CPSIA

| January 28, 2009

Where will it all end?  Is the government trying to get rid of free enterprise and the cottage industry?  That is what this nation was built on.  If this law goes into effect, a large portion of the cottage industry will have to close down and claim bankruptcy. There are so many people depending on [...]

Google Translator Added To Blog

| January 26, 2009

Angel and I have been playing with a wonderful Google Translator created by V.J.Catkick.  We were looking for a translator for our blogs so that anyone in the world could read it.  Angel found Google Translator but it wouldn’t work in our blogs.  I thought it might be because it was created for WordPress 2.5.  [...]

2 Treasuries

| January 24, 2009

I have been very negligent in keeping up my blogging on my treasuries I am in as I was revamping and trying to recover my blog.  I have been in 2 treasuries in the last 3 weeks.  Of course, you won’t be able to click and comment on the first treasury but I can show [...]

Lesson Learned

| January 24, 2009

Above, you see a cuff that I was very excited to design and bead, as you know from previous posts.  This cuff was my pride and joy. But, I am a very unhappy beader/designer right now.  I was working on a pattern for the Mirrored Images Cuff.  I needed to get some bead count information [...]

ETC Design Challenge ~*~Chinese New Year~*~

| January 23, 2009

The Etsy Texas Crafters (ETC) team challenge for January was themed  Celebrate the Chinese New Year.  Entries had to have something to do with the Chinese New Year, Ox, Lantern Festival, Traditional Masks, etc.  The deadline for the entries was Jan 22.  We had 11 entrants.  I did not enter anything in this challenge as [...]