I’m always on the lookout for things I want to do that combine/add to/compliment things I’m already doing. Sometimes those are things that work, like making soap dishes when I already make soap. Sometimes they are ideas that don’t pan out, like making gift sets of soap/lotion/lip balms in complimentary flavors …
So, what else was going on while all this was going on? A couple of days before the mammogram, I cleaned out my little library, intending to craft a little – for personal reasons, not work – in the mornings. That worked until it started to get cold – I …
The things I know to be universal truths can sometimes be boiled down to [somewhat] pithy sayings. “Show up; do the work” … “Perfect is the enemy of finished”… and “Kill your darlings.” You all know that I’m reducing my Etsy footprint, and just today I have moved all the …
No, just kidding. Really I’m working on another long post – I keep having to save it to drafts because I’m juggling a lot this week. Here’s a pretty picture! More soon!
This week has a few restock ceramics (the Alligator planters, a small round starter planter, and the neatly wound yarn mugs) but mostly I’m excited about the new items! I hope y’all like mugs as much as I do, because there’s a lot of them this week. There is a …
So much yarn last week! I’ll sum it all up in one post for you, even though on Facebook and G+ I made it three different ones (as I got everything photographed and listed). The first wave of yarn this week is restocks, including a handful of bases in Buttercream, Seaworthy, …
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed Andre in a test skein for “How the Sea was Salt” Pattern: Marigold Socks by pamela wynne Started: November 22, 2013 Completed: December 30, 2013 Notes: Even just the test skein for this colorway makes me wish it were a permanent color – the actual one came out even better – and not …
Well, I didn’t intend to drag my heels on this one, but a combination of a few crafty things I was consumed with, coupled with this being my least favorite part of the story, added up together for a delay. The physical aspects of the ultrasound were not so bad …
Well, not really. But here’s a pretty picture! I’ll get back to the mammogram story soon – I’ve just had a rash of things to do coupled with some creative/crafty ideas I wanted to pounce on, and that means not a lot of computer time right now. I didn’t mean …
Early in the morning, the day after Christmas, I got a phone call from the mammogram place. They had seen something they’d like to get a better look at, could I come in the following week? Again, it would be pretty early in the morning, although not as early as …
Do y’all remember me mentioning the new thing I have on my online shop, a new notification service wherein you can leave your email to get an automagic message when I’ve restocked an item? It turns out that I can get a report of the items people most want to …
This is Part Three of this story. Here’s Part One. Here’s Part Two. There is nothing quite so lonely as going to get your very first mammogram on a cold and rainy Christmas Eve morning, at a time when you’d normally just be finishing up your first cup of coffee, …
This product listing is for the Summer 2014 yarn club, a club that runs from May through July and is for three skeins of yarn in the weight of your choosing. This listing will be active until April 30th, 3014. (Photo from Spring yarn club, 2014, “Kehaar”) For the theme …
Yeah, maybe, if you subscribe to most of today’s conventional wisdom (have your first mammogram at 40, ladies!)… even though some studies now are saying that if you don’t have a history of breast cancer in your family, and if you don’t have reason to worry, you can wait until …
A few restocks in soap (Black Amber & Lavender, Kentish Rain, Lavender Patchouli, and Sweetgrass), a few restocks in ceramics (Dragon candle holder and Sitting Hoi Toi), and a few restocks in yarn (Soylent Green, The 40s and The 70s, and Weathered Wood). Definitely a catch-up week! You can see …
Social media! I might be a little crazy… but I love technology, so there ya go. Did you know that HaldeCraft is on… Facebook Google + Instagram Pinterest (note this started off as my personal Pinterest account but that I have a few HaldeCraft boards) Ravelry Twitter I have a …
I’ve really been stretching my brain (and having loads of fun) working out a new mug design lately. What that means is in about another week, I’ll have two different new lace tumblers to show off, and about two weeks after that, I’ll have some “Crafting since birth” mugs. I …
First off, I’m fine. I have benign heterogeneously dense breasts, which are also asymmetrical, which basically means that instead of mostly fat in my breasts I have dense tissue, which is hard to see through, and they’re not matchy-matchy with each other. Go figure, I am not a Supermodel with factory …
I might have only casually mentioned this, so here’s a Real Announcement: in January, I retired the Cocoa Butter soap fragrance, and in February I retired the Cucumber Melon fragrance. You can find what’s left in stock of those two scents (and other random fragrances) in my Miscellaneous Marked Down …
A new colorway this week, and I must say that this color is everything I ever wished my now-retired Raspberry Beret had been. It’s rich, tonal, multi-faceted, and did I mention rich? I do have a soft spot for the deep, dark colors. The name of the colorway is “Red …
Let’s talk about product photography! There are a billion articles out there on how to take great photos in general, great photos for products, great photos specifically for jewelry or ceramics or people… but this article is going to be about how I do it, and my journey in learning.
