A Closer Look at Ottoman

Happy New Year (sale)!

Happy New Year!

Just a quick note...from today through tomorrow (Dec 31 -Jan 1) use coupon code NEWYEAR2012 for 12% off in the shop! Yeah, it's cliche, but it'll be fun!

 

 

Black Friday Through Cyber Monday Sale!

A quick note to say that if you enter "HOLIDAY2011" from November 25-28, 2011 at checkout in the shop, you'll receive 10% off. In addition, if you spend $50 or more, you'll receive five "FOR YOU" gift tags for free (a $6.25 value)! Shop handmade!

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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy some fantastic squash of some sort...hopefully local. The squash above is a Chirimen from a farm nearby....cut in half, roasted with Earth Balance and salt, and then topped off with a bit more Earth Balance, salt and pepper. It would also be amazing with brown sugar instead of pepper. Mmmmm.

 

 

Pinterest

I forgot to tell you, I'm on Pinterest. What a fun and helpful site. I can now pin images to categorized boards to find them later....Found something inspirational for home - pin it....Found a book I want to get - pin it....Found a recipe I want to try - pin it.

Here's what my boards currently look like:

And click here to explore the boards.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Just a very quick note to let you know that you can receive 10% off all items in my shop Friday through Monday by using the coupon code "BLACKFRIDAY2010" at check out. I'm excited to use Etsy's new coupon code! And, if I'm in a food coma and forget to activate it, I'll be sure to refund you via PayPal. :)

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

HTML Twitter Widget

Oh, a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be nice to put a Twitter widget on this here blog. When I went to "goodies" on the Twitter site to set up a widget, I didn't like how it looked (ie. logos). And, when I went to others' blogs, the widgets were very simple (muuuch better). I don't know much about HTML, but had done a bit of tweaking with hex color codes for the blog, so I looked at the code for the widget, but I couldn't figure out how to pare it down.

So, I started doing some online searching for things like "old twitter widgets" and such and came across a link to the HTML widget that is still on Twitter, but is hidden. Here's the link. However, the said widget isn't customizable like it is with the new (what I found out to be flash) one. And, there is a little note that states "It may not look like this. We're presuming, perhaps inappropriately, that you want to style this to match your site. You can do that with CSS."

I'm not very knowledgable about this sort of thing, so I did a search for "CSS" to find out what the heck it is. Then, I did a search for something like "how to use CSS for HTML Twitter widget" and found this site. It shows exactly where in the HTML code to add one's style for the widget...perfect. So, I studied the examples on this site and managed to come up with something that I liked! Here's a screen shot (in case I change it later)....

On the HTML widget, you can decide how many tweets you want to show for the widget, I chose four. For some reason today, the number was only showing three...so I bumped it up to five manually in the code...now it shows four. What the heck? But! it's still simple, which is what I wanted! The only strange bit are those little markers to the left of each tweet...I don't know where they came from. However, it's hard to complain with a simple little feed such as this....Hopefully, it doesn't crash on me.

Anyway, if any of you dear readers are experienced in such matters and have any advice, I'd love to hear from you! Any tips or resources would be most appreciated, I'm enjoying this little bit of cusomization. And, if you know why my number of tweets is one less than I instruct it to have, do tell why!

I hope your weekend is going well...we have more sun today which is so welcomed! Oh, and please...stop by and say "hi" on Twitter!

New Moo

I got a new batch of new Moo cards. I think they turned out nice:

I seem to be stuck on picking out five images each time I order. It seems to be the perfect amount. I lucked out and got in on a great sale...you can sign-up for their newsletter and be in on the latest.

Twitter

Yep, I finally decided to jump into Twitter-land. You can follow me by pushing the little Twitter button there in the left-hand column. Hope to chat with you soon!

Changes to the Shop

I'm working on new things for the shop, so there will be some changes...the first of which is that there is some vintage listed. I have some pieces that I'm going to de-stash and we'll see where this takes me. Here's what I've listed so far:

Set of 8 Bowls

Set of 6 Salad/Dessert Plates

Set of 7 Saucers

Set of 8 Coffee Cups

Creamer and Sugar Set

Set of 8 Dinner Plates

Platter

These are lovely because they have a floral pattern, but are not overtly feminine. They also have sweet scallop details.

Also, I've marked down many pieces in the shop that I don't plan to make any longer (like pincushions and bobby pins). I'm moving on a bit. You can find these 50% off deals in my clearance section.

Okay, all for now!

Extension on Free Shipping!

My free shipping sale was so fun, I've decided to extend it for the holiday season! I may have the shop closed while I'm visiting family for Christmas (December 20 - January 1), but until then the sale is on!

I also happened to get a treasury over the weekend, maybe some of these items will inspire your gift-giving:

You can click on the picture for a better view.

I hope your week is going well!

Black Friday Through Cyber Monday Sale!!!

As promised...holiday shopping goodness! Here's the skinny:

The sale is good through Monday (Pacific Standard Time).

Free domestic shipping as well as to: Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico!

International customers (other than those previously mentioned): free shipping on hair, jewelry, and mushroom pins...or for those items that still include a shipping charge (pincushions, "for your Wall," and doily paintings) a free gift!

Shipping is adjusted accordingly!

Easy peasy! Shop here!