Discouraged? Nah, I call it realistic.

Two of thy favorite websites are etsy.com and cutoutandkeep.com. The people on either website don’t normally talk about each other. One is a marketing/selling site, and the other is a sharing site.


I want to share something that I thought was especially appealing…well, to me at least. Someone on CO&K (oh yeah!) posted a thread about how overpriced all the products on Etsy were. Yeah, I suppose I agree. For the most part. But I do it because it is fun for me. I love trying to woo people and kick them outside of their “box”. But it also leads me to lower all of the prices in my shop. That is not a bad thing by any means. In fact, I should have done it earlier.

Here is the thing – people naturally think that they are special. Their parents, teachers, cartoons, etc have always told them that they are just that. Wtf? Harsh news – no, no you are not special. Maybe in the sense that you lick windows but that doesn’t count. Your products are not the best. You shouldn’t think that you can paint a neat picture and then sell it for $110 online. Then again – if you actually do sell them at a decent clip, you might be worth it. More often than not, our greed gets in the way and the free market kicks in.

Let’s drop it for a little while. Let’s humble ourselves and see how much better we can do in the end. I think the results will be stupendous.

With that said – most of my shop is on sale. If you think that the items are over-priced STILL, let me know. http://etsy.com/shop/magsamillion

Opinions are like @$$holes. Everybody has one, some are one.

Die Intruder Die. Ha! You’re Dead.

Picture this – then put yourself in this photo –

The teeth are brushed; face washed with my very own crocheted washcloths, hair in pig tails, tank top, and the husband’s pj pants. I turned on the TV and was watching a few baseball highlights. I crawl up onto the new fluffy king sized bed anticipating comfort and reprieve. Ah, it is great. But wait a minute; something is tickling my shoulder and I brush at it. It is just a hair that fell from my loose pigtail. Ick! Now it is on my arm, only this time it is moving towards my face – fast. No no no no no! That is not a hair! What the hell is that! A mosquito? A beetle? OH NO!

I grab my cell phone for light. It does very little. Ludo, my dog starts to freak. Ludo only goes after moths, I must be ok. Ewwwww, I can’t stand not knowing. Wtf! Something is on my back! I brush it away and I feel it ball up under my fingers. I jump from the bed to the light switch at the door, flip it on and see it. I wimper. Oh no. Oh No. OH.

A quarter sized yellow/white/transparent spider is waltzing around the bed, trying to get away from the dog. Thank god Ludo was there. He is the only thing that kept it in check as I panicked.

That thing was in my blanket, on my arm, bolting for my face, then on my BACK?

F.U.D.G.E.

Then in the back of my head I hear myself saying “die spider, die!” as I ran at it with toilet paper. Sweet revenge. It ran for a little while, trying to get away but I must have hurt it when it was crawling all over me! I got it! *flush*

But now I am scared to lay in bed. I feel icky. Just this awful squirmy, crawling, icky feeling. Sleep? Ha, yeah right.

Spiders. They normally don’t bother me all that much. I don’t like killing them. I don’t like them alive. That tends to put me in a fickle position. In this case, the spider wanted me dead. It’s evil plot almost prevailed over me last night. However, in the end, it was I who scarcely conquered it. That bastard.

Nancy Pelosi's Favorite Word!!! LMAO

“They ask me all the time, ‘What is your favorite this? What is your favorite that? What is your favorite that?’ And one time, ‘What is your favorite word?’ And I said, ‘My favorite word? That is really easy. My favorite word is the Word, is the Word. And that is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference, you know the Gospel reference of the Word. And that Word," Pelosi said, "is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word. The Word. Isn’t it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word." - Nancy Pelosi 1.June.2010

Huh, that's odd. I thought that would be big news? Well there seems to be an absence of an ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety...

Haven’t you heard?

B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the wordA-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the wordA-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a don't you know about the bird?Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a...
A-well-a everybody's heard about the birdBird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a don't you know about the bird?Well, everybody's talking about the bird!A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the wordA-well-a bird...
Surfin' birdBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb... [retching noises]... aaah!
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowOoma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowOom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oomOom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowOoma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mowPapa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mowOom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mowOoma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mowPapa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mowWell don't you know about the bird?Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow

Peter Griffin would be proud for spreading the word.

Mags