Archive for polka dot creations

Last day

Today was the last day for a while that I’ll be able to sleep past 7:15.  It’s the last day that I’ll be able to sit on the couch with a knitting project, listening to a couple of podcasts, making something for myself without unanswered business email hanging over my head.
Tomorrow Neil goes back to [...]

WoFW: Wednesday

For Week of Few Words.  I really lost my focus today.  I can’t seem to get the idea of making a particular hat out of my head.  All I can think about is the yarn I want to buy, and the fine-gauge loom I’d need to really do it right.  I barely managed to tear [...]

WoFW: Tuesday

For Week of Few Words.  Things were accomplished today, some of them being:

Plus a detour into obsessive-compulsive land, which I will be sure to chat about when we are back to our regularly-schedule Weeks of Many Words.

And a hat for the dog - a 15-minute collaborative effort with Eamonn.

WoFW: Monday

For Week of Few Words.  Among the many things I was able to cross off my to-do list today:

Not done with that last one, yet.  Back to the grindstone…

Whatever you wish for

I hope you don’t mind if I put on my sales hat for a moment.  I hate wearing that thing, but if I leave it off for too long, I don’t sell things, and if I don’t sell things, I can’t buy more craft supplies (or, more importantly, supplement my family’s income) and we just [...]

Lessons learned and sales begun

Last night I learned that it takes roughly two hours to unpack a few dozen boxes, organize the contents, and update my website with restocked items.

I discovered this morning that if you have on the floor 18 piles of magazines sorted by title, it will take another two hours to make space for them on [...]

The thrill of new skills

Not to wish October away or anything, but I am eagerly awaiting the first week of November, when a big heavy box filled with copies of this little gem will land on my doorstep. It’s funny (or maybe it’s sad, given that I own a polymer clay book store), but this is the first [...]

Tutorial madness

Madness?  Yeah, that’s probably a good word for it.  I decided I wanted the tutorials I’d written for Polka Dot Creations to also be available here.  Well, one thing led to another, and before I was done, I’d learned how to use custom fields in WordPress, written a new Page template in PHP that would [...]

Three sheets to the wind

No, I’m not really drunk. I just wanted to talk about three bags made out of sheets, and the phrase popped right into my head. I’m not above kicking back with a Mike’s Hard Lime later, though, if you prefer for me to represent truth in advertising…

These three little piles each contain two [...]

Redecorating, decluttering, and re-arranging

This is an image of what I have not been up to for the last week…
If you’re viewing this on my website and not through a feed reader, then you have undoubtedly noticed by now what I have been doing.
So, what’s up with the new look?
Let me give you the scoop. Polka Dot Creations [...]