Etsy day, promo items, and Twitter

Tomorrow is Etsy Day! However, since I'm going to be the gal about town today, yet homebound tomorrow, I decided that Etsy day would be today for me.

I decided to print the sign that was made by shugirl for this special day, but I didn't want to drain my color printer cartridge with all the orange, so I made a black and white version to print on some colored cardstock. Feel free to take it and make your own.

I think it came out pretty good!

I happened to have some extra cardstock because I've been making promo magnets.


If anyone hasn't made these before, they are super simple. You need flat back glass marbles (found in the floral dept. for cheap!), cardstock, Mod Podge, round craft magnets (available everywhere) and E6000 adhesive (craft dept, comes in a gray squeeze tube with a pointed nozzle).

The rest is time consuming, but easy. Print your business name or whatever you wish on the cardstock. Use plain paper the first few times to make sure the size is right before you use your beautiful cardstock. The design will need to be just a touch smaller than the glass marble.

Print your designs and cut to size. Apply Mod Podge to the back of the marble, put the design in place, and Mod Podge again over the entire back. Let dry. Glue the magnets to the back using E-6000. Let dry.

TADA!!! Promo items!!!

Yesterday, I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to make my blog bloggier. It's getting there, but I'm not totally satisfied. The picture for the header is still a little fuzzy. And I am going to start on Flickr soon, because, well, everyone else is?

I also made a button for my sidebar for Twitter. Once again, if you would like to use this for your own blog, feel free to take it.

TWEET!

I'm brand new to the whole Twitter thing. It's a little bit... spooky.

Not in a "don't-open-the-door-there's-an-ax-murderer-on-the-other-side!" spooky, but just the feeling that I don't really know what it's all about or what I'm doing yet.

So far I've been a twitter lurker (a twurker?). One of the first people I started following was Martha Stewart, who, to my amazement, twitters about lunches with Ludacris, dinners with Valentino, and bathing her cats. Oddly enough, the bathing her cats info was the most newsworthy to me. I also follow several crafty-sites and Etsy, of course. The Etsy tweets are probably the most useful ones I get, letting me know about new articles in the Storque and virtual labs.

I'm timid to actually tweet myself. What would I say? How do you start out?

MeritMarket is ... drinking a diet dr. pepper.

MeritMarket is... avoiding doing laundry.

MeritMarket is... going to go pee, because I drank too much diet dr. pepper. Might as well start a load of laundry while I'm downstairs.

Ah, the drama! The excitement!

And, upon reading my inaugural tweet, all of the 16 followers that I have would collectively decide that I'm not worth their precious 140 characters and unfollow me.

I think I will have to start tweeting soon, though. I saw on a board that other day that it was considered rude on Twitter (or twude?) to NOT participate.

Really? OK, I promise, the first tweet-worthy thing that happens, I will dutifully report it.

This could be a while.