Rainy Day Monday!

So, I have exciting news! The job that I was hired on for during the Holiday season (meaning I'd be let go in January) wants me to stay! Yeah! I was so worried about leaving - of course having the security of regular pay cheques is pretty awesome, but I really *really* enjoy it. This is the first job where I've gotten up every morning and been excited to go to work. See, I knew Boffo's was one of the happiest places on earth!

Unfortunately working so much really took a toll on me. Not used to having a full time job anymore - haven't had one of those since 2008! So keeping up with my business sort of wasn't happening (that was probably a bit more than obvious!) BUT I have the week off! WootWoot!

And what are my plans for this week??? Why, that would be cleaning up my whirlwind of a craft room that quickly became a dumping yard so I can get back to crafting on a regular basis. Plus, I'll be working hard on my shop and my website so I can get it to where I've always wanted it!

I have to admit, when you're home all day with all the time in the world, never knowing what day it is, (okay, that's kinda blissful! And I miss it at times!) but I kinda lost my motivation and wasn't working as hard on my business as I should have been. More and more time was spent playing with the dog and napping. Well, maybe not actually "napping"... more like... aw hell, ya it was napping. Anyhoo...

I'm hoping to get into a groove again and do some sort of crafting-like-mode where I do something with my business each day after work. I don't even know what my Etsy shop looks like right now! Although that would be a teeny bit of a lie since I finally logged in a week or so ago and noticed I still had my "Merry Christmas get your cards quick!" message along the top, and more than half of my listings had expired. Though that could have been a good thing, because I quickly re-listed a whack of photos and guess what? I sold one!

                                     

Alright well, I'm already procrastinating from the whirlwind of my room. Although I'll leave you with a picture of the cutest animals in the world... Kermit and Puck.. How much in love are they?!

                       

Have a great Monday everyone!

Spam is the magic word...

When my Dad wrote a post on spam the other day, it made me laugh. Every once in a blue moon I'd get a spam comment on my blog about purses or clothes or penis', but I'd quickly delete them and go on my way. Unfortunately, I was a bit MIA. Well, not a bit mind you. I was in another world.

Since November, I've been working like crazy which I'm totally not used to so I was exhausted. When I wasn't working I was trying to tame a crazy kitten and a crazy dog. And when I wasn't doing that, I was worrying and driving to a hospital when my FIL went in for a bypass. Then Christmas happened and New Years happened and dinners and presents and shopping and working and visiting and talking and barely sleeping. I definitely wasn't crafting, so there was no words to put on this blog.

But since I'm cleaning my craft room so I can actually start crafting again instead of sitting amongst a pile of disorder, I thought, hey! I'll check on my blog! And then came the "Hey! People are still visiting my blog!" And then it was all "Oh my, lookit all those comments!" Ya. Spam. All of them. Spam after spam after spam. After spam. And then more spam. I've successfully deleted about 30 spam comments so far, but there's still 6 pages of spam comments. I'm slowly going crazy. 1,2,3,4,5,6 switch.

Luckily they all came from the same IP so I was able to block it from future Hugo Boss, Tony Butch and Peter something or other spam comments. Of course, that'll last a day. Maybe half a day. Not sure. But on ONE day, 8 pages of comments were strewn all over my blog. What a pisser.

Hope everyone else is having a better Monday night!

I'm still here!

Just not... here. Meaning I haven't found the energy to do much crafting or blogging since my amazing new job! And I still have a very important post that's in drafts at the moment...

But, since I just signed up with Google Adwords (which may be stupid because I don't have much time to blog?? hmmm) I figured I'd pop in and let peeps know I exist :)

As a super quick update, I've sold a few sets of my Christmas cards:

     

      

And we got a new kitteh, Puck!

                                                                

He and Kermy just a-love eachother!!

That's all for now kids, it's off to bed I go!