Quick Shop Update ~ Cards

The brilliant business minded person that I am I just realised I have some cards in my box of stuff that needs listing that are pretty good for Valentines Day.
So I pretty sharpish got them listed on Folksy and Etsy.
They're not just good for Valentines either so you should probably get a couple for your lovely friends.

Disposable ~ Moving Out and Planting Seeds

Will with Chicken Walker (or so he tells me).
Tyrannosaurus Res. Not my spelling, it's what he has printed on his underside.
The lovely Cherokee.
Planting poppy seeds in shoes.

Will hasn't lived at the farm for years but did until uni so he had lots of stuff to sort out before they moved and while we were there we took some poppy seeds from the garden to plant in ours.

Disposable ~ Norwich

The cathedral.
I cannot for the life of me remember or figure out what this is a photo of. It's bugging me.
On St. Benedicts Street.
The market.

I can't remember when these were taken but judging by the order of the photos it must be during the first week and a half of August 2013. I so much want to know what that second photo is of!! It looks kinda like graffiti but somewhere that has a light set up? I tried fiddling with it on photoshop to figure it out but it didn't work. Argh!

Disposable ~ Will and Food

Will and me in a pub, probably eating burgers.
Noodle Stop (I'm pretty sure it's called Noodle Stop, that might just be what we call it...)
My birthday, balloon and mum.
Still on my birthday, one of my classic beautiful shots of Will mid action while he cooks my dinner.

As is the way with disposable cameras I had one kicking about for ages and finally got it developed the other day. The first photo on it was taken in January 2012 (the one at the top of this post) and the last was taken in November 2013 (which will be in another post).
I thought I'd break it up into a few posts rather than one really long one.
A lot of the photos came out pretty dark but I'm a sucker for film so I think they all have a certain charm however they turned out.

Films I Watched ~ January

I am an avid list keeper. I love making lists of all sorts.
I write down all the films I watch, I used to write down all the books I read but now I use Goodreads for that so that my notebooks aren't lists and lists alone.
Then I saw this post on Anke Weckmann's blog and thought I'd have a go with my own. It appeals to my list making ways and I'm hoping in the long run it'll help a little with my typography skills, of which I have few.
I was going to share which were my top 3 but I'm awful at picking favourites and to be honest most of these were pretty good. I was disappointed by Sixteen Candles and The Reef (I was led to believe it would be more about shark attacks but in reality you go ages before even seeing a shark). Burke and Hare was a bit 'meh' but still enjoyable. District 13: Ultimatum was a pleasant surprise, it was actually really funny and everything else I really liked, most of them weren't my first viewing so I knew they were going to be good anyway.

January

I had my January all planned out. I had a list of stock that needed making which I was going to storm through and feel all smug and accomplished about, then spend some time making my Etsy and Folksy shops look good and finally finish off my website. Then I was going to concentrate on designing brand new items and get cracking with that.
What actually happened was I started on my list of stock and then had two projects for Simply Crochet to make which took a little longer than I had thought but got sent off last week and an order for The Jade Tree which I just finished today. I started the month making stock but I think actually most of that sold during the month and I'm almost back down to where I started.
Lots of work, just not the expected work!



Other things this month:
The issue of Simply Crochet came out with my very first project for them.
Our museum passes turned up.
I had an email from someone who had ordered from me that included a photo of her dog which I loved. Feel free to send me photos of your pets (especially if they come with a note saying you loved what you'd bought from me!).
I got a pair of jeans!! That might not sound like news but I live in skirts and dresses. Other than a pair of denim shorts I have nothing that's really suitable for exploring (and shorts don't really count because I get completely eaten by bugs if I have any skin out). I was forever squatting down to take a photo of something and dipping the back of my skirt in whatever was behind me or not being able to climb something or rummage through somewhere because I didn't want to get snagged. But now I have exploring jeans!! Yay for me!

Maybe February will be the month my website finally gets finished...

Photo An Hour ~ Mon 27 Jan 2014

8am - Morning view of the world. This tree is normally full of big fat pigeons and tiny little birds that you can hear but can't see.



9am - Breakfast at the computer. Super healthy amount of jam.



10am - Scanning in sketchbook pages. This photo is about as pleasing as scanning in pages is.



11am - Packing an order of 12 goose cards.



Noon - Drawing up some tags while sausages cook. (I technically took this photo at 14 seconds past one but shhh, I did take a photo while it was still 12 but this one was better)



1pm - Ventured out into the world to post the geese off to Texas and to do a bit of food shopping.



2pm - On my way home. I love these trees. There's a row of them in front of the football stadium but this year this is the only one that has all it's baubles.



3pm - Just as I get near my house there's a tiny but of blue sky.



4pm - I spent a little bit of time entering all the competitions on my pile of receipts after updating my accounts and this made me sad. It's like the survey has no self esteem. "Are you sure your visit to the Post Office went smoothly? That doesn't sound right, you must have ticked the wrong box. Surely something went wrong?" Makes me think of Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.



5pm - We settled down for the night to eat pie and chips and watch films. This is our pile of dvd's we haven't watched. We have seen some of the films already but haven't watched our copies of them yet. We ended up having a double bill of Panda! Go Panda! and Valhalla Rising. They so don't go together that it kind of worked. I feel the residual jolliness of Panda! Go Panda! helped me cope with Valhalla Rising. It was good but hard work, quite slow going. Unlike Panda! Go Panda! which was amazing.