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August 20th, 2006 14 comments

The thing about having a business license is that your company info gets harvested by all kinds of people. I get lots of company credit card offers (no thanks!) and info about employee insurance, but every now and then I get free pens. People who sell promotional stuff send samples of their wares in hopes of enticing you to buy their brand with your name and address on it.

The quality’s going up! First I got plain hard pens with “wearwithstylecom” screened on the side, then I got one with a gel grip, and yesterday I got one with a gel grip, metal accents, AND someone took the time to separate my name into its individual components instead of pasting it directly from their mailing list. And I can have some made for only 99 cents a pen!

Again, no thanks. If they can afford to send them out randomly for free, I don’t want to think about how little it costs them to make these. And things with my logo would be useless. My Jayne hat packaging is fairly authentic, I can’t be cramming pens with my company name in the box, it just looks bad.

Still, I hearken back to the days of working in TV and getting all kinds of free stuff. It’s been 7 years and I’m still wearing T-shirts from cancelled shows the networks were promoting. Good times, good times.

I don’t need the swag I’m getting now, but I still get a little kick out of it. It’s one less thing I have to purchase, too. Why buy the pen when you can get the ink for free?

Hats up next: NC, CA, IL. Go Windy City!

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Annaliese and the Butterflies.

August 19th, 2006 10 comments
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It all becomes clear.

August 15th, 2006 28 comments

So I just this minute got e-mail from my eBay buyer. I had no idea that the whole “African internet scam” thing had come to eBay, but that’s what it looks like to me!

Text of letter below cut.

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What the…

August 15th, 2006 2 comments


So I put up ten skeins of Noro Kochoran on eBay a couple of days ago, and somebody didn’t bother with the lowest bid, but instead met my “Buy It Now” price of $200. Which surprised me, but it’s a fair price, so I figure they just really wanted the yarn. I invoiced the buyer and didn’t hear back.

So I look today, and he or she has zero feedback. I look closer, and realize that they joined on the 14th, and are no longer a member.

What the heck? Did this person really join, buy something, then leave again? I don’t get it. I mean, they can just write and say “Lordy, I made a huge mistake, can we call it a wash?” and I’ll be okay with that. Or did they do it to a bunch of people and then scupper off?

What a mystery. I have no idea what to make of all this. Weird.

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scrubbing bubbles… OF DOOM!

August 13th, 2006 20 comments

You may recall what happened last time I posted about my husband giving our daughter a bath. He’s given her several since then – I didn’t want to submerge my icky poison ivy hand (it’s fine now, thanks) so he took over duties for a week. Aside from some incredibly flooded bathrooms – we’re talking multiple towels on the floor, dripping wet – there haven’t been any further major incidents.

So I went out the other evening, and when I came home, the hubby had graciously given the daughter a bath. He casually remarked, “Oh, she found your orange soap.”

My… orange soap?

“Yeah, you know, it’s kind of orangey?”

My grapefruit soap?

“Yeah. It had some cracks in it, and she started peeling it, and… uh… it doesn’t have cracks anymore.”

The soap he’s referring to is Sudz “In The Pink” complexion bar, which I treated myself to at our local whole foods store some months ago. I’ve been hoarding it and using it very slowly, since it costs about $6 a freaking bar.

Before:

After:

That’s it, he’s off bath duty.

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Let’s see if this works…

August 10th, 2006 6 comments

Following ‘s lead, let’s see if I can get this whole “embedding a youtube video” thing to work.

http://www.youtube.com/v/pv5zWaTEVkI

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Beautiful cartoon.

August 9th, 2006 4 comments

Natasha Allegri posted this in her Livejournal today. Just gorgeous, and knitting-related to boot.

http://normallife.livejournal.com/81110.html

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Brewing with Jayne, Emily vacation, sweatin’ to the everything.

August 6th, 2006 2 comments
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Hell Yeah!

August 5th, 2006 14 comments

Now that money’s flowing nicely again, I hit The Sewing Bird for their sale. Currently, it’s 45% off everything, unless you get the last of a particular colorway or at least 10 skeins (whichever’s less) and then it’s 50% off.

I just bought 13 skeins of Noro Cash Iroha in the “wine” colorway. Silk, lambswool, cashmere, and a little nylon,spun into a beautiful yarn from Japan. It’s what I used to make the wristwarmers in this post. I got enough for a sweater. For me. ME! MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

And I got it for $71. Normally retailing for $142.

I WIN AT YARN!

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Found by

August 4th, 2006 10 comments

Un-freaking-believable. It’s like a 1950’s horror movie: “Terror From The Trees!

http://user.it.uu.se/%7Esvens/larverna/normal.html

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