Stop the Spam

I have been active on twitter for a couple of months. I like interacting with other sellers, friends, etc. 

However, I have noticed that you have some people who will spam the hell out of you with their ads, from their Etsy shops, to their family members businesses, websites, etc. Don't get me wrong I have sent out tweets talking about items that I just listed to my shop or recent blog posts (lack there of), but that is only when I just listed the items or made the post, I don't twitter about it all day, everyday.

Some people take twittering their business to the extreme, with every single tweet being about their recently listed items, recently renewed items, ideas about how to sell more items, etc.  If you go to their homepage, they reply to no one, because they are twittering about their business. They appear to have no interest in other people, which defeats the purpose of Twitter.

You need to switch it up a bit, respond to people, send out random info about yourself, have fun with it. Be a human, not a business twittering robot.


Rant over.

Key
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I so want another job...

..but I know that finding a job right now would be very difficult to do. I like the people that I work for but, I am ready to have a job in my desired career field. You see, I work at a restaurant and sometimes you will have those customers that really piss you off and mess up your whole day. I should be use to it though, since all the jobs I've had has dealt with customers.

The fact that I am not working in the field I want to be in, has been really hard to deal with, to the point were I have been really bitchy to everyone and no one wants to be around me (yes it is that bad). I am working on changing my attitude and doing something that makes me happy.


Well, enough of my sad pathetic story.


Key

I am sorry

I apologize that I haven't been updating my blog everyday or every week for that matter. I have busy with school, work, and trying to promote my shop.

To hold you over enjoy this video.

Photo of the Day #1

I love photography. I will take a photo everyday and post it on the blog. You can join me if you like, just let me know if you want to participate and I will link your blog post. However, it can't be a photo of something you are selling. (too easy)

My niece Keanu

I Got a Feature!!

I have the pleasure of being featured on Osceola Pottery 's blog. This is the first time, that I have been featured on anything. yeeepee:)

She has a beautiful shop, take a look at some of her pottery:

Snow Day in HotLanta

It is SNOWED today!!!!!!!!

Ok, I am not that excited. I had to work, so I wasn't able to enjoy it much. However my niece, took it upon herself to get my brand new camera (hmmm) and take some pics.

It doesn't snow much in Georgia, but when it does (even a little) everything shuts down. If this happened on a weekday, a lot of schools and businesses would have closed. etc...

I could have had a day off from school. I hope is snows tomorrow. lol

Adventures in Oxidizing

I think it is important as a jewelry designer to learn new techniques. So, I decided that I wanted to try out oxidizing jewelry. I used the egg method, which in my opinion is easier then using liver of sulfur, but takes longer. Some people let their jewelry sit overnight, some wait a couple of hours.

Here's what I did:

Materials:
-2 eggs
-deep container (plastic or glass)
-string
-aluminum foil


Step 1:
Boil eggs

Step 2:
Get your container and tape string on either side



Step 3:
When the eggs are hard. Take the shells off and place the eggs in the container, use a fork to crush them. Take your jewelry and place them on the string. The cross pattern worked better for my pieces, because my earrings are big. If you have smaller pieces use more string across the opening.

*This is without the egg, I was trying it out.


Step 4:
Cover the container with aluminum foil, make sure you don't knock your pieces into the egg.


Step 5:
All you do now is wait. You can let it sit overnight, it's up to you.

After 2 hours...



I didn't want them that dark, so I buffed them a bit. Here's the finished product..

I hope that helped you. Remember this was my first time doing it, so...