BHF wold map, Taking a Quck Breath

I am sooo excited! Yesterday was my birthday and Hubs got me exactly what I wanted: A HUGE map of the world. I wanted a world map so that I could put it up in the office on some cork board and every sale that I got, I would put a red push pin from where the customer who bought it was from. I got this idea when I saw a visitor map on Lime and Violet's blog and thought it would be cool but I wanted to do it 'my way'. So as soon as I can procure some red push pins, I will post pictures up and try and have an updated picture of it every week or so. It'll be my little way of appreciating everyone who's got a little piece of me. :) (sorry, squishy heart stuff, I couldn't help it!)


I'm also going to be taking a 'breather' for a bit. I'm having a big birthday party this weekend and having a guest come and stay with me and it looks like a flock of sheep exploded in my house...ack! I am doing some dyeing today but I would be lying if I'm getting them up before the weekend (okay, I might try, but no promises). In the pot right now; Fawkes, Mrs Norris, Oz, and hopefully I'll get some Norberts, Crookshanks and also finalizing the four other colorways of the Sock Club. (Only two more weeks till it officially opens!)

A quick note on the club too...which I can't remember now if I had said something earlier or not, I've got the contest rules finalized and to give a quick note on it, I'm going to do a photo and essay contest. No, no rules on the length, but the photo contest is going to be a scavenger hunt of sorts. When I post it, if you absolutely cannot due the photo contest for one reason or another, please send me a message on etsy, here or ravelry (tonks) and I'll see what I can work out.

Can't wait!

Quick Update, New Stock, Decision Time

Urg, two days till I turn 28....16 seemed like only yesterday! I've got high hopes for my birthday party, it looks like things might finally go off without a hitch. (hitting knuckles hard against the wood desk!)

I'm uploading new stock as we speak. (or as I write) Things have been 'difficult' getting things in order this week for some reason... I also have three orders of Sunflowers and had my last batch not go so well. They're in the pot today attempting to own up to the colorway and hopefully my luck will turn with them.

Decision time: My theatre job has been getting in the way of my dyeing job. I love working up there, but like today I'm going as quickly as I can to get stuff done. I don't like being rushed and I've felt that way for the past four weeks. It is my last two days, today and tomorrow so I'll just have to see how I feel. With the sock club coming up, everything is going to take a back seat to it. Just going to have to think on it.

Oh and a quick preview of the ad for the sock club....maybe there is a clue in here? (I'm not telling!)

Have had no time to post!

Things have been super busy...even since last time I posted! I'm trying to get ready for the sock club launch. I am soooo excited about it. I hope it does really welll. I think the colors in it are going to be nice but the fact that it's going to a good cause.

So I've been thinking about the contest for the club and I have come up with an idea. I picture scavenger hunt and a 'short essay'. I'm going to assign 6 different things that you have to photograph, all yarn related. And the essay will be about how this entity has affected your life. I am going to keep the essay down to a minimum. At the end of the sock club once all the yarn has been received and hopefully been knit up, I'm going to send in the contest photos, the stories, and hopefully pictures of FO's to this entity. ARGH! The inability to say anything about it is killing me!!! March 15th......not too far away.

Okay, other news....hmm. I've come up with a few new colors.

• This is Mrs Norris, Revved, Fawkes and Arc from left to right.

I'm soon going to be adding a Norbert, Crookshanks, Nagini, and a Buckbeak. Yes, I got bit by the Harry Potter bug, but I thought it'd be much more fun to give the lesser characters their stamp.

Revved and Arc have not made it up into the Etsy store yet. I have been having 'issues' with Etsy all of a sudden so it's made life getting things up on the store much more a pain. It only further perpetuates how frustrated I am that I don't have my own website or someone willing to work on it. I'm getting to the point where I was seriously considering sending a desperate plea to an ex boyfriend... I've looked at some's services online and a lot of them are just not me and the ones I've seen with the mostly self service are still WAY out of my price range. I guess we'll just have to see.

Sorry for a quick and vague update. I'm going to open a presale here a couple days before the official launch on the etsy. The contest is going to be officially announced on March 1st including the details of the rules. Forgot to add that if you purchase a club and enter the sock club and win you can receive all of your money back, or donate a partial or full amount. And like all other contests, no purchase to win.

Back to work!

Busy Bees

Oh, have I been busy busy! Many of you may have noticed the stock that's updated into the store. It has been a bit of a slow process, but everything seemed to come to ahead this past week. Some news:

1. The Franken Winder will be going today/tomorrow for testing! Yay! The only thing I'm worried about with it is that it does better than my yarn!
2. I have some sock club news, starting in mid April. I might do a sneak preview or a contest for 5 people to get a special discount off of the subscription. Because this is a charity club, there isn't going to be any real savings for doing the club, but you can feel really good about helping out!
3. Two more weeks and I'm done at the threatre for the month! I love this job but holy jeeves, did it happen to come around this time at the WRONG time. I got my first double digit order of yarn and I had to work....elsewhere.

I still have about twenty skeins to play with before I'm all done dying. For those who missed out on this productions best sellers, black light and burned, I will be doing them again. I've also done up a absolutely gorgeous custom dye for one of my fab customers, stickchicky, that I'm thinking of calling Fawkes. It looks like a blur of pheonix feathers to me, absolutely beautiful. It is named after a character in the Harry Potter book series, Dumbledor's pheonix. But since doing the Harry Potter colorways is massively gone after by dyers, I think I'll stick to just this one.....for now. (Oh come , you know I've gotta have a challenge.) Great, now I'm thinking of how I can capture Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans...