Scrappy Scarves

Scrappy scarves are great. I started making them a while ago, originally to use for yarn bombing, but it turns out they are awesome for scarves as well, so I've started making them to sell. (Don't hate me, I need the money! For...more yarn.)

They're very relaxing to make, plus they use up leftover tiny balls of yarn that wouldn't get used otherwise. Plus, when they get long enough, I can use one end as a scarf while I'm knitting the other end! Which makes me feel like the coolest person ever.

This blue and purple one is currently available on etsy!

Too Many Beads

I have them :(

I have ALL THESE BEADS that I gathered when I was super into making kandi. I have since become distracted with other crafts (obviously), so these beads are mostly just taking up space. I do want to keep some, since occasionally the urge to make kandi arises (usually right before a rave), but I'm mostly just going to hang on to my pony beads and some animal ones. I can make awesome enough kandi with just those!

This has lead to:

100 beads for $5 on my etsy.

Also, it was my birthday yesterday, so now I am OLDER.

Ok, so now I'm a little pissed off

I was wandering through etsy, when I happened across this listing:



Nice kandi, right? Except it's stolen directly from kandi I sold nearly a year ago!



I checked their sales, and the first one they sold was waaay after I sold mine.

So I'm not sure what to do; on one hand, PLUR, and share happy things, and it's kandi, I shouldn't be a jerk about it, but on the other hand, I did design this and they are profiting off my design. What's worst is that they copied it almost EXACTLY, I have once extra layer of coloured beads on mine at the top and bottom, that's the only difference. The music notes are the same, and so is the spacing. They changed the colours slightly, but I sold a black and pink cuff so really they've only combined the two to get the colours.

The other thing is that I've moved away from making kandi, I spend much more time knitting and making ATCs now....so is it worth making them take down their design, since I'm not currently selling it? Tricksy questions. They've been selling a lot of this cuff, and for more than I sold mine. (Mine was $7 and theirs is $9.) So maybe I should start selling these again? For profit? I do need money...

There's a whole lot of kandi stores on etsy now. When I started my store, there was kandi being sold in other stores, but no other ones where kandi was the main thing being sold. There's now like 6 stores selling just kandi.

ACEOs

Actually going somewhere with the resolution to use etsy, more I've added two of my ATCs as ACEOs.



I've no idea if these will sell or not, but I'll give it a try anyway.

Etsy Updated!

I've updated my etsy with some new jewelry, as well as some little monsters.