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Matryoshka Locket Giveaway Ends March 5th

2012-02-06T10:45:09Z

Matryoshka Locket by Glamasaurus

Since I hit over 1000 sales in glamsquared I have decided to have a little contest. You can enter to win one of my lovely fabric cameo lockets.

How to enter:

Leave a comment with your favorite item from either of my shops! You will receive one entry per comment so You have both Glamasaurus and Glamsquared you can comment on and that’s already 2 entries!
Follow this blog using Google friend connect. Worth 1 entry and all it takes is a click. Leave 1 comment.
Share this on Facebook or Twitter worth 1 entry. This is limited to 1 time a day on twitter and 1 time a day on facebook. Please leave a comment with your @twitter name or a link to your post. If you have a facebook page of your own you can post once per day on there as well for another entry.
Like my facebook pages Glamasaurus and Glamsquared both have one! That is 2 more entries!

This contest is open to everyone everywhere! The winner will be selected Matryoshka Locket Contest Ends March 5th. Remember to leave a comment for each entry!

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Week in Review – Our twice a year cold.

2011-10-16T10:08:17Z

The White Death 1 1/8 inch 28mm Double Flared Plugs -Glamsquared

This week has been barrels of fun. Sandro has been so overworked lately he was sleeping at the office on weekends. So it was no wonder when he did come home he was exhausted and sick. So of course that means Izzy and myself would also get a cold as well. Now when we get sick that means everyone else gets to rest add mom aka ME still has to make sure everyone eats, is dressed properly (I had to redress Isabella so much because she is anitclothes and socks), and takes their medicine. Really I am not allowed to be sick so I am lucky I only got half as sick as everyone else. This really is strange since I have asthma. Technically I should be the worst of us but what can I say – “STRONG LIKE BULL!!!”

Just the beginnings of some plugs.

So I used the weekend to relax a little and once I felt tired but not like a festering pile of germs…ok I was fine – I pieced together the beginnings of some new dangly plugs. I have to say briollettes are the devil and why did I buy them. My hands were all tingly after wrapping them.

Green Love Note Plugs by Glamasaurus

In the grand customs scandal of August 2011, more orders are getting to their destinations every day. I am still going to check on them but I hope this all gets resolved ASAP. I am honestly tired of dealing with it and am doing my best to rectify the situation. If I could control the post well I would be happier but I can’t.

In good news everything send after the grand post fiasco is arriving when it should. Hurray!

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And the Winners are….

2011-10-10T09:06:51Z

The first winner who gets to choose if she wants a pair of hair pins or the spooky skull brooch is commenter:

So the first winner is number 81 – Cassandra

I will be emailing you right away and you get your choice of the bobby pins or the brooch. Whichever one you don’t choose the second winner

Number 34 – Marchelle

I will email her after Cassandra picks her prize for her address.

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Week in Review – Closer to Insanity which means creativity.

2011-10-09T13:27:44Z

Blue Bunny Sweets Urbanears Headphones

This week I have gone into crazy homemaker mode. I cleaned my oven. Our dishwasher is showing it’s age so I have been hand washing all the dishes. I baked cookies 2 times this week. Watch out Betty Crocker!

I had a custom request to remake a Jack Skellington cupcake

I also have been working like a mad woman on new product. I am shocked with myself especially since I have been single momming it these past few weeks. Sandro has been working like mad on a work campaign. Tonight he will be sleeping at the office. I am not happy about it but we have to be able to pay our rent.

Piano contact cases!

In other good news the electricians came and we now no longer have disco mood lighting when cooking and having the bathroom light on. It’s nice to not to have to boil water to bathe.

So now I am going to crank out another cupcake or two since I have gotten another request!

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Week in Review – Out of control and a mess to clean up

2011-10-02T10:19:30Z

If you have been reading my blog you know all about the big sale that went bad. This has been bogging me down for all of September. If you know me I am a control freak. When it comes to my business I am a look before you leap kinda gal. When I have a sale this really is a great time to not only give current customers a great deal but to hopefully gain new ones. When something like this happens well you will probably lose both new and repeat customers. Since I have been on both sides of both a buyer and seller I personally feel that I am handling this as professionally as possible. I have contacted everyone who was I think was affected. I may have missed some but I am not sure.

The only thing I can do is either move on or throw in the towel. I am going with the first option. Sure I have suffered losses from this but all I can do is work to make future orders better, stick to my commitments, and just keep at it.

Team Pink Eye Bobby Pin Sets

Speaking of commitments I committed my shop to donating the cost of 10 sets of bobby pins to the Susan G Kommen Foundation for Team Pink Eye. I am also selling these sets with free shipping. So if they all sell that will $140.

My grandmother had breast cancer and luckily she is fine but knowing this disease runs in my family is more the reason to want to help.

When things go wrong I have stages. I had a few days of the mope and feel like crap stage and now I am in the work to distract yourself stage. I also call this the shark stage since sharks are always moving. In the past two days I finished all the lockets in the first photo and all the plugs in the one right above this paragraph. I will slowly be adding them to the shops.

Glamsaurus has been so slow lately I don’t know what to do. Once I had Glamsquared opened for a few months it seemed to die. Like the rainforest you change the tiniest thing and the whole rainforest dies! (It’s a reference to The It Crowd). I thought moving everything to one shop would make it easier but I neglected Glamasaurus all summer since I was busy with Glamsquared. I am a bad shop mommy.

At home we got our water heater fixed. It worked normally for about 2 days. Then it died and did something to our electricity. Now if we run the dishwasher we have very romantic mood lighting in the bathroom. So now we have to get an electrician in to check it out.

So for all the TL:DR crowd – Headless Chicken=Me

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The Big Sale that went bad Updates!

2011-09-29T15:52:25Z

Well good news is that all the packages were held in customs. The Swiss post had sent them with the incorrect shipping cost so they were going to send them and make whoever received them pay the extra shipping. This is no longer the case since I have paid it and all the orders are now on their way. They have been upgraded to priority which will still take until the end of next week for European destinations and 2 weeks for everywhere else. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone but they are on their way!

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The Big Sale that went bad

2011-09-28T09:45:08Z

In August I had a huge sale for Isabella and my birthdays. I packed the orders and had Sandro send them on their way. We were so swamped with orders I had him take some to Zürich to mail them from there. Saturday the 20th was Isabella’s birthday and instead of spending an hour or two in the post office I figured sending them out on Monday would be the same. Sadly it was not. The post they were sent from was a smaller post office. For the past few weeks Sandro has been going twice a week to find the whereabouts of the missing packages. We were told they were held in customs so I figured they would show up soon. Now I have opened an investigation with the post office.

What prompted this? I had a customer who lives an hour from me not receive her package. That is when I knew there really was a problem.

International shipments can be tricky and there is customs and what not that all add time to orders being received so when it was an order that should have been there in a week I panicked.

Anytime I hear something about the packages I will be updated the blog. I understand if this loses me customers and business but I want to be open that there is a problem.

Orders shipped after that should be fine since I shipped them from the main post office here in Fribourg.

I am very sorry everyone but I am doing my best to get this sorted.

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Wordless Wednesday – Giveaway Prize 2

2011-09-21T13:30:47Z

New prize for my giveaway since I have about 100 entries

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Wordless Wednesday – Of Mice and Monsters!

2011-09-13T13:55:22Z

Just some of my handmade plushies! The grassy puff and pumpkin are from Kittypinkstars. The Chewbacca mouse is from The House of Mouse and the little monster is from ArtTales

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The no one reads my blog giveaway giveway!

2011-09-09T10:21:59Z

So you can win a lovely pair of these bobby pins valued at $12 from my glamasaurus shop!

How to enter:

Leave a comment with your favorite item from either of my shops! You will receive one entry per comment so You have both Glamasaurus and Glamsquared you can comment on and that’s already 2 entries!
Follow this blog using Google friend connect. Worth 1 entry and all it takes is a click. Leave 1 comment.
Make a purchase from either of the above stores worth 10 entries. Please leave 10 comments with a link to the transaction. This must be a purchase made from September 1st and beyond.
Blog about this giveaway worth 5 entries. Please leave 5 comments with a link to the blog post.
Blog about either of the shops worth 5 entries each. Please leave 5 comments with a link to the blog post. Please include and item photo and at least a paragraph about the shop.
Share this on Facebook or Twitter worth 1 entry. This is limited to 1 time a day on twitter and 1 time a day on facebook. Please leave a comment with your @twitter name or a link to your post. If you have a facebook page of your own you can post once per day on there as well for another entry.
Like my facebook pages Glamasaurus and Glamsquared both have one! That is 2 more entries!
And for a whole 20 entries..Make a Youtube video about one of my shops. Since I have 2 you can make one for each. Please leave 20 comments with each of the video links.

This contest is open to everyone everywhere! The winner will be selected October 10th. So there are zillion ways to enter! Also if I get over 100 entries I will make another item to giveaway. Remember to leave a comment for each entry!

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