| Polyvore |
[24 Oct 2009|01:01am] |
More insanely cute Polyore sets featuring OmgLia items!
Ring
Necklace
Charm Bracelet
Keychain
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| My dorm room, pics at last |
[20 Oct 2009|01:14pm] |
I finally got my dorm tidied up and looking nice  heres some pics
The actual color of dorm room is very pinkish, I covered the light with tissue paper to filter it . Also those are candy corn "christmas"lights sent by my mom as a hallowen present!
My bed, with my awesome rolly laptop table!
( Moarrrr! )
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[14 Oct 2009|06:30pm] |
Use Coupon Code "OmgLivejournal" for 25% off!
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| new banner |
[13 Oct 2009|04:33pm] |
I made a new banner for the site. Before I commit to a new set of graphics and packaging and order a ton of stuff based off my design, I'd like your thoughts!
See the new banner in action!
If you don't like it, tell me what it needs. A character? An identifiable logo? A cupcake? Additional colors? Less "stuff"? Different font? Thanks!!
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[13 Oct 2009|01:26pm] |
5 Easy Ways to Earn Extra Money
So, times are hard, bla bla bla. You need extra money for gas, for your kid, for those shoes, whatever. Doesn't really matter to me, I'll take extra money whenever, bad economy or not! As such, I've become an expert at figuring out ways to sneak extra cash into my wallet. Every little bit helps and it all adds up over time. However I do remind you know that the tips I'm sharing are NOT a substitute for real, substantial income. Its more like some extra pocket cash. Second, I have already written a review of ways to make money via paid-to and survey sites, which brings in about $30-$60 a month extra for me! You can see that information here: http://omglia.com/makemoneyonline . But here are even MORE good ways to make extra money!
Click Here to Read More
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| Traffic!! |
[05 Aug 2009|10:30am] |
I can't believe the amount of traffic I've been receiving since my giveaway started! The response is HUGE. It's only been open for 2 days and already there are 64 entries. I've gotten several orders, too! This morning I was checking my project wonderful stats and noticed that I've gotten 300 or so visitors in the past two days from one site, which to my delight turned out to be an AWESOME site featuring MY earrings!! Check it out:
I don't know how they found me, but 106 comments from my demographic giving feedback on my earrings is DEFINETLY a plus as far as I'm concerned (oh, and the traffic doesn't hurt either!) I might have to start doing giveaways MUCH more often!
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[04 Aug 2009|10:18am] |
my morning went like this:
- woke up to pitch blackness, hail and thunderclaps
- the boyfriend begged me to call into work and spend the day cuddling, but like an idiot I decided work was more important
- realized I'd left my umbrella at work. went outside with a towel over my head.
- a tree limb had fallen on my car during the night.
- drove to work in the pitch black rainy darkness
- realized my regular parking space is 4 blocks from my work and I didn't have an umbrella.
- decided to find a parking space on the street. realized I haven't paralell parked since I took my fucking drivers test. About killed myself trying to manage it (I TOTALLY DID IT, THOUGH, YAY ME)
- walked across the street, and in the proccess, ENTIRELY saturated my pants/socks/shoes with water, as well as getting a faceful of blowing rain despite the towel I was huddled underneath
- when I finally managed to get across the fucking street dripping wet, I got to the office only for the other intern to tell me that no one else was fucking here yet. apparently all my coworkers had decided to do the sane thing and lay low until the storm let up somewhat
now I'm sitting here waiting for my pants to dry fuming
cliffs:
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[03 Aug 2009|10:51am] |
That's right it's time for an OmgLia giveaway!! I will be giving away the following two items:
 
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| Alice in Wonderland |
[30 Jul 2009|01:53pm] |
 I have been a devoted Alice in Wonderland fan ever since my grandmother handed little-girl me two tattered, yellowed copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. After diving headfirst into the crazy adventures of the books, I spent hours staring in mirrors, kittah at my feet, wishing for something extraordinary to happen. Nothing ever did, but I still feel pangs whenever I glimpse a white rabbit scamper past. I can vividly recall my favorite moments from the books: painting the white roses red, the knitting sheep in a drifting canoe, the Jabberwocky poem, the tiger lilies, a river of tears. I was inspired to make an Alice in Wonderland ink drawing, which I sprinkled with images from the books and then turned into a wallet.
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| Worst craft experience ever!! |
[20 Jul 2009|11:23am] |
So, I had my first huge show this past weekend. It was a 3day music festival called Forecastle Festival and by all rights it seemed everything was going to be awesome: great music, 17,000 attendees, awesome location, good weather. However, my experience quickly soured as the three days of the festival wore on.
Yup, that's my tent/booth. Completely dismantled. It ended up in a fountain.
Click Here to Read About My Worst Craft Fair Experience EVER!
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[20 Jul 2009|09:38am] |
New funky, colorful handmade rings up at OmgLia.com! Click to shop for rings!
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| Help me! |
[07 Jul 2009|11:59am] |
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I am set to have a booth this weekend at http://forecastlefest.com , a HUGE music/art show in Louisville. It's a really good spot but unfortunately I am working full time this summer and am afraid I don't have enough time to prepare. I am trying to find someone to take my $500 spot. If anyone knows of any local artists who might be able to take this opportunity off my hands, PLEASE let me know ASAP!!! It's this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Please help, I'm in SO over my head!
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| Goals/To Do List |
[01 Jul 2009|01:08pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) applenoggin inspired me!
1. Sew wallets (at least 3!)
2. Package up Etsy orders (2)
3. Make 3 pairs of earrings, any earrings
4. Eat healthy dinner
5. Brush, floss and whiten
6. Get started on setting up the boyfriend's blog
7. Call my friends and see where they've been all week and make plans to see them
8. Begin planning/shopping list for party on Saturday
9. Fold/put away laundry
10. Get started on taking pics of clothing to sell on Ebay
10 is good for today, I think.
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[01 Jul 2009|12:56pm] |
Lately my family has been experiencing some financial problems, so this summer I found a really well paying internship in an office working for a website. The only problem with this otherwise ideal job is that I work everyday until 5pm, leaving me with very little time for things like socializing and, sadly, my business. I've hardly had time to update my site, much less make jewelry, all summer. And with the new relationship I've begun, OmgLia.com has all but been pushed to the backburner. It makes me sad but I'm making more money at this job than I would be doing the site full time. Ah, well.
Anyway, turns out I'm not very cut out for office life. My stress levels have  skyrocketed! So I decided to take a vacation last weekend and my wonderful father bought used his frequent flier miles to buy my boyfriend and I tickets to NYC. We stayed with my sister in Newark and did all kinds of awesome NYC things: we went to Hell's Kitchen Flea Market (I highly recommend it!) and got all manner of useless items (him) and accessories (me). We bought him a pair of fake D&G sunglasses and a fake Rolex from a creepy street vendor, which made him the biggest, happiest dork ever. That's him modelling them over on the right! We saw a lot of art and went to the Museum of Modern Art, as my boyfriend is an artist. He was quite inspired by the $250,000 price tags on some gallery works. We picnicked in Central Park and stalked the elusive Naked Cowboy in Times Square, who we could not find.  It was a really awesome trip and a wonderful break from the monotony of office life!
Now I'm getting ready for Forecastle Festival, a huge arts/music festival in Louisville and my biggest craft show yet! I'll be working my butt off all week, wish me luck!
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| craft fair season |
[20 Jun 2009|08:40am] |
Yesterday's craft fair consisted of:
1. me sitting alone after my friends abandonded me for more entertaining things (though they did come back to eat snow cones and ride the carousel with me after the fair was closed)
2. a jimmy buffet cover band playing RIGHT NEXT TO ME for 7 hours straight. I hate Jimmy Buffet with a passion. Luckily, there were at least 5 drunk middle aged women who were so into it that I felt entertained enough not to commit a henious act of violence unto either myself or the 5-person band.
3. 2 sales. Total of $14. One of them was one of my friends. Fail.
Today is day 2 ... let's hope for about 500% improvement, shall we?
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[26 May 2009|01:48pm] |
Awesome, so I accidentally deleted my site and have to rebuild it from scratch.
Woo go me.
Hey, at least I'll know not to do it again.
Anyway, in the meantime, please buy from my etsy shop:
Site should hopefully be back up in a week or two.
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| First craft fair of the summer! |
[20 May 2009|04:08pm] |
So my first craft fair was a total success! I tripled my entry fee and then some. Of course, let's keep in mind that this was the cheapest of all the fairs I'm doing this summer ... the one coming up in July is $500!
See the 10 or so carebears chillin around my table? They are KID MAGNETS. As if my booth wasn't already pink and girly enough, little girls could NOT resist dragging their mommies into my booth to point out each of the carebears by name and squeal happily (meanwhile, their mothers looked at the jewelry! Win!) I also had some other kid-magnet props like a unicorn head and a gumball machine. *tents fingers evilly* little kids cannot resist the gumball machine.
Unfortunately for me, little kids also have no money, so I have to rely more on parents and older chicks for sales. My first two sales were to women in their 30s, one of which kept stopping in to tell me how many compliments she'd gotten on her new skull earrings! And one preteen girl and her mother apparently shared the same taste in jewelry and bought over $50 worth of merchandise between them!! Now that is my FAVORITE kind of sale.
I've definitely learned some good lessons from this first fair which I'm going to apply to my future fairs this summer. Hopefully these can help some of you as well.
1. Accept credit cards! Over half of my sales were charged to a credit card, and the majority of the sales on credit were higher cost items. I use ProPay, an affordable credit card processing platform. As long as you have the CC number, expiration date and zip code, you can go online to the propay site and process any amount on the card. I couldn't figure out how to work my Knuckle Buster so I ended up writing them all down by hand and shredding them once I had processed the cards, but all of the orders went through and I'm really glad I took CCs!
2. Showcase your least expensive items! My stud earrings are $3-$5 and I put them front and center. Lots of shoppers made impulse buys or didn't want to spend very much, so having them featured like that really helped them to sell, in my opinion.
3. Use eyecatching displays! Heads literally turned when people passed my booth. Not only is everything bright pink and colorful, but I had so many interesting props to look at that several people came in just to examine them! I found most of my props at yard sales and flea markets for cheap!
4. Don't pack up until the fair is really over. My biggest sale happened less than an hour before the fair was schedule to end. I know it takes a while to dis-assemble a booth, but it's not worth saving an extra few minutes if you lose a customer!
5. Test your display before attend a fair! I ALMOST did this. I set up my tables and tablecloth in a room in my apartment, and halfheartedly tossed some of my props on top. But I didn't set it up completely and I'm really sorry I didn't. I need another table, more displays with varying heights, and better necklace displays. Luckily I've got time to get these things before my next fair in a month!
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