AFK - wants

♥ I’m Feeling; meh
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; random office dribble
@; at work
Just need to get this posted already, wants below. 

As of NOV 1 I am calling a spending band D: sucks but I think will be better over all =.=; I have got to get some things done. 

I am attempting to get Dental, and I am plotting XMAS - trying to find the best option. Still undecided but working on it. I need to get Target paid off as they are evil and been charging a ton of interest, super disappointed on that so that is month goal.

Doing well on health, sorta ate bad yesterday but overall been good. Need to get some movement in but I hate exercise. Also tried to make my first jerky, we're see if it turned out. First taste was not that flavorful, so maybe I need to add more salt, I added none since salt = bad so might have to add some. 

I decided to start a new brand today, instead of trying to switch this one over. I plan to redo all my DIY and printable stuff. Trying to decide if I want to put up the printables for 1.00 on a website or what. I am leaning towards yes. I will be making this one private for myself only. I love blogging but no one needs to hear about my business all the time. It will help me vent. Sides I have been logging for like 3 years now, you can straight see the crazy come out of me. 

Been feeling better, I think the med up-age is working. Trying to be as productive as I can. Typically start to loose interest around 7ish at night. 

anyway below here is a want item list + current ebay needs D: yes needs. Its been a bit since I did a wish list on here so thought i'd share what I've been wanting

Monday - AFK

♥ I’m Feeling; Bleh - getting hungry for lunch
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; random office dribble
@; at work

Did a holiday haul yesterday D: cause I needed it. Spent about $50 at the dollar store, but aside from a few items (like cotton balls) I am good for the holiday. I might pick up a few small things here and there but I managed to nab most everything I needed. 

AFK - Christmas inspiration

This took longer than I thought - did it in paint vs Photoshop as I did it at lunch during work. @_@; was hard. Anyway, instead of just writing down what I want to make this holiday I gathered a bunch of my holiday pins to show off. I have a lot here, and I do not know if I will do them all but I love Christmas so we're see. I am already starting to gather items. 

1. Christmas Tree
2. Christmas Foam Tree 
3. Ornament Wreath(broken)
4. Peppermint Stand(no link)
5. Christmas lanterns
6. Picture Frame
7. Snowman Pompoms 
8. Ornament Quote Frame
9. Holday Wine Glasses
10. Paper Gingerbread House
11. Upcycled Advent Calender
12. Cinnamon Ornaments
13. Snowflake Popsicle Sticks
14. Window Clings
15. Bow on the Door
16. Table Tree(broken)
17. Light Decoration -
18. Joy Letters
19. Cookie Box
20. Glitter Reindeer
21. Mini Peppermints 
22. Straw Snowflake
23. Noodle Candy Piece
24. Cotton Ball Garland
25. Jingle Bell Frame

I did not plan it, but there are 25 of them :D funny. Anyway I for sure doing the mini tree, hanging light decore, ornament wreaf, the word Joy and shiny reindeer. The others are cute and on the list. If I do them exepct to hear of it and see a quick how to as well. The ones I listed seem easy enough. I want to do the tiny tree as I do not want to get a big one this year. I also love the light hanging garland, that is super cute. The wreaf is one I have been wanting to do for a few holidays now, so I will do that this year with my peppermint colors. I will probably put something cute in the middle. the word joy is too easy not to do, just gotta find a big jingle bell. Then the reindeer is just cut out of glitter paper. Easy. 

Here is to a great holiday! Only 65 days til Christmas :9

Ska

AFK - Wood Results

♥ I’m Feeling; bleh - head hurts
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; random music and office dribble
@; at work

Was writing an anime list - which probably isn't even all...and felt like I spent too much time on watching TV, was like damn that is way to many episodes and some of them I re-watched recently. Don't get me wrong I love anime but man was just adding that up slightly as I put series in there...

Anyway here is wood results

 

 

Just quick update. I like the designs but not the sizing and a few pieces were to small to come out. So will need to fix that. Also less like thick wood today, for whatever reason. Going to do some think next. 

Ska

Life List

A Life list I have come to believe is a list of things you want to accomplish in your lifetime. It was really hard for me as I had like two goals in life - graduate and move out of Oklahoma - which I succeeded at pretty quickly. 


Created: 10/15
Last Updated:

Things to See - Colorado
Go up a 14,000+ mt. (2015, September Pike's Peak)
Rock climb something
Go to a Bronco's Game
Go to a Rockie's Game
Camp in Rocky Mountains


Things to Accomplish
Graduate college(2011, Oklahoma State Uni)
Leave home state(2014, moved to Denver)
Settle in and build a life 
Get an MBA at a great school
Climb the corporate ladder at Fortune 500 company
Type 50 words a minute
Write a book
Become a published author
Learn another language
Own my own business
Earn $500/ month with side hustle


Things to See
North America
Aurora Borealis (Alaska)
Grand Canyon (Arizona)
White Desert(Arizona)
Redwood Forest (California)
Niagara Falls (New York)
Hoover Dam (Nevada/Arizona)
Go to Mardi Gras (New Orleans)
Olympics opening ceremony 
A World series
Cherry Blossom Rush(Washington D.C.)
Visit The White House, again (did as a child)
Go to Disney World(Florida)

South America
Head Statues on Easter Island (Chile – Easter Island)
Machu Picchu (Peru – Machu Picchu)
Iguazu Falls (Argentina)
Go to Carnival (Brazil – Rio de Janeiro)

Australia
Sydney Opera House (Australia – Sydney)

Europe
Acropolis (Greece – Athens)
Eiffel Tower (France – Paris)
Colosseum (Italy – Rome)
Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany – Schwangau)
Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland or Germany)
Stay in the ice hotel
Travel to Capri, Italy
Explore the French Rivera
Explore Greece

Asia
Great Wall of China (China)
Forbidden City (China – Beijing)
Taj Mahal (India – Agra)
Mount Everest (Nepal)

Africa
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt – Cairo)



Things to Try
Snowmobiling
Hang gliding
Get hypnotized
Sky diving
SCUBA diving
Dive in a submarine
Try out a professional massage
Fly in a helicopter
Go white water river rafting
Fly in a hot air balloon and blimp
Go to a TED conference
Go on a major cruise
Make a parachute jump
Go dog sledding



A few bottom notes - I am not super religious, nor do I want children. So these items are a bit left off on my personal goal list. I created this list after googling around and finding a few other list. I will probably add to it as I go, specially if we move states again. 

AFK updates continue

♥ I’m Feeling; excited
♥ Eating; DP Dough
♥ Listening; misc music around office
@; at work

woo the AFK stuff continues. Found a picture of my Halloween haul, i spent about $35 if I recall correctly. I love all of them D: I love Halloween. I nabbed a few cupcake liners for work too - as making the sweet stuff at work, then also the cheap aluminum foil to make some horns for a costume. 

Then here a finished shot of the some of the wood I had done; the controllers look great. I literally stole these off Instagram D: anyway I love them and the best part is the wood smells so good :9

 

Super happy with how this turned out, going to try staining the middle and back sections eventually. First of its kind but not the last >) I ordered a few more pieces to try out in the thick as well. I am thinking these would be great for Christmas, this one is for mum. I love it. I am actually going to hit up Micheal's today to get a small amount of stain to practice on some test pieces for. I think stain would be best vs acrylic to keep the wood feels. Going to test both though.

And finally the latest order. Giraffe is for me. hell all of them are for me. Except the penguin. That is for Taci. I really hope they turn out good. This is thick wood, which I liked how it smelt and felt better vs the thin, but I am limited with the dimensions. I plan to list the controllers and such. I will see.

Macaroons for test, waffle heart cause I had an idea and wanted to see if it was cute. Mustache cause YES and holiday cause its getting close. I though the origami crane was niffy too, giraffe is my favorite animal so I needed it. Zombie piece was a test, shield I needed D: then gift for Taci. If they turn out well, I will do some more scene pendants. I like those. 

I also wanna do ornaments for family I think. Still pondering. 

 I have so much to do to catch up, I have been adding things to the todo list like crazy. I plan to put all my templates on Pinterst D: and some finished stuff as well. I want to retake all my shop pics and list my de-stash stuff on ebay instead. AND I want to figure out the flipping silhouette machine. I will get that figured out dammit. I want to do so some flake stickers too - but I am unsure still. I want to do planner sets T_T but I can never get the machine to work. Still a goal. Feels good to be getting things checked off a list again, I have been so lazy =.=;; which again don't get me wrong sometimes we need to just netflix and chill, but I could never live that way. I'd go insane eventually. 

Feeling excited and motivated. w00t. Okay back to work, lunch over D:

❥Ska

AFK Updates and dusting off blogger

♥ I’m Feeling; tired
♥ Eating; notta
♥ Listening; hold music
@; at work

Welp! After a few months on word press, I decided I much prefer blogger I have decided. =C What can I say I love google =.=; take my money...

My domain will expire soon I think, and while I technically have the space until FEB I am going to go ahead and move back home. *snuggles blogger* I moved all the post over, need to clean em up and upload proper images, but just some general cleaning. I also want to redo the layout, as its so simple and its simply because I am lazy. So many of my friends use custom ones I should as well. 

So for the entire month of SEPT I was a lazy bum. I seriously did not do anything productive. I think I did laundry once, and I did not cook really either, did some ramen nights....I just sorta came home, chilled and such, *cough* Denver has been a bad influence on me. Don't get me wrong it was a great month but I feel better checking things off a list than just hanging out on the couch. I was sorta lost anyway, I hated starting over on word press and I missed blogger, even if the hits are possibly off, I enjoy knowing a few people get them. WP was just as bad however, I got over 1000 messages a week that were spam sales comments. 

So after much thought and pondering I am just coming back as is, update a few things and keep on trucking. I am still into the same stuff. I didn't craft all SEPT either. I had stuff I wanted to do in OCT but I never got around to it. I just didn't feel like it. I ended up 'splurging' on dollar store items and it turned out cute either way. I did get a few more items and I am testing Ikea furniture for myself now too. 

items I added to 
collection:
 & 
Had to own these, of course. Waiting on second set still. Gotta find a shelf to display these on still. I very much adore the first set so far.


 

Actually sold the farther two, just wanted the SM ones D: now I have all her wants *0* 




Mildly happy with these, the back was engraved wrong but they are made from China and are not official anyway, they are great quality overall though. I advised the user that they were off, but I do not know if they will fix or even if they can.



Love these guys too, I am loving the new SM items. I did not want the big versions for whatever reason but these cute chibi versions are adorable. 

I am sure I picked up some cute stuff. I'll dig around for any haul pics I took. There are so many more items I want as well. I have a large Aliexpress cart going for end of week pay check. Excited for that, I'll post it once I get it actually ordered. 

Okay that's a start, will start cleaning and putting info into pages after work.
Ska

AFK Update - wood designs

♥ I’m Feeling – Anxious for the day to end
♥ Eating – Notta
♥ Drinking – Water
♥ Listening – various music
Cannot wait for the day to end, its technically my Friday~ as I am off tomorrow and SAT and then work at Target on SUN. Super excited. We are planning to head to CO Springs this weekend to do some site seeing, its one of the few places we have not gone as of yet. We were saving it for a weekend type trip. So we could hit a lot.
I do not think I posted my designs before for the wood pieces in this post. So here is the digital version, you can see what I was doing and such. I want to get some silicone mold stuff today if I can. I plan to make molds of some of them. I did thick pieces for a reason :3

I love the Tamogatchi, wanted to do my own design for that. I love my new bat, I did a new drip top on the thin below. I also did thick bones for fun and a PS controller, I am unsure if it will turn out good in the mold though. Wings are pretty basic and did a coffin for fun too. The moon I plan to do a mold of as well. Pretty excited with them all really.
I just ordered these this last week too
These are MUCH thinner, about half. I did a pendant for my mom, hoping it turns out really well for XMAS :D if so I will do one for my Dad as well. Did some paws, cause why not. The usual items. Added in a bat, which I just noticed I forgot the smile on, opps, and my cookies finally! I am super excited to do those. I hope all of them turn out well. I probably won't see them until a week or so :( I haven't even paid for em yet. My fablab is behind sadly, so I hope I get them before too long!

That is about all,  need to do a Haul video D: I been shopping again. Tryin to get about 60 bucks worth of collectibles on Ebay each month.

Defining Success

This is a little different than a usual post, but it is something that I think about every once in awhile. I think we all do. I struggle with this and I am not alone I know, but success is so hard to define and feel like we achieve. Life is just sticky and hard in general, so I tend to over evaluate it. 🎊
For the longest time, I defined success ✨ as getting out of my home state, which I did 🎉. Once I was in Denver I was still kinda blah so I have been trying to figure out the next goal(s). I keep an eye on productivity subs and if you browse these you get a lot of the same items pushed over and over. Get up early, get enough sleep, exercise, etc
I decided to nab my favorite tips while working on my own. My favorite overall is think like a gardener - i.e. plan ahead, as gardeners plan seasons ahead to get the best from their crops, so should you plan months ahead. In some cases that may mean just doing the best you can now, in others is good to think seasons ahead. I am really frugal and I start planning holidays very far in advance. You can get great deals after a season, super before and if you save properly you can get what you want easier. Retail taught me that. By the time people want a Christmas tree, the best ones are gone. Its always better to think ahead. ✨
The next one I always get lip on, some people annoy the heck out of me. If you do not know something - Ask questions. I hate this one because there are many people who just grumble if you ask them something if you do not know. Which is super annoying, but it is still better to ask than to do it twice, or worse. This goes hand in hand with Immersion learning - which is basically dumping you in the middle of nowhere and having the person learn as they go and by need. I hate this method. I loved school and learning in a classroom. I do not like being thrown in the pond to learn to swim. They say it brings about success, but I find it very annoying. This is one of those things however, you need to PUSH through. Even though its hard, struggle is good for us and you probably do learn by need faster. Even if its more frustrating. Always 💫 keep learning.
Next, it seems you need to do some soul-searching. 😰 This is pretty basic, but on a less cliche level, I do think just sitting around and daydreaming helps. I spend more time than I should playing minecraft. I love that game, it really is a stress reliever. I make a new game almost every day and just play for a few hours or so to relax or if I am really out of it. We are in an apartment but I also use to just lay around outside. I love grass and just laying in it and relaxing is great. I think however you do it, you need to take time to de-stress and relax and you will feel better and more clear headed. I also do Yoga but it kicks my butt still, so not super relaxing.
Another item I see a lot is to have Integrity. To this means you should stand for something, and try to keep it. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes but you should kinda know where you stand on issues. Not to say it may not change with more information but trying to be the best person and having a good solid mantra is always good. This goes hand in hand with Grow your network and remove weeds. This essentially means to cut the people in your life, or habits or anything else, out that are actually hindering you from growing. This is probably harder for more people than anything else. Its hard to break habits, or say I should not hang out with this person any more. I have trouble doing the opposite, I am terrible at networking. I am not sure why. I am friendly but I have never sought out people for company. As a result I am happy alone or with few friends, which works for me, but is bad for growing your network. I really have to work at it to introduce myself to people and, well honestly, care. Its not that I do not, its just I like my life and am comfortable. Again I have to PUSH through that and try to get more people interested in me and my ideas. Its hard. But do able.
Next, I see this a lot and I am not sure what I think of it - Make a decision and take massive action. This one I DO understand, but I am not sure I like it 😒 . Decisions made today are better than one made never, I get that. However I like to take small actions resulting in a larger long term goal. Essentially this means if you tweak something, perfect it, etc it will never be as good as you see in your head, and if you had just released it or done it, it would have probably been fine and you could have gotten feedback and improved it faster. I get this but I am unsure in practice.
Finally, Track your progress. 😞 Der. If you do not have a goal, you cannot track your progress. So starting with a goal, its good to set smaller goals as needed, and track where you are on reaching that main goal. There are SO many sites that promote rewards and tracking. I am playing with Coach.me right now. I also like the concept of the RPG style one. This would be great with kids. You could even make your own based on the same principals - rewards for goals reached, exp for smaller goals and 'drop' rewards for random achievements. I can imagine making this would be really fun. For me I keep to-dos on a daily basis, and have a monthly goal(s) as needed. I do not have a longer term goal as of yet since I am still soul searching for what I would.
I would say I would love to be a blogger all day, do art when I want and make plenty of money to do it and stay home. However I know myself and I do not think I would be happy in the house all day. I think I need a combination work/love in my life. I would like to do that work as retail at decent pay and the other love half as blogging and art. I think that would be more ideal. When I was a kid I liked the idea of being a writer, but I do not know if I could do that. Star was on the list as well, so I do not think those are super realistic. 😶 Life is finding out after all. ❤

AFK Update

♥ I'm Feeling - Bleh
♥ Eating - Notta
♥ Drinking - Water
♥ Listening - on Phone for work
Been so busy lately, and out of it blog wise. Kinda depressed but just the normal every once in awhile happens. Just wanted to do a quick AFK update~
I been buying and making planner related items, and such. And I ordered some wooden laser cut items to see how they turn out. We got a new house item too :3 and started paying off items now that Josh is more regular for work.

From Ebay I got some really cute Rilakkuma Market pens, a pencil case, crown pens, adorable phone/keychains from CCS and SM, a scissor blade key chain for Josh, a bag for my planner supplies (love it!), macaroon case (wish I had gotten them from Aliexpress instead!). Still waiting on the Scissor blade, but should have it soon. I've been adding more and more keychain/gumball figure collections to the list. Need to get a shelf, loving those collectibles. I also nabbed some more SM items - the tablet/mint cases. A new set is coming out soon and I wanted to nab it while I could before it shot up. I am loving those items.



From Amazon I ordered A4 paper for planner - I will be selling this too as it was a PAIN IN THE ASS to find D: so I plan to put up sets of 100 on my cartel site, just blank, for like 3$. Maybe less, I'll do a some math and see how long it takes me to cut them.

I ordered wooden pieces from OutFab . I did a variety of designs, I wanted to try to use them to make molds, so these are thicker. I wanted to see their size/shapes before I make another set. I plan to do my biscuits next. I am excited to that in the wood. Feels kinda hipster-ey but I like ho wits coming.



I also purchased some laminate and a bunch of card stock at Michael's, was on a great sale, for the Silhouette machine. Loving that. Still trying to master it but I am enjoying it. I had trouble with the stickers so I will probably need some more time on that.



Work is going okay, had an allergic reaction to something recently and it was terrible so I missed a day and half. Overall it has been getting insanely busy but we recently hired another girl and such so catching up finally. I did not order a sub box this July. Was just too busy to get it in. I was kinda haitus-ey so I didn't worry about it. I need to do so much catch up which I am finally feeling up to. I was still thinking of splitting sections up even more - I feel so clustered and all over the place. I mean I am but blah I feel like it should be better, so thinking on that! I was thinking of separating the brand from the blog. If that makes sense. Got a lot to do to catch up but I am hoping to stay motivated to do it!
edit - After reviewing and trying, Godaddy (currently using) makes it nearly impossible to set up new accounts, which sucks. However I am not here forever so I may switch later on but for now I will leave it alone ><; at least for now. As it gave me a headache trying to figure it out.

AFK June Post

Time for a AFK Update. I cannot believe I feel decent today, I got like 3 hours sleep. We got a drone over the weekend, in addition to family around, and we played FFXIV until 4 AM. I theoretically should be dead but doing okay. I am sure I will pass out later instead of being productive. Getting closer to lvl 50 though, I really want to play heavenward D:
Sorry for the MIA - my mother and brother came up this last week to visit and it was sort of planned but with my family until the hotel is paid for I do not believe them. It was really nice though, they of course wanted to visit the medical shops, Ikea and the mountains of course. Also went up to the Arsenal which is a great place to see wildlife and just get out of the city.
Anyway, craft wise, I did get a Silhouette machine however I do not like it =X I am having issues getting it to cut how I want, etc so we will see. I will keep playing with it. I got the smaller version since it does the same principle stuff, just 8x11 instead of 12x12. I can live with that. Want to try making paper cuts as well, and have not done that as of yet. Mainly for the stickers I am having issues getting them lined up correctly. ALSO the mat is so sticky paper is stuck to it. I am still hopeful I will get it, just sad it was not instant.
As for my artwork, I will be working with wood soon :D I was super excited, then I started googling and got sad D: as so many are already done and so amazingly how could I do anything worth it?! But I decided I did not care as I needed to do them for me, not for others. So I am focusing on some fun designs and I will probably only do 1 of each, more if I want one. I want to try to make a box too, and possibly a stand up figure. I want to mix it with the acrylic too, and I want to use the thicker to make original designs to mold.
I also got in my blue A5 which I have been playing with. I made a chocolate set of calendar available in the planner shop I made on Big Cartel - and I am working on a plain set. I did not like how busy the chocolate was for me, so I tried a plain set instead. I like it pretty well so far. Still experimenting on a week set and a daily. I am not sad about it but I am not liking the file system so much - I hate taking out the papers to write on them. HOWEVER I knew this would be me, and I was prepped for it. I am forcing myself to try, as it is reusable and I like the format. I looked at the Happy Planner and Erin Condern too - EC is kinda costly right now T_T I did not pay a ton for the blue A5 book, as its not a brand, so I am trying it first to see if I like it. I love how it looks, I just find the functionalism of it off.
I typically try to stay away from work comments as I do not like to comment about the business and I do not wish to step on anyone's foot but lately work has been BLEH, somewhat dull with many little things. Not a bad place or job just overly busy and unable to complete things as I would like. I have been taking a new approach, and scheduling things in work brackets. For example, today I am doing warranties 2 - 4 PM, then 4 - 5 I plan to work on an audit. If I get done early with warranties I can squeeze in more audit but I will not be done with that anytime soon. I had a nightmare the other day about meetings. I hate meetings, I feel like like are useless, for the most part. I remember when Joe had them and there was 4 of us. I was like really. really. That is how I feel with some of the meetings I go to now. Some are needed, I agree but at some point being in meetings all day is just BLEH and I would rather focus on work.
I am also trying a low carb diet, which a carb is everything you basically eat. Its very hard, I am getting through but I am unsure if I am doing good as I cannot find enough non carbs to eat (less calories) or actually low carb is working. Either way I am not feeling bad about it just finding it hard to eat. I get to ear all the meats though. And cheese, thank God.
Overall I would say I feel really really over whelmed. I like having a consistent schedule, I love it. It allows me to plan stuff out better. I need to just take one thing at a time, I know. I want to do these art projects, level my FFXIV up and also continue to blog and design! Its been a busy busy month. Its hard to believe its already July. I am bad at putting in my schedule time blocks for things. I use a egg timer when I play minecraft and such so I keep track of time, and sometimes when I am doing chores but its hard to plan things so consistently.
Either way a busy life is a full life so at least that is all good! Its better to be able to do all these things than none.
Luff <3

Hiking Goals

Part of the reason we moved here was to get outdoors and do stuff! That means getting my chubby butt up mountains :3 I will be keeping track of the hikes here, and updating it periodically, kinda like the life list but purely for Colorado area hikes. I use Mapmyrun.com to track the miles and such, and I am working to do the Manitou Incline sometime this year!(2015) . Also I have a harder time altitude still, so that maybe a factor later on.

Please feel free to suggest any as well! I get most of them via frien ds anyway.
Castle Rock - Rock Park - 1.33 Miles
Sucked, been a few weeks since we did anything active and I pretty sure I bitched the entire way up this small hill. Either way reached the top felt great and go us :3 onto the next mountain to climb over! Crap cell picture from the top

Reads - Why I chose wordpress

So it is official now, I am on my own domain using Wordpress to make post. I just wanted to do a quick why I decided to do this, and hopefully long term it will pay for itself.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/wordpress-vs-blogger-which-one-is-better-pros-and-cons/

I Own It
So first, I love google, but its nice to own your post, content and ideas. Since what this means essentially is at the will of Google, they could remove my site. Mind you its very rare and I doubt my site would, but you never know.
With Wordpress, I own the domain - shouho.net now and I just installed Wordpress for the ease of use and bam - I am back up and running. It was not too difficult to move post over, I used a plugin and then did some manual fixing. It was not too bad and I am good with it now. I might make some changes in the future but overall I feel good about the move.

Easy to Install
Again, super easy to install on my domain. I would have totally done a blogger one if Google had it - but sadly they only offer the option of free hosting on their domain and linking it to my domain. Blogger pretty huge so if they ever work on it, I would totally revisit this thought.

Easy to Customize
I did not buy a custom theme, as of yet but I do not enough HTML to make this look decent. I changed the widths and text on things, colors, etc. I still would like to put an image on the top as well, I can do that eventually here. I think part of investing in a personal domain is investing in how you WANT the website to actually look and feel, and I want it to feel easy to navigate, like people will come here to get templates and maybe read reviews.
Wordpress offers an amazing selection of free and cheap as well as custom themes to pick from. If you are using blogger you know it can be difficult to customize, without the sha-bang of knowing HTML and doing it all by hand. Even then it was difficult to understand the coding and layout styles. Anyway, wordpress is very user friendly and I taught myself in about a day at my previous job. It's very basic, and similar to live journal formatting.

Plugins / SEO Control
So with blogger google has a massive amount of cred on its own search engine and it auto locations your stuff (SEO) for you. Which is great. I can still search for stuff on there pretty easily, which is why I left the blogger up. However I can customize and optimize it using my own SEO tools and plugins for every search engine, although everyone should use Google. I think this will be handy going forward, as I like the ability to view it and customize it.

Simple Content Management System
I considered separating post out by topic since, to be honest, I am all over the place with interest. BUT I am not here to make money with my blog, only the art portion of what I do. I could sell my freebies, and one day I might list them one day in the planner stuff. However I like make them available free for the moment and I think its one of the best and funner things on here to go get.

With Wordpress I can add more pages and sort them in the menu to reflect better upon their topic. The category system here is similar to blogger however because I try to link every post in their own page of content - it makes finding things easier. Of over 280+ post, you can find the top 10 projects easy this way. Find exactly what you want quicker than sorting through post via categories. Man I hope that made sense, it makes it so much easier to have real pages and content labels!

So as you can see, I am pretty happy with overall switching. Yes it was a good amount of cost, but I think I like the formatting better, the ease of use and the way I can add in items and such. The biggest thing I liked with blogger is it allowed me to auto cross post to FB and schedule the post in advance - as I try to make a few weeks worth in case I get busy/etc at a time. I also like being able to do DIY projects whenever I feel like it - and plan ahead. I would like to add videos in the future, maybe I am still unsure if I would like that but it would be a great add in medium. Either way, I hope this to be a successful move and help me write/blog better and more often in a manner people will return to see!

May AFK Post

This month has been fabulous to me. I was sick for a week but nothing I did not live with. Lets look at the Calender!



I did not even bother to remove the bills. I live in Denver - its flippin' expensive here. Anyway! This month was great :3 Josh got his new job, w00t, I got Mirena - still loving it I personally even feel less moody, went to the history museum with Celine on the free day, she gets to to France on the 22nd too - I finally put in for leave for Target for a few months. Figured since friends were out I would too for a bit.

Was sick for a while D: but allergies have been terrible this year. You can also see I put in blog post, I plan to do a 'planning' video for July, not June as I am already have that prepped. I am so excited for the new Erin Condren planners being released then, I am watching closing as I want one, in FOIL if I can get it. I already did a prep order so I should get that soon. I will review and such when I get it. I picked it over the leather ones as it has more features I like for the price. I really cannot wait to get to it. I picked up some planning items at Micheal's too. I really wanted some water color brush pens, but they did not have.
  
I am digging the color teal lately, so I picked that set. I was surprise they had a small planning section but they have their own life planners - which were not bad but I think I will wait to see the other ones first.

Over all I would say this month was great, it feels like this year is flying by D: moved the website, getting comfortable with new job - and quit target. Josh got new job and should be getting back on track. I am sad we may see each other less, but it will be worth it if we can get back on track money wise and still enjoy the area best we can.

Next month my goals are to get more surprise boxes, I love getting them. Take more pictures, such as DIYs and templates I build for you. Get a silhouette machine if I can! - I want one so bad. Upadte my shirt sites I really need to work on those, finally have more free time. DRAW as I am a lazy pain in the ass.

So far the new posting has been good, I may slow it down next month, I am finding it hard to squeeze in DIYs just because of time they can take and getting the items. There is seriously not enough time in the day. I've done the math there isn't. Anyway!
Happy June!

AFK - April

♥ I'm Feeling @Grumpy 

♥ Eating @notta

♥ Drinking @Water

♥ Listening @Pandora - FF Radio

Josh keeps trying to convert me to Spotify D: 

Currently 4/23 but bleh~ I wish it was Friday D: going to be a good weekend. I do not work at all. We have a party thing for work on FRI night and its a free museum weekend as well! So should be good.

I am okay with work still, not loving it but honestly atm I am frumpy anyway, I get new BC on May 1st so I am just waiting Nuvaring out til then. I hope it works out then I would not have to think about it for a few years. 

Doing well on redbubble this month, super happy on that. I super need to make some more designs on that. I am also going to add in some new post types - Plan with me and possibly a favorites of the month post. I do not try out a new product a lot but I could get behind doing some. I also thinking of adding in some Geocaching, trying to think on that. Now that weekends will be free I want to try to get out there more hiking like we wanted. 

Otherwise not a lot going on. Plotting in the back of my head when I can and such. I really want to get the silhouette machine too. I've always wanted one anyway, but I love what it can do with the stickers and such. 

I work tonight and I am so tired but I want to go see everyone. I hope I don't cashier I would rather do services but I doubt I do tonight since they are training people. bleh.

AFK Update

♥ I'm Feeling @Better

♥ Eating @notta

♥ Drinking @Water

♥ Listening @Notta

at work, waiting for Scans atm. 

Very much enjoying new job. Its not hard or entertaining as of yet, but its better than retail by far D: let me just reveal in this.

Weekend was a bust, but got better on Monday so I could start new position. Target is sad but I really rather have more monies. Hopefully this will work 100%! :D

As for crafty things, need to record my resins and such so I can give them out. I like how must turned out, some I think I messed up the formula and they are soft, but not bad for a first try and go around. For April I am planning DIY boxes cause I like them and recipes! I want to try some of the healthy ones I found.

Gardening was a bust. I suck at it or the seeds I got were not good. I plan to pick up basil somewhere already partly grown, at the very least since it is the main one I want. 

Nothing else going on but try to add an AFK once in a while just as a update to me D: just working, crafting when I can and shifting to new job at the moment
Ska

Glimpse into my life

♥ I'm Feeling @Great

♥ Eating @notta

♥ Drinking @Water

♥ Listening @Zelda Theme Music - Share

Been having a great couple of weeks. Still no job, sadly but at least Target does pay the bills. I got all my Space items ready to post in March - Cannot wait! I am waiting on Mermaid pieces but I should have those soon. I got all my ball necklaces in so they are all standard now. 

 

some teasers

I was not able to get into the Anime Wasabi group, sadly but I plan to go at least SAT some time and walk around with cards/items on to maybe get any conversations going. I also want to see the artist alley. Check their page here - http://animelandwasabi.com/

We are also planning to hit the Mall and a job convention that day as well. I took off the weekend already so that worked out. Doing OK on money but would love Josh to get that job D: will be getting very poor by end of April. 

I have a couple more things I need to get ready but still staying on top of blog things. I am so proud D: Josh got me an Iphone 4 from his parents so I can now update more, we also combined our plans so I have a little more wiggle room. Updating Instagram and FB with as much as possible. 

This week Redbubble added leggings! I am so excited, they cost a ton tho! D: but I always wanted to do some like Holley Tea Time/etc so I started posting up ideas already. I mostly had these in my head as I wish I owned them D: so yeah. More to come. I want to do a galaxy one and a macaroon one as well. Exciting.

  

I did a bow garland for spring, which will be up next week as well as March's box calender. I WANT to do videos of my drawing characters, need to get back into that - but I am not sure what software that would be...

Some blog post ideas for March I have are

Update on my Garden *which atm is dying D: I am so a bad gardener*

Spring Cleaning!

How I blog - my process

Healthy recipe - veggie soup! *back on diet*

I want to get back in to Resin, so I am in testing stages there

DIY chapstick needs to get up and going

I want to try bathbombs too, I friggin love those

Various DIY boxes

DIY bow garland as mentioned

March CAL next week

Opening vid on Mermaid when I get them

I need to do a What I bought post too

Also if you noticed, I changed layout, still working on it D: I want to add followers and such but I cannot find it ><; its kinda hard. I am so better at coding by hand >>; I think that is all really. We are going hiking on Friday this week (writing in advance again, 2/20) and I am off on SAT so I will probably get to writing those post then. Got all my usual chores done so far - laundry, etc

Oh I plan to do a massive Garage sell in March if I can D: I am hoping to sell everything online I can and then I donno maybe post on craigslist after. I need to clean out this room ><;

♥ Ska