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Weekly What List July 6 – 12

July 5, 2010 / Molly / No comments

This week has been a busy one. I was a bit sick at the start of the week but am almost over it now. We had a special guest arrive later in the week and it was my hubby’s birthday. What a good week!

Review of the Weekly What List for the week of June 29 – July 5

Physical
- Get better – yes!
- Eat a bit better – hmmmmmmm

Spiritual
- read the next part of Philippians chapter 2 – yes

Creative
- Make 1 more custom order – no
- Work on sock – no
- Take beads to bead shop – no
- Try out some new cake topper designs – yes

On-line shops
- blog at least twice – once I think

Family
- Plan July birthdays – especially cakes – yes!
- Find out costs for outside school activities – no
- Prepare spare bed – yes
- Get through the mountain of washing – yes

Friends
- Make or buy present – sort of
- Send engagement card – no

Weekly What List for the week of July 6 – 12

Physical
- Eat a bit better

Spiritual
- read the next part of Philippians chapter 3

Creative
- Make 1 more custom order
- Take beads to bead shop
- Try out some new cake topper designs
- Preparation for the market

On-line shops
- blog at least twice

Family
- Find out costs for outside school activities

Friends
- Make or buy present
- Clean house for visitors
- Make food for visitors

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Made On The Left

July 4, 2010 / Molly / No comments

I got brave and applied (and was accepted) to sell at the next Made On The Left market in July. I’ll be there in less than two weeks time on Saturday July 17th sharing a table with another seller. I’m quite excited to be selling and instead of going overboard like I normally do I’ve narrowed down what I want to take to three or four sections. These include:

-My 1950s Collection
-General Jewellery from my Etsy store
-Some Print and Paper Items (not much, mainly gocco printed cards and hand stamped/watercolour cards)
-Examples of my cake toppers

I will be neatly dividing these up into the separate areas on my part of the table. I won’t be taking beads or homewares at all. Most of it is already done, I’m just up to making up samples of cake toppers and also will need to make up some more 1950s jewellery and magnets plus bag up some of the cards. Shouldn’t be too hard right? Oh dear, I think I’ve just decided what I’m doing when my friend visits all day on Tuesday……market prep!

Here’s the details:

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Etsy Meetup – Etsy’s 5th Birthday Party

June 21, 2010 / Molly / One comment

Last Friday, June 18th there were parties all around the globe to celebrate the 5th birthday of the website I sell on, Etsy. Etsy invited people all around the world to have an Etsy meet-up in their area and if your attending numbers were in the top 50 list you would receive a pack from Etsy to help celebrate. Our Perth meet-up got into the top 50 so we got a pack of things to play with on the night.

We met together early enough to buy dinner and then anyone who brought along something to make or do….made or did that. I brought some clay with me but more just to play with. A good friend of mine also came along so we had a great time chatting. Most people who came brought with them destash items (things we no longer wanted) and in return we picked up things we wanted from the pile.

What a great night, there was a crafty table set up with all sorts of things and some people got to work making bunting for the next Made On The Left Market. There was an orange Etsy cake and lots of photos were taken. Thanks Lauren (Osier) for organising the event, you did a fabulous job!


The things I swapped on the night.

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Photo of The Day – May 26

May 26, 2010 / Molly / One comment

This week I have banned myself from facebook, bloglines (my blog reader) and surfing the net for what some might think of as a silly reason. Basically I don’t want to find out anything from the LOST finale. Stupid I suppose but hey, I’ve been watching that show since it started and I want the ending to be a surprise. Actually, its not the whole week, just until tonight (Wed Aussie time) because tonight is the night! I’ve been over to facebook a couple of times but went directly to answer a question (which is funny because I answered a couple of other messages via normal email instead, can’t seem to be consistent). My can and can’t do list has been something like this:

Can’t
- Facebook
- Blog reading
- Surf
- most forums
- news.com.au
- twitter

Can
- Skype
- Check emails
- List on Etsy
- Work on my on-line shops
- Do these daily blog posts
- Flickr

Its been interesting because out of habit I put a link to each of these posts on my facebook news-feed and also on twitter. Not sure why, its just a habit.

The outcome (and I’m getting to the point of the photo of the day) is this;

- I’ve spent less time on the computer first thing in the morning
- I’m not not up to date with everyone’s news or photos
- I haven’t really seen the news since Sunday (I don’t watch it on TV because of the kids)
- I’ve listed new items in my Polyclarific store and tweaked photos and listings
- I’ve blogged on the Polyclarific blog a few times
- I put the first Polyclarific newsletter out
- I sorted out google analytics for my three online shops and my two blogs
- There is less ‘noisy chatter’ around me (I often feel as if the Internet is like sitting in a noisy cafe)

The photo above is one of the items I’ve been meaning to photograph for a while. Its not yet listed in the store but will be soon. The thing that has surprised me is that I’ve not missed facebook or reading blogs at all. I have missed catching up with people and that sort of thing but I have decided that just as we need a holiday from our usual routine in the physical world, a break from these things in the virtual world is a healthy thing to do too. I’m probably going to restart those things tomorrow morning but I have realised (happily) that I’m not as addicted to them as I thought and that I also don’t NEED to be on facebook to keep up with people all the time. It is however a handy tool and so I’ll be seeing you all tomorrow sometime, right after I find out what happens on LOST.

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Weekly What List – May 25 – 31

May 24, 2010 / Molly / No comments

This past week was a quiet one. The girls were back to good health and we all got a tiny bit more sleep. Now to the list:

Revision of the Weekly What List for the week of May 18 – 24

Physical
- Giving myself a week off – well sort of

Spiritual
- read through the rest of Philippians – yes
- continue reading book. – no
- pray pray pray. – yes

Creative
- Try making clay stamp – no
- Freezer paper transfers – yes
- List magnets on Polyclarific - no
- Finish knitting L’s vest – no but I did complete one side and am a third of the way through side 2

- Continue with sock before starting anything new – oh dear, started knitting a dolls dressing gown for K!

Family
- Come up with a plan to transfer L to K’s room – we started thinking about it
- Birthdays – yes to one

Friends
- June birthdays – thinking, thinking, thinking
- Send engagement card – no, got to check the address

Weekly What List for the week of May 25 – 31

Physical
- Visit local gym to check it out

Spiritual
- read through Philippians again, write down stand out verses
- continue reading book
- pray pray pray

Creative
- Try making clay stamp
- Freezer paper transfers – do third one
- List magnets on Polyclarific (photograph them first)
- Finish knitting L’s vest
- Continue with sock and dressing gown

(new section)
On-line shops
- Continue with rephotographing items and adjusting listings
- blog at least twice
- look into advertising
- list new items
- organise bus cards for KeLu and Polyclarific

Family
- Start looking at furniture for girls room
- Birthdays continued

Friends
- June birthdays
- Send engagement card

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Click Click Work, Click Click Kids

May 20, 2010 / Molly / 2 comments

Before I share anything let me warn you, this will be a photo heavy post. It needs to be in order to achieve what I’m aiming at in this post. I want to show you how I take many of the photos of my creations. The best way to tell you is to show you using the photos themselves so here goes;


Kids happy and playing, time to take some shots of my work…..


Click Click


Check: yes kids still playing nicely, different game but still nicely


Click………uh oh, door has opened and closed while I’m clicking…….


Ah yes, (as per previous blog post) thought so, she’s gone inside (retrieves toddler)…


Click, Click………


Time to pack up my stuff, she’s found a capsicum with a worm in it…….click click clicks capsicum (post later)……

Meanwhile, the following morning I tried again, this time with only Little L.


Ok, she’s happy and safe playing with the pegs and a seedling tray……….time to click…..


Click, click, click, click…..where’s she gone?


Oh, bored with the pegs she’s retrieved the buckets and wants to get into the sandpit (puts down camera and lifts child into sandpit)


Click, click, click…..time to check……


Ok, good still happily in the sandpit and safe………back to clicking…..


Click, uh oh, she’s……………..


Climbing out of the sandpit all on her own…….puts camera down…..


Click, click, click…..hang on whats all the commotion about?


Oh, hubby is chasing a chicken away from the lettuce……


Click, click, click…..’huh, what was that little L, you said ‘wook Mummy, ding ding’……


Ah I see, so cute, on your sister’s bike…….right back to it then………..



Not so fast…….toddler wants in on the action…….’ohhhh, pretty wollies Mummy’…….hmmm exactly why I don’t let her near them usually but under supervision a great memory is created.

All photographing ended at that point……..not a bad place to end (for today anyway).

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Photo of the Day – May 20

May 20, 2010 / Molly / No comments

Can you tell what this photo of the day is showing. Let me explain. This is my setup for taking some photos of my work for my Etsy shop. Sometimes, if the weather is right and the girls are happy I go out the front or back with them (and shut the gates if out the front) and they play while I take photos. This is the only way I can get shots of my listings during the day when the sun is in the right spot. I usually get a dozen or so items photographed before one of them gets bored or into mischief and I have to stop.

That’s what happened here. Miss L let herself back into the house and climbed up onto our lounge to look through the window. My photographing stopped at this point. Theres no point trying to continue when they need me for either entertainment or supervision or cuddles. Here’s what I mean about it being my setup, this is one of the shots:

Today I did much the same thing out the back with Miss L wandering around. Hubby was home today so she was wandering between us outside. I’ll be doing a blog post showing the in-between shots as I took pictures of my work. I want to share how I attempt to balance making and selling my work while having a toddler all day. I really feel that during this ‘season’ of my life I’m ok at making things, I get there with photographing them and I can even get to listing but when it comes to promoting and marketing…I fail. I think this is why I have so few sales at the moment. Things will improve eventually but for now I don’t mind, I think its worth it.

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Weekly What List – May 18 – 24

May 17, 2010 / Molly / 2 comments

Time to have a peruse over the weekly list again. This last week was a bit full on with both girls coming down with a virus first and then croup. They are both on the mend now and I actually got a reasonable amount of sleep last night. So, time to have a look at the list:

Weekly What List for the week of May 11 – 17

Physical
- Take ecchinacea – yes most days
- Cut down on the carbs a bit – yes, didn’t have sandwiches every day

Spiritual
- read through Philippians – yes, almost half way
- continue reading book. – no
- pray pray pray. – yes

Creative
- List items in Polyclarific – yes, check out the shop
- Try making clay stamp – not yet
- Glue on more magnets – yes
- Freezer paper transfers – no but hoping to tonight

Family
- Put together reward chart prizes for K. – no
- Try to go to the park with L and K again. – yes!

Friends
- June birthdays – yes started
- Send engagement card. – I bought it!

Weekly What List for the week of May 18 – 24

Physical
- Giving myself a week off

Spiritual
- read through the rest of Philippians
- continue reading book.
- pray pray pray.

Creative
- Try making clay stamp
- Freezer paper transfers
- List magnets on Polyclarific
- Finish knitting L’s vest
- Continue with sock before starting anything new

Family
- Come up with a plan to transfer L to K’s room
- Birthdays

Friends
- June birthdays
- Send engagement card

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Weekly What List – May 11 – 17

May 10, 2010 / Molly / One comment

What a full on week that was. It was one of those weeks where so much happened that I was sure it was two weeks not one (you know that feeling of ‘oh! Was that only a week ago!’. From friends having a baby, enrolling the kids in their school, my brother getting a job to parties and friends coming over and medical appointments. It was exhausting! To top it off was of course Mother’s Day yesterday. Who knew you could squeeze so much into a week.

Here’s the review of last week’s list:

Review of Weekly What List for the April 27 – May 3

Physical
- Rest more - no!! Too much happened
- Try another fruit – no but Michael bought me another pomegranate.

Spiritual
- read through Philippians – no, read other stuff
- begin reading book. – yes a bit

Creative
- Mother’s Day gifts for church – culled this idea
- Mother’s Day gifts from girls – moved this idea to birthdays
- Glue on more magnets - no, but did complete other stuff for the shop
- Freezer paper transfers - sort of, bought a tshirt and decided on a design or two

Family
- Put together reward chart prizes for K. – still no (this is getting embarrasing) however we did let her choose a prize at the shop
- investigate doll’s house furniture. – will do for her birthday

Friends
- Present for A. – yes
- Send engagement card. – no

Weekly What List for the week of May 11 – 17

Physical
- Take ecchinacea
- Cut down on the carbs a bit

Spiritual
- read through Philippians
- continue reading book.
- pray pray pray.

Creative
- List items in Polyclarific
- Try making clay stamp
- Glue on more magnets
- Freezer paper transfers

Family
- Put together reward chart prizes for K.
- Try to go to the park with L and K again.

Friends
- June birthdays
- Send engagement card.

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Weekly What List – May 4 – 10

May 3, 2010 / Molly / No comments

Time to look over my weekly what list again. This past week wasn’t too busy but we had a few great days with outings and meetings. We also had our first ever parent/teacher meeting at Kindy. So this is what was on the list last week:

Weekly What List for the April 27 – May 3

Physical
- Take back heart monitor – yes
- STOP EATING CHOCOLATE, sugar and a bit of carbs – no
I even ate a fruit I hadn’t tried before after it being on the list for a few weeks!

Spiritual
- read through Philippians. – not yet

Creative
- Glue on more magnets. – no
- List Sterling Set on Polyclarific – yes!
- List wrapping paper on KeLu – yes!
- Freezer paper transfers – Yes! Started them

Family
- Put together reward chart prizes for K. – no
- investigate doll’s house furniture. – no

Friends
- Complete book. – Yes! Its done, its ordered, its on its way
- Send engagement card. – no

Weekly What List for the April 27 – May 3

Physical
- Rest more
- Try another fruit

Spiritual
- read through Philippians
- begin reading book.

Creative
- Mother’s Day gifts for church
- Mother’s Day gifts from girls
- Glue on more magnets
- Freezer paper transfers

Family
- Put together reward chart prizes for K.
- investigate doll’s house furniture.

Friends
- Present for A.
- Send engagement card.

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