It's Holiday time!

So we're right smack dab in the middle of the holiday season, which, naturally, is my busy time.

I've vended another craft show since my last update, the Knoxville Mommies Holly-Day Bazaar. It was small but fun! I was really tired, not sleeping the night before, but I was lucid enough, hahah.

I decided to give up NaNoWriMo this year. I just couldn't do it. Between family obligations, selling things on etsy, vending three shows? It was too overwhelming.

But etsy seems to be doing well for me this year, even more so than last. I've already sold more stockings this season so far than all of last season put together! I just hope it stays pretty consistent.

I'm off to SEWSEWSEW!

Vending at the Knoxville Creative Hands Etsy Teams Fall/Holiday show went okay. I sold enough to break even, so that's always a plus!

I did have a great time meeting new crafters and artists. And I handed a lot of cards out, so maybe that will show on my etsy sales.

Speaking of etsy sales, it's picking up more and more all the time and I'm loving it. I've been keeping quite busy.

The next show that I'm vending is the 2nd annual Holly-Day Bazaar put on by the Knoxville Mommies (www.knoxvillemommies.com). I'm looking forward to it. I really wanted to vend their event last year, but things just got too hectic. I hope there's a great turnout!

I haven't even thought about what to craft up as Christmas gifts for this year, since I've been busy making things to sell. I need to get on that.

Today is day 10 of NaNoWriMo. I'm sitting at a horrible, PUNY word count of 6,948 words. As of tomorrow I should be at 18,337. Not doing so hot at NaNo this year. I'm not so far behind that I can't catch up though. I wish I could have some 5-7k days like I did last year, but as I said earlier I'm so busy! I mean, I tried to make writing a priority today, but wound up with a horrible headache. So, I only wrote 630 words today.

Sigh.

Well, I guess I can try to get back to it for a bit before bed!

I'm back!

Well, well, well. I haven't kept up with this blog AT ALL.

I guess the holiday spirit is what makes me remember, lol.

I've been working on stockings, hope to have at least 50 new ones this year. Also, I'm in the process of figuring out what to craft up for Christmas gifts.

Annnnd today is day one of NaNoWriMo! I wound up with a little over 50k last November, barely making it, but I did it. I vow to do it again this year. I wrote 1,918 words today. Which is awesome, since I only have to fit in 1,667 a day.

Tomorrow I *hope* I can get that many words in ... my husband and I are going to see Danzig, so I won't have a lot of time. But a lot of fun will be had ;)

I made about 45 pairs of Christmas earrings, and around 20 or so Christmas necklaces today!

I've already done one craft show for the holiday season, the Unique Gift Expo. I did so/so at it, handed out a lot of cards. My etsy business is starting to pick up as well.

I'm doing another show November 12-13th, this time it will be an all etsy seller show. I'll post more details on that later though. There's another one coming up on the 20th that I'm pretty sure I'll be doing. :)

Now I'm off to think about my story a bit more, and maybe relax a bit!

It's a new year!

Wow, so November 17th was my last post.

I had planned on posting all through December, with all of the Christmas crafting I was doing. It got so overwhelming that I was unable to do so.

I didn't even get around to everything I had planned on!

Argh.

Plus, I did really well on etsy over the holidays. Sold quite a few stockings! If only I sold as much stuff on there all year round as I do during Christmas, lol.

Well, it's a new year, time for new crafts!

I plan on crafting for myself more this year than I have in recent years. I've been so overwhelmed with crafting for other people and my crafty business that I've neglected doing things for myself a bit.

Costuming.

I have a few different costumes that I need to get going on. I think I'll type up a separate post for that.

Stuff around the house.

I want to make some tissue cozies, pillowcases, a bathroom set.

I've already started tackling my organization issue, which I'm really proud of!

Well, I hope to have sporadic updates here. I am doing another writing 50k words in one month session in February, but I'm not going to stress over it like I did in November.

I look forward to this year, and what it holds!

I've been so horrible at posting to this blog!

NaNoWriMo has taken a huge chunk out of my month though. That, and I just had my Book Nerd Girls group cabin weekend, and all of the New Moon craziness this week/weekend!

I'm getting there on the NaNoWriMo novel though. I am very close to hitting 39,000 words. I should do that tonight. I'm hoping to hit 40k tomorrow, then 10k to go before finishing NaNoWriMo! Of course, the book won't be finished at 50k. But from there, I can relax a little. Then time for rewrites, and...whew. Don't need to dwell on that right now, lol.

I wanted to finish more than half of my Christmas crafting by the end of November, but so far I've only finished making a few pairs of baby shoes, a present for my hubster, a few patterns to make things for other people, and plotted some of my baking.

I still have so, oh-so-very much to do!

It's not that I haven't crafted though. I've done my crafting for things to sell, mostly etsy stuff though. I'll always put my orders first :)

I did get an order for a dozen "Gay Bar" soaps, and they were so fun to make! I don't get nearly as many soap orders as I once did, and I don't post as many on etsy. But when I do get them, I love, love, love making them. My whole house smells wonderful from them too! I'll have to post a picture of those soon.

Well, off to finish up my writing for the night, and possibly fit a little smidgen of crafting in too before bed! Goodnight!

I haven't been able to post recently...

Writing has taken up pretty much all of my time! (I'm doing NaNoWriMo)

I'm now at 25,151 words on my novel though, which is a smidgen over 10,000 words ahead of where I'm supposed to be, so hopefully I can catch up on some craftin'!

I did force in some time to make new baby shoes though.



I still have so much crafting to do. (aside from etsy orders....I'm starting to have more and more Christmas etsy orders trickle in, yay!) Christmas, Christmas, Christmas! I may have bit off more than I can chew this year. We'll see!

Halloween was fun, even if we didn't get any trick or treaters. I wouldn't let any children go inside an apartment building that you had to go inside a door, THEN knock on other doors. Plus with the outside, and most of the inside lights blown? No way.

It was my wedding anniversary, so the hubby and I just hung out, watched horror movies, and went out to dinner. Neither one of us were feeling the greatest, so we didn't go out really.

Earlier yesterday I attempted to get an H1N1 vaccination, but it wasn't meant to be! You can't get the nasal mist one if you have asthma. I was told I definitely needed to get one, since I'm prone to breathing troubles, but I'd have to get the injection.

I also went by Hobby Lobby and took advantage of their .77/yard tulle. I can't wait to make my twin nieces fairy tutus!



Here are some pics of the fabric I bought the other day for baby shoes:




Today is day one of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Writing 50,000 words in 30 days is going to be something else! That's 1,667 words a day, every single day. Today I've written 1,714 so far, definitely surpassing my goal. I'm going to try and write more here in a bit though. I really want to get ahead of myself, since I'm sure there will be days when there is no way I will be able to do any writing!

Plus, on top of doing NaNoWriMo, I'm trying to get the bulk of my Christmas crafting done!

We'll see how it goes, hahah!