picture update

Okay - anyone who knows me, knows it doesn't take me long to whip out the camera. So here are a few pictures from the day...

First the picture I promised of my sweet lovins boxes that I picked up at Carton Services. 89cents a piece, this included all the pink foam. And the best part (other than the cheapness)... they are recycled! They must have held computer parts or something. Now they will hold mobiles on their way their maker to their new owners
The next picture came from my acupuncture appointment this afternoon. I wish I could share a picture of what the needles looked like in me today, my Doc did moxibustion, so there were burny things stuck to the end of the needles in my belly. It was neat! There are fragrant herbs in the wool roll that is burned, I liked the smell. The things that look like cigarette butts (wool and herbs instead of tobacco) in the picture are what they burn on the end of the needles.
And then the last image for the day is just cuz I am all excited about this, I thought I'd share! I signed up for Audible.com and downloaded some This American Life to my MP3 player. This took a little customer support to do (my player is a Creative MuVo player, not an iPod or nuthin, so the format had to be changed, but hey the customer support at Audibles was rockin, thanks Sean!!). So now I am all super stoked that the next time I ride the bus I can listen to a This American Life episode! In fact, I downloaded 3 to choose from. Yeah!!!

Running Errands

Okay yesturday I forgot to keep my camera on me (I picked it up to put it in a pocket, and it just didn't make it there) which was really sad, because I ran some fun errands and multiple times I wanted to be able to snap a picture.

I went downtown, or just North of downtown, to Carton Services, which if you live in Portland and are in need of cheap boxes - this place is the shiz-nit!!! I needed bubbles, and I knew they sell these HUGE bags of recycled bubbles (all different sizes and colors - the bag costs $10 and could easily fit 2 or 3 people in it) and I needed some boxes. I borrowed my brother's car and completely filled it with packaging stuff. What got me super excited were these boxes that are perfect for mobiles, only 89cents each and they came complete with pink foam stuffing. Holy crap they are amazing. I'll take a picture later today and post it! I can't tell ya why a simple box with pink foam in it makes me so happy - but it does!!! They are amazing!!! I am going to have to go back and get more soon. :)

Then after the shipping materials madness, I drove a few blocks down Naito Street to the Food Innovation Center and got paid $25 to taste organic chicken broths and give my evaluations.
It was sorta fun in a super geeky way. Next week they are doing fresh fruit tasting, that would be more fun than broth. The place is part of Oregon State University, a service for the food industry to provide companies with statistical data. Quite the easy $25 bucks, and its right down the street from the cardboard place, so hey - it made for a fun errand running afternoon.

If you live in Portland and want me to send you the email to get hooked up with this OSU program, just let me know and I'll forward it to you. Its a completely volunteer program, and easy money.

Small Wee Cute Stuff

Little baby Harry admiring his red/orange mobile! So adorable!

Getting pictures from my customers is the best (and permission to share them here)! Thank You!

a Busy Tuesday

Today I set up a bit of my artwork with some friends from the Aquila Glass Studio at an art show put on by Handmade NW. It was at the World Trade Center in Downtown Portland.Here's my setup in the evening. There are more pictures on my flickr. It gets dark here pretty early, there were snowflake lights in the area where we set up.It was an all day show, but I got wisked away for a card making date, so I didn't get back to the show till later that afternoon. The next picture is my friend Maggy's house - so wonderfully cute! Her chickens and ducks greeted us in the front yard. And do you see the beautiful mobile by me hanging from the corner of the roof

Birds on a Line

I just thought I'd share, I like how this piece is turning out. Its going to be a very large platter, part of a Christmas present for Tim's sister (I don't think she reads this blog). It matches some plates that we've made her.

Cyber-Monday FREE Give-Away

Every order placed in my Etsy shop today will receive a FREE ornament with their purchase.

... and each item bought will enter you into my Dec 1st 's give-away. This is a quick one (only lasting today, Dec 1st 2008, and orders already placed today will be retroactively entered into the fun) with a sweet prize: the four ornaments in this picture could be yours!!! The funny thing is these are my "seconds", mostly the bows heated funny, sometimes one loop closes so they hang funny, or they don't hang at all. I am not sure what you will do with them, but I do hope you will enjoy them. Get crafty, hang them or glue them to something... who knows!

so get shopping - each item purchased counts as one entry, and every order will include a free ornament!

Happy Cyber-Monday!

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Cyber Monday Holiday Shopping

I always loved advent calendars as a kid. And for the record, mine had no candies or toys behind the doors, they were simply little pictures. Mine were flat advent calendars that usually the 24th door would be a big double door with a picture of Jesus behind it. Then when I got a little older we had German foreign exchange students. One of their mother's sent a big metal chest of Christmas treats for us, mostly chocolate and hazelnut stuff, and these fabulous advent calendars that had candies behind the doors. I had known these existed (many of my prep school friends had fancy advent calendars) but this was the first time I had my own. My mother was not impressed with the idea of us having piece of chocolate before breakfast. She preferred to encourage us to embrace the illustrated calendars, some years we would make them ourselves with funny drawings and handcrafted little tear-out doors. And I always LOVED December 1st to eagerly wake up and open the first door of my calendar.

Anyhow - its December 1st - Cyber Monday for you online shoppers.

Later today I am going to do a quick Cyber Monday Giveaway on my blog, stay tuned! (I will post the giveaway opportunity at noon my time, 3pm EST)

By the way, the picture is from SantaCon 2007 - hundreds of drunk Santa Clauses that decend upon Portland for a pub crawl, this particular Santa was giving presents to people who had been naughty, he called himself the "Pro-Naughty Santa".

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend!

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