woohoo!!!

so just a riding a little high at the moment and have to share!  Handmade MN is having a spring market (read craft show) at the VFW (because how awesome is a craft show at a VFW!?!?!?) on Lyndale on May 8 (just in time for mother's day!) and as such we have been busy contacting newspapers and magazines to try to get the word out.  One of these is Metro Monthly, and the guy running the story chose just a couple artists from our group to take photos of our wares for the article.  I was one of the chosen few!!!  I'm feeling pretty excited!  Etsy can be such a hard place to advertise given the incredibly high volume of sellers (particularly jewelry sellers) so it's nice to get outside recognition that people think what I'm doing is cool enough to take pictures of for a magazine article.  So I'm feeling a little giddy with excitement...although that giddy feeling may be just because I'm a little high off the resin fumes...production has begun again now that the warm weather has returned!

so much for my new leaf...

I know, I know, I said I was going to write more...clearly I'm failing.  I heard blogging got addictive, but I think I just don't have an addictive personality.  Which I suppose is good and bad...I mean, I'm not an alcoholic or a crack whore - good.  But I also can't get addicted to things I would like to be addicted to, like eating vegetables, exercising, or wasting your time with my  inane thoughts - bad.  Maybe if there was some sort of competition involved. Turns out I'm not addictive, but I am competitive.  Exercising for example...I tried to be one of those people that just can't get through their week without running at least 10 miles, the only way I could do it was to sign up for a half marathon last year because then I had other people to beat.  I refuse to let some young girl in her baby pink terry towel sweatsuit that says "PINK" across the ass win (not that I saw any of these, but boy, if I had!  she would have had a run for her money! ha ha - "run" for her money). And  yah, yah, feels good to be in shape, feels good to to not have a muffin top...but turns out I love fried food...so given the choice, fried food wins hands down...it's my favourite food group after ice cream.  But put some sort of competition in my path, and it's on! So in order to get myself out running again after this long, snowy, icy winter I've signed up for a 10K at the end of May...it's doing the trick.  If only there was a blog race....or a battle of the blogs...or a blogmania, blogfest, blogarino...

There probably is, but without a competition for me to go and find one, I'm too lazy to look...