HAPPY HALLOWEEN.........

Well each year my display seems to grow...yesterday in the mail I got my CAST bones from human bones...how morbid is that..I bought them from eBay from a university medical student who uses the casts they make to study... So now my graveyards have some pretend rib bones and some jaw bones and even a pelvic bone...LOL...I know gross. Anyway here are some of the pictures of my yard and tomorrow I will post some of the motion activated ones in video format.




Hope you all have a great day and I have to go and carve pumpkins now, even though my hands are sore from yesterday stuffing 200 goodie bags for the kids that do dare to come up my drive...last year a few times I had to walk down to the sidewalk because the little ones were too freaked out.



Enjoy.
Amanda

2 Weeks today

wow this chantix really does help a lot...but some days are definitely worse than others, today would be an 'others' day...no motivation, just want to sit on my hands and do nothing except concentrate on not going outside for a smoke. Today would be the kind of day where I say..oh well I did it for 2 weeks I can have just one...SIGH...if only it worked like that.

Anyway finally got my etsy mini added back on my blog and a new Pledge to buy handmade this year. Also my ETSY GLASS ARTIST street team has a great new page for Christmas Gift Giving....you can just click on the link.

I bought some advertising on a great site called WICKEDLYCHIC...how cool a name is that...great articles and items from artists around the world...check out my ad...I am so proud.. :)

So have a great day and a fun weekend....thanks again to my mom for listening to me bitch about my life for 2 hours again on the phone...what would we do without our moms...:) HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM...have a good time at the KEG tonight.

Thats all for now,
Amanda

Yahhhhh Day 3 of No smoking has passed!!

So the EGA sale was a success...thanks to all of you who stopped by...but my big news is I am heading into day 4 of NO SMOKING...figured since my hubby did so well and is now going on 3 months I should give it a try.

I am using CHANTIX...it helps stop the part of your brain that craves the nicotine, it definitely takes the edge off big time but I still find myself REALLY wanting one...my friend Laura told me to start pigging out on microwave popcorn.

Anyway wish me luck

And here is a super cute pic of the 'roxy' cat...you can do just about anything to this cat and she just lays there...since I am not smoking I am pretty ansy so am back to making scarves...this is some leftover wool my hubby put all over her...LOL...too cute.

Thats all for now.

Amanda

EGA birthday sale!

Don't forget to check out EGA's first birthday sale for 20% off from the following stores at Etsy Glass

So is everybody ready for Halloween! I can't wait to decorate! It's my favorite part of the holiday!

Check out the halloween cell phone charms

Have an awesome day!!

Pumpkin Earrings on ABS blog page...YAHHH

How cool is this...a picture of mine on the ABS website/blog. You should check them out...great articles and of course wonderful jewelry designers and bead-makers.

Thanks ART SCENE BEADS.

(PS mine are the pumpkin earrings).

I have been busy stocking up on some new Halloween decorations..I just love Halloween...I go nuts with my decorations and costume...it is just too fun to watch the kids creeping up to the house, not knowing what is going to jump out at them next.

So I bought this crawling ZOMBIE this year from ebay...you can see the YOUTUBE vid of it.

Too cool...also got a severed head, cast skeleton bones and a new skeleton in a coffin...I will post pics when it is all finished.

Almost hit 2000 sales on MY ETSY....3 more to go...I am so excited..I had hoped to get there by Sept end...but thats okay...now would still be good.

Have a great day all.
Amanda

The New Website

Well the website is working great, I have made a few sales from there. Only from my already customers though...I forget that once you get on the web you are now among millions of other websites also hoping for sales. I joined google adwords with a monthly budget...my ad has fun about 3000 times, but I only pay for clicks on my website and I have had about 15. For the money I think it is a great idea to get some exposure.

My daughters little etsy store is back up and slowly but surely running again. She is called BREEZYSSCRAPNSTUFF. She makes paper cards, tags etc and I have a few of my photo cards and my hand doodled cards and posters in the store. If you have a chance check it out!!

The VW from hell is still running..we just have to get the window fixed so it actually rolls up. We got a really cute bag from a wonderful person who recently just opened an etsy store. She is AMY from ZOOZIIS glass tools, but she also does a lot of sewing and you can get these wonderful catchall bags from her store. They will be awesome for stocking stuffers. She made Breezy one in hot pink and fur!!!

Lots of fun, I can't believe how fast etsy is growing. When I joined in Jan of this year there were approx 21000 registered sellers. Now there are over 78000..YIKES...major competetion..but I love it. They have done some wonderful work on the search categories, they are finally really fast...perfect timing.

Anyway, have a great day all...enjoy checking out the links.

Amanda

I have my very own website

Its done...Design By George did a fabulous job of my website it I do say so myself. I had my first sale from it today and it was so exciting, it is The Craftier Side, check it out!!.

So if you need a website..give George and his wife (Erzsébet) a chance...they do wonderful work, are so easy to work with and reasonably priced. You can also check out Erzsébet at her etsy store

Anyway not much else to talk about today, we are expecting record temps for September throughout the week so I am getting my torch time in really early, and really late in the day.

Now I am just hiding in my Air Conditioned house.

Amanda