Recession Crafts

In which Emily recounts selling crafts at Tight Knit in Troy, and discusses how the economy is effecting her.....and how it doesn't really matter.


With Hands project blog:
http://withhandsny.blogspot.com

She's Crafty, She's Just My Type

New Safari Gives Away Secrets

I updated my mac. They've redone Safari to feel more...I don't know, media friendly? (Not the media, media like it might as well be a big screen TV)

and the opening screen is a compilation of the sites you visit most frequently... I guess.

Here are my embarrassing secrets.

Facebook Gmail OKCupid ThisBlog
Blogger LibraryRequests AlbanyPublicLibrary YouTube
Amazon Vimeo Etsy Ally's Blog

EDIT: visually appealing as this screen may be, it is infinitely bad for my (usually nonexistent) ADD. I think of Googling something, I open a new page, I forget what it was, because that new page is no longer about:blank.

Sometimes, however, the page I want is one displayed and I can just click and that's nice.

Treasures Purchased Recently

This is just the highlights, mind you.

1. Necklace, Art on Lark: The Sea Robin's Song
2. American Family Scale, Albany / Church-Sale-Fill-a-Box-for-$5
3. Metal Citrus Squeezer, Ditto
4. Sewing Paraphernalia, Ditto
5. Some sort of Grinder or Juicer? Ditto
6. Suite Porch Light, Ditto
7. A Present for Ian, Ditto
8. Vintage Patterns, Guilderland / 10 for $1
9. Patterns, Ditto
10. Metal Canisters, Albany / $2 for all (because I wasn't taking them if it was $3)
11. Spools of Thread, Guilderland / I have no idea how much these were individually, I had a heap of things (a spool of piping, patterns, pocket clock) for $6
12. Rusty Thermometer / Scarf Albany, 50c (I'm fairly certain it does not work. / $5 Box
13. Vintage Patterns(10 for $1 Guilderland)
14. Hanging planter $5 box-o-crap.
15. Plastic Letters?Guilderland $1
16. Pocket Clock Guilderland, $6 heap-o-crap (I'm fairly certain it does)

I think I might start selling vintage patterns on Etsy. Then maybe people searching for a specific something might be excited by my earrings.

Makeshift band-aid

I cut myself today. With Scissors. Who does that?

Also, whilst procrastinating writing my packet (this ideally would be finished already), I begin to toss around the idea of selling some handmade clothing on Etsy. Maybe I'll make some more tunics. I've got a ton of fabric busting out of chests in my sewing room. But! Would anyone even buy them? Is it worth the 20c listing fee? I just had a few items expire, and since no one buys my stuff anyway, I'm hesitant to re-list. I may just tack all of my stuff to a blanket and hawk my wares on the street. What are the fines for that sort of thing?