Weekly update. . .Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is nearly here and while I am planning for a simple day at home there is still planning and shopping to do. I dug a turkey out of the deep freezer and found my gluten free pie crusts, so good start. 😉 

I am working on a new dragon but since it's a Christmas gift for family I'm not posting photos. 😅 I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise. 

My final event of the year is December 7th and very local. 😇

Keeping it short this week, I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels (to those traveling).   

Weekly update. . .Christmas and dragons

I finished Christmas Dragon and he is gorgeous. 😁 I've done some shop reorganizing, changing out the "featured" products was overdue, while I was making changes, I created a special Christmas section for the front page with sub-categories for ornaments and stocking stuffers, in hopes of making it easier for shoppers/buyers. I am also making a bunch of stuff "free shipping" for the holidays. 

I am starting another dragon that is a gift and will not be photographed or posted, which is weird for me since I'm used to posting photos of whatever I'm making, but I want it to be a surprise for them so . . . no peeking 😊 

Today I am cooking turkey #1 for those that don't know my husband is a turk-aholic and we cook multiple turkeys in November, because there must be pre-turkey turkey. 😉 Today will not be the full spread of Thanksgiving but a turkey, yams, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy and rolls, which is only about half of my full menu. 

In fabulous news my father-in-law's cancer treatments seem to have worked, we are supposed to wait until the 22nd for the full official lab report but his doc called him yesterday and said it looks like we are in for a Happy Thanksgiving. 🙏 I hope he's right but I'm waiting for the full report to really celebrate. 😇

Weekly update. . .holidays are coming

It is November and holidays are coming like a freight train, so it's a good thing I finally got around to noodling this week. 

And by "noodling" I mean making multiple batches of egg noodles for the season. I spent hours the other day on these 5 batches and one of them became beef and noodles for dinner last night. 😁 We'll just call that quality control testing.  

I did finally get some ok to good photos of the dragons and got them listed on rainbowmaille.com I am keeping them exclusive to #goimagine and have no plans to list them on etsy or michaels, even though there is not a single one listed on michaels makerplace. I feel like I may be missing out not listing them where they would be the only ones, but I don't want to cross-post them and take any chance of double-selling because they take so long to make. I may post future ones in different places but for now these 4 are only on my goimagine.

I made this cool graphic ad on adobe yesterday and I was really happy with it until I realized it only fits on pinterest. 😏 I wasn't paying attention to the template/sizing so that's what I get for being distracted. I did cut it in half and post it on fb and insta anyway. 😉 

On a slightly annoying note, etsy stats are always wrong, after nearly a decade you'd think I'd be over being disappointed and/or baffled by things that don't add up and seem to make no sense, but apparently it still bugs me. 😏 So, it says I got 3 favorites yesterday, but I didn't get any notifications of favorites, it says 7 listings were viewed but when I look at the listing stats it only shows 6 as viewed. Then there is this gem where it appears one of the items that was favorited wasn't actually viewed, so it was fav'd from a search page and the listing was never actually opened, maybe that's the "phantom" view. 😅

On a happy note, there are more dragons coming before Christmas, one of them is even Christmas themed 😎 and I think he's going to be gorgeous.

Weekly update. . .so done

It really is a good thing my next event is not for a month, I'm exhausted and disappointed, it may take me the whole month to recover. Although sleep, actual relaxation and "recovery" is not likely for me anyway I still have too much life stuff to deal with. 😔 I don't like to get too personal on the details, but like most people my life is complicated, I still need to get the water damage in my closet fixed, we are waiting to see if my father-in-law's cancer treatments worked, and I haven't made my usual tons of noodles for the season. I feel behind and mildly out of control in so many aspects of life right now. Like this morning my cats woke me up, not unusual, but cats don't know about the time change so it was 4 o'clock in the morning. 😒 

In more business-related related news, I got an etsy order while at the event yesterday, so as much as I want to nap all day, I really need to go make another rainbow boxchain. This week I need to get busy on re-photographing all the framed art and re-doing a ton of listings. I still have all 4 completed dragons, which will now need to get photographed and listed online.