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It's been forever, and I've had a hell of a year to review!
In May I will have been officially with my boyfriend for a year. We met around February of last year. He's a coworker of sorts - working for the same place but in a totally different department. Two of the ladies in our Saturday morning Coffee/Bitching group agreed that he was awesome, and needed to be invited to coffee. He had been at the ( Read more... ) -
Wow, it's been a long time...
I haven't even checked to see when I had posted last...but I know it's been months. Where do I even start? Is anyone even on here anymore? Does it even matter? As ever, this is my journal. I've used it in many ways to keep up with friends, to share stories or memories, even post pictures or talk about our business. But at it's heart, it's ( Read more... ) -
Long time no chat
It's been so long since I've been on here, I don't even remember where I left off. Plans for our business, plans for the future, coments one work or dreams...and really, it's not worth it to me to take a look. Might as well give an update instead of surfing through my past ( Read more... ) -
I know it's been forever, but we've been busy!
I don't know if I've mentioned Regretsy on here, www.regretsy.com , but it's a website that mocks the silly, the overpriced, and the WTF on Etsy. It is also a community of crafters who are in a way the watch-dogs of Etsy, and who support each other. They offer advice about how to advertise, how to tweek your shop so you get more hits, how to make ( Read more... ) -
Networking news for Harlan's Emporium!
As readers may or may not know (as I've become lax in posting, my apologies) I make jewelry along side my roommate. We mainly do wire wrapping, but also have several designs in hemp macrame. We work with a variety of materials, including Christmas bulbs, beads, fossils, lace, and sea glass ( Read more... ) -
Fortuitous morning free.
We headed out to the Farmer's Market today only to find a carnival set up in our space. Puzzled, we drove around a couple of blocks, what we could drive around, anyway. We saw more carnival tents, parked cars and neon tee-shirts proclaiming "My Waterloo Days", but nothing that looked like our market. So on the way home we brought breakfast and ( Read more... ) -
contact juggling and other hobbies
I am starting to dabble in contact juggling. And by dabbling, I mean it gives me something to do with my hands that's not chewing my fingernails, and by contact juggling I mean rolling a ball around between and on the back of my hands. It's relaxing and fun, and strangely really works out your hands and arms. Don't know if I'll keep it up. I ( Read more... ) -
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We're finally moved; now to get boxes unpacked. But first, NaNo! I'm going to take another stab at the word count this year and found more people I know doing it as well. Hopefully this will keep me motivated and on track. We shall see. Possible number counts as the month progresses, but I make no promises ( Read more... ) -
Octoberfest!
Today is the last push to make jewelry before heading out to October fest this afternoon. I'm really excited - as one could imagine. Posts about Octoberfest and pictures of our latest work have been uploaded to harlansemporium . Feel free to drop by and check out our items. More will be posted next week about how we did.
To do:
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possible plans for Harlan's Emporium
Wilde and I are looking into being vendors at a belegarth event in early October. We've scouted out hotel info, vendor and entry fees, and I've requested the time off of work. Just a couple more things to settle before actually booking a hotel room ('cause there's no way I'm camping with a bunch of fighters, predominately boys of various ages, ( Read more... )