| 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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| Craft Fair Schedule |
[16 May 2009|02:50am] |
Butchertown Art Fair,: Sunday, May 17, Louisville, KY
Lyndon Area Fair: Friday, June 19th and Saturday, June 20th, Louisville, KY
Forecastle Festival: Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 12th in Louisville, KY
Come see me!
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| Fucking PHP help, anyone???? |
[13 Apr 2009|03:20pm] |
Do you know anything about PHP, SSL, coding or websites?
If so,
I've got a contract with my host for the next 2 years and suddenly out of the blue I get this email:
( Read more... )
wtf???? I have basic PHP pages (just a basic shopping cart structure) ... what could be the problem and how do I fix it? I pretty much suck at PHP and I don't know what to do here and I don't want my site turned off!!! HELP!
On another totally unrelated note, check out this bitch flaming me over in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) thequestionclub .... she doesn't like plastic jewelry and apparently has decided that based solely on that qualificaiton, I'm a no-talent "hack" selling overpriced, poorly made, ugly jewelry. *rolls eyes*
40 comments of pure lulz and attemps to justify her insulting me based on personal opinion, right hurr
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[11 Apr 2009|05:08am] |
I'm so excited! I was asked to be in StatusInk magazine, a super cool magazine about female tats and piercings. I'm sending in a whole bunch of jewelry that will be featured in a photoshoot along with a little writeup about OmgLia!! *squee* check out how badass this mag is:
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| I am so pissed. |
[05 Apr 2009|11:31pm] |
I am so angry at this shop I was consigning with.
I sent in my items around last June.
For months I hear nothing from the shopowner. No updates on what has sold, nada. I am not very bothered by this, I check in with her via email from time to time but am never given any actual totals or details on the status of my items.
Finally, it has been almost a YEAR since I sent out 10 wallets and 5 necklaces to her shop, and I want that inventory back, even if it hasn't sold. I email her and request it returned, and she agrees. A month passes. I email her again to ask what's up. She says oops, my bad, I'll send it out asap. I'm like fine, OK. At least this will all be over with.
I finally get my package in the mail today. There is a sales list with a check attached for the amount of 2 wallets. However, on the actual sales list, there are 2 wallets ... AND A NECKLACE listed as sold. The necklace isn't included in the total though. I'm like, wtf? Did she forget to pay me, or did my necklace get effing stolen??? Still, I figure I can just email her and sort it out, no big deal.
Then I open up my package to retrieve my inventory. The 4 necklaces are in a giant, tangled bunch which takes me an hour to untangle. The kicker though? She put a barcode sticker on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE OF MY WALLETS. My wallets are covered with tape, like a vinyl type covering. The stickers left a sticky residue on EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY WALLETS. How am I gonna sell them with sticky crap all over the wallet??? I can't remove the sticker stuff all the way. I am so mad. I don't even want to do freaking consigment ever again.
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[11 Mar 2009|08:38pm] |
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An 11 year old customer is takling to me on gmail chat! How cute! She's an excellent typer and she made sure to ask if I was a girl because she's "still young, no offence" and she learned to be wary of internet chatters :D an then she asked me what I thought of Rihanna and Chris Brown and I said I was saddd that Rihanna is still with him and that she should have self respect, and she said "I think the same thing but not with words like self respect." AWWWWWWWWW! Little customers are so cool :D there's a 13 year old one who always talks to me on myspace, too!
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[04 Mar 2009|02:22am] |
Prices as low as $3.30! Hurry to take advantage of these excellent offers!
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[25 Feb 2009|01:28am] |
Click here to enter!!! Only 4 days left!
For $5 you could win:
Hello Kitty Cell Phone Charm - valued at $5
Flower Button Earrings - valued at $7
Purple Lilac Button Studs - valued at $3
Pink Striped Little Earrings - valued at $4
Blue Star Keychain - valued at $6
Blue and White Polka Dot HairClip - valued at $3
Green and Blue Polka Dot Hairclip - valued at $3
Rainbow Balloon Earrings - valued at $7
Blue and Green Star Earrings - valued at $7
TOTAL: $45 of one of a kind DIY jewelry!!!
Click here to enter!!! Only 4 days left!
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[23 Feb 2009|11:30pm] |
Well, it's time to start looking for jobs this summer.
Luckily, my college has a crazy-cool service for hooking up interested parties with jobs. You just search the site, read the description, and send them your resume with a click of a mouse.
It's pretty freaking cool. Except .... there are no availabilities for me in Louisville this summer :(
This one program at JC Penney sounded freaking awesome, but sadly they are only accepting incoming seniors:
Our 10-week summer internship is high caliber and challenging. As part of the store sales team, you will experience firsthand the daily operations of a JCPenney store and be actively engaged in sales leadership, inventory flow, event planning and merchandise presentation. You will interact with senior store management who will coach and mentor you throughout the program and also receive training from our Home Office via our internal satellite broadcasts.
*sniffs* it's $14/hour. I submitted my resume anyway, haha. Oh well, worth a try.
Luckily I think my dad might hook me up with a marketing internship cuz he's got all the contacts in Louisville! I sure hope I can get something resume-worthy so I don't have to go back to Olive Garden D:
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| RAFFLE! |
[19 Feb 2009|04:39pm] |
Have you ever browsed omglia.com and thought wistfully, "I wish I could buy a bucketful of this amazing, colorful, funky jewelry, but I'm totally broke and don't have any extra money :(" Admit it - probably (and you probably thought it just like that, too, with the frowny face and everything.)
WELL, frowny-face no more! This is your lucky day! I'm raffling off $45 of merchandise for only $5 a ticket! And to make things even AWESOMER, the first 5 tickets will only cost $3 each!!
Look at all this swag - for the superlow price of one ticket (or 2, or 3 - however many you can afford!) you could open up your mail to this awesome package worth $45. Now that's what I call recession-proof spending! (OK, I'll quit being nerdy.) Included in this sweet swag bag are:
Hello Kitty Cell Phone Charm - valued at $5
Flower Button Earrings - valued at $7
Purple Lilac Button Studs - valued at $3
Pink Striped Little Earrings - valued at $4
Blue Star Keychain - valued at $6
Blue and White Polka Dot HairClip - valued at $3
Green and Blue Polka Dot Hairclip - valued at $3
Rainbow Balloon Earrings - valued at $7
Blue and Green Star Earrings - valued at $7
Raffle ENDS on March 1, 2009 and the first 5 tickets are only $3 each! Buy your ticket(s) NOW and tell all of your friends!
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[16 Feb 2009|07:19pm] |
( Valentine's Day Cupcake Pics! )
and here's part of the valentines day present my sweet boyfriend got me :D not pictured are a box of chocolates (already eaten), a candle, a scarf, and a card! He was sneaky about it too - I didn't think we were exchanging presents >:D
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| awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
[09 Feb 2009|10:32am] |
(that's not his real smile - he's goofballin' hehe)
Woke up to this text message:
Good Morning beautiful have a great day I love you
:D I'm so feelin the V-Day spirit.
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[09 Feb 2009|02:21am] |
So most of you have probably heard by now of my love for paid-to sites (aka free money). Well my dirt poor boyfriend just signed up for 2 of them and he's working on saving up for college classes this summer so I'm trying to help him out by whoring his referal links around! If you want to read more about the paid-to sites that I love, click here to visit my blog entry with proof pictures and then come back and use these links to sign up!!
Treasure Trooper
Treasure Trooper is my favorite - mostly because they've made me the most money! See those pictures? I made almost $150 for filling out some dumb surveys and doing offeres! They mail checks or deposit in your paypal. TIP: search for keyword "email address" or "zip code" - all you have to do is enter your email/zip code! No forms! They're my faves. Open up a new email account to handle all the spam.
Send Earnings
Send Earnings is good because it's super lazy. They send you emails, you click on them, they pay you. You can receive money when you get $25. They give you $5 when you sign up, plus referrals, and if you're not lazy you can do the surveys and stuff too. I mostly just do the emails, it's a super easy way to add up money fast (each email is about .02, they send about 2-3 a day.) My first payment just arrived in the mail! It takes me about 2 months to earn the $30 just by answering the emails. TIP: save 'em up and then answer them all in a big bundle once a week - they're less annoying that way and you can see how much your money jumps up!
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| Necklaces! |
[04 Feb 2009|11:59pm] |
Usually I only use plastic but I've started mixing in some silver and metal charms here and there. Here are some new items:
( A few more! )
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[29 Jan 2009|03:50am] |
Tons of new stuff added at Omg! Lia? Click the picture to shop!
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