feeling a little down today..

I think this picture might perfectly capture me.

I'm a pretty girl who is rough around the edges. 

I'm mostly unenthused, and I get bored easily.

I'm sloppy but a perfectionist. 

I feel like I'm waiting,

but I'm really

impatient.

I don't know where it comes from. Sometimes I just get sad and unmotivated. 

I feel like I'm always living life with one foot out the door. I don't know why. I just expect things to not work out. I try really hard at everything that I do. I put my heart in all my work and have pride in a job well done. But at the end of the day, I feel like I'm missing the point and wasting time. I want more. All the time.. I need more. And nothing is quite right even when it is.

I'm not giving up.

I just can't shake this funk..

"make life happen"

This phrase touches me deeply. It's so true.

I'm gonna keep pushing through this grey day, and make something happen for me.

I deserve it.

etsy photo editing

I think I just had an epiphany..

My sister just opened her handmade Etsy shop, Row Your Bow. Everything is looking great, but she doesn't know how to make her white paper background actually appear white in her photos. 

I have this same problem with every picture I take. There is always a bit of blue or purple tone to the picture that distracts from the quality of the item and makes the image imperfect, or not "treasury ready." So I offered to edit the photos for her. I have edited this issue out of my photos so often that I have become very quick at crafting perfect images of my items. 

I am now offering photo editing to Etsy sellers:

only $1 per photo

spring has sprung

Featured in couple amazing spring treasuries today..

Happy First Day of Spring!

This is my item featured in the third row down.

Illinois Light Bulb Pin

$16

This is my item featured on the last row

Chevron Spring Purse

$28

maybe I'll make the front page again! :)

etsy - spring cleaning and inventory tip

cleaning out the Mothballz closet today

and getting organized!

my goals:

1. make sure that everything I have in inventory is listed

2. make sure everything listed is ready to be shipped

3. arrange items for display and safe keeping

I needed a checklist and thumbnails for my pre-packaged items

here's what I did:

this is what it looked like at first

this is what it looked like after I played with some formatting settings

honestly I am not very good at using Word

so if I can do it, you can too :)

1. go to your "listings" page on Etsy admin
2. highlight items on the page (I start at the check box and end at the last set of links)
3. copy and paste into a blank Microsoft Word document
4. adjust tab widths and formatting settings to fit the page, delete any unnecessary text/columns
5. print!

please post any additional tips on inventory
or on how to use Word for this purpose

hope this helps you get organized

the colors of spring

spring is around the corner

featured in a colorful treasury today

vintage cat doll

$12

still raining here

hope it is warm where you are

i wish to be cute

w e h a v e l o v e

Paddy's Sale

code: MBPennyPinch