This Week.........

Lots going on this week! It's rainy and yucky out today which means it's a good day to get stuff done inside........I really didn't feel like cleaning out the flower beds anyway ;) Here's a quick run down of life on the mountain:

* Eric is making a set of basic 2 pitch handcombs that could conceivabley be clamped to a table. They are not as fancy as the other 2 pitch handcombs but will be good for busting up and fluffing out washed fleece. They will run about $78 on the website and $85.80 in the etsy shop. Of course, I have to test them first to make sure they'll stand up to a good beating........I'm the perfect "crash test dummy"

*I'm now an Ashford dealer (sorry, not wheels, looms, or drum carders) and will be carrying crystal metallic fiber in 10 colors to start with in the etsy shop....5 more to come in the future. I now have access to all the Ashford parts for the wheels, looms, etc and accessories like bobbins and fly wheels as well as all the books and fibers they carry. If you need something Ashford let me know.......I can do bulk fiber and give you a good deal on anything else.

*I got my April Phat Fiber samples sent out on Wednesday and am in the planning stages of the samples for the May box. It's going to be something special with prizes involved! No, I'm not telling now........only one other person knows and she's been pinky sworn to secrecy ;)

*Alex is starting to act like a teenager........I wondered when it would happen. I think that child talks on the phone to his friend Kevin about 2 or 3 times a day and on the weekends who knows how many times. Kevin is cool though....he likes to be on speaker phone sometimes and talks to the whole family. Alex has been playing Monopoly in one of his classes at school to teach the kids about money, real estate, etc. We use to call him "Mr. Burns" (from the Simpsons) when we played Monopoly with him because he always had tons of property and piles of money. Apparently, this has not changed and he's cleaned everyone out every game they've played at school........to the point kids are getting tired of playing because they keep losing. He's always been lucky at games and cards and when you throw "smarticles" in with it, well, he's dangerous. I need to take that boy to Vegas.

*Katie Bug is still making super cute clay figures.......she loves chubby cute animals and has enough for a zoo. She's been getting A's on her tests in school (history, science, reading comprehension) and even B's in math........not her best subject but she gets that honest, if I don't have a calculator or my shoes off I'm lost. I've managed to get her to make me a few super cute sheep pins to go in my batt subscription packages and she's got ideas for more. Bless her heart, she's just like me.........so many ideas you hardly know where to start!

Okay, back to work........there are bags to sew, fiber to weigh, and pancakes to make!

Blog Drawing Giveaway

There's a Blue Mountain Handcrafts giveaway drawing on THE BEST OF ETSY blog. I'm giving away a small Caddy Sax bag to the winner. Go leave a comment about the shop and get your name in the drawing!!!

NEW ETSY SHOP.....NEW HEADACHE

Hi folks! Another quick post.......I'm so busy I don't know which end is up. I've opened a second Etsy shop. Yep, I've lost my mind. The jewelry was taking over the original shop so I thought it would be best to seperate the craft stuff from the sparkly stuff. The new shop is called BLUE MOUNTAIN HANDCRAFTS and the address is http://www.bluemtnhandcrafts.etsy.com The original shop has been renamed (this is so original, I know) BETH1818 and the address is http://www.beth1818.etsy.com with brand new avatar and banner. Oh!!! I found out BETH1818 made the Etsy front page on the 5th and the 8th of April!!!!! I don't know about the 5th but today (it is the 8th isn't it?) it was on a 4:44 a.m. my time so I missed it. You can have a peek at it on the side bar of the blog.

So, for 3 days I've been transferring items from the old shop to the new. I'm on the edge of being a drooling gibbering idiot from uploading pictures and transferring info so I decided I'm giving some of the stuff away. The details are on my website and there's a link on the side bar of the blog. Good luck to ya and thanks for participating!

Alex is almost completely over the chicken pox and Katie hasn't caught them.........I think she's catching something else. Great. They have off all this week for spring break and have taken full advantage of sleeping in and not getting out of their pajamas except to take showers and change underwear. That's fine with me, saves on laundry. Eric and I have been working on the computers so much trying to get stuff listed I think our eyeballs are going to fall out. I've managed to get some of my knitting worked on and a little spinning done so I need to update the website with that stuff and Katie has built another mini (I mean really mini) clay town with all the bells and whistles so I need to take pictures of that too. I'm exhaused. What I really need is a drink and a nap. Oh well, back to work. On a SUPER GOOD NOTE, my jumbo flyer unit is suppose to come today YIPPPEEEEE. Maybe my frontal labodomy coupon will shop up today too;)