American giving

image courtesy of Rob Maguire
I usually love gift giving. Oftentimes its more fun for me to shop for other people than it is to shop for myself. This month, however, this wasn’t the case. Although I have been frustrated all month when shopping for myself, I just wanted to sit down and cry the other day [...]

March – Buy American

image courtesy of Buffalo ReUse 
So, if you haven’t noticed, I’ve become really horrible about blogging about my experience.  This is partially due to the fact that I have returned to spending too much time on Etsy. And so I have decided that I am going to forego shopping on Etsy for the rest of the year, [...]

More online shopping

Due to the very limited number of magazines we could find in the Cancun airpiort, Megan and I put our last pesos together to buy an overpriced copy of Lucky magazine. Neither of us was too terribly excited by this purchase, but as it turns out there was an article entitled “The Best Websites You’ve [...]

Sun, sand and Etsy

Since I was planning on leaving on January 5th for the sunny beaches of Playa Del Carmen, Mexico I really didn’t have much time to think about Etsy, aside from the planner ordeal. But my addiction would rear its ugly head even while lounging next to the pool at our hotel. I believe the Etsy [...]

The first instance of withdrawal

On January 1st I almost made the mistake of logging in, but fortunately I only made it as far as my own store (which I had already closed) before I remembered. Thats just how routine my Etsy mornings had become. Unfortunately, I was also kind of bad and I did a bunch of Etsy shopping [...]

Why Etsy?

First of all if you’ve never heard of Etsy or visited the site, you really should do that now. It is an amazing resource for handmade items from all over the world and its getting better everyday.
Now why I chose to give it up. I have been selling my wares on Etsy since January of [...]

My first entry (a little late)

Hello all! I had planned on beginning my blog on January 1st, but unfortunately due to the holidays and my Mexico vacation I wasn’t able to do that. However now that I have returned from being much less digitally “connected” on the beaches of Playa Del Carmen I am more than ready to begin journaling [...]