Alright it's a gloomy day here in Michigan so I decided we'll have to brighten everyone's day. Harris Hobby Home is having a sale this weekend 8/10/12-8/13/12. Yep that's right it's Friday through Monday.
Here are the rules:
1) Go on our Facebook Page www.facebook.com/HarrisHobbyHome and become a fan!
2) Leave a comment telling us how awesome we are!!
3) We'll send you a 20% off coupon code in a message.
4) Go to our shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/HarrisHobbyHome pick your item that you want and check out!! Don't forget to put in your coupon code!!
Now that's pretty simple steps! So what are you guys waiting for?!
***Remember you HAVE to become a fan on Facebook and leave a comment. Those of you who do one or the other are out of luck! Sorry those are the rules***
Happy Shopping!!
Friday, August 10, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Organizational Dilemma
I don't know how many of you cross-stitch out there...well really any needlepoint done might have this same problem I have: STORAGE!!!
Now, one problem I have is storing my floss. Right now I have some lame piece of cardboard with holes punched in them to tie the floss. It has a space to put the color number and then at one end it has a magnet for your needle. Pretty nifty I thought. Until I ran across some problems:
1) The floss just hangs there!! It gets caught on everything because of this.
2) The floss has a kink in it so now it's more than likely going to knot. (Which is every cross stitchers nightmare! Especially if you're back-stitching. Ugh it's the worst!!)
3) The magnet for the needles is good at holding the needle if it doesn't rub up against anything else. Once I put this "floss organizer" in my make shift bag the needles are forever lost in the bottom of the bag. (I'm sure one day I'll get to the bottom of the bag and find more than a dozen needles.)
4) Going back to the floss that just hangs there...I have cats. Need I say more. My floss becomes their favorite toy. One minute I'm cross stitching and the next I'm chasing my cats, while they're running and dragging floss behind them. (Note to my customers: I didn't use that floss to make your item, I bought all new floss. So no worries!)
5) Now this last problem might not be a problem for most. Since my husband is OCD, it's only a little, it's kind of rubbed off on me. I can't stand this method of organization for the main reason that it isn't in numerical order!! I honestly don't want to re-do every single cardboard thingy. But in the end it does indeed irk me.
So now my dilemma lies in finding a way to organize my floss without having the above problems. I know what you're thinking: Good Luck with that! I'm hoping someone will take pity on me and share their organizational secrets.
Now one last thing:
For the life of me I can't find a cutesy bag that will hold all of my cross stitching "crippy crap," that's apparently the Harris family term. My husband's family came up with the term and now they have me using it (go ahead roll your eyes I am). I'm amazed that these craft stores have bags for quilters, sewers, and crocheters but not for us cross stitchers. I'm feeling slightly left out! I want a cutesy girly bag because well I'm cutesy and girly...at least my husband thinks so. And honestly who am I to shatter his hopes and dreams. I might as well give in to his delusion just this once.
That being said this girl is forever on the hunt for a pretty bag with some type of organizational pockets to separate my stuff! Ideally it would hold my floss organizer (which I have yet to figure out), my needles, my fabric, and my cross stitch patterns. If my loyal readers know of a place where I can find such an item PLEASE tell me!!! I beg you!
Now, one problem I have is storing my floss. Right now I have some lame piece of cardboard with holes punched in them to tie the floss. It has a space to put the color number and then at one end it has a magnet for your needle. Pretty nifty I thought. Until I ran across some problems:
1) The floss just hangs there!! It gets caught on everything because of this.
2) The floss has a kink in it so now it's more than likely going to knot. (Which is every cross stitchers nightmare! Especially if you're back-stitching. Ugh it's the worst!!)
3) The magnet for the needles is good at holding the needle if it doesn't rub up against anything else. Once I put this "floss organizer" in my make shift bag the needles are forever lost in the bottom of the bag. (I'm sure one day I'll get to the bottom of the bag and find more than a dozen needles.)
4) Going back to the floss that just hangs there...I have cats. Need I say more. My floss becomes their favorite toy. One minute I'm cross stitching and the next I'm chasing my cats, while they're running and dragging floss behind them. (Note to my customers: I didn't use that floss to make your item, I bought all new floss. So no worries!)
5) Now this last problem might not be a problem for most. Since my husband is OCD, it's only a little, it's kind of rubbed off on me. I can't stand this method of organization for the main reason that it isn't in numerical order!! I honestly don't want to re-do every single cardboard thingy. But in the end it does indeed irk me.
So now my dilemma lies in finding a way to organize my floss without having the above problems. I know what you're thinking: Good Luck with that! I'm hoping someone will take pity on me and share their organizational secrets.
Now one last thing:
For the life of me I can't find a cutesy bag that will hold all of my cross stitching "crippy crap," that's apparently the Harris family term. My husband's family came up with the term and now they have me using it (go ahead roll your eyes I am). I'm amazed that these craft stores have bags for quilters, sewers, and crocheters but not for us cross stitchers. I'm feeling slightly left out! I want a cutesy girly bag because well I'm cutesy and girly...at least my husband thinks so. And honestly who am I to shatter his hopes and dreams. I might as well give in to his delusion just this once.
That being said this girl is forever on the hunt for a pretty bag with some type of organizational pockets to separate my stuff! Ideally it would hold my floss organizer (which I have yet to figure out), my needles, my fabric, and my cross stitch patterns. If my loyal readers know of a place where I can find such an item PLEASE tell me!!! I beg you!
Friday, August 3, 2012
New to Blogging
Hello out there!! My name is Brittany, I'm the owner of the etsy shop, Harris Hobby Home!
As a first time blogger I find it quite entertaining how nervous I am. I find my head swirling with all sorts of questions ranging from do I tell them my life story right off the bat or how exactly does this blog thing work. Well as you all can tell, and I'm not quite sure who 'you all' really is, I'm new to this. I've had quite a few people mention to me in my 24 years of life that I should start a blog. Mostly I laugh and say what would I blog about. Now since my husband and I started a shop on etsy, I figure what better way to promote ourselves than to blog about it. The frustrations of starting/owning a business, advertising, cross-stitching, painting, this blog will be about it all. We want to make you feel as though you're apart of the business.
So in turn here we are! Now before I throw a whole bunch of links out for you, I will mention that I doubt this blog will be strictly about business. There is bound to be some personal information. That being said I'll start again with my husband and I started an etsy shop called Harris Hobby Home...if you search for it instead of following the link there are no spaces.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HarrisHobbyHome We specialize in cross-stitching, paintings, and dry erase boards. My husband is the painter, though I dabble in painting from time to time. I'm the cross-stitcher and we both do the dry erase boards...I doubt he'll admit to that. We just opened the shop on July 9th of this year so we are fairly new to everything. We don't have many items up, but that also happens to be because we are doing our very first craft show coming up August 18th. There will be a lot more inventory coming soon!!
Now we also have a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/HarrisHobbyHome
And for those of you who like to tweet, we also have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/HarrisHobbyHome
Well I think that's it for this post! I welcome feedback, comments, and followers!!
Happy Blogging :)
As a first time blogger I find it quite entertaining how nervous I am. I find my head swirling with all sorts of questions ranging from do I tell them my life story right off the bat or how exactly does this blog thing work. Well as you all can tell, and I'm not quite sure who 'you all' really is, I'm new to this. I've had quite a few people mention to me in my 24 years of life that I should start a blog. Mostly I laugh and say what would I blog about. Now since my husband and I started a shop on etsy, I figure what better way to promote ourselves than to blog about it. The frustrations of starting/owning a business, advertising, cross-stitching, painting, this blog will be about it all. We want to make you feel as though you're apart of the business.
So in turn here we are! Now before I throw a whole bunch of links out for you, I will mention that I doubt this blog will be strictly about business. There is bound to be some personal information. That being said I'll start again with my husband and I started an etsy shop called Harris Hobby Home...if you search for it instead of following the link there are no spaces.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HarrisHobbyHome We specialize in cross-stitching, paintings, and dry erase boards. My husband is the painter, though I dabble in painting from time to time. I'm the cross-stitcher and we both do the dry erase boards...I doubt he'll admit to that. We just opened the shop on July 9th of this year so we are fairly new to everything. We don't have many items up, but that also happens to be because we are doing our very first craft show coming up August 18th. There will be a lot more inventory coming soon!!
Now we also have a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/HarrisHobbyHome
And for those of you who like to tweet, we also have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/HarrisHobbyHome
Well I think that's it for this post! I welcome feedback, comments, and followers!!
Happy Blogging :)
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