New Item teaser

All but one of these items should be in the shop soon (the clear necklace on the left is already heading out to my grandma.) The ones on the left are similar to my Bottleneck Necklace. In fact the bottleneck necklace is there posing with the group. The one on the right was inspired by a picture my Aunt Leslie sent me this week of a necklace she bought in Colorado. As soon as I saw it I knew it would be a great style to play around with and a great way to use up some of the tons and tons of seed beads in my collection. (I won't go into how this also prompted an evening of bead stash organization last night. But that's probably a good thing anyway.) There may be more of its kind on the way! But first to add some finishing touches to the necklaces pictured above and get them in the shop!

Juice Colored Treasury

For some reason yesterday I wasn't feeling very into the idea of posting an entry even though there was stuff to post about. I guess that must've been true Sunday as well. Sunday I did manage to nab a treasury west, thanks to noticing an Etsy forum title that said they were becoming avaliable soon. I should've blogged about that Sunday night, treasuries are one of my favorite Sunday night activities. But I didn't so I will blog about it now that I've just found out it was on the Front Page this morning! I completely missed it, but I'm excited to know it was there. It'll be up for this evening before it expires.

Today was Good

Well it was. Perhaps later I will post more in depth. But just to briefly summarize here for now - We went to the Handmade Market in a bar called the Empty Bottle, then stopped into a restaurant/bar I've been wanting to check out since before we moved here (because I'm sorry but I love puns and word play) the Handlebar. And there was also checking out of the shops I've already been to but like a lot over on Division in Wicker Park. Somehow I managed to come out of the cool yarn shop over there empty handed, and I'm not really sure how that happened but apparently it is possible. And though the transit had some issues on the way there, as we started our trip I took pictures of Obama posters. And on the way back there was a lovely trumpet player at one of the stations, and interestingly a girl carrying a chair from train to train. It's nice to just be in a city like this.

Cool Japanese Ad

Chuck found this website for a Japanese clothing store a few weeks back, and I have to say I love it. I keep trying to figure out how to explain it, but I think you just have to see it. It's neat. I just realized the first time I looked at it, it was at night and the images were night time images. I came back to it today and the images are completely different than before. I believe it knows your location and time zone and adjusts the images accordingly. Incidentally I notice a lot of Cabled scarfs are featured, something I've been working on lately. No pictures though, it's getting to be a more secretive time of year. Anyway, I figure this sort of counts for a video friday feature, even though it's a little different than my usual posts.

Update: Chuck came home and pointed out there was a widget for posting it on your blog. Also it's downloadable as a screensaver, and since I really think it's best viewed full screen, I may end up doing that soon! It would seem the do have one US store in Soho, in NYC.