New Year...Take 2

Ok friends, here's the deal....... I need motivation. Not the kind needed to go hole myself away and make all kinds of cute little crafts and such. I never need to be motivated for that. I need to give it my all when it comes to getting my products out there.

I use ETSY, Facebook, Twitter, and obviously Blogspot. I am on Ravelry and I have a Flickr stream. All the things I know I should be doing, Right? Did you know that each one of those things should be updated on a regular basis? Did you know that they should all be used simultaneously? Oh and they should all have a similar name? Oh I know this.......... I have done all this, well except KEEP THEM UPDATED. I had 13 post here last year. 13 !!!!!!!! How is that helping me? Do you know I walked in to the Christmas season with 45 item in my etsy store? I only 2 days ago made a Fan page for my etsy shop. ( I didn't know I should have a fan page too ) and twitter? I still have a hard time getting into twitter.

Oh and Ravelry... I love ravelry!!!! Oh but do you think I have done much more with it than keep patterns in my Library or mark OTHER atrist as my favorites.

Ok then there is Flickr. I constantly use Flickr ( for my own editing...). Did you know that you should join groups and follow threads on Flickr? Um............ again I knew this but, yeah anyway.

I AM NETWORKING LAZY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rant over..... lol

Now this is a New Year and I am giving myself a new start. So..... I will try to post something different during the week. I haven't quite figured it all out yet but I want to give it a shot.
Things like:

Mondays : Metaling ( Beading and Wire work )
Makers ( I will feature other artists that I love )
Morning Banter ( Just a random rant, maybe about the weekend )
Making it ( things I am making with instructions or patterns )
Mastering ( things i am trying out and where I found the how tos for it )

Tuesdays: Tatting ( I needle tat, so I will share things about that here )
Twitter ( Sharing interesting tweets )
Tacky ( all things crafty, tacky and gorgeous )

Wednesdays: What's New ( New to crafting, or well new to me anyway )
Way back ( Those blast from the past crafts we grew up with
Macrame anyone? )
Whip up ( shared items and Ideas that just got or can be easily whipped up)

Thursdays: Threads ( crochet, knitting, sewing, tatting... all things thready )
Thrown together ( pretty much the same as whip up but we all need more time)
Think about it ( what is planned for the future, and what needs to done )

Fridays: Follow Me ( Follow me Fridays just a time to post new site to check out and
follow)
Fabric ( all things fabric related: quilts, blankets, clothes, accessories... )
Flickr ( sharing of great flickr streams )
Finished ( here is where finished objects will get post first and will be up for
dare I say it... critique... )

All of this is preliminary and well you guessed it, not set in stone because I am after all

THE LAZY NETWORKER...........

Oh but on that note, there is a great thing happening all over the place and it been dubbed
" LINK LOVE " Just a way to share all of our links with everyone and get your name out there and noticed. Please join in, it's been so much fun so far.

Here's mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamablingthing/

http://www.mamablingthing.etsy.com/

http://www.mamablingthing.blogspot.com/

http://www.twitter.com/mamablingthing

http://www.ravelry.com/people/lynns2mi

Fan me, follow me, heart me and I will do the same back!


Hugs, Blessings and Happy Crafting!
-Lynn
( mamablingthing )

HIgh Hopes

Ok so when I started doing this blog a few months ago I was going to blog all the time share instructions to the crafts I do. Talk about my etsy store, chat with other SAHM (stay at home moms) and sell my crafts. You know network. Ok unless I treated all of this like an actual part time job, staying on top of it is like really really hard. NOT IMPOSSIBLE but hard.

I am going to work hard at doing exactly what I set out to do.

Any how my last post told you how I needed ideas on setting up a good display for a quick church craft show. Here is what I came up with. It really did turn out pretty good I think.

It's nothing professional but at least it was pleasing to the eye. The background looks kinda cluttered but we were in the hall way of the school and those are the kids locker walls.

In the next comming days I want to add some instructions for things that I have been working on and start sharing more. Hope you come back to find out more.

Hugs blessings and happy crafting.

Hi, this is my first entry and really just a test run.
I don't expect a huge following and I don't expect fame or riches from blogging. I just thought that I can not be the only completely obsessed crafter out there.
I hop from site to site and blog to blog and I find so many "normal" crafters that I thought if I came out of the closet and exposed my mental crafting state that I might lead the way for others to know they are O.K. too.
NO, no one needs to stage an intervention for you and No, no one needs to drag you kicking and screaming and possibly wielding a knitting needle, to a 12 step program. You can stand up proud and yell "My name is __________ , and I craft everything! I DON'T need help, but I could use that new Alexander Henry fabric, or a ride to Michael's"
I think if I didn't dabble in just about everything my wee little head would explode from all the ideas. I would also be a wreck of jealousy when I see what "so and so " can make. I would be a self doubter " Oh I couldn't possibly do that". You know what yes I can. Maybe not as well as someone else but I CAN do it. You can do it.
If instructions are to hard to follow, THEN DON'T! Guess what?! Some other everyday human wrote those. Hmmm...... doesn't that just make them a good idea? If it was the only way to do it then why would there be so many titles under one category. Ladies and Gents instructions are jumping of points, they are the last cog that gets set in your brains stream of ideas.
Enough of my rant (for now) get of the computer ( unless you're going to print something to craft ) and go make something. Then o.k come back to the computer and show me.

Let's share our addiction.
Hugs, blessings, and happy crafting.