Knit Bit Accident

So I'm going to start off by saying that if you aren't following Justin Moran's The Spidey Project yet... you should ;). And you should tell your friends. They've gotten a TON of press and rehearsals have started. Tickets will be FREE and you can buy them online!! They'v also been nominated for the 2011 INNY Awards!!  (feel free to vote for "Made Up Musical" in section 5, "The Spidey Project" in section 7, the Magnet Theater in section 10, The Pit or The Magnet Theater in section 14 (The PIT is where Spidey will be performed, the Magnet is where it will be rehearsed), The PIT again for section 15, The Magnet for section 16, and Armando Diaz for section 18... if you needed any suggestions ;-P)

And now for our regularly scheduled programming...

I'm going to attempt to be a little better at the blogging this week... we shall see. I was HOPING to put up a post today about my fabulous tea-cozie I knitted... except when I was done... well...

 

Fabulous Tea Cozie?

 

Or hospital-gown accident?

This one looks like it'll deserve a second attempt. Mind you - this is the 3rd tea-cozie I've attempted... and this is the closest I've gotten. I WILL get it one day! hahahaha


-Betsy

Hostess anyone?

After much looking... there appear to be no craft fairs this spring that I can apply to :(.
They're all either
a) too expensive
b) beyond the application date
c) too far away (and bad travel-timing)
d) on a "booked" weekend.

Pbthhhh.

SO, since I've been received well before... maybe I'll just stick with the Direct Sales approach. SomethingBetsy.com will officially now come to your Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Lia Sophia, Premier, Close-to-my-Heart, etc Parties... to show off her stuff and take orders as a side vendor! OR if you're feeling feisty, have a SomethingBetsy party. Why not, right? Invite some friends over, look at some pictures, and get yourself some photo-related goodies. Parties that reach $100 in sales will get free shipping to host for all customers, and the host/hostess gets 10% off their order! That's right - I said it.

Card Sets make fabulous hostess gifts by the way ;)

-Betsy

Hi again.

So I'm quickly learning, that I'm not very creative in the "titling" category.Oh well! It's been a bit since I've posted, so I figured I'd drop in and say hi again. Hence the post title.

My parents came to visit us this weekend and everyone  had a really good time! Dad is very impressed with the new camera, and we're working on switching over from my current server, to a more "Webmaster Friendly" version :-P. I got to be a side-vendor at another Pampered Chef show and was happy to fill a few orders!! YAY!  Next week: Premier Jewelry side vendor. I'm liking these direct-sales-partying-friends!

As far as SomethingBetsy stuff goes, I'm looking for a new virtual shopping cart. Pay Pal doesn't let you use coupon codes (and I know you all want coupons), and it doesn't allow for multiple shipping options :-/. So if anyone has any ideas... I'm GLAD to listen!  That, and working on a few other tweaks has been keeping me pretty busy, but on the to-do list is to find some spring craft shows in the area. All the ones that look good are REALLY far away :-/ and with bad timing for me to go :-/.

And because I'm bad of letting holiday's go... a dozen roses :-P Because they're STILL so beautiful!! (These are the Valentines Day flowers... that I took today!)

Don't forget to comment on ideas for the Recipe Calendar that will come out of the Tutorial (if you want to help me test the tutorial... give a shout too) AND, continue to check out Justin's Spidey-Project. They're getting ALL SORTS of press today!

-Betsy

Recipe Calendar

A while back (like, years? ago), I made a recipe calendar. It wasn't HARD, but it wasn't easy enough for me to make another one... yet. And I totally planned on it. I was 100% going to give one to my old neighbor before we moved... but... it didn't happen.

When I use my calendar, my days go like this: Wake up, check recipe behind today's date, pull meat out of freezer... go about my day. Put meat back in fridge after it's thawed later that day (sorry food police, I'd need to take my chicken breasts out 2 days early to thaw them in the fridge... which I suppose is easier with the calendar, but still not what happens). Dinner time? OH! Ok, pull out recipe, stick to magnet on my hood, chop/mix/cook/etc... DINNER! (around 6ish)

What happens when I DON'T use my calendar. Wake up, go about my day, some time between 2 and 4pm "crap! I forgot to defrost something!" - Throw something in a bowl of water, continue about day... "crap! I forgot to figure out what I was doing with _____" look in fridge, pull out whatever's left behind in there... mix it together into something we've probably eaten recently and dinner goes on the table around... 7:30. oops.

Why don't I spend the 30ish minutes at the beginning of the month figuring out my SUPER EASY TO USE calendar? I don't know. I think the holidays happened. That's what I'm blaming it on at least :-P

Needless to say, hubby dinged me on it last night... so I just sat down (with my lunch of chili and chips) and figured out dinners for the next 2 weeks. It should help significantly with the grocery shopping for the 2nd half of the month too... it's nice when you know what ingredients you need until the next time you go shopping (and what you can look for on sale ;-P)

It's always good to have a few recipes like these...

and a few cards like this...

And now that I'm done... this is what we're having for dinner tonight :)

I'm planning on making a tutorial in case you'd like to make one yourself! (and since this will require me to make a new one... I'll probably need to DO something with it. Comment with ideas ;-P) Some of my ideas are "hold a random entry giveaway" "Give it to your old neighbor silly goose!" and "Hold a 'why I should get it' Giveaway". Shoot me more! MORE I say!

Valentines Flowers!!

Last night was a little rough. 

I've been praying for a little over a year now for something 

(those close to me know what it is), 

and it felt REALLY far away last night. 

I didn't sleep well, and woke up in a foul mood, 

but dragged myself to the gym this morning for Yoga. 

Yoga helped, but let me tell you... 

...coming home to that 1-800-Flowers box on the front porch... 

put the biggest smile on my face. 

Not only did I get a bunch of roses...

But Calla Lilly's too :-P

And I got all excited... and got my click on with my new camera (and the 64GB of memory I got as my Valentine's present!). I got all the way to page 225 in the manual last night too... so much closer to having a handle on this camera!

And that makes me smile.

-Betsy

P.S. If it's in your inclination, I would gladly accept a few prayers for my sanity, comfort, and luck.  Oh! and P.P.S... don't forget to check out Justin's blog and pass along his video! 28 days...