Friday!!

The weekend is here!  Tonight I am just sitting in front of the Pellet stove with my feet towards the fire blogging and knitting.  Tomorrow I volunteer at our textile guild's store from 1-4 and then we are having company over at 5:30 for dinner and movie.  I enjoy Phil and Sabrina.  Sabrina and I are both into Sampling big-time.  In fact, I think it safe to say that she gave me my addiction :-P.

I added another item to my Etsy store for a grand total of two.  Again, I should finish this weekend.  I added the banner I created for my Etsy store to my deviantART page as I liked how well it turned out: 

I still have things to update there but I hope to get that done this weekend too.  I hope I am as ambitious in doing all this as I am in writing about it.  I am thinking about adding Alchemy requests (requests for custom orders) for hats (to begin with) to my Etsy store.  I will have to think about how to word it and work it though.  I don't want to end up with 3 requests all due in one week, for instance.

I received some useful samples today:

 

The Aleve and Tampax are for obvious reasons, the Head and Shoulders for Ryan, and I wanted to taste the Just Like Sugar to see if it lives up to its name.  If so we might switch to using it in our coffee and tea.  

I am so thankful to Sabrina for getting me into sampling.  It has already proved useful in helping me to try out products.  As a result I have, for instance, changed my brand of K Cups and discovered that the SalonPas Pain Patches didn't work for Ryan's pain BEFORE I spent money on it instead of after.

Well, time to finish the leash I am knitting and then do a load of laundry.  It isn't the washing I mind, it is the folding :-(.  I don't even mind the putting away part.