A grab bag (box) of crafts!

This is my first time participating in a "grab bag" type promotion, at least that I can remember. Usually I avoid them, because I figure I'll never like what I'll get. But this time it was awesome!
I saw on the Craft Gossip blog that Maya Road was having a warehouse sale, where you get a box filled full of overstock or older items, trying to make room for new inventory. It was going to be $126 worth of merchandise for only $48.95 with free shipping! I haven't ever heard of Maya Road, but after looking through their products page I figured I would probably end up with a few things I might like playing with, so I decided to go for it! I ordered the box on Monday and it came today, super fast turn around.
So here is what I found:

To me of course.Full! Totally awesome stuff.

The loot!

There was tons of stuff in there! And it all came in this fun packaging. I was totally expecting just odds and ends of things, opened packages, and half used ribbons spools. Surprisingly there was none of that! Cute lunch box tins of chipboard letters, numbers, and transportation figures, chipboard books (various shapes), felt buttons, rub-ons, velvet flowers and ribbon, , 3 sets of slides, fibers, and crochet butterflies. This box was well worth my money.
I immediately wanted to buy another box, but I have restrained myself. I need to figure out how to use all this stuff first :) I highly recommend purchasing a box if you are in the market for some fun crafting supplies. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for more opportunities like this one, it's a great way to stock up without spending a ridiculous amount of money.

Twitter is to IM as Blog is to Email

Listen: I once read an article from an economist stating that emails were wasted keystrokes. This was at the beginning the Blog era. At the time it was common to receive form emails sent out to numerous people, or party invites forwarded from friend to friend. The argument was that sending individual emails was a waste of time and energy. If you had something going on in your life then you could post it to a Weblog and move on.

Emailing is all well and good. If you want to send a private message or question, email's a fine option.

I like chatting. It's good to know if I want a more immediate response to a question I can pull up the chatter and if my contact is online I can ask it. In the past, programs like AIM had an option to invite multiple people to chat. MSN had a similar feature. This was fun for collaborating on certain things, just like a conference call on a cell phone.

Enter Twitter and micro-blogging. There are other options out there, I'm not familiar with them though. Twitter is based on similar ideas of text messaging, you can only post 140 characters at a time, it's meant for small messages. Now that most of my friends and I are following each other's feeds it's a Permachat Blogette.

It's awesome to check the feed in the morning and see what everyone was doing last night, it's awesome to read complaints as the day goes on. Have something funny to say? A new word you just coined?

Permachat blogette!

You're invited to sign up at twitter.com and add us,



MrGrigg

EmilyGrigg

You can tweet and receive on your cellphone, email, direct, or side programs like Twhirl. Get with it!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

New to blogging

So I've decided that Joe and I really should start blogging, a little more than posting to flickr anyway. Here is our attempt and we'll see how it develops as we go.