questions

So, I am sitting here at a Starbucks in Oceanside trying to figure out what I am going to do with this blog, as well as Attribute. Tomorrow I plan on buying a domain name, in hopes making things a little more legit. I tried to play with iWeb today, but I just can't find a template that I really like. I wish that program allowed its users to be a little more creative. Maybe I just haven't figured it out fully yet though.

I have so many questions I need to figure out and answer for myself. Do I want just a blog as my website? That seems to be popular these days in the craft world. Or do I want a full website with a simple blog to compliment it?

I really wish I could figure out how to be more creative with iWeb. I used to be so good with websites many years ago, but I have lost my spark with HTML since then. I wish the interweb was like my sewing machine. I am decent with that now.

meet matt

Meet Matt. We met while taking poetry at Cal State Long Beach. We rarely update our blogs.

That is how he used to look, but since graduation, he has been causing chaos on the mean streets of Orange County.

Being the crime fighter that I am, I must save the world one Matt villain at a time.

So, now he is back to the original Matt I met years ago...

...and his thumbs up are still better than mine. However, his glasses are not.

out with the old

I was determined to get a new computer. I was so tired of my Dell, and I could never do what I wanted easily with it. I never wanted to admit it, but I secretly knew Mac was the way to go. So, there I was, tax refund in hand, I headed down to the Apple Store in Fashion Valley. My mom and my buddy, Tommy, met me there and together I purchased my very first Macbook. Now I can do stuff like this:

And this!

 

This too!

xoxo angela.

the little shop that could

Well, I decided to do something new for my online store that gets very little traffic...

Free shipping for the month of March! Yay!

lent

Hopefully it is not too late to do something for Lent. I decided last minute, just now, that I will update my blog every day of Lent. Who says you need to give something up? Why not just add some goodness into your life? I will start with my blog.

Done and done.

a new crop - i'm so proud

I got down to business for a few hours this afternoon and I made a whole new crop of feather hair clips. These might be my favorites thus far.


And here are two that got me in a somewhat Valentine's Day spirit... even though I have mixed feelings for that so-called holiday.


For some reason, I find the oddest (and sometimes awkward) work spaces for myself. This time around, I have been using a plastic tub of old VHS tapes.

sunny 80 degrees to raining buckets

The weather was unbelievably hot yesterday, and today... it poured rain all afternoon and evening. I took this perfect opportunity to stay inside and do a little cooking and crafting. I made more feather clips and headbands. I even listed two of them on my etsy! Unbelievable.

crybaby

Until this week, I think the last movie I saw was Twilight during Thanksgiving week. This week I have see Gran Torino and Bride Wars. By the end of Gran Torino, I was completely sobbing in my chair. My friends looked at me like I was crazy, but that was the saddest movie I have seen in forever. And, c'mon, Clint Eastwood is always amazing. That flick made me remember how much I love going to the cinema to enter some one's creative vision and world.

Bride Wars, on the other hand, was definitely cute... but not typically what I would venture out to see. My friend really wanted to see it, and I can't pass up another outing to the movie theatre. There I was, by the end of the movie, with glassy wet eyes. Why do the craziest of movie keep driving me to tears.

I am silly.

no background necessary

I thought and thought about what I just did not like about this blog. It had to be the background image, or lack there of. So, I spent the past hour watching 90210 while creating a simple background image for this blog. It was light brown with a crosshatch pattern in it and completely horrid once I saw it on the blog.

Alas, we continue to have no background image. Then it hit me: what this blog is missing is frequent posts.

In other news, I can't stop thinking about the most delicious salad I ate at The Living Room in La Jolla this afternoon.

late night starbucks run for internet

This lack of Internet is killing me. However, working under the green apron (Starbucks) has its perks-- free Internet.

I am all moved into the new house in Spring Valley. I just need a few more shelves and I can start getting back to creating! The whole reason I moved away was to hide out and create, but I haven't been able to do too much of that yet.

No time like the present...

angela.

you say goodbye. i say hello.

I have spent my whole life living in Oceanslime--err, I mean Oceanside. Except for the minor 4-year hiatus I took from that city when I went to college in Long Beach, it's been always Oceanside. My good friend James from college approached me a few weeks ago, told me he was moving for Orange County to San Diego, and asked me to move in with him, his wife Kyleen, and our buddy Pat. So, in less than two weeks, I am moving out of the house I grew up in to a house 50 miles south in Spring Valley.

I will be about 15 minutes from any artsy community in San Diego. Helllloooooo creativity central!

I haven't even began packing. I better get a move on...

angela.

I think I may have about one or two readers. I should have more--I will have more! I guess the fact that I haven't written in this blog in over three months is part of the problem. I haven't stopped crafting in that time though! I've been working on some jewelry. I have about 12 solid pieces of classy earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. Slowly, I am getting them up on the store.

Speaking of the store, my cousin-in-law, Collette, bought one of my purses off me today. I was so excited to see an email from Etsy and PayPal about the order. She purchased one of my cutest beauties. It is a little springtime purse with turquoise sugar skulls and pinkish hearts.

Oh! And last week I finally sent the XL version of "i can count to pink" clutch to the wonderful Veronica. She asked me to custom design her a larger version of that clutch. It came out very roomy and cute. I hope she likes it.

Until tomorrow...

angela.

made a sale last week!

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So, I woke up one morning last week and checked my email (first thing I always do when I wake up), and to my surprise, I sold something! Sh33 in Las Vegas bought this beauty which I've been trying to sell since forever. It was also the most viewed item in my shop. I am so happy that handbag has a new home. She said she loved the inside lining which is this fun green bandaid fabric. I through in an extra goodie in her package. I made that felt heart bandaid brooch to the right for her.

I have become re-addicted to felt recently. I can't stop making little felt hairclips and brooches. I also made a series of wristlets last weekend which all have different felt applique shapes on the front. Felt is definately part of my future.

oh so popular skinny jeans

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I'm not sure if you know this, but I have been so disappointed with the cast of Project Runway. Season 4 really has no one that stands out to me. I love Christian, but all in all, no one can compare to those from Season 2.

So, I spent this afternoon running around Oceanside trying to find Season 2 of Project Runway on DVD. After going to Best Buy, Target, and Suncoast (only to discover it has shut down), finally Barnes & Noble proudly carried this DVD set. I was so excited.

I've been wanting to turn my old pairs of jeans into skinny jeans for a while, but I've been to scared. I put on my new Project Runway DVDs for inspiration and got to work on an old baggy pair of Sevens. The finish product is to the right. It kind of puckers in the thigh, but I am happy with my outcome.

hot pants for a boy

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My good friend and long lost twin, Benny, asked me to hem several pairs of cut-off shorts made from men's trousers. I've never sewn on such thick polyester fabric before and it is probably the easiest fabric ever to work with. I really wanted a picture of him wearing them so you could see how short they really are. He's got nice legs, he can pull it off.

hearts after valentine's

So I am finally going to use this blog. I promise.

Since my boyfriend left for deployment last month, I've been crafting now more than ever. I should write about it.

For some reason I haven't been in the mood to make anything big. Instead, the past couple of days, I've plopped myself in front of the television and cut out little felt hearts. I finally practiced some embroidery from Doodle Stitching instead of just browsing through all the cute projects like I always do.

I made four heart shaped hair snap clips and one brooch. Making these while watching Lost was my St. Valentine's Day treat to myself. And now that my boyfriend is somewhere on a ship somewhere in the middle of the Asian Pacific, these cute little hearts brightened my day.

<3 angela

halloween spirit take over!

I've had this rush of Halloween excitement lately. Last week, I had this idea for a orange and black tote bag. A just for fun tote bag for this month use only. So, I drove as quickly as possible to Joann's and grabbed all the materials that caught my eye. Most the time when I make something, it just happens organically. So, I am at Joann's and first I grab this Alexander Henry fabric that I was eyeing at Sowing Sisters the week before. It's called Pumpkin Party and there are these angry looking cats on it. It's amazing. I also picked up some orange tool, black black vinyl, and some rick rack. Here is the finish product: