And I'm up. But this time I just woke up about 12 minutes ago. Yep, trying to change my pattern. We'll see how well it goes. I am tired, but I usually am at this time no matter if I slept or not. But at least I can stay up all day and not continue to get more tired. :-)
So I plan on writing for a couple of hours, exercise, then craft, then update shop, then work on forum, then hummm...not sure.
The only sucky thing is is that I had to go to bed without speaking to my boyfriend first on the phone. I called him when I crawled into bed and got to speak to him for like 30 seconds because he had a patient on the table but I would have liked to have talked to him more. I hope I will get to today before he takes off for work...when I am usually asleep. LOL!
Ok, going to write now for a while. Hope you all have a great day.
Was thinking of going with a theme for Halloween but decided best to just pick a theme that we will stick with. I found one that I think we will like. I have the chatroom set up, and I am setting up the sections now. I have several already, just trying to think what all I would like to see in a doll forum. If you have any suggestions please feel free to live them in the comments. Oh I decided to make the forum a doll and toy forum. There are two separate sections for both. I don't expect the toy section to be to active but I know people have toys they buy that they'd like to share that don't rank in the doll category and I wanted to make that a small part of our forum.
Gonna work on the market place later. Trying to decide if we should have requirements before you sell on there. I think people should be on the forum a month before sales can be done, but then the marketplace will be empty. Maybe do a thing where the first 20-50 people who register and have good feedback else where can sell to kind of get the part of the forum going and then close it off to other members being able to sell then until they make 50 posts and are on the forums for a month. Choices choices.
But once again I have not slept. I figured out what my problem with that is. Its October. I always have a hard time sleeping in October. Once November hits it should get better. But I think I will try to get some sleep now so I can exercise later. Will keep you up to date on how the forum is going. :-)
Happy Tuesday you lovely lovely people. I hope today reached you well. My day was mostly spent sleeping and exercising. A little bit of eating mixed in. Oh and unraveling a scarf I knitted a long time ago. Man that was hard! The yarn liked to catch on itself and make it almost impossible to unravel, but I managed it. I am going to attempt to make it into a different kind of scarf. Hope to work on it tomorrow.
So nothing much else going on today. Just tired mostly. I want to go exercise some more and I want to write some too. Also I want to work on the doll forum. I guess I could do it all tonight but I am really tired. Upped my exercise to 20 miles today. It felt good but it wears me out. Oh, I also promised my sister I'd play Kingdom Hearts with her on DS. Hum. Guess I will do that. Kind of feeling blah right now. Ok guys, I hope I have more interesting stuff for you tomorrow. Sleep tight or have a nice day...depending on where you are right now. :-)
Its almost 7:30 in the morning and I can't sleep. I feel sick and just can't drift off. Its a rainy day and I love the sound of rain as I try to drift off to sleep. Thought I would get on to write a bit and then try to drift off again. Stomach acid was so bad that I panicked a bit over the pain. Sitting up makes it feel better. I want sleep. :-( Gonna try again in a bit. Just want to sit up a while and see if my stomach feels better.
Hey guys, I know I'm starting early today, but heck, why not. I just checked some sales fliers for this upcoming week and Hancock Fabrics is having the 99 cent sale on both McCalls and Simplicity this week. Target has marked down some of their Barbie Basic Fashion dolls to 5 dollars. Great time to stock up on some outfits you may have wanted and couldn't get.
Won't be able to see Hobby Lobby's ad until later. Bummer. But I am trying not to spend money this week. I am hoping to start making money actually. I haven't worked on my shop in two days thanks to trying to work on writing. I don't honestly know how I will do both, but the month of November I don't care, I'm gonna write. I'll just have to try to get a sleeping pattern down during NORMAL hours of the day...night, and then use my time wisely. Now I understand what the teachers were trying to say back then.
So I have been working on my the outline for my potential two novels I am going to attempt to write next month. Its about a 9 year old girl, and oddly enough I thought it would be hard to write about a nine year old girl but I find outlining for her to be amazing and fun and I can't wait to get started. I'm still on novel one though. I have to have novel one AND two outlined out by October 31st so I can spend that day in chat for Nano and getting ready for some serious word wars. I'm honestly so excited about this...can you tell? :-D The story is coming along so nicely its just flowing from me. But its hard to get my mind to stop thinking about it so I can concentrate on other things. I need to work on my other novel too. Ugh!!! I think I will go to bed in about 30 minutes...even though I just woke up around 6 hours ago after 8 hours of sleep, and try to get up early in the morning like around 6. That is when I am most productive. Every one is asleep and just me, the birds singing, and the early bloomers who are walking and driving by. Paradise. Of course its a bit dark at that time, so I may not see many walkers but the birds and cars will be there with me. :-)
I really need a schedule so I can schedule time to write, brainstorm, sew, promote, blog, exercise, and chat within the day. Oh yeah, and sleep. LOL! A lot of work, but I am sure I can manage it...somehow. Ok guys, just wanted to pop on real quick and say hi! I know I need to pop by some of your blogs and I promise to get to that. Just spread myself a little thin lately spending all my time on my shop and writing. Later on today is a busy day so I may or may not get to your blogs but I will, I promise. Ok, talk to you all soon. Bye for now and have a great Sunday. :-D
I have not been to bed yet because I got onto the NaNoWriMo website to see what people were doing now before the big event and then I foolish went into their chat. Now I want to chat instead of getting some precious sleep!!! Ahhh!!! And now I realize I will have to write 2 novels to win this thing this year. I need to start planning while I also try to finish my other novel before November 1st AND keep working on my shop. Its live now, just not ready to share the link yet. I want to put a few more things in it. Ok, I am tired. Must sleep. Can chat, blog, write, outline, create more later. Bye all.
Well not only do I want her because I love the outfit she is in. Seriously, did you see the metallic grey bodysuit she was in? I loved it! I was picturing flipping it inside out and using it to make a pattern piece. Of course it kind of has the ruffles one unlucky lady got kicked off of Project Runway last night for, but I think these work. But also because she reminds me of the Day To Night Barbie doll I had and LOVED as a child.
I can just image getting her and body swapping her with a Fashionista...of course one of the ones I don't already have and maybe offering up the poor girls I don't want for sale. Hummmm, choices, choices. ;-)
I found out they redid the day to night working Barbie concept again in 1999 when I was just slowly getting back into dolls.
She was called Working Woman Barbie.
I love her outfit, no pink. Just kind of a shocker color mix for Barbie.
But I do love this new doll. It seems she has a color change pink stripe up front and when you pull beads in her hair it changes styles. And her outfit alone makes me want her. So, now I am on the hunt for her. Oh, and can I just say, how macho is the guy who actually agreed to be in a Barbie commerical. If he has young daughters you know he's a celeb in his house. LOL!
Its so weird how about three years ago I lost interest in Barbie collecting but now with the Fashionistas I found an interest in them again. Must be my love of fashion and wanting to sew things for them. Honestly whenever I think of a doll I think of sewing fashions for them more than just collecting them. Its odd. Well I just wanted to share my find with you today. Gonna go back to writing. Want to finish my novel up before NaNoWriMo starts. I think I am close to the end! :-D But still, I don't know what the flipping story is about. Hard to explain, just trust me. Ok, off now. Bye lovelies.
So my mom called me downstairs to look at something and she found where someone had put a picture of my brother's gravestone up on Find A Grave. This for some reason was very bothersome to me. It almost felt like a violation of our privacy and his. Not to mention it made me face what I have been trying to avoid for years now, the realization that he's really gone and not just on an extended vaca somewhere. No, I am not that delusional, but I try not to think about it so I can mentally try to keep going. I haven't been to his grave in years and so I forgot what it looked like and I don't have to think of his body six feet under it. But seeing it on the internet made me cry. I miss him so much and on the 12th he will have been gone 10 years. :-( All these sites are having 10 year anniversaries like LJ and MSN and me and my boyfriend had one too and then I have to end the year with this. Like I mentioned before, the end of the year is kind of hard on us and well the 12th will be really hard on me. I wish I could get into more detail about his death and why it affects me in such a bad way,moreso than the fact that my brother had passed, but I don't think now is the right time. Another time perhaps. I guess I just wanted to vent a bit since it made me feel so sad. I'm better now. I found out there is a famous war hero in his cemetery, Eugene Ashley, Jr. He saved his fallen comrades and didn't think anything of himself. He eventually passed out from his wounds and was carried to safety where they were all attacked and he sadly died. When I'm in a better mental state I think I will check out that site more and see what other famous people I can find in NC. Gonna go work on my shop some more now. I have one item up already. Working on 5-6 more now. Talk to you all later.
Its scary to think that this could happen and we don't know what the end of 2012 will bring. I'm hoping it will just be like the whole Y2K scare, but you just never know. I kind of want to see this movie but it would have to be at home where I could pause it when it gets to much for me. I tend to hold my breath when I am watching something intense. LOL! What do you guys think about the movie and 2012? Scare you or just another Y2K scare?
Ok, so last night I was working on my shop and it deleted my stop policies every time I tried to save them. After the second time I finally got smart and started saving it in Notepad first. But it didn't keep me from getting frustrated. Well today I typed in "Coming soon." and it stayed so I tried putting my policies back in. Wouldn't save!!! Tried a few more times and almost gave up when I decided to take out some of the spaces I had between lines. Saved perfectly. Then I saw I had an error and needed to take it out. I took it out, clicked save, and covered my eyes...seriously. I looked back and it was still there!!! Yes!!! So no today my task is to upload a few things and then get to work on new stuff. I feel so nervous opening a shop, but its something I really want to do. I just wonder how I will do on Artfire.
Here are my thoughts on Artfire. Its new, but closing the gap between Etsy traffic and them. They are still in beta working things out, but I feel once they do work things out that a lot of Etsy people will move over or at least open a second shop there. It honestly reminds me of Myspace and Facebook. Myspace was the big cheese a while back and everyone had an account opened there. Then Facebook opened and it took a while for them to work out their kinks and now its now on level if not more popular than Myspace. I think Artfire will be the same and soon the traffic will come. I'm hoping to be able to go verified by the end of the month. I would like to have the perks of a verified member and perhaps see about becoming a Maven. Right now I just want to work on my shop and get into a flow with it so I won't have to worry about the structure of it and just create and upload it. Ugh! So much work, but if I can start selling stuff then it will be worth it. Right now I just frustrated, but that will pass I'm sure once I get a flow to things.
Ok, so mostly this post was to vent. I'm off to edit some pictures and take a few more before I'm out of daylight. Wish I had morning light to use, but go to bed late and no morning light for you. Oh well. Happy Thursday everyone one, and Happy October!!!
