Ok, so I have all these pictures...

All these things I want to talk about.    I have so many things that happened over the summer.  I can choose to desperately try to find the time to find and edit and post them all and try to play catch up. Or I can attempt yet anther fresh start and start with something recent and just carry on from here. 

Hmmmmmmm . . . .


In the mean time I'll leave you with this. . .

So, I'm apparently a bad summer blogger...

So, it seems once again I've proven to be a very bad summer blogger.  There I was ramping up my blog, announcing my birds, making plans, and then I go and drop off the radar again. Just like last year, June hit and suddenly I was falling behind in everything trying to fit in day trips, family visiting, travel, art shows, and what not, on top of our daily routine. And all leading up to Badger's birthday.  
Once again my craft room became lost in piles of stuff that needs sorting and storing. My dining table has disappeared under a pile of bird making supplies and random crafting stuffs. My hard drive is full if photos that I kept meaning to blog about. And my house looks like a tiny tornado lives here. 

So, now that Badger is official two years old things should start winding down again and hopefully I can start playing catch up. Right after next weekend's art show in the GTA's Cabbagetown ( Sprucecourt School: arts and crafts booths located in a more informal space at the corner of Carlton and Sumach Streets. Saturday, September 7, and Sunday, September 8. If you're in the area and want to come out and see the birds in person) and then the first meeting for planing this years haunt, then the 5k on the runway that I'm organizing a team for in memory of a sweet lady on our street who passed away earlier this year,  the Run for your Lives event that I'll be a chaser zombie in, the swimming lesson's we are looking at signing badger up for....

Then again...

Oof...

I know a lot of you crafty bloggers out there do all this and more with 2/3/4/5 kids and still kind time to craft and blog. How do you do it? And life/time saving tips you could offer?

(pic spamming for a brief overview of my summer)

A new item!

 

Wire wrapping skills slowly improving.

From my Garden!

At the beach on his birthday.

Go Go Gadget Farmers Market!

Nana Bird anyone?

My first Robin!

More puzzle pieces for more Autism Birds.

Custom order of my first outdoor bird!

Dressed up for vending at Faerie Fest

Amazing custom wallet I had made by the talented Carla at Half Dozen Daily!

I can officially accept credit card now!

As always, more and more birds!

A CUSTOM Bird For Every Reason

Look! Look! Up there! See it?! *does a happy dance* I made a thing! I made a form thing! 

 *cough*

Sorry, wait, what? Yes, a form. A custom order for to be exact. Now I've just made it much easier to place a custom order for "A Bird For Every Reason"!

 Up in the menu bar you'll see the tab "A CUSTOM Bird For Every Reason"  If you decide some day that you'd like a Bird but want something a bit more personal or specific, that is where you can go! 

I have to admit I'm quite pleased with how well it turned out. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to go about it but a quick Google search lead me to two options.

Google Forms  (through Drive)     or      123contactforms.com

123contactforms required a sign up and seems all fancy and stuff and I figured I already had a gmail account so I figured I'd give Google forms a go first.  The edited was ok. A little clunky but I had the option of using the same look as my blog seeing as they are both hosted by Google. So it looked pretty. But when I tried to access the test run forms that were filled out my option was a not to pretty and hard to read spreadsheet that had to be re-downloaded every time.

So I decided to give the 123contactforms a try and found the editing much smoother with more options, better design, and the info gets emailed to me directly in a nice neat easy to read order form. It helped a lot that their site has options for what kind of form you want (I chose order form) where as Google forms seemed to be mostly for making surveys.

So there you have it.  A much easier way to place a custom order with "That Thing I Made" for "A Custom Bird For Every Reason".  

 Enjoy! 

Till next time, keep crafty!

And the winner is . . .

Thank you to all of you who stopped by and entered the giveaway this week! And welcome to my new followers!  

And now what you've been waiting for. 

The winner of this little guy here . . .

is ATABANANA29!!! 


a Rafflecopter giveaway


Here's what she had to say in the comments:

atabanana299 May 2013 15:14

I love the awareness ones! My daddy passed away from a fairly unknown and very aggressive cancer called Multiple Myeloma. My daughter has since been selling Myeloma bracelets to raise money for a cure. Our main focus is bringing awareness so people now what they are up against. When my dad had it, it took us off guard since we never have heard of it. Thank you! 

Thank YOU atabanana. Sorry to hear about your father but props to your daughter on her fundraising and awareness work! 

Thanks again to everyone who entered.  I had so much fun reading all your comments!  And your responses about the birds have really given me the extra lift I needed to really push to get these little guys out there. 

I'm also hoping to start doing the "My Monday Treasury" soon now that I have a new active Etsy shop!   And I'll try to add at least one new bird a week to the shop as well. 

A custom order item will be listed soon but in the mean time if you would like to order a custom bird just email me directly and we can work something out!

Till next time, keep crafty!

Slow and Steady

More birds going up into the shop every day! Shipping is included in the prices.  Anyone local can just contact me for an in person sale for a sans shipping price.


On top of that, That Thing I Made now has a facebook page!  Weeeee! 

https://www.facebook.com/ThatThingIMade   Just another way to stalk me. :)

I'm also now using bloglovin as you can see from the link on the right menu bar.

Been working hard this week to spread out a bit. 

Sew Mama Sew's giveaway day sure does make me productive! 

Speaking of, it's the last day to enter!   I'll announce the winner Sunday morning!

A little facelift....

The orange was starting to feel a little dark. I thought the overall feel needed a pick me up. Something a little brighter to preface tomorrows post. Still not sure on the banner but it's a work in progress.   Like a few things around here.   :) 

      What do you think?