Hearts & Hands United Blog Feature!

Not long ago I was interviewed for my Etsy Hearts and Hands United team blog! The post was published today and you can see it here, I'm so happy with how it turned out and a special thank you to Lisa from designsbyjakemi for the interview!

http://heartsandhandsunited.blogspot.com/2010/08/team-spotlight-ritzee-rebel.html

Elephants, Oh My!

I have a soft spot for elephants...love watching them at the zoo and I just think they're adorable. Yesterday I added a little elephant necklace to my shop and was notified today that it was included in a really fun treasury! I LOVE everything here, I can't pick a favorite!





Here's the link so you can click and comment until it expires!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c3fbcda92dc6d915435c853/march-of-the-elephants

Hoot Suite for Twitter- Love It!

Once again I've been neglecting my blog; I haven't abandoned it totally though! Twitter is an interesting thing to me, this time last year, I had NO idea how to use it or what "retweet" meant. Now that I do, I'm fascinated by it and am amazed by how fun it can be.
One tip I found incredibly helpful for my Etsy shop was a recent article on the Handmade Spark blog about setting up automatic tweets from Hoot Suite. It's so helpful for scheduling future tweets, but my favorite part is how you can set it up to automatically tweet your newest listings!
I try to list something new, or renew an item once a day, so I won't bug people with frequent updates since I don't add things all the time. It's especially helpful for me because I post my new item links on a few threads I frequent on the Etsy forums, this is one less place I have to worry about doing so since it does it for me!

To read the article yourself and get step by step instructions on how to do it yourself, just click below, hope it helps you like it did for me!

http://www.handmadespark.com/blog/automatic-etsy-shop-updates-on-twitter/

Ice Cream Pins on Must Have Cute!

I submitted my mini ice cream pins a long time ago to this website, Must Have Cute, and I never heard anything or saw them on the "finds" page so I figured they weren't accepted.
Well lo and behold, I was on the site's voting page today and saw them waaaay back on page 18! As more items are added, they'll move further down, but for now they're on page 18. Please check them out and give them a "thumbs up!"

http://musthavecute.com/vote/page/18/

UPDATE as of 9/28: You can vote from here instead! http://cheezburger.com/View/3231431680

Two More Treasury Easts!

I love finding my items in Treasuries when I'm not expecting it, and it's so fun as well when they're made by people I don't know. It means I'm being found!
Here are the two latest I've been featured in....

Junk Food pins are in this fun "Diet Food" collection:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c0878e2ab056d919ac8eece/diet-food

And my baby whale pin is in this great "One Fish Two Fish" grouping:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c0be46b68f48eefd553e121/one-fish-two-fish


Yay and thank you to the curators!

My Dress Form Pendants Featured And A Friend's Contest!

Yesterday, I woke up to a convo from the owner of the I Dreamed I Saw blog, letting me know my dress form pendant(s) were a part of her dress form entry! I love how it turned out and I'm so honored to have been included in this great blog. Please check out the entry (and the rest of the I Dreamed I Saw blog) here:
http://www.idreamedisaw.com/2010/05/28/dress-forms/


Additionally, a friend from one of my Etsy groups is having a contest for a pair of her great crochet gloves. You can enter here: http://crochetize.blogspot.com/2010/05/custom-crocheted-gloves-give-away.html
Good luck!



Hope everyone is having a nice Memorial Day weekend!

Oregon Trail!

Now, a total departure from my usual posts...
Many of us remember this fun game from computer lab day when we were in elementary school. There was a topic about this on Etsy today and someone was nice enough to post a link to where you could play the game!
I played and finally made it to the end, something I never did way back when. My final score was 5055 and I made it to the top 10 lol...not sure whether I should be proud of that or ashamed that I wasted that much time! Playing this game again, you'll see how low quality the graphics are, almost Atari-like, if you remember that. I had forgotten how to play but then it all came back and I was fording rivers and hunting like there was no tomorrow.
Anyway, without further ado, here is the link where you can install a small plugin (it's safe, don't worry) and play Oregon Trail! http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html


Here's a screenshot of my 3rd place spot, since I'm sure I'll get ousted soon lol.