Reopening Artfire Shop

So... I have decided to open my Artfire shop again (http://pastrystitches.artfire.com) and going to try to quickly make some Halloween items for my shop. I am hoping by Saturday I will have at least 3 to 5 new items in it ^_^. Maybe a few Halloween themed fabric flower hair clips and scrabble tiles.

Coming back!

I am coming back to the crafting world!! I am trying hard to keep myself busy everyday, lol. I am going to work on plushies for my craft shops. On top of that, I am working on my books still and hoping next year to send one into a contest. Then if I don't win, gonna just send it into publishing.

I am hoping on my blog that every Friday I will do a blog entry on a crafter that's unique and friendly. Good customer service and all of that. Going to have to work on the format and questions I will do for that. If not on this blog... a different blog ^^.

Long Time No See

It's been a looooong time since I posted on this thing. I haven't done etsy/artfire stuff for a long time, so that's one of the main reasons I haven't been on here. Sadly I still don't have time to make things, but I would like to get active on my blogging again. I am thinking of making a new blog... kinda like an advice column/Q&A. Trying to think of a name for it and all. I hope it works and gets a lot of attention. I like helping people and giving advice. It's probably going to be a relationship advice type of thing... but not just bf/gf (bf/bf and gf/gf) and marriage, but also parent/child, siblings, business, and etc.

Any ideas for a name?

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GIVEAWAY!!

Etsy Gamers Anime Team is having their first group giveaway! This is a winner take all giveaway, all of the items will go to one lucky winner. The giveaway will end on the 8th of June. Here are the pictures of the items ^_^ go here to find out more about the giveaway and how to enter.