Simply Crafting

I really do love contests! Who wouldn’t love the chance to win something for free?? My favorite type of contest has definitely got to be a crafting contest. And it’s just icing on the cake when it’s held by one of my favorite craft bloggers. Yes, I would be talking about the creator over at craft therapy.

Right now the Craft Junkie (I really do get a kick out of that name) is holding an awesome contest to celebrate her birthday. She is giving away a customized bracelet to one lucky participant (hopefully that’ me LOL). But because I’m such a nice person I have decided to share this chance with you all. It’s super easy to get into her contest with several chances to win. You can do a post a post about her contest on your blog, leave her a comment that you entered and subscribe to her blog feed.

Easy right?! So what are you waiting for? You only have until July 24 to enter so get moving. Oh yeah, and tell her Kim sent ya!

First of all I need to thank Lynne for presenting me with this wonderful award. I am extremely honored that she likes this site as well as my creations as much as she does. It gives me goosebumps when I know someone appreciates all the hard work that goes into creating crafts. And since she is a crafter herself, she can appreciate my hard work. So Thank You Lynne for this wonderful award. I really do appreciate it.

Although I have been involved with Entrecard since January, this blog has only been active in Entrecard for the past couple of months. But I must say that I am highly impressed with the amount of traffic that has been finding my site through this program. So as a thank you to my most active Entrecard droppers, I am sending out a little thank you for all your visits. So if your on the list then a great big thank you goes out to each and everyone of you and if your not on the list and want to be all you need to do is drop.

So thanks to all of you and maybe, just maybe you’ll see your name on the list for next month.

1. Lapidary Queen Wannabees
2. All In A Day
3. Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery
4. The Sewing Mom
5. Craft Therapy
6. Surprisingly Insightful
7. Steven Humour
8. Caption This
9. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
10. read my mind

This is way cool!! Tony over at Moolah Blog! is doing some reviews on sites that he appreciates and he has picked this blog as his very first feature. Now your all probably wondering why he chose my crafting blog for his feature and I’m going to tell you why.

Last week Tony indicated that he would like to make a purchase of one of my pieces of jewelry that I have currently for sale. After a few e-mails back and forth, we were able to come up with a piece that he wanted to buy for his “special someone” and we worked out a deal. He placed the order and I shipped it. He was a wonderful buyer and I also got to know a little about his personality through this e-mails as well. He is very generous with his time and he is also a really nice guy.

So if you’d like to read about all the wonderful things Tony had to say about this site and me, then why not drop by his site. Tell him Kim sent you. And if you would like your own review from him, all you need to do is ask.

Thanks for your wonderful review Tony and I can’t wait until you get your package and are able to give it to your special lady!

I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see a Monday arrive in my life!  Last week my hubby was home from work on holidays and I got absolutely nothing done.  No housework and more importantly: NO CRAFTS!!  That was not good.  I just couldn’t seem to find the time to even think about starting or finishing any crafts.  But now with him back to work and me having the entire house to myself, I plan to get back at it.  First I have a lot of housework to do and then I will be digging out the crafts once again.  So hopefully later in the week I will have enough accomplished to begin posting pictures.  I love “hubby” to death, but man am I ever happy to see last week end!

With hubby home this past week, I haven’t been able to work on any crafts.  When he’s home it’s worse than having the two younger kids home.  He seems to need more care. lol  He is always wanting to run the roads or spend time with me.  I guess there could be worse things in life.

He goes back to work next week so hopefully I will get back at the crafting once again.  I have two weeks left before the kids are out of the school for the summer so I would like to get as much done as I can in these next two weeks.  With two little people home and underfoot I can’t see me having a whole lot of time to devote to my crafting business.  But we will see.  And what doesn’t get done over the summer will get completed in September.

When I first set up this blog it was the express intention of trying to sell my home made jewelry. After posting on it for a while I discovered that I really wasn’t getting the traffic needed to generate any sales. So about a month ago I signed this blog up with a pretty neat traffic exchange. This program is called Entrecard and it has worked amazingly to give me the traffic that I so desperately needed. I haven’t seen any sales yet, but I haven’t given up hope.

So this is a post to thank my top droppers from Entrecard that have stopped by and visited this site. I’m going to try to do a post like this every month so if you would like to get on my top droppers list all you need to do is to keep dropping those cards. I’ll see you all again in July.

Thanks guys! I really do appreciate your visits.

1. Search Engine Panel
2. Paperkraft.net
3. All In A Day
4. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
5. Surprisingly Insightful
6. PlotDog Press WOOF Contest
7. Winnie The Pooh
8. Web Wanker @ TeenZoned
9. Melissas Homeschool
10. Ellen Sew Crafty

Since Saturday we have been having some pretty crappy weather.  It has been raining non stop so going outdoors and getting some work done out there has not been an option.  So I have decided that it is a perfect time to clean out my craft closet.  My goodness I didn’t realize the amount of junk stuff that I have hoarded away.

This is just a little example of all the supplies I have on hand.  I have a closet full (sorry Daniel.  It’s my son’s closet) of fabric and yarn (and when I say full, I mean jam packed).  I have three, three drawer stands full of scrapbooking supplies, more fabric, more yarn, books, cross stitch supplies and plastic canvas supplies.  I also have three totes filled full of jewelry supplies.  And…can’t forget my sewing table full of sewing supplies (over 100 spools of thread).

So after checking out all the stash I have and realizing I can’t throw a thing away, I have decided that I really either need to get started on some serious crafting projects (to eliminate the junk stuff) or find another closet.  What do you all think??  Another closet??

So although I do make crafts for sale, I also make crafts for pleasure.  Right now I have a lot of projects on the go and hopefully within the next couple of weeks I will have completed most of them.  I am currently working on a knitted afghan for my daughter that is three quarters of the way finished, three scrapbooks (for all the kids) and a quilt.  So before I start any new projects, I plan to finish what I have started.  I have a really bad habit of starting projects and then not completing them.  But I have made a deal with myself and if I stick to the deal, then I know I will finish these projects.

The deal I made was I will not purchase any more crafting supplies until I get all these projects completed.  I think by making myself complete these projects while knowing I can’t make any more purchases until I do, I will finish them.  I’ll let you all know how I make out and if I in fact do stick to my deal.

First of all I would like to say HI!  I’m Back!!  I have decided to take this blog in a different direction.  I have disabled the web page, but decided that I will revive this blog.  I plan on doing more posts all my crafting projects with a whole lot of pictures to go with the posts.

I got a little discouraged for a while and kind of gave up on trying to sell my craft products through this site.  But I am back at it with a renewed determination.  As I complete crafts, they will be posted in their own blog post with pictures.  Then you can make the choice of ordering anything directly from this site.

So, I thank you all for dropping by and hopefully you’ll drop by again and see that this blog and this crafting business has become a huge success.   So if you happen to see anything you like or have any questions, then feel free to contact me either through comments or directly to my e-mail account at kdarrell21@hotmail.com.