Weekly Resolutions

- Craft Night with The Crafty Cunts

- Enjoy the less hours at work

- Continue to keep on the positive path

- Embrace change

- Craft, craft, craft

- Start on custom order for Amanda

So we are planning another amazing craft night, so excited to see the ladies.. spend time with them goofing off. We always have so much fun when we get together.

I have asked work to cut back my hours alittle, so I will be making less money.. but it is giving me time to reflect. Unfortunately I haven't spent hours crafting, just hours with "me" time, which has been so nice. Well Lee is definitely getting a lot of time too!

The past week I have decided to attack life at a different angle, stop some bad habits and continue my day to day with a much more positive attitude. I think it is working! I have had a really good week, despite someone's attempt at making me upset. Yea if you didn't hear someone reported my pin ups not only to photobucket but also myspace. I think it is really silly someone would go to such lengths to try to get to me.. but it isn't working. I just laughed it off!

Embracing change everyday! I have made a lot of changes in my life in the past week. I want to continue this because it is making me a stronger person! Not only is my attitude better but I feel more myself than I have in a very long time.

So I finally finished up my custom tea towels but now I must finish up this cross stitch I have been working on for a while. The border is huge, but I picked it because I really liked it, so suck it up Katie! It will be one of my favorite pieces once I am finished, I am sure!

Lee's friend Amanda asked me to do a custom piece for her boyfriend.. haha she refers to him as her husband basically.. She doesn't believe in marriage so they probably will never marry but they will be together forever. I mention this because the custom order is kinda her take on vows. I can't wait to do it, it should be hilarious!

Weekly Resolutions

- BE PATIENT!!

- Craft night with The Crafty Cunts

- Continue to craft

- Spend less time promoting

- Work, work, work

- Send Lauren her package

- Finish Lauren's package

-Send off Etsy Order

So Epic Failure on the whole being patient last week, so let's try it again this week! I guess I have just been super patient at work and not patient at all with crafting, promoting, or people that I thought were my friends.

But speaking for friends, I get to finally spend time with them. Last week we were not able to have craft night due to all The Crafty Cunts being insanely busy.. But Monday it is on and we are having a shindig for sure to make up for lost time. I seriously love my friends, they are so supportive no matter what I am going through and always listen and are very positive people.. Which is what I need. I cannot stand negative nancys, and I think I have had my fill of them for a lifetime!

I have recieved some great feedback on the tank top I did yesterday.. Yea already! People on Etsy are so friendly.. I have been taking a lot of their advice to make my page look even better and not so much like am a amateur.. There are things people look for in stores that I had no idea.. And I am going to share some secrets! A. Take as many pictures of your items as possible. B. Take them in daylight, not at night under a lamp or light.. it loses a lot when you do that plus it looks very unprofessional. C. Try to find something soild to use as a backdrop of your photos. Don't just take them on a shelf and post them.. it also looks unprofessional. Apparently they have a forum on Etsy specifically for people saying what is wrong with photos. So there is my advice for the noobs. Some of you don't need it, I know.

So my frustration with wanting to quit.. NO I am not crazy.. Just exhausted! It is exhausting spending your free time promoting when I would rather be crafting.. It is also exhausting having people complain constantly that they aren't selling anything. There is a rhyme and reason to that.. maybe because the photos, maybe because of the poor promoting.. maybe cause your stuff falls inbetween lines and lines of similar things.

Last night at work was awful, I really wanted to walk out.. but I didn't.. but I do believe that if this one girl keeps getting an attitude with me I am going to ask her to step outside. haha

Lauren from craftster, la la laurrenn, ordered my peeping tom piece.. So I have deicided to throw something extra together for her.. even though she told me not to, tough shit! I like you girl and want to do alittle something extra!

All in all not a super exciting week ahead but they never really are.. I am looking for to craft night with my friends and continuing to craft.. Thank you all for your kind words when I was going through a moment of turmoil, some of you really made me snap out of it! And I appreciate the kindness of people I barely know.

Weekly Resolutions

- Continue to be patient..

- Enjoy time with the boy

- Take some photos on one of my days off!

- Finish my custom order for my etsy shop!

- Do more cross stitchings!

- Craft night with the Crafty Cunts!

- Continue being positive..

So lately I have been trying to view life and situations differently. It is not easy, especially when you are stuck in a routine day in and day out.. After a while life becomes this rock that is trying to drag you down to the bottom of the lake. So I have been enjoying the small things, not let things I can't help or change get to me, and spend time with people who actually care.

I have been so lucky to meet Lee. We went out to eat last night with his mom, and I have say that the more we hang out with her, the more I think we get along. I guess in the past few years I have grown hesitant about meeting parents. I was very nervous with Lee, he is an only child and his father died two years ago. So his mom is the only one he has and vice versa. But she is so accepting. I got so tired of one of my ex's mom who would always ask me why I had them and that she didn't understand why I would do something so ugly when I am so pretty. It really bothered me.. and we dated for nearly two years, so I heard it a lot! But Lee's mom likes them and she doesn't point them out or ask about them.. She just accepts me the way I am.

I think we are finally going to have a Crafty Cunt night. They have been few and far lately because everyone has been so busy. But I am looking forward to reuniting with them and continuing our meetings once a week!

Weekly Resolutions

- DON'T QUIT YOUR JOB
- Work on my scarf
- Craft night with the Crafty Cunts
- Mail Jill's package
- Mail the custom order for Etsy
- Set up my sewing machine
- Enjoy my days off.. relax..
- Give thanks daily for the amazing people I do have in my life..
- Appreciate the cooler weather!

So I hate my job.. it is nothing special.. I work in a kitchen. I wouldn't hate it so much but I hate my boss. Our general manager.. which whom I work with more than I don't. I guess thats why it has been rubbing me so wrong. I just need to keep this job until I am finished with school.

I started a scarf like a week ago, or so.. and I have been putting it off, like whoa! Tonight we are all getting together and having a craft night and watching heroes! yes the crafty cunts love heroes!

I finally heard from the girl I did the custom order for, snitches get stitches, and she loves it.. So she bought it, which made me happy! So I have to send that out, along with Jill's.. I added Jill some extra things, so it is going out later than I had planned. My etsy store isn't doing amazing.. if it weren't for my friends I wouldn't be selling anything. It is crazy though cause since I got the agreement with Sublime Stitching I have only sold one of their pieces.. I am still selling the most out of original designs or little phrases.. which is kinda cool!

Tomorrow my friend is dropping off a vintage sewing machine table.. She said it may need to be refinished, so thats a new project! I am super excited to get it though. Now I can set up my sewing machine and maybe actually use it?! Get out!! It will fill out the craft room too! I should probably clean it tonight but I think I will do that tomorrow.

I have only been getting like one day off lately.. and working doubles.. and closing just to turn around and open the next morning. yea it has been killing me! I just need to enjoy the few I have off.. spend them loving my boyfriend and friends.. and enjoying this lovely change in the weather. It isn't suppose to get over 85 for the next two weeks.. So happy! :)

I just bought a boob off etsy.com! I am so excited, hehe.. ok so it is a crochet boob.. and the proceeds go to Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. I just wanted to share this awesome piece and this awesome seller, goaskmalice!

Weekly Resolutions!

- Start on project(s) for Brook!
- Figure out what I am going to make for Sewphie!
- Craft Night Monday! (make rice crispy treats!)
- Tattoo Appt on Tuesday night!!!!!!!
- Continue to try to better myself daily.. No one is perfect!
- Continue going to work in a good mood.
- Love everyday like it might be my last, because honestly it very well could be!

So usually I post this on Sunday.. Sunday is the end of my week usually so I like posting my resolutions at the beginning of the next week.

This past week has been insane.. One of my online friends lost someone that was once dear to her and was the father of her child. I feel helpless because I don't know what to say.. all I can get out of this is.. wake up! life is short! don't waste any time on something that isn't important.. for all you know the last 30 minutes could be your last 30 minutes ever! If you feel you should say something don't bottle it up, don't ignore the urges.. It could very well be just as important to the person you want to say it to.

I have been spending a lot of time with my new friends. I haven't lived in this area for too long, a year.. It was a hard transition and now I am feeling at home and wanted. It is a really great feeling! And our craft nights are the best! We have named ourselves the Crafty Cunts! Or the Crafty Cupcakes to our grandmothers.. haha. It has been so long since anywhere felt like a home that was welcoming and accepting. Its usually judgemental.. I am really thankful for this change of pace!

Work has been no different, but I have been managing to not let things get to me so much. It has been a great relief. But they still tried to call me in tonight.. caller id best invention ever!

Tonight I went to a party.. it was fun! I got to see some amazing people, which whom I have been hanging out every weekend with for the past month.. month and a half. It is like when you are a kid and you have that group of friends that is like family!

All in all I guess I should have titled this post friendship.. because it has really been the only thing that has snapped me to my senses.. that and started reading a lot of inspirational things. I just hope that everyone knows that life is short.. and we should love one another instead of hating and being spiteful and judgemental. I don't want my last second to be spent hating or regretting. Hope you all have a wonderful night!

♥
Katie Kutthroat