Buttons BNR Team

I am happy to say that my Etsy shop Buttons&YarnOHMY has been doing very well these past few months. 

And Etsy is like a second home! I have been participating in BNR's and BNS's a lot and last week I started my own team called Buttons BNR Team original I know. So now i'm curating! Which is a lot harder than I thought it was! But since Etsy is essentially my day job now I have the time to dedicate to it. 

So every Tuesday and Thursday I host a BNS to BNR. 

Today we are in BNR mode and after 16 total sales we'll switch back to BNS and once in BNS mode we go until we fill 16 slots and in this mode there are free spots given to a random team member and shops who bring in the most people, then it's back to BNR.  

So etsians if you have any interest i'd love for you to come check us out! Even if you don't want to join you can always check out our treasuries! 

Here is the one for today

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTEwMjQyOTJ8NjQ2NTEwNzM0/open-buttons-bns-to-bnr-total-sales-20

xoxo

The Fall lineup!

Okay before I start this ... I just have to mention that I experienced my first earthquake!!! 

And it scared the crap out of me! 

I was knitting in my craftroom and everything started to shake I had no clue what was happening and I found it hilarious that I found out it was an earthquake through Twitter, instead of the news because it got there first. 

ANYWAY on to the good stuff!!!

The mornings here have been getting chilly, granted i'm talking about 6am, but still the temperature change has been pretty drastic. It quickly warms up though. But in the spirit of the days getting shorter and the mornings getting cooler I took a break from Coffee Cozies and started knitting Cowls and going along with trying to be more organized (and i'm tired of having 15 projects going at once) I made a list of all of the yarn I had and what I was going to do with it. Then went through my books and found what patterns to do with what (learned a few things along the way) and came up with some great new ideas for cowls. It was also a beautiful day to sit outside in the garden and sketch (something I swore I would do more of and hardly ever do)

Here are some of my favorites so far! 

So this Crimson cowl quickly became a favorite and I plan on making myself one for winter. 

It's bamboo yarn so super super soft and i used a large gauge needle so it's also light, great for fall, and large enough to be doubled up when it gets colder.

And the coffee cup cozy that goes with it! I try to make a coffee cup cozy to go with every cowl and/or scarf

Now this one took longer than the red one because I used smaller needles, but it would definitely be better for those colder months! Taller, and not as long but good in it's own way. And it's covered with different shades of purple buttons.

I didn't have any more of the off-white yarn so I used a light purple with more purple buttons, really you can never have enough purple right! 

I also made 2 more cowls with corresponding cozies but haven't gotten them photographed yet but fingers crossed it'll happen tomorrow! 

Start the morning right

I can not express how lovely it is to wake up to morning glories ...

being dependent on caffeine 6am is not a friendly part of the day, especially since for the past 3 days I've been battling an unrelenting head-cold. I am so congested i can hardly breath and my head wont stop pounding but thankfully when I stumbled down to the kitchen to make breakfast and pack my beau's lunch I looked out my kitchen window to my ever growing garden and found more morning glories than i'd ever had at one time. It's almost as if my garden always knows what I need even when I don't know what that is. 

This was taken from our balcony off our bedroom, there were 4 or 5 blue morning glories blooming up there

Need a book to read?

So there is this amazing podcast I listen to called GeeksOn. Really it's the only podcast I listen to but I absolutely love it! Those 4 guys (and Lisa) are the reason I started reading Game of Thrones .. which if you haven't read yet get off your computer and go get the first book ... go ... no, go now. It's amazing.

So the latest episode of the not so bimonthly podcast was about a new book called Starcrossed and they had the author Josephine Angelini on for an interview. Don (my favorite geek) whom I share the most common interests with I think, us Buffy fans have to stick together, was really excited about this book. So like the good geekling I am I got online and ordered it and proceeded to read it in a day and a half. 

Two thumbs up! I have recommended it to all of my friends! I couldn't put this book down!

Warning!!! It's a trilogy!!! So now we have to wait until next year for book two.

I always find myself turning to the GeeksOn podcast when I need something new to read or need a new show to watch. They have a listener who does little segments called SmartyLibrarian who does book reviews and suggests books, she's great to listen to as well and I always find myself writing down titles she suggests. 

So now you have something to read, and a new podcast to listen to! 

Have a great week geeklings!!

The reason I need a sewing machine

So I've been looking for a sewing machine, there's a lot of little things I want to do with my shop that would be a lot faster with a sewing machine.

Then I found these, my favorite style dresses ever!
Very Suzie Q 

If I could wear dresses like these every day I would be in heaven!! 

Where the magic happens

I am terribly bad at cleaning and make a habit of just rearranging and reorganizing instead of just putting things back where they go. 

So this is before

My giant floor to almost ceiling bookshelf that houses my finished products and packing supplies 

My 6ft long table that serves as a desk

Soon the laptop will be replaced with the desktop PC

The bulitan board kept falling down so i just rested it against the wall

and I really need to find a better way to store my yarn
I'm open to suggestions!