Pink Hair, Borderlands, HairBows, Election, and an all around update

So, to avoid negative posts about my frustration with politics I have avoided posting for the past few weeks.

And even with the election over I know about half of the US is complaining and bitching but NOT HERE!

Gary Johnson got over 1% off the votes (not much I know) BUT it’s the most a libertarian candidate has ever gotten. Anyway, it’s over. Now we have to see if congress can actually work together to get some things done. HA. Okay moving onto the fun stuff.

 

I dyed my hair pink!! And I don’t have really any decent pictures yet but soon hopefully.

 

 

This is of course not natural light, the pink is softer than this, not quite as bright after a few washes.
And I’m pretty sure this is about the only thing I HAVEN’T done to my hair yet. I hadn’t dyed it in a year and was itching to do something fun. Granted pink hair, piercings, and tattoos gets me some awesome looks in our super conservative area but if I actually cared I wouldn’t have those things. Anyone who makes a snap judgement like that probably isn’t worth getting to know anyway!

So next on the update list BORDERLANDS!!

I am super behind on my video gaming and was recently convinced by everyone I know that I HAD to play borderlands, I also got Oblivion, and FableII.

Borderlands so far might be one of the best games I’ve played for a very long time! James and I are co-oping. we’re about 3/4 of the way through the game and we LOVE IT!! It’s a great compromise for us because I love RPGs and he likes FPS with little to no story line.

Fable has been fun as well, quite a time sink, I get caught up and then all of a sudden it’s been a few hours. But overall I like it, nice easy-ish fun game. Plus I like the story line.

Now … Oblivion … I’ve been dying to play the elder scrolls series for a long time. I’ve read amazing reviews, all my friends love it and from the sounds of it it’s a game I would enjoy a lot. Now, i’m fairly new to console gaming. I’ve always been a PC gamer. That being said, I panic and button mash! I also really don’t  like scary things, i’m easily frightened. not of blood and gore, that’s fine but things that jump out at you, i tend to scream, button mash, and promptly die. I haven’t spent much time with Oblivion, i’m still learning the controls and whatnot, but I have not made it past the first dungeon. Maybe after we finish Borderlands, and before we start BorderlandsII I’ll get some more time into it.

So that’s it for the game update.
Now onto the shop update.

I’ve been knitting hairbows like crazy and have been working out new patterns for coffee cozy’s and gloves!

I have also been trying to get back into the grove of listing a few things every day and focusing on smaller items.
I’ve already started getting custom orders for Christmas which is AWESOME! And I’m very excited about that!

As always if you are interested in anything from my shop my WordPress readers always get free shipping (including international) just use coupon code WORDPRESS when you check out ❤

Hope everyone has been well, and you’re not too stressed about the election!
Turkey Day is coming up, which means I’ll be posting some new recipes soon!!
Stay tuned!

xxoo

 

Coffee and Coding

So last night, after my super classy dinner. I decided it was time to re-vamp my website and do some updating. So I brewed a pot of coffee and set off to work.

I have to say I’m very pleased with the results. This is my first website, and please if you have any feedback I’d love to hear it!

 

http://www.buttonsandyarn.com

So after I finished that I decided it was time to change things up here as well. As many of you i’m sure have noticed my layout is different today. This is the first time I’ve changed it since starting this blog and I like it so far. I really like the twitter and facebook buttons on the top of the page there. I also worked on my other blog some more.

http://www.bigdogadventures.wordpress.com

Which is the blog ‘run’ by Zeus, Athena and Isis.

I am very excited about doing this 50% off sale! We are about 10 fans away from activating the coupon code. And once it goes live it’ll only last for 72 hours.

http://www.facebook.com/buttonsandyarnohmy

I also have been trying new ads. I’ve never done them before but so far they’ve resulted in my views to my shop, and website. Which I am thrilled about. I’ve given the Etsy Ads a try, and only did the minimum. Which is $7. I’ve gotten many more views, but no sales directly from that. But I have 4 more days left with that so we’ll see how that goes. If I get sales from it I’ll definitely keep doing it. I also got a credit for $50 for facebook ads which I activated last night. Shortly after it went live my fan page had 20 new likes in a matter of minutes, and a few people writing on my wall saying they had just discovered my shop and whatnot and that they love my stuff. Which of course makes me so happy!

If anyone has any suggestions for Ads I’d love to hear them 🙂

Now accepting all major Credit Cards

I set up direct checkout today, so you don’t need a paypal account. You can check out with your debit or credit card!

Just in time for the holidays!!!

 

Only 116 days until Christmas!!!

 

I’m totally one of those people that saves Christmas shopping until … Christmas eve … but maybe i’ll reform my ways … probably not, but maybe!

 

So I’ve got 2 shops up and running now, I have over 100 different items listed in my etsy shop and 40 items in my craftstar shop. Ultimately I’d like to have 200 items in both.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ButtonsandYarnOhMy

http://thecraftstar.com/shop/buttonsyarnohmy.html

And i’m still running the BackToSchool sale for 15% off your entire purchase. Just use coupon code BackToSchool.

I’m also working on more scarves and winter wear. Right now i’m knitting a grey cabled scarf!

 

I took this picture when I first started it, it’s about 5ft long now! 🙂

Grey Nail Polish

It’s a little dark for summer, but I saw it in the store when I was picking up this cool Tiffany Blue color and I totally fell in love!

 

 

This is the first time I’ve seen this brand. I love OPI but it’s like $8 a bottle 😦 so I usually can’t bring myself to buy it. I’ve been buying Revlon because it’s like 2 dollars but it chips in a few days. Granted i’m not exactly gentle on my nails what with the gardening and housecleaning and stuff. But so far I’m kind of in love with Maybelline no chips so far and it’s hardened really well! not to mention it’s very pretty! oh, and did i mention it’s only $3 at walmart 🙂 yeah, awesome!

 

When this starts to chip I’ll probably either paint my nails the new Tiffany Blue I got OR the lighter Grey i’m not entirely sure yet.

 

 

Happy 4th everyone!!!

 

xxoo

 

 

 

All this week we’re running a 10% off sale for everything in my shop! Just use coupon code FIRE10

http://www.etsy.com/shop/buttonsandyarnohmy

 

 

Just a quick one

The craft show was a success! Hot and sweaty because it was over 100 degrees all weekend but successful none the less. 

I also listed over 20 new items in the shop! and this week i’m running a 10% off sale! 
If you’re interested use you coupon code FIRE10 ❤ ❤ ❤

http://www.etsy.com/shop.buttonsandyarnohmy

 

I’ve got pictures and stuff too but I’ll be loading them later, OH and we got our first orange pepper today! 🙂 yay!  

A Garden with a Plan

I did it, I made a plan, and a plan I’m going to stick to!

Now since this is just a plan and hasn’t been put into action yet I don’t have many pictures for you. BUT we can use our imagination, i’ll try to explain myself well ❤ I much prefer pictures to words but we’ll work with what we’ve got.

So this is the plot of land we’re using for the garden, it’s behind the garage/shop building. In the far right hand corner is where the 2 adult pear trees and 4 adult apple trees are. On the far left there is a young pear tree 2 unknown bushes and a large blueberry bush. I’m thinking the other two are some sort of berry as well, maybe even a different type of blueberry but we wont know for certain until they start producing fruit. There is also a grape vine but we’ll get to that in a moment.

This is the garden after it had been tilled for the first time in 3+ years we’re going to fertilize it this weekend if the weather cooperates.  We are still doing a lot of reclaiming of the back yard there was a large brush pile we had to burn and there’s still a lot of rotting wood and brush that needs to be burned and it’ll make the place look 1000 times better!

Now, since it’s just James and I this garden is much larger than we need so we wont be using all of it. My hope is to do semi-raised beds for all of the different crops which will make weeding and keepings things organized much easier for me. It also is more attractive in my opinion.

 

This is more along the lines of what I was thinking, we are planning to fence in the garden to keep critters out I don’t trust my cat to  leave anything alone and there are wild animals as well.This is a little more elaborate than i’d do like we wont have any trees in the garden or anything but you get the idea with the separate beds.

This is more accurate with what we want to do but we wont need to do fully raised beds we’ll just be doing some edging.

So now for what we’re putting in the garden, most of these I have already started as seedlings out on the kitchen deck. If the scanner was up and running i could just show you the plots i have drawn out but there isn’t enough coffee yet to fight with electronics haha. So a list it is.

Asparagus Bed
Carrots
Radishes
Corn
Yellow pear tomatoes
Roma tomatoes
Eggplant
Sweet Peppers
Green onions
Leeks
Blue Potatoes
Red Onions
Salad Greens
Cucumbers
Peas
Green Beans
Broccoli
Pumpkins
Squash

So that’s the garden plan and doesn’t include any of the fruit trees and stuff. We also have some grapes growing but right now they’re a little too close to the apple trees and we’d like to train it onto a nice trellis. This is what it looks like now

I’m not sure what kind of grapes these are but i’d like to get some red seedless grapes once we have a trellis.

 

 

So, that’s it for the garden right now that’s pretty much the plan in a nutshell. So let’s switch gears and talk about knitting for a bit.

I have the shop back up and running, but haven’t listed any new stuff yet but i’ve been working on a lot of new scarves and have a few new plans.  I also have a few cabled travel mug sleeves that I need to photograph and list but since picknic is no longer active i’m not sure what i’m going to use for a photo editing site. I have a program on the mac I might try. Anyone with suggestions i’m glad to hear them!
Before I closed the shop down because of the move I did get a chance to list more mug cozy’s and bracelets so take a peek if you are so inclined. I’m also completely caught up on custom orders so i’m prepared to take custom orders as well.

As always all of my readers get free shipping! Even internationally!
Just use coupon code WORDPRESS when you check out!

 

 

xoxo

Got some new yarn!

So … last week, it was rainy and gross all week long, and by the end of the week I was suffering from some mild cabin fever. Not having a car and working from home has its downfalls. So … what fixes a sour mood … well other than Darren Criss without a shirt … Shopping. So not having a car and all I did some online shopping, which started at Forever21 searching for some new accessories. I really want to get some new rings, maybe a skinny belt, and I’d love a new watch. Well I found all those things and more, some cute tops for only $6 how can you pass that up, plus the belt was only $1.50! It’s not exactly high quality but at the rate I lose things I don’t really mind. So I was all set to check out and for whatever reason paypal was being glitchy and wouldn’t let me check out and I didn’t want to use my debit card. So I didn’t get anything and I was in an even more sour mood because I had found the cutest stuff. So I went to the only place I knew my paypal card worked. Etsy. And finally got some of the yarn on my wish list.

These were my first purchase, then it kind of just snowballed, but everyone is having such good deals!!! I couldn’t pass it up
The torquoise yarn is 100% cashmere and was only 8 Dollars, It arrived today, and I ordered it on Friday! Talk about awesome customer service!

So after my yarn craving was satisfied I went over to Miriiams shop for some more buttons….

And I ordered about 700 more buttons …. I have a slight addiction … I can’t seem to help myself. I also ordered some more T-Shirt yarn since I started making these for the shop.

I’m so happy the shop has been doing really well this month, and it’s only the 6th, we’ve already had a few international orders, and I just finished up another Custom Order! So busy, and it’s so terrific!
I just finished the yellow scarf, it’s soooo long!!! It’ll be perfect for the spring collection!

We’re still doing free shipping until February 14th!
And I’m taking customer orders!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ButtonsandYarnOhMy

Feel free to drop me a line ❤

xoxo

Great Find on Etsy!

About a week or so ago James dad suggested growing our own sprouts. It was something I had thought about in the past, I love pad Thai with sprouts on it (the first dish that comes to mind when i think of sprouts). So I went to the internet to see how difficult it would be to grow them. Turns out, super easy. All you need is a mason jar and water, the seeds, and a lid for the jar that has a screen. After some googling I decided I wanted to buy the stuff to make sprouts but would it be cheaper to buy everything individually myself, OR just buy a kit online. I found some pretty fancy kits online for 25-35 dollars, but that just seemed rediculous when it’s a mason jar with a screen lid and some seeds. I had bought seeds off Etsy in the past so I decided to check to see if anyone sold kits. At the very least I could just order the seeds and figure something out with the mason jar lids. Well I was amazing to find a cute little shop that sold very inexpensive kits! So I ordered 3! The shop owner was super friendly and responded very quickly! Plus the shipping was super fast!

 

 

I’m only growing one jar at a time, I cant’ WAIT to taste them! You can’t really see from the picture but they’ve already started to grow and it’s only been 2 days!

Anyway, I had to share this shop with you all she has such cute things!

So check out her shop! http://www.etsy.com/shop/autumnfaye

She also has super cute aprons! I love this one and it’s on my wish list ❤

 

Until next time ❤

xoxo

 

 

Oh, and side note: From now until Valentines day I’m doing FreeShipping in my shop <3. And we still need 12 more fans for our facebook page until our 100 fan giveaway! So like our facebook page =)

http://www.facebook.com/buttonsandyarnohmy

Just another reason I’m a loyal Starbucks customer <3

A funny thing happened on the way to the theater … okay we weren’t going to the theater, we were going to Auto Zone … and it probably wasn’t even funny … but in the early morning light my caffeine deprived brain thought it was funny so I’m going to tell you about it. Also it sort of ties into Things I Love Thursday.

So like I’ve already said we were going to Auto Zone this morning. The starter went on the BMW on Christmas Eve so James is fixing that today and luckily was able to take some time off work to do it. If only every job had paid time off, but I guess that’s what you get when you stay in school for 5 years, anywho, so what better motivation to drag my ass out of bed this morning than “Hun auto-zone is by Starbucks, we can stop there first” That did it, I was up and presentable in about 5 minutes. Now  for a little background on our Starbucks trips, as I’m sure you know it’s a fairly expensive habit unless you’re drinking just coffee but I like the seasonal drinks and Starbucks is a treat so today I was totally feeling a Creme Brule Latte Venti of course. To save money James and I usually just split a Venti but we often run into the problem of him drinking it all as I like to savor it and enjoy it. So this morning while waiting in line I told him to get his own, but he didn’t want to so I said “if you drink it all i’ll kill you in you’re sleep” he laughed and the barista thought it was hilarious so when we got our drink there was this nice little note on it.

Breakfast of champions

*Don’t drink past here 🙂

I can’t think of a time when I was disappointed by the customer service at Starbucks, they are always so friendly. When I worked at American Eagle I used to go there almost twice a day and first thing in the morning I could stumble in there half awake (how i drove to work is beyond me) and mumble incoherently and without a doubt the barista would make me something amazing. So the long and short of it I guess is that i’m one of those people that will pay the extra money for the perfectly brewed espresso and friendly staff. Now if only they delivered =)

 

xoxo

 

*We will be hosting a giveaway on our Facebook page once we hit 100 fans! All fans will be entered into the Giveaway! We only need 13 more fans!!! http://www.facebook.com/buttonsandyarnohmy

 

*Also if you’re interested in anything from my Etsy shop please use coupon code WORDPRESS for free shipping!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

My apologies for abandoning the blog this weekend, I feel like it’s been weeks since I last posted, about the kindle, but really it has only been 3 days. Well, I got my KindleFire Friday and I haven’t put it down! I’ve read one book so far and it’s superb!! The touch screen is fabulous I can’t put it down! I’ve got pandora on it, and I’ve been playing words with friends and facebook and twitter work well on it. The Comix graphic novel reader is AMAZING! you can zoom in on bubble and go block by block, it’s fantasic =) I’ve read Blackest Night so far on it. And who could not love thousands and thousands of free books and graphic novels, i haven’t even looked at the free movies or music yet, between pandora and netflix i’m covered for now.

This weekend, Saturday, was my 23rd birthday. Nothing was planned so we just hung out for most of the day. I got some knitting done and we beat Mario Kart. I got some cook birthday presents though ❤ aside from the kindle James got me a new winter coat, which was desperately needed since a hoodie apparently isn’t sufficient for winter. I got my Grams package today and she sent me some sentimental ornaments for our tree and she also made me some really cool green lantern coasters! They are so cool I’ll take pictures at some point. She also sent socks and a cute sweat shirt that says “santa’s favorite helper”.

I’ve been baking today and wrapping presents =) It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, even if we don’t have snow yet. I’m going to cut out the sugar cookies and bake them so we can frost them when James gets home and watch Christmas shows.

I have also been knitting like a madwomen, I’ve been trying to do 2 or 3 coffee cozy’s a day but still can’t seem to keep up with demand which is fantastic. I’m also working on more headbands since they seem to be selling so well. And of course scarves!

 Some scarves are ready to ship but if you don’t see the color you like I can always make one for you! I have red, purple and black ready to ship as of today, and I have the yarn on hand to make white, gray and brown.

 

And speaking of knitting I’m going to be doing a craft show in June, I know it sounds far off but I need as much time as I can get to stock up on product. I”d like to not take anything out of my etsy shop for the show.

 

 

If you’re looking for christmas gifts for friends, family or a treat for yourself check out my Etsy shop ❤
http://www.etsy.com/shops/buttonsandyarnohmy.com

Use coupon code WORDPRESS for free shipping on your order ❤

 

I’m also doing another giveaway on my facebook page once we hit 100 fans! So far we’re at 83!
http://www.facebook.com/buttonsandyarnohmy

 

xoxo