4 posts tagged “buttons”
Not much time to "blarg" today.
I am scheduled to put in an appearance at my "real" job and as usual, I have a tonne of stuff to pack for my other "real" job.
I like working at ye old HCV most days, but today I'm having allergies and I feel kinda tired.
*sniff, sniff...sneeze*.
I could easily stay home and chill in my pjs.
Oh well. We soldier on...the peeps are expecting me and I do have a few customers who adore me, so that will make it okay I hope.
I'm going to quickly rant about various Post Offices.
They are driving me insane.
This week "R" down at the local PO told "B" that I needed to add a Small Parcel sticker to EVERY button order going across the border.
It's a bloody huge thing, that I fill out at home to save "B" time at the PO.
Filling this form out adds a good 5 minutes to the packing process.
I loathe it.
Supposedly I needed it the whole time, but the ladies were doing me a solid by leaving it off.
No more. We've been found out!
Curses!
I would say more, but I can't..."They" could be listening in...shhhhhhhh...
*sniff, sniff, sneeze*
A~
When we awoke this morning and opened the shop (ie:logged into our etsy account) we found a convo waiting for us.
A nice peep from a major fashion mag based in the EU requested we send some nice, high res. photos for their perusal.
Turns out, they're working on an article on Bikes and somehow this set of three made their way into this nice peeps line of vision.
We think that is pret-ty cool.
Maybe, just maybe, our pins will be featured in a sassy article about babes and their bikes.
We dig Bikes. We *always* wear a helmet though.
A brain is a terrible thing to leave all beat up on the shoulder.
We have a cool helmet though. That's the key.
You can be a delish Bike babe *and* protect your uber cool brain all at once.
All right, lecture over. I know, I'm a bit intense on the helmet thing.
But I have a longtime friend who did a goodish stint in brain damage rehab and trust me, if you can avoid it, you want to. I am so passionate about protecting the world's noggins that I used to give local kids a quarter everytime I saw them riding with a properly done up helmet.
It was a nice program, but it was paid for by me, and only me.
Thank heavens they changed the laws here in AB to make it mandatory for youth to have their helmet on, because, frankly, some of those little monsters figured out how to work the system and it cost me a fortune.
On that note, I've got a tonne of cat chores to do and lunch to make and a vacuum of the old headquarters wouldn't go awry...so, like they say in Italy,
Ciao Bella!
A~
In a day or so, it will be my second year "on" etsy. Who knew that a little buttonmaker and a clean looking venue for internet sales would turn into almost 1500 sales? I certainly had no idea that the empire would turn into a job. I've seen a lot of envelopes and bubble wrap, old atlasii and 93 cent stamps while working here in the studio nook. And to think my etsy career *almost* didn't happen. I joined in December, but I never listed anything until January. We didn't have any sales for a while and I kinda forgot about it. Then the infamous 30 Hour Data loss happened and etsy sent members an email apologizing and offering free listings as a way to say sorry. Anyhoo...fat story thin, I listed a few freebies and that got me some sales and we've gone from there. It's been a strange, but fun, trip. Our buttons, made with repurposed rare papers and funny sayings I think up, are all over the world. One set in particular gets a lot of folks some serious smooching. But, like they used to say on Hammy Hamster," that, is another story". Later.
A~
