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I think I've been doing pretty good with my Etsy shop.  Since I've opened it I've made 9 sales on the site itself and a few from friend that weren't recorded.  I was a little discouraged for a little while, but things have picked up some.  I've sold three scarfs this week.  Yay!  But that also means I need to get back to the sewing room and replace those 3 scarfs.  

 This week my new business cards came in the mail.  I'm very pleased with them.  Pardon the bad lighting.  It hasn't been particularly sunny lately.  It makes it difficult to take indoor pictures.  Thanks to photoshop, we can fix a lot.

They came in these cute little boxes.

 One side has the shop name and the other 

side has my name and information. 

So far I've only been able to use them in a couple of orders.

It's a little bit difficult to see here, but they have a high gloss finish.

I've ordered a few supplies off of the Etsy site.  It's interesting to see how others package their things.  I got one order that had a sticker with the shop name on it.  

I liked it and that's where I got the idea.  

Cute, right?

I think it adds just a little something to a bag.

So that's the news for the Etsy shop.  Stop by and check it out.

www.sweetpeadoodad.etsy.com

And We're Back!

So I finally just broke down and paid the crazy monthly fee.  

On to things past...Thanksgiving.  We had a nice one.  David and I invited all the Americans we could think of and had them all over for a turkey lunch the following Saturday.  It's not a holiday here you know.  Usually about a third of the people we invite can't make it.  However, only one person canceled.  This meant that we would be having 18 adults and - get ready - 12 children eating in our home!  Where were we going to put them?   It worked out.  The kids never really sat down, so that solved that seating problem.

Here are a few good pictures of the day.

Centerpieces 

 The tables

All the guests 

(or most of them.  Some were still filling their plates)

We had a nice day and it was a nice Thanksgiving.  The food was great and the company was even better.

Happy late Thanksgiving!

Picture-less

It's been a while since I've last posted anything.  There's a reason for this.  Last week I went to update my blog with some pretty pictures of our Thanksgiving feast.  As I was getting ready to load my pictures, a message popped up on my screen informing me that I had used all the free space they were allowing me to post pictures with.  If I would like to post any more I could kindly pay a monthly fee.  What?!   Not sure what I'm going to do just yet.  My writing skills are not at a level where I can post without pictures.  And really, what's a blog without pictures?  Boring.  So this will be a picture-less blog post just letting you know the scoop.  Hopefully I'll figure this out and be back to posting pictures soon!