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Really Needs Some Work!

Okay. I edited every post today, went through and took the italics off - I like the look but it is harder to read. Changed the font entirely, changed some of the colors. Trying to make things a bit more uniform.

Found an Etsy shop I would LOVE to add - not so much because I want to be more commercial - but because her artwork is just plain pretty!! I commented on her blog, if I don't hear from her I will convo her to ask permission. Ask permission and then ask how the heck to DO it! I don't want to just do a link - I want to add her mini-etsy so it includes pictures. I think I may have to get her Html from her. Anyway, maybe that's what I will do. When I see shops that have things I think are just really pretty - I will ask permission and see if I can add them to my sidebar or whatever you call it. After all - I like pretty things.Before I became obsessed with beads, I was obsessed with searching the Internet for pictures to make screen savers with. For my own use, I would store them in a folder, and choose between them according to my mood. I still have them - just don't rotate them as much. I have things like 'landscapes', 'art', 'manmade', 'food', 'flowers', and Italy. I am going to put on a few of my Italy pics - they are SO pretty and interesting. I have so many pictures of Italy that I had to go through and totally cut them in half. The amount that is. Kept only my favorites, which may not be what other people like. I have the traditional cathedrals and statues, the vatican of course, but I also have things like this pic of a storm rolling in - in Tuscany. Beautiful!

I also love this pic of a cemetary, it's so different from what I would see anywhere that I am familiar with. Looks better in a larger form, but it still has a presence.

Well - I will have to search and play and make mistakes but I really want to make this blog more readable. Prettier. I was glad to see as I clicked on different blogs today - that I saw all kinds - from blogs that are all about their artwork or crafts - some that are all about their lives. Some that are a mixture of both. That's what I want mine to be, a good mixture. I don't know how to write JUST about my jewelry. So to keep it me - I need to write about both. Still - I really need to shine it up and make it all pretty.

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OH!! I got my beautiful magnets (suddenly distracted by a thought!!!) today - Abbie Road made them for me. The link is to the left. She was easy and wonderful to work with and the product is great too. She did my banner as well! I was so excited to get that envelope today - she doodled on it and made it fun to receive. I like them so much I don't know if I want to ship them put as freebies! I'm having some business card magnets made - maybe I will keep these Abbie Road magnets for handing out personally. The others will weigh less and be less expensive to ship anyway.

Time to go, other things to do and I'm sleepy! Early for me!

Have a great nite!

BetteJo

Nervous ..

Not sure if I want to do this! Last 2 posts all my pics sort of - fell out. I posted them, saved everything, went in and out and viewed the blog a couple times - but the next day - little red X's. I hate them.

This pic is of a bracelet I haven't offered in my shop yet - but I love it! I love these big chunky carved agates - the blue and the deep gold. If I could be in love with a bead - either of those would be it. Oh - maybe throw the red into those choices!

Exciting day yesterday! Introduced my daughter to Etsy through my shop - and the necklace she designed. Such a nice feeling! Such a great girlchild!! Love her writing too - might ask her to write my shop announcement and descriptions - she is so articulate and funny!!! Her necklace is so colorful and a totally different style from mine which is great! She's definitely her own person.

The other exciting part of yesterday was introducing the newest member of the family/shop - Roberta! As I say in my shop announcement - **Second - we are introducing - Roberta! Roberta arrived by mail today. Dani pronounced her "creepy" as she was pulling her out of the box but by the time she had her upright she was saying "I think we should call her - Roberta." So Roberta joins our shop as well, to model and to hopefully bring some adventure!** Poor Roberta looks a bit stiff in this picture but she is holding still because that is our evil kitty - Abby. I would be holding still too!

Dani and I have some plans for Roberta, some adventures hopefully. Hope we can work it out. Here is an example of what I am hoping Roberta will help with, displaying jewelry as it would be worn. Here is an earring - look how nice it looks hanging from an ear an opposed to laying flat or hanging from a cup.

This is a necklace that I put on last night - I love it - it is so feminine and pretty! But look how nice it looks on Roberta! I think you can see it much better that way and I'm thinking Roberta is going to be a wonderful addition to the shop!

OMG - Rosie O'Donnel is being shown on Larry King - guess there was a big dust-up with Elizabeth Hasselbeck on The View today. Ugh. Rosie is a huge bully and I am glad she is leaving that show. She spews her political views in such an uninformed simplistic way she really annoys me. I don't care what her views are - I just wish she would stop taking whatever the most inflammetory view she can and running with - whether it is based in fact or not! Ugh.

Hmmm. Y'know when I read about people's blogs in the forums on Etsy, they are all much more commercial than mine, I just can't seem to make mine like that. I talk about my jewelry and my frustrations and my joys - but I also talk about other things that have nothing to do with jewelry or sales. There is nothing wrong with the way everyone else does theirs - but I just can't.

I am very consumed with making jewelry and selling it - trying to get my ducks in a row - and my thoughts are always returning to it. But a part of me is very separate and apart from it and I don't think anybody really wants to read about that. Just not interesting. Probably why I don't push my blog much, don't really think people will be interested. I think I have always said too much - I am talking - in my life - in general. I reveal too much of myself and then later go - oh - why didn't I just keep that to myself???

Anyway. I am going to save this and click publish and hope my pics don't disappear again. If they do I am going to be so mad!!! I think Rosie put me in a bad mood. :(

Sorry! Now my paragraphing isn't staying - I am saving and exiting - paragraphs or not!!!

Nite!

BetteJo