisters will be able to use them at one point or another. *sigh* Oh well. I suppose I'll just need to live through it. :)
Oh! I just remembered! Last Monday we went to the doctor's office to find out what the baby is. Guess what? It's a GIRL!!! I knew it! I have had this gut feeling the whole first 20 weeks that it was going to be a girl. Oh, you should have seen the boys. The whole time after we found out they were sitting there comforting each other and hugging each other. It was so cute! They were like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" :D I still think they are a little upset, but they're glad that the baby is healthy. Poor Annabeth. She was literally crying in the car on the way home because she wanted a boy. Poor thing. But now she's so excited to be having a little sister. She talks all the time about how she's going to play tea party with her, and play baby dolls with her, and do all that 'sister sister' stuff. :)
Like I said at the beginning of the post, I've been pretty busy with crochet suff. You can read about all I've been up to lately here. I'll be posting more there right after I'm done here.
Well, that's all for today! Later!
Monday, September 17, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
No, I don't really have a good reason...
As to why I haven't posted in the last 2 weeks. I mean, other than the fact that I've been sick, we've been out of the house a whole lot, and frankly I just have been too lazy to sit down and type for 20 minutes. But of course I can't mention those because they would be considered excuses. :)
LIke I said before, we've been out of the house a whole lot, which means that I acutally do have a lot to post about. I'm just not going to do it all today, because that would take a really long time. :D
Well, first of all, I thought I'd mention that I started a new blog! It's going to be all about my Etsy shop and my current craft projects. I originally started this blog to post about my Etsy shop, but then I realized that most of the people that read this blog are probably people that I know in person, and that they aren't the least bit interested in my crafting endeavors. Hehe. When I was trying to come up with a name for the blog I was going through a writers block, and so guess what the name of this new blog is?
Kayla's Corner - Etsy Version
I know, pretty pathetic, right? Oh well. I'm sure I'll change it eventually, once I come up with something more creative, but for right now, that's the name. Here's the link:
www.kaylascorneretsy.blogspot.com
Hm, I've still been doing voice lessons, and they're starting to go alot better than they were going. (At least I think) Especially the last 3 weeks. Mr. Addleman said today that these last 3 voice lessons vs. everything before was like night and day. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. :D The problem was that this whole last week I haven't been able to sing at all (up until yesterday, that is) because I've been sick. And it hasn't been fun. Ugh. But I'm pretty much over it now, thank goodness. And so far I haven't heard of anyone getting sick because of me. Even better!
Well, I guess that's all I'm going to type right now. I'm really not in the mood to be sitting here for another 20 minutes typing about all the other stuff we've been up to! I might post again later this afternoon, but if not I'll definitely post tomorrow, K?
Adios!
LIke I said before, we've been out of the house a whole lot, which means that I acutally do have a lot to post about. I'm just not going to do it all today, because that would take a really long time. :D
Well, first of all, I thought I'd mention that I started a new blog! It's going to be all about my Etsy shop and my current craft projects. I originally started this blog to post about my Etsy shop, but then I realized that most of the people that read this blog are probably people that I know in person, and that they aren't the least bit interested in my crafting endeavors. Hehe. When I was trying to come up with a name for the blog I was going through a writers block, and so guess what the name of this new blog is?
Kayla's Corner - Etsy Version
I know, pretty pathetic, right? Oh well. I'm sure I'll change it eventually, once I come up with something more creative, but for right now, that's the name. Here's the link:
www.kaylascorneretsy.blogspot.com
Hm, I've still been doing voice lessons, and they're starting to go alot better than they were going. (At least I think) Especially the last 3 weeks. Mr. Addleman said today that these last 3 voice lessons vs. everything before was like night and day. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. :D The problem was that this whole last week I haven't been able to sing at all (up until yesterday, that is) because I've been sick. And it hasn't been fun. Ugh. But I'm pretty much over it now, thank goodness. And so far I haven't heard of anyone getting sick because of me. Even better!
Well, I guess that's all I'm going to type right now. I'm really not in the mood to be sitting here for another 20 minutes typing about all the other stuff we've been up to! I might post again later this afternoon, but if not I'll definitely post tomorrow, K?
Adios!
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
100% natural
So just now I was walking around, and I happened to spot the this. You know how when you buy the sets of fake food and dishes for little kids to play with? Well, there was a box from one of those sets that was supposed to be apple juice. On the front it says '100% natural apple juice' but when you turn it to the side...
"Ingredients:
Water, Sugar, Apple Juice, Citric Acid, Flavorings, Vitamin C and Caramel Color"
Hm... Sound 100% natural to you?
"Ingredients:
Water, Sugar, Apple Juice, Citric Acid, Flavorings, Vitamin C and Caramel Color"
Hm... Sound 100% natural to you?
Monday, August 20, 2012
Cuteness at it's fullest
Ok, so Sarah and Annabeth were getting ready to have their afternoon snack. They were going to have cheese sticks, but we had 2 different kinds, and Sarah didn't know which kind to have, so she asked for a bite of Annabeth's. So Annabeth says, 'No sharing food! You'll get chicken pox!'
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Perfect description of what selling on Etsy is like....
I was looking through the fourms on Etsy just now, and I came across this thread. It was posted by Hoooked. (http://www.etsy.com/shop/Hoooked?ref=pr_shop_more) And yes, I know how you actually spell Hooked. This lady spells it with 3 Os. But anyway, it made me laugh so hard! It almost perfectly describes what pretty much my first year on Etsy was like. :) (I did edit it a little bit for swearing)
"I have had quite a few friends and relatives want to start or who have started Etsy shops because it looks like easy money.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Ok, so you know how to make something that you think someone might want to buy and maybe you can make one of those things a day.
Ok, so you have a shop name you're sure will be perfect? Oh, no, someone already took glitzyglam, oh no, someone else already took bedazzled, oh no, someone already took bling, guess you'll have to find something else.
Ok, so you set up your paypal account and it only took a couple of weeks.
Ok, so you have a camera you think might work, if not who cares, after all most cell phones have cameras right?
Ok, so you realize that 300 pictures later on ONE item, that you have 2 or 3 that will be good to list. Nobody cares that your dog is in some of them.
Ok, so you think the steps to list are easy enough. Tags are EASY! Handmade, jewelry, women. That was simple!
Ok, so you think it should be about $1.00 to ship. After all bubble wrap mailers at walmart can't be that expensive.
Ok, so you think listing it at $10.00 sounds about right. Who needs to actually figure out the cost of materials? Charging $11.00 would just be too much, nobody would pay that much.
Ok, so you listed your first item, that only took an hour, you can do this everyday.
Ok, so you have your item listed. You notice that everybody else's shop has those signs at the top and those pictures to the left. You don't need one of those, nobody will even notice they're missing!
Ok, so now you've filled in your shop announcement. Awesome, you told all the other jewelry sellers how their necklaces stink. That's the spirit, now your customers will know that your necklaces are better.
Ok, so you don't think you'll need policies because you're not planning on selling that much stuff anyway.
Ok, so you don't want anything in your profile either? You don't want someone you don't like reading up how you sell jewelry online and buying from you!
Ok, so your item still has 0 views. What, you tagged it with jewelry, necklace, women, your title is pink necklace, well of course that should be enough for someone to find it!
*three months goes by*
Ok, so you finally sold that necklace! Yay, go you! You're the man. Wait, what, you just tossed it in the bubble mailer and the postal worker must have stomped on it because it arrived to the customer broken.
Ok, so your customer is demanding a refund or a replacement and are threatening to report you to Etsy because you called them a greedy jerk?
Ok, so well how were you supposed to know that you need to learn customer service?
Ok, you can't go buy more supplies because $10.00 doesn't cover the cost of materials to replace the item.
Ok, so you refunded the customer and they sent you back the item.
Ok, so they left you a negative feedback.
Ok, so you have no items (guess you couldn't make, photograph, and list an item a day).
Ok, so you have a broken necklace.
Ok, so you lost money on shipping.
Ok, so you now have 0% on your feedback because you didn't buy, sell, or list anything else and have no other feedback.
But, wait, where are you going? I thought this was supposed to be easy money! Come back! What do you mean you don't want to do this again?"
So a lot of this doesn't apply to me: the jewlry, the having to refund stuff, the negative feedback... but the whole part about taking 300 pictures for one item, for barely putting any tags, having really bad titles... that part applied to me. Yeah, my first year on Etsy was pretty rough. That would explain whey I only had 5 sales my whole first year. Now, in the last 6 months since my one year anniversary, I'm up to 79. :) Pretty cool, huh? I know I have some people following my blog who are from Etsy, so I figure I have to talk about Etsy every once in awhile, don't you think? Right now my shop is DEAD; I have only sold 2 blankets in like 2 weeks, but I did come up with a pattern for my blankets, and listed that, so that's bringing in some extra income. Although, there was a time in my shop where I was selling 7+ blankets a week, where my fingers were flying every spare second I got, (and even when I didn't have a spare second!) and it was pretty overwhelming. I'm really grateful to God for giving me this ability, but, it's not easy when your shop is that busy! Oh well. I suppose I should enjoy the free time that I have. You know what that means? I can make new blankets! Yeah! I listed 3 new ones the other day, with one ready to be listed, and one being one row away from done. Yup, I'm having fun. I love looking in my yarn bin for lots of really cool combinations, I love watching the blanket 'unfold' before my eyes, it's such a satisfying experience. And yeah, it's a lot of work. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. :)
"I have had quite a few friends and relatives want to start or who have started Etsy shops because it looks like easy money.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Ok, so you know how to make something that you think someone might want to buy and maybe you can make one of those things a day.
Ok, so you have a shop name you're sure will be perfect? Oh, no, someone already took glitzyglam, oh no, someone else already took bedazzled, oh no, someone already took bling, guess you'll have to find something else.
Ok, so you set up your paypal account and it only took a couple of weeks.
Ok, so you have a camera you think might work, if not who cares, after all most cell phones have cameras right?
Ok, so you realize that 300 pictures later on ONE item, that you have 2 or 3 that will be good to list. Nobody cares that your dog is in some of them.
Ok, so you think the steps to list are easy enough. Tags are EASY! Handmade, jewelry, women. That was simple!
Ok, so you think it should be about $1.00 to ship. After all bubble wrap mailers at walmart can't be that expensive.
Ok, so you think listing it at $10.00 sounds about right. Who needs to actually figure out the cost of materials? Charging $11.00 would just be too much, nobody would pay that much.
Ok, so you listed your first item, that only took an hour, you can do this everyday.
Ok, so you have your item listed. You notice that everybody else's shop has those signs at the top and those pictures to the left. You don't need one of those, nobody will even notice they're missing!
Ok, so now you've filled in your shop announcement. Awesome, you told all the other jewelry sellers how their necklaces stink. That's the spirit, now your customers will know that your necklaces are better.
Ok, so you don't think you'll need policies because you're not planning on selling that much stuff anyway.
Ok, so you don't want anything in your profile either? You don't want someone you don't like reading up how you sell jewelry online and buying from you!
Ok, so your item still has 0 views. What, you tagged it with jewelry, necklace, women, your title is pink necklace, well of course that should be enough for someone to find it!
*three months goes by*
Ok, so you finally sold that necklace! Yay, go you! You're the man. Wait, what, you just tossed it in the bubble mailer and the postal worker must have stomped on it because it arrived to the customer broken.
Ok, so your customer is demanding a refund or a replacement and are threatening to report you to Etsy because you called them a greedy jerk?
Ok, so well how were you supposed to know that you need to learn customer service?
Ok, you can't go buy more supplies because $10.00 doesn't cover the cost of materials to replace the item.
Ok, so you refunded the customer and they sent you back the item.
Ok, so they left you a negative feedback.
Ok, so you have no items (guess you couldn't make, photograph, and list an item a day).
Ok, so you have a broken necklace.
Ok, so you lost money on shipping.
Ok, so you now have 0% on your feedback because you didn't buy, sell, or list anything else and have no other feedback.
But, wait, where are you going? I thought this was supposed to be easy money! Come back! What do you mean you don't want to do this again?"
So a lot of this doesn't apply to me: the jewlry, the having to refund stuff, the negative feedback... but the whole part about taking 300 pictures for one item, for barely putting any tags, having really bad titles... that part applied to me. Yeah, my first year on Etsy was pretty rough. That would explain whey I only had 5 sales my whole first year. Now, in the last 6 months since my one year anniversary, I'm up to 79. :) Pretty cool, huh? I know I have some people following my blog who are from Etsy, so I figure I have to talk about Etsy every once in awhile, don't you think? Right now my shop is DEAD; I have only sold 2 blankets in like 2 weeks, but I did come up with a pattern for my blankets, and listed that, so that's bringing in some extra income. Although, there was a time in my shop where I was selling 7+ blankets a week, where my fingers were flying every spare second I got, (and even when I didn't have a spare second!) and it was pretty overwhelming. I'm really grateful to God for giving me this ability, but, it's not easy when your shop is that busy! Oh well. I suppose I should enjoy the free time that I have. You know what that means? I can make new blankets! Yeah! I listed 3 new ones the other day, with one ready to be listed, and one being one row away from done. Yup, I'm having fun. I love looking in my yarn bin for lots of really cool combinations, I love watching the blanket 'unfold' before my eyes, it's such a satisfying experience. And yeah, it's a lot of work. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. :)
Friday, August 17, 2012
Temporary Home
Hey guys. So I was going to post about the birthday party and my sleepover today, but frankly, I'm tired and I really don't want to. Yeah, I know it's lazy, but hey, it's late in the afternoon, the skies are gray outside, and frankly I'm just not feeling so great today. So, I'm just going to post a music video. This one is 'Temporary Home' by Carrie Underwood. Enjoy!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Hehehe
Sorry I haven't posted in the past couple days. Truthfully I haven't had any time before now.
Monday: I posted that day
Tuesday: I went to the farm with Mom and Sarah, came back, got ready and went to my grandma's house for the rest of the night to celebrate birthdays.
Wednesday: Left at about 8:00, did errands, had voice lessons, and then went to my grandma's house for a sleepover.
Today: Spent the morning at Nana's house, came home, and now I'm here posting. So, that's why I haven't before this. Haven't had a moment of free time. :)
Ok, so I guess first I should post about Baby Cameron. Mom is 16 weeks along tomorrow.
She's starting to look big and pregnant-looking. :) We don't know the gender yet. I think we'll find that out on either September 10th or 17th. Not sure which. Hannah is convinced it's going to be a boy and thinks Michael is a good name for the baby. I think it's a girl and I like the name Faith. Also, I think Dad likes the name Steven. Apparently the rest of my family thinks it's going to be a boy. Sarah and I are the only ones who want a girl. :) So that's the update. I guess there won't really be anything else to post about Baby until we find out the gender, and that's a month away. :( Oh well. I can hardly believe she's almost 16 weeks along already! Time certainly flies.
Let's see. I was going to post about mini golfing, but truthfully it isn't very interesting. We have no clue who won because somehow the score card got messed up halfway into it, so we quit that. The little kids were like 3 holes in front of the rest of us, don't ask me how that happened. I'm really not sure.
After we finished, Dad went with the rest of the kids to the bumper boats, and Mom went with me to the race cars. I know this may seem really silly, but I want to drive SO BAD! (And anyone who knows me in person I'm sure has heard me talk on and on and on about how excited I am for January, when I can start learning. ;) ) So, I decided I would much rather drive around a race track then get soaked by bumper boat squirt guns. :) Although, you know what's really ackward? Trying to buckle your seat belt modestly when it has to go between your legs and you're wearing a skirt. :D Hehe. Thank goodness it was a pretty loose seat belt.
After the bumper boats and racing, we went inside and played in the arcade for a little while. I didn't do much of anything, because every time Mom or Dad would give me tokens, I'd end up giving them away to someone else who used theirs, but found another game that they REALLY wanted to play. We never get to do that kind of thing, and truthfully there wasn't anything very interesting to me, so I gave all my tokens away. I prefer the games that are based on game shows, like Wheel of Fortune or Deal or No Deal. Although, I did play the Wheel of Fortune game, and it was such a rip off. Guess how many tickets I ended up getting out of it? 1. 1 measly ticket. I actually ended up getting 2 though because someone had left one on the game. It's not like I stink at games like that, I'm actually pretty good at them, I just don't think they made the Wheel of Fortune game very well. The Deal or No Deal one is WAY better, in my opinion.
After we finished all that we went to Albertsons and got ice cream and all the toppings. My favorite was the Reeses Pieces. :D Reeses Pieces are my favorite candy in the whole world, (although I'm crazy about anything with chocolate and peanut butter) and that on vanilla ice cream is like magic. :) So, we came home, ate it, and then went into our rooms for bed where I stayed up until like 10:30 because I was hyped up on sugar and was not tired in the least bit. :D
Oh hey. I just realized something. I just went on and on about something that I said I really wasn't going to post about because it wasn't too interesting. :D Oops. Oh well. I guess my rambling spirit gets the better of me sometimes. :)
Well, that's all I'm going to post about today. I'll post about the birthday celebration and my sleepover tomorrow, k?
Monday: I posted that day
Tuesday: I went to the farm with Mom and Sarah, came back, got ready and went to my grandma's house for the rest of the night to celebrate birthdays.
Wednesday: Left at about 8:00, did errands, had voice lessons, and then went to my grandma's house for a sleepover.
Today: Spent the morning at Nana's house, came home, and now I'm here posting. So, that's why I haven't before this. Haven't had a moment of free time. :)
Ok, so I guess first I should post about Baby Cameron. Mom is 16 weeks along tomorrow.
She's starting to look big and pregnant-looking. :) We don't know the gender yet. I think we'll find that out on either September 10th or 17th. Not sure which. Hannah is convinced it's going to be a boy and thinks Michael is a good name for the baby. I think it's a girl and I like the name Faith. Also, I think Dad likes the name Steven. Apparently the rest of my family thinks it's going to be a boy. Sarah and I are the only ones who want a girl. :) So that's the update. I guess there won't really be anything else to post about Baby until we find out the gender, and that's a month away. :( Oh well. I can hardly believe she's almost 16 weeks along already! Time certainly flies.
Let's see. I was going to post about mini golfing, but truthfully it isn't very interesting. We have no clue who won because somehow the score card got messed up halfway into it, so we quit that. The little kids were like 3 holes in front of the rest of us, don't ask me how that happened. I'm really not sure.
After we finished, Dad went with the rest of the kids to the bumper boats, and Mom went with me to the race cars. I know this may seem really silly, but I want to drive SO BAD! (And anyone who knows me in person I'm sure has heard me talk on and on and on about how excited I am for January, when I can start learning. ;) ) So, I decided I would much rather drive around a race track then get soaked by bumper boat squirt guns. :) Although, you know what's really ackward? Trying to buckle your seat belt modestly when it has to go between your legs and you're wearing a skirt. :D Hehe. Thank goodness it was a pretty loose seat belt.
After the bumper boats and racing, we went inside and played in the arcade for a little while. I didn't do much of anything, because every time Mom or Dad would give me tokens, I'd end up giving them away to someone else who used theirs, but found another game that they REALLY wanted to play. We never get to do that kind of thing, and truthfully there wasn't anything very interesting to me, so I gave all my tokens away. I prefer the games that are based on game shows, like Wheel of Fortune or Deal or No Deal. Although, I did play the Wheel of Fortune game, and it was such a rip off. Guess how many tickets I ended up getting out of it? 1. 1 measly ticket. I actually ended up getting 2 though because someone had left one on the game. It's not like I stink at games like that, I'm actually pretty good at them, I just don't think they made the Wheel of Fortune game very well. The Deal or No Deal one is WAY better, in my opinion.
After we finished all that we went to Albertsons and got ice cream and all the toppings. My favorite was the Reeses Pieces. :D Reeses Pieces are my favorite candy in the whole world, (although I'm crazy about anything with chocolate and peanut butter) and that on vanilla ice cream is like magic. :) So, we came home, ate it, and then went into our rooms for bed where I stayed up until like 10:30 because I was hyped up on sugar and was not tired in the least bit. :D
Oh hey. I just realized something. I just went on and on about something that I said I really wasn't going to post about because it wasn't too interesting. :D Oops. Oh well. I guess my rambling spirit gets the better of me sometimes. :)
Well, that's all I'm going to post about today. I'll post about the birthday celebration and my sleepover tomorrow, k?
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