Mar
01
Just wanted to let anyone who expressed interest in my soaps know that I launched my brand new Etsy shop yesterday! You can find a small but special selection of a few of my handmade soaps, bath fizzies, scrubs and lip balms, all lovingly made, carefully packaged and reasonably priced. :)
Share the link with your friends if you’d like, watch for my Tweets (RT plz!), and be ever on the lookout for an upcoming WoW-related soap giveaway!
Feb
19
I was tagged by Aidrana from Miss Pew Pew (who is a lovely lady and brilliant graphic designer(?)!) to take up this challenge, 6x6x6: The Challenge of Sixes, originally started by Gnomeageddon. It’s pretty easy- all you have to do is pick an image folder on your hard drive and go to the sixth image in the sixth sub-folder. You publish the image and add a few words about it. I really enjoyed Aidrana’s post, so I couldn’t turn down the challenge! (Even though my computer is severely unorganized and some of those sub-folders are pretty scarey!)
Somewhere along the way, Fannon from the Dwarven Battle Medic added a twist to this challenge, and renamed it the The Battle Medic Rule of Six by Six by Six. Instead of doing just one folder, the Battle Medic tradition calls for a few! I hope it’s okay that I picked the image folders I wanted to pull from myself according to their significance for me, but I did stick to the sixth image rule within those folders, I promise!!
So here we go…..
Feb
11
Wow, guys, it’s been a while right?
I know, I know, I have been a terrible blogger. Over a month since our last post, and while I do have valid reasons, I still feel really bad that I’ve let the blog slip through the cracks of my somewhat busy life.
It really has warmed my heart though, that even though I have been completely MIA not just from The Ready Check but also the blogging community as a whole (Twitter, Blog Azeroth) for that long, and still other tweeters were listing us in their #FF (Friday Follows, recommendations to their followers) and checking up on me periodically wondering what was up with the silence from my end. Honestly, if my iphone didn’t notify me every time I was mentioned, I wouldn’t even have known that. That’s how off the grid I have been.
Honestly, I have been so busy with work, and “crafting” for a couple of public sales right before V-day, and spending my little bit of free time relaxing with my nose in a book or raiding/hanging out on Mumble.
So I feel like I owe it to you guys to let you know what I’ve been up to.
I’ve been making soaps and other bath products for about 4 or 5 months now, sharing with friends and occupying a couple of shelves at my mom’s department store here in town. I finally decided to actually schedule two days worth of setup outside my mom’s store and in the boardroom at my work, for lack of actual craft fairs in the area. It’s been a stressful few weeks, knowing these sales were coming, trying to get my stock up and worrying about how I would fare. Would people actually show up, would they like my products, would the money made justify what I’ve spent on supplies?? (I’ve found that I have kinda been able to apply my gold-making skills in that department!)
I was so pleased that I actually did really well! I had so much fun talking with customers and catching up with old friends, explaining how I made things and the benefits of some of the ingredients I use. It was so thrilling to watch people swoop in and scoop up armloads of soaps, fizzies, salt soaks, and Valentine gift baskets, not to mention the payoff was very much to my liking. :) I learned so much about staging my products, and what appeals to the people in my community the most. And I also found out about a few local events and festivals that are coming up within the next couple of months, which is really encouraging to think on given the success of my first sales. I’m already in planning mode again! There will be four upcoming events I hope to wiggle my way into with a sales table over the next two or three months, plus toss in a trip to Dallas (3.5 hours) for a couple of days to see Matthew Good with a friend who is obsessed, and a vacation to Austin (5ish hours) for SXSW next month for a little over a week. And I will need to fit some major production in there probably at least 2-3 days a week that I am home.
Sigh. My poor blog. I still have so many addons and experiences I want to talk about, hopefully I will get around to it at some point, or hound Manners day in and day out to pick up my slack. I find that if I am not posting, he isn’t really motivated to do so either, sadly.
I wanted to share a few photos with you guys anyway, to show you I haven’t totally been wasting my time. Some are pretty crappy ones I took of my soaps at home, and others are the setup of my tables from the last two days. My second day’s table, at my work, was a much more impressive endeavor and pretty full of stuff, but of course I was so hyped up that everything be perfect by starting time, that I forgot to take pictures before my stock was completely decimated!! Here are some photos after the break! (and by some I mean a ton!)
Jan
13
This time around in Addons We Love I want to share an addon that I’ve used since….. gosh, sometime in WotlK. I think that’s probably the longest I’ve stuck with any one addon ever, now that I think of it! CLCRet (Retribution FCFS helper) is a retribution paladin rotation helper and an amazing learning tool for those new to ret paladin dps. Yes, it’s an old addon, but it is still updated regularly when patches and expansions might change the state of play for ret. I know there a lot of players who regard CLCRet almost as training wheels, but that’s fine with me. Most of those players just use other addons to supply the same information anyways, so no different in my eyes. :)
CLCRet is important to me as our raid’s occasionally offspec’d healer. Because ret is not something I play often, except for certain fights or things like dailies, it helps me stay on track with a rotation that, while simple, is also pretty easy to screw up and takes some time to recover. The key to understanding the ret paladin rotation is still all about learning the priority for spending and generating your holy power, not just hitting buttons when the icons tell you to, so be sure you are all caught up on the how’s and why’s here before you get started with CLCRet!
Jan
07
I struggled with how to start this post off. I know there are a lot of my friends and a lot of WoW bloggers playing SWTOR right now, I’ve seen it mentioned in some recent posts. And now that I am a semi-productive member of said WoW blogosphere Twitter community, I get to see it there too. Heavens rejoice….
I don’t really know how to classify this post. Not quite sure it’s a rant, although the title certainly makes it sound that way. I can assure you all, I have great respect and tolerance for your gaming choices. I guess it’s more a metaphor (guys, I googled metaphor to make sure it applied…still not sure), or sarcasm, or some other something that won’t offend my sweet friends who play SWTOR…
No, no, it’s not SWTOR I hate. Hell, I don’t know anything about it really. Other than the fact that dungeons are called flashpoints (I’ll get to how I know that in a minute).
I hate it because of what it’s done to our raid group. I mean, what the people playing SWTOR have done to our raid group. Or shall I say, our former raid group…..
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