New Stores "CUPCAKE SOCIAL"

First Iwould like to say this is why Etsy sucks....because it sucks all your money before you even make a sale. herre is what I paid this month Total payments: $117.03 BOOOOOOOOO!
Anyway on to more positive things :) I just opened a new Etsy and Art Fire store called "Cupcake Social" Obviously selling things having to do with cupcakes. I finally invested in a scale to weigh my packages accuratly so I can ship more things from home. Unfortunatly things have been going from at the post office so if I ship with tracking at least there will be some record of it. My buddy at the post office tells me they are doing alot of lay offs and things are backing up and getting delayed. I had a recent package take over a month to get to its owner which is a little crazy. Another one got lost, I think, I sent her another one which she should have gotten but she is probably so mad at me. It sucks that it makes me look bad when the packages go through so many hands before it actually gets delivered. Did you hear about the post lady that got a storage locker to put all the mail she was supposed to deliver in....She forgot to pay the storage fee 1 month and they opned it up and found thousands of undelivered letters and packages! I think it was like Indiana or something. That sucks! AANYWAY I am totally excited about the cupcake store. I am planning a cupcake decorating party on sunday with my friends to test all the products and take cool photos to list online. So here are a few pics- we got the mini pink danish baking cups with shiny gold designs, There are one of my favorites- Pink floral shabby sheik cupcake liners and then super cute red, blue and orange swirl cupcake liners!

www.CupcakeSocial.artfire.com

www.cupcakesocial.etsy.com

Of course I prefer the artfire store...NO FEES!!

New Cards

I got new "Mini" cards today. I love them. I stumbled onto this website and found how EASY it was to design my own cards by bringing my photos from my Flickr account. It seriously took 5 minutes! You get 100 in a cute little box, and you can pick as many photos as you want- you could have 100 different cards in 1 box if you want. They are great quality too. Seriously so awesome. I am already looking forward to getting more.....for my next online store. That's right. I have another project in the works. Coming soon to Etsy and Artfire :) In the meantime, I have a huge update to Truly Outrageous I am doing within the next few days. Sorry it's been awhile since I wrote but I had sorta a rough week.

NEW hand painted safety eyes

PLAID! you can purchase them only on my artfire shop. I don't know if I really want to part with them..oh well- I can make more!

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who helped me out at the Shop,Rock, and Roll craft fair. And thank you to everyone who bought stuff, or traded with me :) I am very thankful for making a profit because to tell you the truth, it was pretty empty. It was fun all in all. anyway I want to take this time to share with you a picture of my plush bear I am going to "drop" in philly this weekend. I joined "the Toy Society" for christmas, for more info- look at their site...
http://thetoysociety.blogspot.com
So if you see him hanging from a fence by the playground...take him home, he's all yours :)

CONTEST ~ WIN A CUTE AMIGURUMI OWL!

HI Everybody :)
SO I am doing my first blog contest. I am trying to think of ways to increase sales and promote my site but also I want to give something away for FREE because I will soon be welcoming a baby boy into our family. My due date is only a few days away and I am getting anxious.
SO if you would like to enter the contest- all you have to do is comment on this posting, I will then pull a name out of hat. Make sure you leave your email address so I can contact you.
ALSO who ever wins will get a custom made owl. You get to pick the colors and everything.
also- I want to limit it to people living in usa and canada only..sorry.
Thank you for looking at my little blog, and I hope everyone has a great time being crafty in their lives :)
contest will be over 10-10-08 to coincide with the sale I am having on my ETSY.com store

My new Zombie bear

new amigurumi

Here some new little guys. A bunny, a kitty, and a puppy modeled after my crazy little jack russell, Vegas.
There is Vegas in the picture up top, with Mike Barone on his B-day and Regan :)

What a cute Zombie

Here is the little zombie I made. I love him! He is from a pattern I bought off of www.needlenoodles.etsy.com The pattern is from a series of patterns called "the undead" They are the cutest little things EVER. I have only been doing this for like 2 months. HA don't listen to me. I am still gonna make all the little guys anyway, they are the CUTEST!! And the patterns have great detailed pictures to follow.