TAGGED!

Well i came on here to update and find i've been tagged by bunny! So i suppose its my turn to blog and tag. so here goes. Ten things about me.

1. I work in a pet shop. Its pretty small but pretty fun. Although today i have to clean all the animals out...but that does mean i get to cuddle the new, cute, tiny rabbits!!

2. my most watched films are Moulin rouge, drop dead fred and the Doctor who film..

3. i had my first tattoo when i was 17

4. i love cheerios.

5. I still have a video recorder because i have way more videos than i do dvd's/

6. I prefer 1st new series of Doctor who, although i'm liking the 3rd.

7. i have NEVER lost a game of disney trival pursuit

8. i am sooo sleepy right now.

9. I'm teaching my brother to play bass.

10. i am queen of selling hamsters. resist their cute fluffy-ness i dare you!

Getting pen to paper. or fingers to keyboard...

Recently i've realised..i opened my etsy shop to sell my books and i havn't even listed one yet. I've let all my written works take a back seat in my etsy doings and tried to be a bit like everyone else on etsy, listing my prints and my plushies instead. Decided its finally time to get all my written stuff sorted and listed, i need to re-write the ending for "My Green eyed Fish" seeing as it went missing for some reason and to get re-writing "Book boy and Glasses Girl" as i lost most of it when my computer was wiped. I'm also thinking of starting a zine, not sure how to go about creating them though, i know alot of people use their home printers but i wouldn't be sure how to go about it so any tips are welcome?
I'm just so ready to get back to writing, i wanted to be a writer ever since i was little, ever since i can remember and it just seems wrong thats not what i'm doing, so watch this space and my blog, some stuff should be up soon!

LittleMissRiver.x

Etsy Addicts Anonymous Project

Etsy. Lets face it, we're all addicted in some way or form. I pesonally rush home from my day job and jump right into the forums to catch up on what i've missed or i sit and browse through all the wonderful wonderful things to buy...sometimes i even make a list to buy when my money comes through.

Recently i've thought about starting something up, there's so many great things going on at the moment, the Secret peace buddy swap, The Uk Supplies swap, The Etsy Journal and much much more! And lately everyone is discussing how darn addictive good ole etsy is and so...i've dreamed up, The Etsy Addicts Anonymous Project.

What is it?
The Etsy Addicts Anonymous Project is a huge contribution project, especially great for promotion (of etsy and its sellers) and for Etsy Addicts. I plan for it to be full of Pieces from fellow etsyians.

Whats in it?
How to pages - Fancy sharing one your great makes or a specialist process? Show us step by step in the how to pages

Featured sellers pages - Never been on the front page (or maybe you have) dying to be asked questions a plenty for the world to see, the featured sellers pages are for you!

Treasury Pages - Submit your favourite item from your etsy shop to be put into one of five treasury pages (even better these treasuries wont run out after 2 days!)

Etsy Addiction pages - Share your Etsy addiction stories or ideas to keep you away from Etsy!

Motivational pages - Anything to help motivate people to create, perhaps a page with just one word, perhaps a page full of random words, a photograph, a piece of art, a story ANYTHING AT ALL.

How do i become a part of it?
Simply send me an e-mail at coin.operated_boy@hotmail.co.uk letting me know what you have in mind and what section you'd like to be in, Obviously there will be limits to how pages we have in each section, so far i'm thinking:

20 how to pages

10 featured seller pages

5 treasury pages (with nine blocks in each)

5 Etsy addiction pages

15 motivational pages

When does it start?

5th May 2007 (today) to 1st June 2007

Where will it be available?

I plan to sell copies in my shop at cost (the cost of printing and shipping) so there will be no profift to me, i hope to be able to create options for other sellers to be able to sell the book in their own stores as well.

interested? drop me a comment or an e-mail.

Questions? feel free to do the same.

Little Miss River.x

Featured seller: Kittypinkstars!!

Kitty Pink Stars. Isn't that just the best name? Even her name sounds cute pink and fuzzy doesn't it? Kitty Pink Stars is just that! Cute pink and fuzzy with a dash of kooky thrown in!

Kittypinkstars.etsy.com

KittyPinkStars makes super cute sock creatures with knitted treats, she's even recently gone on to create knitted animal ear hats and head bands (which are super duper cute!)

I can speak from personal experiance about how great a seller, etsyian and crafter KittyPinkStars is, having brought three of her creations already, two of which were created especially for me! She's super friendly, helpful and every creature she makes is full of magic! So time for a few questions for the socky Queen!

Have you always been crafty? Were you knitting before you could walk or was it something you learnt later in life?

i'VE aLWaYS BeeN CReaTiVE AnD aRTY RaTHeR ThaN SuPeR BRaiNY!! LoL aND CRaFTS HaVE ALwaYS BeeN mY PaSSiON!!! mY MuM TaUGHT Me To KNiT WhEN i WaS VeRY YoUNG...AnD mY NaN WaS AMAZiNG AND UsED To KNiT AND SeW ALL mY ToYS!! i'VE aLWaYs MaDE CLoThES BuT i FoRGoT ABoUT KNiTTiNG uNTiL i HaD mY SoN..ThEN i KNiTTeD AgaiN AND ThE ResT iS HisToRY!!

What did you get up to before you discovered etsy?

MaDe CLoThES AND STuFF FoR mY LiTTLe BoY WhiLST BeiNG MuM!!

The Knitted extras to your socky creations range from iced dougnuts and pop tarts to a bottle of southern comfort and trumpets! Is there anything you can't knit?

NoT ThaT i'M aWARe oF!! LoL!! Go oN CHaLLeNGe Me!! i'LL GiVE KNiTTiNG ANYTHiNG A GO!!

What are your two favouite creations and why?

mY KNiTTeD DoUGHNuT BaDGES!! BeCAUsE ThEY CaN JusT SNaZZ uP ThE PLaiNEST oUTFiT AND FuZZBeeS BeCAUsE ThEY aRE Sooo CuDDLY

Where would you say the inspiration for socky creatures comes from?

mY HeRO JoHN MuRPhY!!! i GoT ThE STuPiD SoCk CReaTURE BooK FoR CHRisTMAS 2 YeaRS AGo AND WeNT mY oWN WaY WiTH SoCKS!!! NoW He LiKeS mY STuFF AND CaLLs Me AN aRTiST!!! (i'M NoT WoRTHY!!!) ThaT ANd mY LoVE oF KooKY KNiTTeD TREaTS AND BRiGHT CoLoURS

What is your favouite thing about crafting and why?

BeiNG ABLe To CReaTE SoMeTHiNG FRoM mY CaNDYFLoSS MiND ThaT oThER PeOPLe LoVE!! And ThE FReeDoM ThaT CoMeS WiTH iT!! AND PeOPLe CoMiNG BaCK To Me SaYiNG HoW HaPPY TheiR NeW SoCkY FRiEND HaS MaDE ThEM!!

Last question, If you were a pirate what would you name your pink knitted parrot?

PoLLY PoM PoM!!!

So go on! Get over to KittyPinkStars magical sock work right now and get clicking!

Busy Busy Busy meeee

So. Life here at chance.of.rain has been a little busy for a change. i've made a couple of super cute large cloud plushies.Although they look super cute i'm not going to list them is etsy because they just look a bit rough and the material keeps ripping so they have a few tiny holes..i will however with my first paycheque, get some white fleece and try again...for now they guard my bedroom.

I joined a swap thing called the "Etsy secret buddy peace swap" its like a pen/pacrcel pal we exchange at least eight things over 3 months, i can;t say who my buddy is (because its a secret!) but i've already sent her a letter and am hoping to get something made to send to her (although i'm not sure what yet) i'm rather excited about this really!

I've also joined an etsy compettion, the "haim in on fire" compettion, here is my work in progress:

Nothing breakthrough amazing...one of the admin mentioned sending them cookies, so i'm making a little sort of "do not disturb" kinda thing, that pink blob with blue blobs is a magical cookie by the way. don't ask.

I've also got my new myspace up and running www.myspace.com/littlemissriver so check it out and add away.

and last but not least i've been taking some photos to get printed up so should have some prints in the shop by may, keep your eyes peeled (and have a look at the "my pictures" section on my myspace!

Fair thee well all!

LMR.x

So i gave in.

Thats right i gave in and got a blogger account, Live journals okay but not much fun when everyone else is over here on blogger..its like going to a theme park on your own while your friends are at home doing housework. not fun.

Also i've been tagged again, so where better to start then with 10 random things about me.
(again)

1) When i'm expecting post (and sometimes when i'm not) i sit on my bed with my laptop, or whatever is occupying my mind at the time and every few seconds i'll look through my blinds to see if i can see the postmans bike at the top of the road. In-fact right now i'm waiting for a royal mail van to bring a lovely boutique tutu from http://littleloveables.etsy.com, everytime i hear a loud car or a van i poke my head up and move the blinds out the way to look outside...yet i still won't open my blinds.

2) I once spent a whole day watching lilo and stitch. I watched the first film in the morning and then discovered a lilo and stitch episode marithon on the disney channel, i then watched the second film and the first again. and people wonder why i talk so much crap?

3) I learnt to play saxophone just so this cute ginger guy with freckles would notice me. I spent hours and hours practising the pink panther theme tune, then when it came down to the show i was in he was watching, i got stage fright and blew into the saxophone creating a terrible horrible loud wet fart sounding noise.
i didn't go back to school for a week.

4) When i was about three it snowed really heavily in our back garden, mum and dad brought me this super cute pink snow suit (which i hated) i was running round our snow filled back garden in said pink snow suit with my dad watching me, he turned round to talk to my mum when half way through the conversastion she shouted "Where's Jemma gone!!" When they stumbled into the garden they found me in a large snow filled hole, i had been running round and fallen into what was at some point meant to be a pond, all you could see was a little pink bauble on the top of the snow suit.

5) I am still terribly afraid of gremlins.
Remember Gizmo the cute little mogwai? i loved him to bits but whenever i went to sleep from the age of about six, i would NOT turn the light off (Gremlins don't like light you see) i didn't actually sleep with the lights off till i was about 11, i didn't even like going downstairs to get a drink in the dark. Of course now i sleep with the light off and usually with le significant other but sometimes i'll still freak out...especially when i've been drinking.

6) I have broken all my toes all my fingers and both my arms. In-fact i have broken one of my arms twice, exactly a year apart and right before going on holiday. grrr.

7) I really don't mind bugs, don't mind them at all. But if they land on me, its a whole different game. I was sitting at the train station last week, off to do some paper shopping, twas a nice day and then this big fat ugly beetle thing landed on me i stood up from the bench i was on and did what looked like a weird dance, i didn't want to squash it or touch it (cause thats mean and i might piss it off) i managed to get my jumper off (almost as fast as i got up!) and continued my strange dance as i threw my jumper on the floor, i then picked up my jumper and sat down as normal, with all these people in suits starring at me.

8) I remember when i was six they did really cool my little pony toys at McDonalds..i really really wanted to get a happy meal so i could have a my little pony, i asked mum and she said we didn't have enough money. i stormed off upstairs and came up with a bright idea...i cut my bum length hair into a just below the ear bob then proudly went downstairs to tell mum we could go to McDonalds because we wouldn't have to pay for me to get my hair trimmed for a long long while.

we never did go in the end.

9) I used to believe i could really fly. You know those dreams you get when you're flying? i don't know about you guys but mine seemed really really relisitic, they would always start with me taking a run up, jumping into the air and being able to fly. So one morning i woke up and i made myself a cape out of one of my dressing gowns and jumped off my bed. Pretty high as well, i flapped my arms as hard as i could but fell to the floor. Fourtnatly my arm broke my fall and i had to be taken to A and E. While there i told the doctor i broke my arm flying and that its much harder than it looks.

10) I own five pairs of fairy wings, six fairy themed headbands and four magic wands.