Favorites Into Treasuries Again...

Do you ever just fall in love with Etsy Treasuries?

I think they can be challenging to make with you have to make one for a team, or something specific…

But if you are able to create them from your favorites list…

Well, that is all together something enjoyable and quite addictive.

Muted Colors Whisper To Me

Circles and Cycles

What do you think?

Do you like these collections?

What about them speaks to you?

Or do they do nothing for you?

Click on them and leave a comment on the treasury if you don't mind...

Favorites Into Treasuries Again...

Do you ever just fall in love with Etsy Treasuries?

I think they can be challenging to make with you have to make one for a team, or something specific…

But if you are able to create them from your favorites list…

Well, that is all together something enjoyable and quite addictive.

Muted Colors Whisper To Me

Circles and Cycles

What do you think?

Do you like these collections?

What about them speaks to you?

Or do they do nothing for you?

Click on them and leave a comment on the treasury if you don't mind...

5 iPhone Apps you Need: App 2

This is the second post in a series of five. Look out for more every Tuesday and Thursday. Read the first post here.

Search on Epicurious

The first app was one that helped you with your finances, something that really applies to everyone. This app will also help you with something you can't avoid: eating. Of course you could eat in some restaurant for breakfast, lunch, and supper every day, but if you want to go the cheaper route, you've gotta cook. This free app from Epicurious.com will help you do just that.

I find it really fun to stop once in a while and cook. And for that you need recipes. And for that you need Epicurious. Epicurious.com has been around for a while, and packs in thousands of recipes, as well as articles, cooking videos, and user polls. The Epicurious app only deals with the recipes, but it does it well. Very, very well. The Epicurious app allows you to look for recipes by many categories, including the basics: lunches, dinners, and sides, but there are also some sometimes more useful categories, including I Cook like a Pro, I can Barely Cook, and Quick and Easy. 


Another cool feature is the advanced search option, where you start off choosing a main ingredient from a list of many options, listed in alphabetical order. You can then choose a meal or course, a cuisine, dish type, season or occasion, and even dietary consideration. All of this is presented in a beautiful and intuitive way, and is really fun and easy to use.

Epicurious is available at it's homepage, as well as on the iTunes AppStore. Thanks for reading, I have to go check on my Devil's Food Cake.

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Amazon.com Offering Buy One, Get One Free Video Games

It's July 4th. Independence day. You are probably grilling some burgers outside, getting ready for a party, or planning to see some wonderful fireworks tonight. Although that's all good and fun, when it's done, some of you might just want to curl up with a good first-person shooter. Amazon.com, the widely popular online marketplace, wants to help you out.

From today, July 4th, 2011, until Saturday, July 9th, Amazon.com is offering a list of games and and gaming accessories which are all available on a buy one get one free basis. The special deal doesn't apply to every video game on Amazon, but there is a nice selection of around 270 games and gaming accessories to choose from.

To take advantage of this deal, just put two of the select items in your cart. The deal will be applied at one off the last stages in the checkout process, and will deduct the price of the less expensive item from the total price.

This is a great deal, and although not everything in the list of 270 or so items is something you'd actually want, you're sure to find a charm (or two) in there somewhere, and who doesn't like free? Make sure to go to the Amazon video game page by the end of this week, and catch this Independence day deal. Happy 4th!


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Narrowing Down A Color Palette For Etsy

There are ways to look at ones business…

For me it has always been:

I make beads & pendants.

I sell these beads & pendants to people that make jewelry.

I sell things through bead shows, bead shops, and online shops.

I have a website that allows people to pick out their exact porcelain pendant by:

Texture, Shape & Size, and Color...

12 selected glaze color choices.

But things are not the same for me anymore.

I am not personally traveling to bead shows.

I work from home and can't be away from my two little ones for long…

(I become a miserable grump)

My pieces are still at shows through D7Studio

Which is my friend Darlene's business.

I sold her my bead show stock right after I had Chloe, and she made it her own…

You should see the stuff she carries!

Really - click to her blog to see where she will be next…

There are bead shops that still carry my pieces - if they have not closed up shop yet and gone online…

And as far as online resellers, there are a few…

So in the last two years I have really focused on my Etsy shop:

Selection of items in my Etsy shop.

I have taken, and retaken, and then taken more photos of my items.

Worked with a professional photographer, Katy Timney for better images of what my pieces look like finished and worn:

And so now from an outsiders point of view…

I like these, but would like them in another color.

What do you have to offer?

Right now it stands as:

Take a look at my other listings.

You know, the ones under porcelain pendants, shards…

Or maybe go outside Etsy to my website.

Search and find the pendants, then hopefully your computer/phone can download the flash (outdated) glaze color chart.

Oh, and I have new glazes - but they aren't there…

See the point?

Or rather - get lost in the point?

Customers that are there to buy a pair of earrings or a pendant get lost and uninterested when they have to hunt (I know I do).

That first photo at the top of this post are 12 of my best selling glazes that I am going to offer to people buying finished jewelry as their palette to pick from.
The pieces are still working through the kiln, then to be photographed…
But soon - they will be up there.

Make things simple and impulse shopping friendly.

I am my ideal customer...

I may be your ideal customer too...

I love to shop for unique handmade items…

But don't make me work for it or I'll go buy something else.

You know - unless it is something I "have to have".

What kind of things are you doing to make your Etsy shop more desirable to shop?

Narrowing Down A Color Palette For Etsy

There are ways to look at ones business…

For me it has always been:

I make beads & pendants.

I sell these beads & pendants to people that make jewelry.

I sell things through bead shows, bead shops, and online shops.

I have a website that allows people to pick out their exact porcelain pendant by:

Texture, Shape & Size, and Color...

12 selected glaze color choices.

But things are not the same for me anymore.

I am not personally traveling to bead shows.

I work from home and can't be away from my two little ones for long…

(I become a miserable grump)

My pieces are still at shows through D7Studio

Which is my friend Darlene's business.

I sold her my bead show stock right after I had Chloe, and she made it her own…

You should see the stuff she carries!

Really - click to her blog to see where she will be next…

There are bead shops that still carry my pieces - if they have not closed up shop yet and gone online…

And as far as online resellers, there are a few…

So in the last two years I have really focused on my Etsy shop:

Selection of items in my Etsy shop.

I have taken, and retaken, and then taken more photos of my items.

Worked with a professional photographer, Katy Timney for better images of what my pieces look like finished and worn:

And so now from an outsiders point of view…

I like these, but would like them in another color.

What do you have to offer?

Right now it stands as:

Take a look at my other listings.

You know, the ones under porcelain pendants, shards…

Or maybe go outside Etsy to my website.

Search and find the pendants, then hopefully your computer/phone can download the flash (outdated) glaze color chart.

Oh, and I have new glazes - but they aren't there…

See the point?

Or rather - get lost in the point?

Customers that are there to buy a pair of earrings or a pendant get lost and uninterested when they have to hunt (I know I do).

That first photo at the top of this post are 12 of my best selling glazes that I am going to offer to people buying finished jewelry as their palette to pick from.
The pieces are still working through the kiln, then to be photographed…
But soon - they will be up there.

Make things simple and impulse shopping friendly.

I am my ideal customer...

I may be your ideal customer too...

I love to shop for unique handmade items…

But don't make me work for it or I'll go buy something else.

You know - unless it is something I "have to have".

What kind of things are you doing to make your Etsy shop more desirable to shop?

Leakers Spoilt the JailbreakMe 3.0 for iPad 2?

Apple might already patched the Jailbreak. Thanks to the useless Leakers as per veeence and MuscleNerd’s tweets today.
And beware... Don’t upgrade to 4.3.4 yet!
The Jailbreak solution must be at 4.3.3 at the moment. Time to save that 4.3.3 SHSH Blobs!