Friday Finds

Whoops!  Looks like I almost forgot about my pledge to post once a week!  Luckily I already had this one started so I could add some lovely finds that I thought you might enjoy as well.

I came across a lot of green living, bicycle transportation, and living intentionally small this week.  I posted a lot of my favorites on twitter.

On top of that, I finally responded to an email from Bicycle City which was in response to my request for more info.  First time I actually heard from someone (I've been following them since 2007) and I was tickled to death!!

My husband taught me how to use Pocket to save articles for later reading instead of leaving 15 tabs open on my browser (and thus slowing my browsing to a CRAWL....).

After "meeting" Sarah through Liesl's 3 Question interview series, I proceeded to pin about a dozen recipes from her blog: The Vanilla Bean Blog.  One of which I have already tried my hand at.

This board has some great eye candy for contemplating yarn storage as we continue to plan our addition (and my little etsy corner).

This might be a great way to use up my wool scraps & also allow us to stop buying dryer sheets.

And I've been doing a lot of swagbucks these last two weeks to reach my daily goal for the whole month to get a bonus 300 points.  Does anyone else use swagbucks?  Once I got the hang of it, it has been a great background addition to my daily computer use to earn a few giftcards toward fun things :)  We are currently saving for Home Depot giftcards for home improvement projects.

What did you find worthwhile this week?

Organizing the Inventory

Well, I don't really have that much, like it would seem a lot of shops have on etsy.  But it sure is enough to take up space and need an organized home of its own.

I mentioned the new little corner, and after I organized that, I went on to take inventory of what I had from the previous winter before I started listing more things in the shop.  Well, I realized with a lot of similar colored dishcloths, I couldn't always remember which went with which listing.

So I came up with this fun idea the week before Thanksgiving.  Even though it's not very unique in its "tag-the-item-with-info" way, it is unique for me because I rarely ever tag an item.  If anything, I usually post a sign that says, "All 'x' is $x" and leave it at that.  So this was kind of fun to tag each item with their name and a safety pin.

Ok, I'll stop my geekiness now before everyone runs away.  Just wanted to share a fun little way to organize the inventory in case anyone else was looking for a quick & cheap idea.

Happy Holidays!

It's Slow but...

it's a start!  I now have 2 official (custom) orders with a 3rd working out her design (she is supplying the materials).  So now I will be busy busy working on those two orders this and next week.  Both are grey cowls; one as a neck-warmer size & the other big enough to also double as a hood.  I'll post pictures as I get started.  Have you seen the new items?  I promise I'll be listing more soon.  I've finished another two sets (or more?  I've lost track...) of dish cloths and after I have 10 new sets listed, (and those orders of course,) I'll be adding other new items like cowls, mittens, and more hats. 
What colors are you looking for in a knitted (or crochet) item?  I can always use new ideas :) 

Happy Hump Day!