finally!

today was the first day in what seemed like forever that i had absolutely nothing planned to do, so i gathered up all the hats i've been working on since the summer and went out into the backyard and photographed them and i've been working on putting them up on etsy ever since.

my parents have dial-up so it's taking forever, but slowly and surely they will all be posted! i am so excited. take a look at the shop here:

http://madeyedesigns.etsy.com

i will probably wait til they're all up to start advertising the new shop in a big way, just to give myself some breathing room and to see how things go. i am hoping/thinking that being on etsy will mean more traffic and also way less time needed to maintain the site. (seriously, if i was going to be putting everything up on my own site like i have been, this would still be in the works and i probably wouldn't be able to get it all done for weeks!)

guys, let me know what you think about madeye moving to etsy, and about the new hats! (i posted some of them here over the summer, but others are making their web debut!)

an idea

i am thinking that the next version of the madeye shop to go up (whenever that is) will be hosted on etsy, rather than run through my own html site.

thoughts? comments? if you use etsy, what do you think of it? pros & cons?

i signed up when it was in beta version, but never really listed anything. now it seems like such a great resource for buyers and sellers that it would almost be silly to mess with doing my own site, especially since that takes up so much time (which is one of the big reasons i haven't posted anything new since the spring!).

http://madeyedesigns.etsy.com

hello, i'm not dead!

hi to anyone still reading!

you might be wondering where i am and what's going on with madeye. well, i certainly would not hold those thoughts against you. it's been almost three months since my last post here, and way longer since i update the site.

well, here's the story:

i'm about to wrap up my second-to-last semester in college, so i'm busy with school work and freaking out about the future (you'd be suprised how much of my time that occupies). i'm in charge of my school's newspaper, although my amazing co-editor is going to be taking over a lot of those duties for me in the spring. i've also got an editorial internship at a really awesome magazine, so i'm also busy with listening to awesome music and writing about it and going to the post office and all that stuff. oh, also... i've been watching a lot of six feet under (thanks, bravo).

so, my life is like exploding with stuff right now, and there just hasn't been a lot of time for stitching! but that makes me pretty sad, so i am trying to get back into things; i also have a whole ton of hats that i made before my life got so crazy, and they are just waiting to be put up on the site. but, for now, things are still pretty slow, so i just wanted to let anyone who might be curious know what's going on over here in madeye-land.

say hi if you miss me!