6 posts tagged “knit”
<--bubblegum cell phone/iPod cozy, $5. now available in my etsy shop ! today was a fairly slow day. i finally watched Once. it was as i expected, and more. i really liked it a lot. i'd recommend it to almost anyone, as long as you're okay with good music and a little romanticism, but not too much. it was a sweet love story; not the soft-core porn type most people are used to in movies today. as of right now, i'm not entirely sure what type of films i will make, but i want films with meaning and amazing cinematography, rather than movies bordering on pornography. the problem is there is hardly a border anymore of what film can and can't show. i like it that way, but it makes some films so hard to get. sometimes i can't take a film completely seriously just cos it has a leetle too much love in it. i'm not a weenie or a prude or anything, i just like movies with meaning.
so today was strange. i woke up this morning and just noticed, being vegan for a month is making me VEGAN ! hahah. it sounds strange, but let me attempt to explain. i woke up this morning and i didn't think at all about what to eat or checking labels. everything just kind of happened, hence, i'm used to being vegan. it's nailed into my brain a tad now. i know come tuesday i'll be back to normal, but i think i'll definitely be returning to veganism next year, or maybe even again this year. my love of silk soy milk continues to grow with every bowl of cereal. the only bad thing is, i've been eating way too much peanut butter ! hehe. i've gotten to the point where i've just been eating teaspoons of peanut butter. i love it so, but alas, it's a love that must end soon ! today, overall, was okay. i'm probably going to go get a nice cup of apple juice or two and then go watch winter passing or blade runner. (:
so today was strange. i woke up this morning and just noticed, being vegan for a month is making me VEGAN ! hahah. it sounds strange, but let me attempt to explain. i woke up this morning and i didn't think at all about what to eat or checking labels. everything just kind of happened, hence, i'm used to being vegan. it's nailed into my brain a tad now. i know come tuesday i'll be back to normal, but i think i'll definitely be returning to veganism next year, or maybe even again this year. my love of silk soy milk continues to grow with every bowl of cereal. the only bad thing is, i've been eating way too much peanut butter ! hehe. i've gotten to the point where i've just been eating teaspoons of peanut butter. i love it so, but alas, it's a love that must end soon ! today, overall, was okay. i'm probably going to go get a nice cup of apple juice or two and then go watch winter passing or blade runner. (:
today i sold three things ! i was in journalism and i just decided to do something non-journalistic, and i just so happened to have found out that etsy isn't blocked on school computers ! so i went on and i saw the number '24' instead of '27' and i though, HOLY SHIT ! hahah, someone bought somethings ! and it was true ! someone bought three things off me and i was so freaking happy, like you have no idea ! it lit me up, i was on fire ! hahahah. but tomorrow i'm shipping it and i'm mad excited. i also requested my check from paypal and it looks like i'll have some money in the bank ! hehe. i love etsy.com so so much, so i've decided to write an article about it for journalism ! i just finished. i guess i'll post it as the remainder of the post. (:
Etsy.com: Make things, make money
Etsy.com has gained a great reputation for being a place to make easy money from basic or intermediate DIY craft, and has been growing progressively this year, gaining praise from celebrities such as Martha Stewart. People young and old have been joining the website, in hope of quick internet success that will help them get out of debt, make extra money or make a living through art.
Since the launch of the website in 2005, Etsy has over 100,000 sellers from all over the world selling things like jewelry, art, house wares, ceramics, clothing, etc. Their worldwide community of buyers and sellers buy and sell things from furniture to fake mustaches, and have created a number of internet success stories including sellers like luchaworkshop, cubistliterature and littleputbooks.
“Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers,” reads the website, “Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell and Live Handmade.”
Etsy has recently gained praise from Martha Stewart. According to the Etsy newsletter titled “The Storque,” all of Martha’s producers are “Etsy-obsessed.”
As Etsy continues to grow, so do people’s hopes of making livings out of art, that they didn’t think were possible. A special section in the Etsy “Storque” allows buyers and sellers to tell the stories of their success and love of the website, or even, love found on the website.
“When I started selling on Etsy, I saw some of the other possibilities for my life,” says seller Craig Hunter on his Handmade Story (a.k.a. cubistliterature), “I didn’t have to get into some job that I didn’t like, at all. I saw myself able to do anything. I was really inspired by all the great things I found there. I saw that arts and crafts weren’t just for certain people, they aren’t male or female, it doesn’t work that way.”
With 10 different ways to shop and countless opportunities to advertise, Etsy is a community of people that make it easy to sell and buy, while making friends along the way. Young or old, Etsy.com will aid you in making a small business of your own!
Etsy.com: Make things, make money
Etsy.com has gained a great reputation for being a place to make easy money from basic or intermediate DIY craft, and has been growing progressively this year, gaining praise from celebrities such as Martha Stewart. People young and old have been joining the website, in hope of quick internet success that will help them get out of debt, make extra money or make a living through art.
Since the launch of the website in 2005, Etsy has over 100,000 sellers from all over the world selling things like jewelry, art, house wares, ceramics, clothing, etc. Their worldwide community of buyers and sellers buy and sell things from furniture to fake mustaches, and have created a number of internet success stories including sellers like luchaworkshop, cubistliterature and littleputbooks.
“Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers,” reads the website, “Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell and Live Handmade.”
Etsy has recently gained praise from Martha Stewart. According to the Etsy newsletter titled “The Storque,” all of Martha’s producers are “Etsy-obsessed.”
As Etsy continues to grow, so do people’s hopes of making livings out of art, that they didn’t think were possible. A special section in the Etsy “Storque” allows buyers and sellers to tell the stories of their success and love of the website, or even, love found on the website.
“When I started selling on Etsy, I saw some of the other possibilities for my life,” says seller Craig Hunter on his Handmade Story (a.k.a. cubistliterature), “I didn’t have to get into some job that I didn’t like, at all. I saw myself able to do anything. I was really inspired by all the great things I found there. I saw that arts and crafts weren’t just for certain people, they aren’t male or female, it doesn’t work that way.”
With 10 different ways to shop and countless opportunities to advertise, Etsy is a community of people that make it easy to sell and buy, while making friends along the way. Young or old, Etsy.com will aid you in making a small business of your own!
<--new item added to my etsy shop yesterday. green hand-knit zipper pouch, $6.25 today today today, i disappointed myself too many times already, and it's only but halfway over. if i don't accomplish something by the end of today i think i'll be forced to fully despair at my character. so this morning my dad kind of sort of apologized to me, but it was only kind of, and i wanted to fucking cry. he said things, but i felt like he didn't mean them at all. sometimes words just come out, but i couldn't forgive him for some reason. it's the big wall in front of my compassion. it's the me circa 7th grade, still holding me back. i want to break past it and be nice to everyone, but i can't escape my former self for some reason, and it's scary. i don't know why and how i'm so bitter, but i'm really not. it's like, i thought i changed, but i stayed the same. i'm stuck in the same rutt, the same hole, without progression. i used to say i didn't like change, i wanted 'constants' in my life, but i really don't. i want change. i want the world to change. i want barack obama for president. i want to change myself for the better but it's terribly hard for me to do when i'm still here... in this hole; but hopefully not eternally.
that was only part one of my being a disappointment. then i was too late to catch the post office. i couldn't mail my order in. -_____- standing there, where the lobby window should've been open, was absolutely degrading and depressing. another door closed, but nothing opened. and being the youth of today's america, i have no idea how many stamps are supposed to go on the envelope, so, in turn, i have to mail it monday and i feel like shit about it. this morning i felt so confident, and now, i have an utter lack of confidence. but is confidence really what makes us better people, or is it modesty? is it better to be quiet or loud? i guess it's to your preference, i just wish life would give you all the answers right away. sadly, nothing is ever easy.
i spent almost $30 at the craft store today. it felt like death on a stick. i don't know how or why i did it. i told myself to spend $15, and i spent so much. for all these reasons, i've disappointed myself today. i don't know what to do anymore. i guess all i can do now is try to make myself happy with myself again, and pretend to still have confidence, since that's what my horoscope said to do. i bought more felt and shit than i could probably use in a lifetime. i kind of like it though. i want to be busy. now that i have so much supplies, it's time to get crafty.
that was only part one of my being a disappointment. then i was too late to catch the post office. i couldn't mail my order in. -_____- standing there, where the lobby window should've been open, was absolutely degrading and depressing. another door closed, but nothing opened. and being the youth of today's america, i have no idea how many stamps are supposed to go on the envelope, so, in turn, i have to mail it monday and i feel like shit about it. this morning i felt so confident, and now, i have an utter lack of confidence. but is confidence really what makes us better people, or is it modesty? is it better to be quiet or loud? i guess it's to your preference, i just wish life would give you all the answers right away. sadly, nothing is ever easy.
i spent almost $30 at the craft store today. it felt like death on a stick. i don't know how or why i did it. i told myself to spend $15, and i spent so much. for all these reasons, i've disappointed myself today. i don't know what to do anymore. i guess all i can do now is try to make myself happy with myself again, and pretend to still have confidence, since that's what my horoscope said to do. i bought more felt and shit than i could probably use in a lifetime. i kind of like it though. i want to be busy. now that i have so much supplies, it's time to get crafty.
<-- new item just added to my etsy shop. hand-knit fingerless gloves, $6. so i've been pretty obsessively involved in my etsy shop as of late. i don't know if it's just that i need a distraction or i need money; probably both.
i currently have a terrible splitting headache that is making me want to explode. it's like my heart is beating hard and heavy inside my head but i can't get rid of it. i need to take an advil. i can feel my temperature rising too. too much stress for a school-free week i guess.
my relationship with my dad is shriveling up faster and faster it seems. it's quickening. we don't talk. he doesn't talk to me anymore. i don't know if i'm relieved or if i'm angry. i just don't really want to question it cos i know he hates me now. now that he's seen the horribleness of my grudge, and who could love that? i guess no one loves unconditionally. i know i sure as hell don't. but as the days go by i talk to him less and less. i talk less and less. i don't know if i'm growing or shrinking in mind and heart. i don't know if i'm turning antisocial or turning into who i should be. i guess it's sad when you've seen your parents as villains for so long, to finally accept them as humans who made a hell of a lot of mistakes. as i've said, i'm gradually trying to rid myself of my terrible amount of grudges, but when it's your parents who are supposed to be your guides and helpers through life, it's hard. i have two years left of this. hating my dad for being so passive and hating my mom for being so aggressive. i always say i don't hate, but sometimes i wonder if it's true. what is hate anyway?
today was pretty basic i guess. not much happened, except new listings on etsy. just babysitting for no money and trying to get publicity for my shop. i guess as my subconscious pain increases, the more i work. the more i strive to become financially independent from my parents. the more i craft, the more i study. i know my life isn't terrible. i'd never say i hated life as long as i am alive. shit happens, and shit has happened to me too many times. i'd never take my own life, but sometimes i just want to leave the place that is supposed to be my home. i miss my friends. i miss feeling like things would get better, or like things were/are okay. i can feel myself strengthening, or weakening. i can't tell, but whatever it is, it's taking over me. i wish i knew which one it was. next month i've decided to go vegan, just to test my strengths and see if i can do it. i'm tired of feeling out of control. i want and need to prove to myself that i have self-control.
i currently have a terrible splitting headache that is making me want to explode. it's like my heart is beating hard and heavy inside my head but i can't get rid of it. i need to take an advil. i can feel my temperature rising too. too much stress for a school-free week i guess.
my relationship with my dad is shriveling up faster and faster it seems. it's quickening. we don't talk. he doesn't talk to me anymore. i don't know if i'm relieved or if i'm angry. i just don't really want to question it cos i know he hates me now. now that he's seen the horribleness of my grudge, and who could love that? i guess no one loves unconditionally. i know i sure as hell don't. but as the days go by i talk to him less and less. i talk less and less. i don't know if i'm growing or shrinking in mind and heart. i don't know if i'm turning antisocial or turning into who i should be. i guess it's sad when you've seen your parents as villains for so long, to finally accept them as humans who made a hell of a lot of mistakes. as i've said, i'm gradually trying to rid myself of my terrible amount of grudges, but when it's your parents who are supposed to be your guides and helpers through life, it's hard. i have two years left of this. hating my dad for being so passive and hating my mom for being so aggressive. i always say i don't hate, but sometimes i wonder if it's true. what is hate anyway?
today was pretty basic i guess. not much happened, except new listings on etsy. just babysitting for no money and trying to get publicity for my shop. i guess as my subconscious pain increases, the more i work. the more i strive to become financially independent from my parents. the more i craft, the more i study. i know my life isn't terrible. i'd never say i hated life as long as i am alive. shit happens, and shit has happened to me too many times. i'd never take my own life, but sometimes i just want to leave the place that is supposed to be my home. i miss my friends. i miss feeling like things would get better, or like things were/are okay. i can feel myself strengthening, or weakening. i can't tell, but whatever it is, it's taking over me. i wish i knew which one it was. next month i've decided to go vegan, just to test my strengths and see if i can do it. i'm tired of feeling out of control. i want and need to prove to myself that i have self-control.
so i've been pretty into my peruvian culture as of late, basically at the fault of multicultural day last week. i've been pretty much happy with who i am as a half hispanic person and i like my heritage, but my sister doesn't.
she constantly puts peru down, and i can understand why, we've had bad experiences with some of our relatives down there and my mom's family isn't exactly clean cut. but now that i've seen and researched the beautiful and scenic part of peru i love it. not the metropolis, but the real peru under all that crap. my sister is probably going to hold this eternal grudge, with good reason, but it gets to me sometimes how she puts down hispanic people all the time. especially now that i love my heritage. i don't know if i find her behavior disappointing or just expected. she used to be the really hispanic one, i guess we kind of flipped. peru is all different colors and tints, it has no limits as to its color. its not a monochromatic tone like iceland, it's more. i'm not sure i like the fact that it's not monochromatic. it's so busy, but i just think, better that than the united states who lacks open spaces.
so my paper mache didn't really work out yesterday. so what? i guess. sue me ! haha. too messy. too much of a hassle for something that might not sell. too much hassle for a risk, even though i promised myself i'd take more of them. lately i've been really into old 90s films. reality bites, singles, and yesterday i saw empire records and really liked it. i find myself torn between dressing to my icelandic ambient music phase, or to my neo-grunge phase. this is my second grunge phase, and it came out of nowhere. i guess i could mix the two somehow.
so yesterday i knit one fingerless glove. i'm wearing it right now and really like it. i think i'm going to make more and sell them with matching scarves. that'll be cute. i have so much i want and need to get. i'm just waiting for my check from paypal, hehe. and it's also such a relief that i'm babysitting on friday. more money. i'm currently saving up for a button maker. i think i could have fun with it. make tons of cool buttons. sell them on etsy and/or give them to people. empire records basically inspire me to do it. but anyway, i need to head out cos my sister and brother sound bored. i need to bring the excitement back i guess. that's me, excitement, kind of. more when i don't have my period, hahah.
she constantly puts peru down, and i can understand why, we've had bad experiences with some of our relatives down there and my mom's family isn't exactly clean cut. but now that i've seen and researched the beautiful and scenic part of peru i love it. not the metropolis, but the real peru under all that crap. my sister is probably going to hold this eternal grudge, with good reason, but it gets to me sometimes how she puts down hispanic people all the time. especially now that i love my heritage. i don't know if i find her behavior disappointing or just expected. she used to be the really hispanic one, i guess we kind of flipped. peru is all different colors and tints, it has no limits as to its color. its not a monochromatic tone like iceland, it's more. i'm not sure i like the fact that it's not monochromatic. it's so busy, but i just think, better that than the united states who lacks open spaces.
so my paper mache didn't really work out yesterday. so what? i guess. sue me ! haha. too messy. too much of a hassle for something that might not sell. too much hassle for a risk, even though i promised myself i'd take more of them. lately i've been really into old 90s films. reality bites, singles, and yesterday i saw empire records and really liked it. i find myself torn between dressing to my icelandic ambient music phase, or to my neo-grunge phase. this is my second grunge phase, and it came out of nowhere. i guess i could mix the two somehow.
so yesterday i knit one fingerless glove. i'm wearing it right now and really like it. i think i'm going to make more and sell them with matching scarves. that'll be cute. i have so much i want and need to get. i'm just waiting for my check from paypal, hehe. and it's also such a relief that i'm babysitting on friday. more money. i'm currently saving up for a button maker. i think i could have fun with it. make tons of cool buttons. sell them on etsy and/or give them to people. empire records basically inspire me to do it. but anyway, i need to head out cos my sister and brother sound bored. i need to bring the excitement back i guess. that's me, excitement, kind of. more when i don't have my period, hahah.
so it was one of those days that was pretty blunt and straightforward; uneventful and quite un-extraordinary. i'm looking forward to a week off from everything next week, cos that's pretty much what i'm going to make it.
this break is in such a weird place though, and it bothers me. its in the middle of nowhere, and it makes me sort of OCD and nauseated. i guess i kind of felt like time moved slower than this.
all i know is, this week i want to achieve something. if not something great, something i can remember. i want to start knitting hats. i think it'd be cool to just make a collection of hats and scarves that match in different colors. i could wear a hat and scarf everyday ! hehe.
i bought a book today at borders on digital photography, to hopefully give me ideas to vamp up my photos for etsy. i'm going to read more of it tonight and take more pictures in the morning. i can definitely say my parents got their money's worth out of buying me this camera. i use it all the time and pretty much bring it everywhere. tomorrow my etsy shop is getting a makeover.
tomorrow i' m probably going to be reading a lot. i have no plans at all for the next week, and i feel okay about it. there is something uneasy about me today, and irritable. i don't know where it came from. but i'm just happy to not be stressing over school for a week. i want to focus on my business, and waiting for my first paypal check in the mail. i guess once you notice you have nothing you want to buy on etsy at the moment, you just decide, transfer it to the account ! never happened to me, it did today.
so i've been working on goals, hm? i've decided that in april i'm going vegan for the whole month. it's nearly impossible in my house, but i'm going to work on it. some of my goals i've decided to do every year, this is one of them. every april i'm going to try to be vegan; maybe eventually it will catch on [with the exception of dairy cos sadly i know i could never like without it], but even as much as i love dairy, in the month of april it'll be dead to me.
so the whole day today felt like a repeat of sorts. i often feel as though things that happen, have happened before. i'm never quite sure if they have or maybe i saw it in one of my twisted dreams? i don't know. my life is such a blur to me cos sometimes my dreams are more interesting. a few days ago i had this dream that i forgot my english essay and totally failed at life... luckily i woke up after freaking out for a few minutes, wondering if i was in reality or in my head.
by the way, i'm currently obsessing over the Oscar nominated song from that irish film 'Once.' i'm so dying to see that. it's called 'falling slowly' and if my parents would finally stop being so uptight about me sleeping over people's houses then hopefully i'll get to watch it with alyssa and lexi the week after they return from florida. (:
this break is in such a weird place though, and it bothers me. its in the middle of nowhere, and it makes me sort of OCD and nauseated. i guess i kind of felt like time moved slower than this.
all i know is, this week i want to achieve something. if not something great, something i can remember. i want to start knitting hats. i think it'd be cool to just make a collection of hats and scarves that match in different colors. i could wear a hat and scarf everyday ! hehe.
i bought a book today at borders on digital photography, to hopefully give me ideas to vamp up my photos for etsy. i'm going to read more of it tonight and take more pictures in the morning. i can definitely say my parents got their money's worth out of buying me this camera. i use it all the time and pretty much bring it everywhere. tomorrow my etsy shop is getting a makeover.
tomorrow i' m probably going to be reading a lot. i have no plans at all for the next week, and i feel okay about it. there is something uneasy about me today, and irritable. i don't know where it came from. but i'm just happy to not be stressing over school for a week. i want to focus on my business, and waiting for my first paypal check in the mail. i guess once you notice you have nothing you want to buy on etsy at the moment, you just decide, transfer it to the account ! never happened to me, it did today.
so i've been working on goals, hm? i've decided that in april i'm going vegan for the whole month. it's nearly impossible in my house, but i'm going to work on it. some of my goals i've decided to do every year, this is one of them. every april i'm going to try to be vegan; maybe eventually it will catch on [with the exception of dairy cos sadly i know i could never like without it], but even as much as i love dairy, in the month of april it'll be dead to me.
so the whole day today felt like a repeat of sorts. i often feel as though things that happen, have happened before. i'm never quite sure if they have or maybe i saw it in one of my twisted dreams? i don't know. my life is such a blur to me cos sometimes my dreams are more interesting. a few days ago i had this dream that i forgot my english essay and totally failed at life... luckily i woke up after freaking out for a few minutes, wondering if i was in reality or in my head.
by the way, i'm currently obsessing over the Oscar nominated song from that irish film 'Once.' i'm so dying to see that. it's called 'falling slowly' and if my parents would finally stop being so uptight about me sleeping over people's houses then hopefully i'll get to watch it with alyssa and lexi the week after they return from florida. (:
