Living the Creative Life

Pricing is definitely one of the hardest parts of organizing an Etsy shop, at least for me. I've rearranged my pricing scheme numerous times in the past few months, trying to find the perfect price point. I don't want to price things too low, making my items seem cheap. Nor do I want to price them too high, making me seem delusional. Price comparisons inside my shop should make sense too, so that customers understand why some things cost more than others. I definitely don't claim to have all the answers, but here's how I settled on my current pricing. I've found that there are two basic ways to price my items: by yarn content or by hat style . As much as pricing by content makes more sense to me, I wasn't sure this was the way to go. While I know that Bamboo yarn is more expensive than Acrylic, will an average Etsy customer? I decided to price instead based on style, not content. Ribbed hats should be all one price, and cabled hats another price, regardl...

I can't for the life of me find my planner with all my blogging information in it, so I apologize to the rest of the sponsors that I didn't properly introduce. I've been such a bad host this month! Moving has been crazy, as has been trying to sort out school stuff. Now it turns out that my parents are moving to a bigger house by the end of September, so I'll be moving right along with them! Needless to say, this pretty much means that I will be living out of boxes for a month, since I don't really want to have to unpack and then re-pack in the span of four weeks. School starts at the end of this month, also, so I hope to at least find my planner by then, but I'm not holding by breath. My sense of grounding and organization is pretty much MIA at this point, housed with all my stuff in a pile of plastic and cardboard boxes. So anyway, all this to say... please go visit my sponsors. Click these buttons below to get to their blogs and from there you should be ...

Sponsorship  is closed for September and October, due to my moving schedule. Feel free to  grab a button  if you like. If you would rather have a different size, let me know and I can accomodate that. I will accept any buttons from you, within reason, to display on my blog for these months. I don't want to do a traditional sponsor swap or anything for these months, so whatever you submit is fine.  Guest posts  are welcomed, as well, but I won't solicite them from you since I don't have the time to worry about that right now. I will accept buttons in the following sizes: 300x75 150x75 Please send any inquiries, buttons, or guest posts to: desertrose0601 {at} gmail {dot} com.

Have you played Sims Social yet? It's the newest version of The Sims and can be found on Facebook. It's a similar format to Farmville or Mafia Wars, in that you can only play a few minutes at a time until your "Energy" re-builds itself. Personally I find that type of gameplay kind of annoying, but... nevertheless, I love, love, love  The Sims, so was very excited to try this version. One thing I really think is cool, and have long wished they had on the PC version, is that you can now visit your IRL friend's Sim houses and hang out with them! You can interact with them and also ask for their help with things. As is the case with other Facebook games, you need your friend's cooperation to pass certain levels. Other than the social aspect, Sims Social is pretty similar to the PC version of The Sims. You still need to eat, shower, have fun, etc, to keep your Sim happy and functioning properly. (I have no idea if you can actually die in this game. I haven...

Image by Brian Bird Last night around 3am, we had a thunder and lightning storm ! It was pretty cool, even though we didn't get much rain. The thunder and lightning lasted at least an hour, though! Based on my highly scientific estimates (I counted between the lightning and thunder), I gauged the storm to be about 15 miles away. I LOVE storms, so I was hoping it would come closer, but it I don't think it did - at least not while I was still awake. Since I've already removed the curtains from my room (I'm moving this weekend, remember?), the lightning was making it hard to actually fall asleep. Storms like these don't scare me, but the bright flashes every minute or so were very distracting!! I hadn't packed my eye mask yet though, so I put that on to make the room seem darker. That worked pretty good. If the storm had been earlier in the evening, I would've loved to break out the X-Files or some other scary-ish movie/TV show. I just love the impend...

As I'm packing up things around my apartment today, I'm sweating like a pig and dreaming of somewhere cooler. How does Toronto sound? It's only 72 degrees Fahrenheit today - my kind of weather! I don't know much about Toronto except that every Candian show ever made seems to be set there (Degrassi, Being Erica, Rookie Blue, etc...). If their plotlines are any indication, Toronto seems like a nice, friendly city full of kind, positive people. I have no idea how difficult it may or may not be to emmigrate to Canada, but if I did, Toronto would probably be my top choice!