Every year Etsy has a Craft Party and local teams all over the world are the hosts. I'm so excited that my Etsy817 street team is hosting a Craft Party in Arlington THIS FRIDAY! And if you're local, you should come party with me! We'll have a few different things going on. Of course, what is a craft party without a craft? So we will have a craft table where we will be making glass pebble … [Read more...]

Sorry in advance for a mostly written post and only one slightly relevant picture.I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last week training (kind of) for my new job.First I guess I should explain what my job is a little bit. I mentioned last week that I'll be working for The Shorthorn (my school's paper) doing online ad sales. Our college paper is changing from a daily print publication to a … [Read more...]

A little newspaper fun to celebrate my new jobFor information on all of these items click HERE … [Read more...]

I got a new job! Of course I'll still be blogging and running my Etsy shop. But this job is related to my Business Marketing degree that I have been working towards. I signed all the paperwork this week to start as an online ad sales rep for the student newspaper on campus!This was last falls back to school publicationIt's only a few hours a week, but I'm excited to be able to do some real world … [Read more...]

This is the first year that the twins will be able to do orchestra in our school district. When the signup sheet came home in the spring they were so excited (and I was too).After some discussion oldest twin decided he wanted to play the viola and youngest twin decided he wanted to play the violin. School starts pretty soon so this week we went and rented their instruments, bought their shoulder … [Read more...]