Etsy Progress

Yesterday I made a legit banner for my Etsy shop and soon after I made my first sale!  It was so exciting.  It took 725 shop views, but somebody finally bought something.  It isn't really such a long time from when I opened my shop, but it feels like it to me.  And then I spent all of today (I'm writing this at 10:01 PM on Tuesday) taking apart old jewelry I no longer wear and sorting so many beads that my eyes are tired.  And I watched some How I Met Your Mother, because let's face it, it makes time pass faster.  Here's my new Etsy banner.

In case anyone else wants to download the first font I used for the main text, you can do that for free here. 
Just download and then right click on the font name in the downloaded file, and click "Install".

And this is the piece that I sold.

In other news, I'm saving up my money now for a really great camera so I can take better product photos.  So far I've saved $2, but every bit counts.  And at some point in the hopefully not too distant future, I'll be making my first legit design for this blog.  Everything so far has been thrown together in an hour or less.  So my life is good right now, busy but good.  And productive.  Also, I just had Hot Pockets for dinner, which I hadn't eaten since college, and I'm about to try a new limited edition ice cream flavor, coconut macaroon (Update: that ice cream is so delicious that I want to bathe in it, so everyone should definitely try it before they stop selling it, since it's limited edition.  Like my old favorite: caramel apple pie flavor: RIP.).  And I'm going to catch up on my blog reading.

And finally, a friendly reminder, Google Friend Connect will be going away March 1st, so make sure you follow my blog and all of the blogs you enjoy by some other method before then.  I really like Bloglovin', which I just joined a few days ago, and while it's sort of a hassle to find all the blogs you read and follow them one by one, it's really great after you get that all done.  You can follow me by Bloglovin' by clicking here.

A Bit of Housekeeping Regarding my New Blog Design

I'm sure most of you noticed that I made some pages at the top of my blog, in an attempt to de-clutter my sidebar.  One of the unforseen problems with this is that I moved all of the blogs I read, which had previously been part of a widget that showed me the latest post on each blog so that I could easily see when they updated, to a page.  So now, in order to see when you guys post new blog posts, I have to actually go through and click each blog to check.  Either that or start using Google Reader, which I've never used.  Part of my OCD is that I am very averse to change.  I like to do things one way all the time.  But I will attempt to use my Google Reader, just because I know your posts will be worth it.  However, I probably won't read your blogs every single day, so that thing I do where I comment on nearly every post will probably not happen quite so much any more.  And for that, I am truly sorry, unless the sheer volume of my comments annoys you, in which case I guess you can go celebrate or something.