tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52041338135225966672024-11-05T21:50:00.393-05:00Life according to NickWhat you see is what you get here. This journal is pretty much life according to me as well as my life. This will be totally uncensored because I'm all for being blunt. Don't like it don't read. This is kind of my place to rant or show off cute things that I'm working on or find on line. Most of it will be some form of plushie.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-72802063024296235592012-05-01T10:22:00.001-04:002012-05-01T10:22:57.710-04:00Well that worked....I would have been writing more but lately got swamped with work. And hey sold a few items out of the store, ones that I was iffy about putting up because I didn’t think anyone would want to buy something that off the wall, my steampunk/bohemian necklace went to a woman creating a steampunk costume (Which I wanted to keep it for). And my tribal inspired earrings are headed to a girl who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-88148252184045488112012-04-09T00:57:00.000-04:002012-04-09T00:57:46.965-04:00In which nicky does a happy dance!Okay yeah I know I missed a few days writing, we’re going to blame the holidays okay? Or the fact that I’ve been banging my head trying to get this rabbit done, and no I’m not talking about the chocolate one… that’s already in pieces next to me as I crochet.Though I did get a nice Easter surprise, a necklace that I was really debating keeping for myself because I didn’t think anyone else Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-35523309896144214102012-04-04T15:22:00.000-04:002012-04-04T15:22:00.122-04:00Website updates YAYWell that needed to be done, nIIz Designs web page has now been updated with almost everything from the shop. We have some more photos to get up, but I’m tired of coding now, I’ll get them up with in the next few days.
It’s something I’ve meant to do a while, but I kept putting it off, something I shouldn’t have done, but with me doing most of the promotional stuff (Okay so my partner’s been onAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-42461182300588617192012-04-02T11:35:00.000-04:002012-04-02T11:35:00.142-04:00of blonks and cold meds....<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-22661600289941390572012-03-31T16:18:00.003-04:002012-03-31T16:18:55.979-04:00rain rain go awayI was asked late last night by a friend if I’d do a commission for her. She put the idea up so that she could try to save up to for it first. She’s a friend so I really don’t have a problem with it but I’ve never really done them before I’m horrible at deadlines.
Which reminds me on my daily planner I should put up a thing to remind me to post here every day, maybe that will work toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-86252023582575048062012-03-23T09:33:00.004-04:002012-03-23T09:39:34.695-04:00Friday MorningAnd I want to roll back into bed until sometime Friday evening. I think I’m going to blame it all on just being a tad bored. I know I have things I need to finish getting done. One of those getting more items shot for the shop, queuing up Tumblr for a few days, and I have a wrap that’s currently about halfway done that I want to finish, though mine might have a hood where the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-26104891527549504542012-03-21T09:16:00.000-04:002012-03-21T09:16:19.947-04:00I'm alive, I think.Well I know I said I’d blog more often, got tied up in the shop, literally, I’m surrounded by a mountain of projects in various stages of incompleteness. Though I think today I’m putting on shorts and taking the box of things we have made out to the yard for some shots. Hopefully I can get some time to edit them and pop them up on-line. Though I have to admit I think we need a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-21568761427861599632012-02-02T22:28:00.000-05:002012-02-02T22:28:53.362-05:00My writing pageI've been rereading some of my older writing and I've been toying with that the last few days. All my stories (Well one's I'm willing to share with the world) are going to be going over here. This includes any little stories about the Blonks. I found a few that I haven't posted here yet, I'm going to edit them then post them there. I will keep you updated on that!
I know Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-84482462452093073312012-01-29T16:20:00.000-05:002012-01-29T16:22:08.484-05:00In which Nicky rambles. YayOkay yeah I totally fail at keeping blogs okay? Though I’m trying I really am!
Doesn’t help that when I’m at the computer I’m usually listening to the radio crocheting, which reminds me I need to get some better images of some of my blonks to share with my readers. Maybe I’ll do that Monday morning when it’s a little more quiet around here. I know I have some items I have to get up in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-83689034591879689252012-01-09T14:52:00.000-05:002012-01-09T14:52:35.692-05:00things in town done... cherry coke in hand...And I'm looking at the mountain of yarn around me trying to figure out what I want to make today. I have three more dish towels to finish for a friend's housewarming gift.
I need to do some things for the shop, including some photos so I can get them up on line.
Should work on my market bag pattern too because I love the one I'm using and abusing is an awesome little bag that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-43019038548413699482012-01-07T13:24:00.000-05:002012-01-07T13:24:03.118-05:00Gee I'm doing great at keeping up aren't I?Well since November I've been working my little hands to the nubs on crochet items. I need to take more pictures of what I have to get it up on line.
Also been trying to tame my muses so that I can focus on working on a book. I have the idea stuck in my head for it, actually been mulling it over for the last two weeks, just need a moment or two to actually write. Half Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-63785735522110770142011-11-27T09:52:00.001-05:002011-11-27T09:57:22.187-05:00survived! I thinkWell I managed to get the blonk packaged away for my stepmother, it's currently on it's way to Michigan. Now I just have photos to take of the rest of the stuff we have to get up on line. Then it'll just be a matter of continuing to keep it stocked. Shouldn't be too hard really we have a stock pile already and I'm so going to be re-organizing things so that I can get them in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-28019439210022765682011-11-17T15:55:00.001-05:002011-11-17T16:04:10.860-05:00Gah! FRANTIC Mad scientist here!I have a little over a week to finish up some presents for family and hardly time to do it in. Though I'm about an 8th of the way done with the blanket I'm making for my dad. Hoping I can snag some photos before giving it to him for the blog. I can't show it off obviously before hand not sure if he's reading this one.
Also want to make a decent sized Blonk for Teri, maybe two, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-63680798124379797562011-10-23T15:45:00.000-04:002011-10-23T15:45:18.021-04:00I really need to post here more often...<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0Reading, PA, USA40.3356483 -75.926874740.287233300000004 -76.0058387 40.3840633 -75.8479107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-37207348359274074622011-01-28T00:00:00.000-05:002011-01-28T00:00:22.670-05:00Guess who needs a new purse?And reading over this before posting… Oh Gods, I'm going GIRLY! But damn I like the bags I'm linking. They're cool looking and scream 'different'. Which is something I've always tried to be; a little 'out there'.
Okay I don't NEED one I just want one, so that's why I'm sitting on Ravelry looking at purse patterns that I can toy with. There's a few I've seen already that I like.
This bag… Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-2608046768270630252011-01-24T20:13:00.000-05:002011-01-24T20:32:15.290-05:00Steamed Mondays – invasion of the kraken?I was seriously worried I wouldn't get this done today. First it was driving around town to find a few things… then having to go back to the pharmacy for a prescription… Needless to say, now I'm home for the rest of the night and looking around…
I was trying to find an Amigurumi Zeppelin, but three searches on three different crawlers turned up nothing! Am I just not searching right or has noAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-88689944605523747982011-01-23T14:22:00.000-05:002011-01-23T14:22:59.700-05:00whoah lots of crazinessCurrently I have a few Ami's in the works, and I'm trying to reorganize things, so that I can update here, and on my website in the same day as doing an update on the shop.
So for a while things may look messy here I promise I'm working on it. Hoping to make a decent banner for the blog too. It really needs one.
I know I owe some more, but with all this revamping I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-66338647780961690502011-01-17T19:01:00.001-05:002011-01-17T19:41:17.924-05:00Love of the weird and steamedYeah I'm into steampunk, just the thought of the clothes, the machinery, and let's not forget the décor. I spent most of yesterday going through steampunk blogs looking for designs that I would love to do to a house. I'd also have to make sure that whatever I did was pet friendly. I've almost always had a pet so I love the idea of animal friendly homes. Today, waiting for something to load upAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-70515559025498280852011-01-13T07:28:00.000-05:002011-01-13T07:28:42.769-05:00Oops.Yeah I've been so busy lately trying to get a bunch of new blonks made and today I'll be photographing them.
Doesn't exactly help that my computer's been crashing on me the last few days so I'm scrambling to save up money to fix that problem too, with luck I'll get that problem situated, because it's hard to run a business or even write when the only other computer I have access to is the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-48602555901304578092010-12-31T21:16:00.000-05:002010-12-31T21:16:00.190-05:00Blonk investigation - Jack's notes<!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-50424679768748832502010-12-25T20:37:00.000-05:002010-12-25T20:37:42.553-05:00Ah happily watching Doctor Who. Want to make some AmigurumisActually I want to make the big cuddly Doctors and Torchwood ones from Pixelated Mushroom. They're adorable.
Okay,I really should finish these other projects I have before starting a new one. Like my WTFery doll, which will probably only be one of... I was thinking it would be cute for my New Years ones, but... I don't like how it looks right now I might not get them doneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-7980924121147987772010-12-20T16:57:00.000-05:002010-12-20T16:57:59.552-05:00WIP Box show and tell (AKA why I'm so silent)<!--[if gte mso 9]> 12.00 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-58782146854576259912010-10-20T23:54:00.001-04:002010-10-21T00:05:12.396-04:00Warms scarves, gloves and really what am I doing?Sorry I've been quiet lately, trying to get Blonks made, work on some gifts for the holidays and well pretty much trying to get things done before my mad writing attack starting the first of the month. Yeah I'm going to try to run both at the same time, the shop and NANO. I'm only shooting for 60k words this year, not doing something insane like the double book I pulled last year (120k words inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-54283267652061691632010-10-08T15:39:00.001-04:002010-10-08T16:54:02.603-04:00Blonkies now have a home! I just opened up my shop on ArtFire as Tejina's Toy box. I only have a few items up there at the moment; I'm hoping to put the rest of the spook trios up, and thinking I might make a few other things to pop up until I can get more Blonks done. I'll be selling them off once I have a basket full of them. Until now you'll be seeing Snowmen, blob trios and if I get some Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204133813522596667.post-72183398863771406282010-09-30T16:26:00.001-04:002010-10-08T16:42:03.660-04:00I’m surrounded by headless blonkies!
Yeah, that's what I'm calling the little creatures that I make with Amigurumi. The set I'm working on now are for the Etsy shop. I just hope that the partner in the shop starts to do a little more for it than what she has so far, because 95% of the shop's been done by me so far. She made extra ears and tails to attach to the Blonks, but really, she should stick with jewelry for it, she can Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04679748128263873547noreply@blogger.com0