About a year and a half ago, I wrote about SmartFlix, a site where you can rent craft dvd’s. I have rented many dvds from them, mostly pertaining to polymer clay and glass fusing. Yesterday, I came across a similar site, but first let me tell you how it is I end up on the damn internet for hours. Yes, I am going to Tarantino this blog post.

See, I subscribe to Craftster’s forum where I receive an email when someone adds something to certain sections. I subscribe to the jewelry and purse sections. Anyway, someone posted a cute resin necklace. She was asked where she purchased her molds, to which she replied “Little Windows“. I of course immediately clicked on the link because I have a little problem with that sort of thing.

Little Windows sells resin, molds, etc. I’m sure they will get a lot of my money at some point. After looking at their molds, I decided to, once again, Google “resin molds” to see if anything new came up. Resin molds are usually the same everywhere you buy them. Since resin jewelry has become more popular, I thought that perhaps manufacturers had started making new molds.

One of the search results was for a DVD by Sherri Haab called Resin Jewelry. If you have done your resin research, you know that Sherri Haab is a GOD! Anyway, I really wanted the DVD, but as seen at the above link, it costs $22.95. Not too bad when I have money, but right now…. it ain’t gonna happen. So I Googled my heart out to see if I could find it cheaper somewhere else.

Its my lucky day because I found a site similar to SmartFlix that I have never heard of called Artworkshops.tv. So its a double bonus because I can rent my dvd for $9.95 AND I now know about another great site for crafty stuff. The anti-bonus is that I will be spending more money on more craftiness and I’ll be more broke and more crazy and more sleepy.

The above scenario took more than an hour. I end up clicking here and clicking there. And just to show you how completely insane I am… its 4 in the morning while I am doing all this. 4 in the morning, as in…. I have not gone to bed yet.

The last time we talked, I had an upcoming show with my band. I haven’t posted anything since because I’ve been so busy as usual. But if all two of you are wondering what happened at the show…

We were good. But our show sucked. Why??? Because the guy who normally does the sound was not there. He trains his 16 year old daughter and we see her helping him every time we go there. On this particular evening, he left her there all alone to do our sound. We did our sound check and everything seemed good. But as soon as we started the show, we knew things were not right. No one in the band could hear anyone else in the band. The audience could not hear my vocals, which resulted in me screaming the whole time and losing much of my voice by the end of the set. I was also pissed that the singer in the band before us got to use a cordless mic, while I was given a regular mic. That singer was able to do a sound check in the audience, whereas I was stuck on the stage assuming that my audience could hear me. So….. lessons were learned. Overall, we were happy with everything that we did, just unhappy with what other people did. Oh and if you are wondering why we didn’t stop the show and say something to the crappy sound girl…. well, we did! But she was too busy flirting with some guy to notice. Fun stuff.

Since that time, I have been working on getting my home business back in order. I took a few custom and wholesale orders, but haven’t been back to Ebay yet. I am really dreading it, but the bulk of my income comes from there.

I have been very crafty during my time off. I am hoping to get some pics up here within the next week or two. Our guitar player comes home next week after being gone for the last month. We will be booking more shows and I won’t have time to do anything crafty, other than write songs, which is a very different craft!

Toodles,
April