I've Been MIA?!

I've been a bit MIA recently and it's not for bad reasons but it's not for good reasons. I've been slacking terribly and with money troubles at home, my mom had to pawn the only camera I had to take pictures with so I don't have a camera and I lost my memory card god knows where and it's just been a mess. I've been trying to get some new products posted on The Lillypad since that'll probably be my main store now, I have Christmas-y earrings posted now but the photos aren't very goods I'm hoping to catch some sunlight tomorrow to photograph outside. Apart from everything that's been going on I've gained a HUGE obsession with I Miss The Misery by Halestorm I normally don't like female singers because their voices give me headaches but I love hers so if you're into rock and kinda hardcore music, I'd give it a listen :)

I'll be doing more blog reviews this upcoming week, don't know how many I'll be doing but hey I'll do them until I get tired, assuming no more then 5 comments again I should be able to finish them XD

Reminder List

I've been a bit scatterbrained and definitely not myself lately so I will be making this list for myself to help me remember everything that I need to get done because if I don't, I won't do it. Also I still have 2 reviews to do and I know they're taking forever but I ran out of time that one day and I've been extremely busy with work so ya know I haven't had the chance to do it.

To-Do:

- Photographing new products for Radioactive Accessories 
- Uploading 3 New Products
- Working on my Novel's first chapter
- Finish 2 reviews

Re-designing Second Store!

I've been in the mood for a change and with my second store I actually had a dream. In the dream I called the store Lillypad Bake Shop, but since I haven't started selling any kind of items that go along with that name I decided on The Lillypad. I'm absolutely in love with that name and I have so many wonderful ideas that could go along with it that I'm super excited for it to be coming along! I just changed the name from Lunar Toys and Goods to The Lillypad, next I'm gonna remove the inventory, close the shop, redesign and start fresh. Definitely going to be looking at this store in new light because all types of items are going to pop up until I find the craft that I love.

Doctor's Visit

Me being the extremely care-less and also for some reason target of best friend air assaults had broken my tail bone and put myself in agonizing pain. Now it wasn't all my fault, in fact most of it was my boyfriend's older brother who just turned 20 and is about 200 something pounds decided falling from a height of about 6 inches onto my frail body would be a great idea so he broke the tail bone. I've had it for about a week and luckily the worse of my pain is gone and I can move freely unlike before but I finally got to go to the doctors and got it checked out which they confirmed yes I did break it and now I have to cushion everything I sit on -_- which I won't lie is annoying because anything that's under me that doesn't belong there agitates me to no end, but, I let this get me off track. I haven't been able to sit and write the last two(?) reviews I have to do meaning they will be up soon and I definitely keep meaning to do them but sitting has been uncomfy and I've been trying to make chocolates. Point is, the reviews will be up either this week or next, sorry for the wait!

Kiser Krafts

Kiser Krafts is a cute store that has toys and winter wear and just a palace for kids to come. Their logo/banner is cute and to die for. I love their products and I love the store imagery. Since I don't have a lot of time I'm going to be only picking 2 products today.

Roxanne Lion is my favorite from her pet Lions and the idea of the lions being "These lions offer sensory, imaginative, and pretend play for children of all ages." and I don't know about everyone else but I think that makes Kiser Krafts's Lions worthy of checking out if you have younger kids.

 

Pink Marvelous Mouse is a cute pink mouse that is meant to stimulate the imaginative sensory of children's minds and I love them. They're a cute simple toy that people can trust their kids with and have no chance of getting hurt.

 

 

Melli's Trinkets and Melli's Yarnworks

This review is going to be a bit different since there's two stores with one owner and I'm going to cover those stores in this blog. I'll be separating it into separate posts using the headers.

Melli's Trinkets

The store itself is so beautiful with it's mostly black, blue, and green color scheme. The are where the banner goes is organized, readable and super easy to see what is being sold inside this store. The photographs are easy to see, show the colors of the items beautifully, and they don't leave anything out.

These beautiful Spiky Ball Earrings are simple, affordable, yet they catch your eye with the gorgeous gleam and colors. I love the way the Swavorski Crystals look with the silver wire and I imagine when the light hits them they shine like almost diamonds.

 

The Crystal Heart Necklace is dainty, small, affordable, and sparkly. The perfect gift for any girly girl or someone who just loves the glamour. One thing I don't like about it though is the dark blue Swavorski Crystal that's beside the heart because when I look at the picture I noticed the blue crystal first then the heart. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but I'm also not saying it's a good thing.

 

 

Melli's Yarnworks

I'm not a fan of knitted items but I love these, and out of all your works the arm warmers have to be my favorite collection. I've tried to knit and I gotta say it's not easy so many props to you for being able to make these cute and warm looking items. Compared to the other shop you own it's not as flashy but for me I like that in a shop, the simplicity of it is nice and it compliments the items in it. The banner is absolutely terrific and ties the whole shop together nicely.

 

Blacklight Wrist Warmers were my favorite item in the collection because Blacklights have always been my love and the way they light up certains colors is the best look, I'm so obsessed I even have blacklight nail polish lol.

 

 

 

I really like this Colorful Toddler Hat, of course I don't have a baby but I know a lot of toddlers that this would be absolutely to die for on and if I had a kid this would be something I would get for my child. The colors work well and the style of the hat looks like it'd be a great fit.  

 

 

Little House of Crafting

First off, let me say, picking my favorite items from Little House of Crafting was just about near impossible and the reason I say that is because they had so many items I liked I had to pick so little items that I don't think I can do this store justice by just posting a few photos so at the end of this post I'm going to include several more photos of products I loved! This store has so many varying items in it that it's impossible not to find something you like and can afford in it! They also do commissions for anything you don't see in the store already. The layout of the store is very simple, it's clean and easy to navigate. The products are broken up into categories based on the theme of the items inside it and that makes it easier to find something that peaks your interest. The banner is simple with images of the work neatly put together with the shop name going across. The overall simplicity of the shop is appealing to me while it may not be appealing to others.

Like I said previously I visited her shop and picked out a few items that I liked from her mass collection.

First up is the Keep Calm and Catch 'Em All Button, I absolutely adore Pokémon so this button is something that quite frankly, I'm considering buying within the next couple weeks. The only thing that I wish she would've done differently was get a Pokémon themed font that's royalty free and made them with it because it would've matched much better and maybe had the button be Blue and Yellow instead. She has many Pokémon items that may end up emptying my wallet (;

 

Second up is the Keep Calm and Play Videogames Button, besides crafting I have a mega passion for video games and usually spend probably about 12-24hrs playing video games either on the PC or Xbox because who doesn't love a little gory zombie killing or a fast paced adventure game? This button is yet again something I plan on buying from her soon, not sure when but eventually. I don't have anything to say about how I would improve this because personally they're fine the way they are.

 

 

My third and final pick is the Keep Calm and Save Gotham Button, I don't know how many people are fans of Batman but I absolutely love him, really I love the joker more but hey it's all the same. This button is magnificent and the colors go really well because the yellow and black are his colors! I wouldn't change anything about this button and this will be in my collection soon :)

 

Bracelet Frenzy

The store for all friendship bracelet lovers to take a peek at! Bracelet Frenzy is an attractive store with it's soft pink, I don't know what the pattern is, teardrop background. It matches perfectly with the rest of the store although the photos are what immediately gets your attention (as it should) the background is a nice compliment without being completely overpowering. Her photo's are marvelous and I believe they're very well done besides the fact that they're a little dark in some places and the bracelets don't really stand out or pop in them. Besides the photo's the prices are reasonable and almost anyone can afford a bracelet from her.

I've visited her store and picked out my three most favorite items in it, and I'm going to tell you why I love them.

The first item is her Blue Paracord Bracelet, it measures in at 10 inches long! Much bigger then my tiny 6-7 inch wrists. I love it because of the sturdiness that I know paracord has since when it comes to me I'm a bit rough with my bracelets and once I have one on my wrist I never remove it (until it breaks)!

 

 

The second item that I picked was her Beaded Braid Friendship Bracelet, although I'm not the type of person to wear friendship bracelets I love them nonetheless. Friendship bracelets are meticulous to create on their own so I couldn't imagine how it is to braid one while beading it! The bronze colored beads mixed with the yellow string doesn't offer much of a contrast which if I were to wear one would be a plus for me. I like the thickness and that it measures at approx. 6 and 1/2 inches which is just big enough to fit my wrist, and be a comfortable fit.

 

 

The third and final item that I picked was her Gryffindor Inspired Hearts Friendship Bracelet, need I say more why I like it? The Harry Potter inspired bracelet would be on my wrist in a heartbeat if I had an extra few bucks to buy one, because lets face it, Gryffindor was the best house. Now of course, it being only 4.5 inches would make it impossible to fit some of the people who would wear them which is why I would suggest maybe having them in different sizes? It could be beneficial. The hearts that are made into the pattern are cute editions to it and I think many should own these.

 

 

That's all I have to say about this lovely shop, you can check it out on Storenvy, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest!

 

 

 



eBooks Now Available + Items For Sale

I've been contemplating whether or not to put eBooks of my work out for everyone to read and enjoy but I finally decided that I would. Using a site known as Lulu.com, which is a free eBook maker and a publisher, I put together a small eBook of some of my shorter stories ranging from romance to horror and PG-R. I am just putting this one out and hopefully after I get through chapter 1 of the novel I'm trying to write I can put out a sort of teaser for it.

I was also thinking of doing a yard sale, but more of a online yard sale if that makes any sense. I haven't figured out any of the details yet but I will and sure enough I'd probably go and post right on here like I always do. I'll be updating Radioactive Accessories soon with a bunch of new earrings and bracelets and offer "gift wrapping" once I figure out what that would include. I've also been printing out some new messages to staple onto the baggies of the things I sell from my shop but considering I don't market a whole lot there's not many people to sell to.

I should probably go ahead and end this blog entry because I'll start rambling and no one wants that, anyways, bye guys!

New Creations

I've been working with glue guns, chains, buttons, etc. and I've come up with some new ideas and I've revamped older ideas. I'm going to go in the order of picture, little about item, next picture and so forth. Hope you at least like some of my creations!

This necklace is meant to represent friendship with the spikes being the friendship between 2 people. 

When I look at this necklace I think of fierceness and power. Something I personally could never have outside of the Internet. 

When I look at this, I think the beach or fall. Depending on your taste it could really work with both holidays. 

Can anyone else say holidays? When I was making this I though the trees represent picking your favorite Christmas tree, the snow should be obvious, and the rolling pin to represent the baked goodies that almost all family's have year after year. 

  

This is actually one of my older creations that I revamped. It's s flower brooch.

Out of everything this is my favorite. It's a flower hair clip :3  

Jingle bells! Jingle bells! Haha! That's what I think of when I see these, although the background is a little busy (my fault) you can see the holiday cheer. 

This Weeks Haul!

This week I got paid one of the larger amounts with my job and decided to go shopping for some new supplies! I went to Benjamin Franklin Crafts, Big Lots, Dollar Tree, and Half-Priced Books and got what you see in the picture. I'm going to list in the order of which I had bought them starting with Big Lots; there I got 2 zip up file folders that can be seen barely in the pictures. Next I went to Benjamin Franklins and got the 4 packs of flat back gems, 2 packs of mirrors, blank headbands, lollipop and 2 packs of beads. After leaving there I went to Dollar Tree and got the Scissors, Needles and paintbrushes (I had also gotten 2 glasses, one a martini glass and the other a cup but my martini glass broke and the other one I made a candle.) then I went to Half-Priced Books and got a photography book and a cake decorating book. Those can be seen as well under everything else. I'll be posting a haul video within the next few days hopefully but at the moment we don't have Internet!

Money Saving Time!

Boyfriend and I just decided to move into an apartment near his moms place and honestly I don't have a steady income that could really help at the moment so I'm starting to work on earning some extra cash through working with my shop or just craft shows in general so right now I'm not blogging a whole lot. I was also thinking about doing a kickstarter eventually but I don't know now because I don't have a huge following to actually get it out to. Guess I could try right? Well that's all for this blog I have to go work for awhile.  

Moving Out! Yay~

I finally got permission from my mom to go live with my boyfriend, we've been trying to get her to say yes for so long now that it has been crazy. Which means I'm on a hunt for a house with him so we can finally have our own place and our own lives without people judging us or interfering.

Now problem is I don't have a lot of money coming in which is why I blog, youtube, storenvy, whatever I can do to try getting some income flowing cause right now we need it more than anything so we can start putting money away and save for the dreaded deposit and down payment. I am thinking about getting back into crafting and doing a lot of maybe plushies and stuff to sell and using my YouTube again since I've been meaning to put more videos up but haven't gotten around to it since I don't have high quality anything to work with. What do you guys think?

How to Make a Medium Sized Icon

Hello everyone! Haven't you always wanted a small/medium icon that you can play with to your liking? Well here's a tutorial on how to do it!

Step 1

Open up Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai, Microsoft Paint, or whatever other editing/drawing program that you are comfortable using. For this I will be using Gimp 2. Now that it's open you should bring up a new drawing that's about 99 Length x 57 Width pixels. Your screen should look something like this (if you're using Gimp.)

Step 2

Now that you've got your template set us, you need to figure out what you want to make the icon of. For me I'm going to be using this image of Sally Williams, a horror character from Creepypasta.com. It's best that when choosing these images they have no background, and if they do have a background it's a 1 tone type of thing such as White, Grey, Black, Red, etc.

Step 3

So by now you've gotten your image selected and you've gotten your template ready, which means it's time to move onto the scheme of your icon. For me, I wanted to go with a light pink, sorta the same as her dress but a little darker. To do this, you click on the Paint Bucket, then the rectangle color swatch which will bring up a color picker. You pick the color you want to use and then fill the template with it. 

Step 4

The second to last step is that you need to press open, and open up your chosen image and select ALL. After you've selected all you need to paste it onto your template. It'll of course be too big but we will work on that in just a second. Now what you need to do is resize the image, for all the different programs it's of course different but for gimp it's the tool thats circled in yellow in the second image. After you click that proceed to step 5.

                                      

Step 5

Now that you gotten to this stage you need to click on the image and the stage in the image below will show up. Now just resize it to the size you want and you're done.

Final! 

Snake Ear Cuff by Shadow Town

I had ordered this in late July not expecting it until the end of August considering it was coming from Hong Kong, so I was surprised when it got to me early August. The product itself arrived in a bubble mailer sealed in the plastic bag as shown in the picture. 

The store in which I had bought this from called Shadow Town and they're currently having a sale. Most of their items are .20 with shipping varying depending on the item, which made my total for this about $4.00USD since shipping was only $3.80USD. It comes in 2 colors Bronze or Silver, the one in the picture is Silver. For the price of the item I was definitely happy, although it's a bit hard getting it on your ear, it looks big enough to just slip on the ear in their product photos but it doesn't just slip on. You have to work your ear into a comfortable position while keeping the earring post in your ear which for someone like me was extremely frustrating. I had it on for about an entire day and after I while I had to make sure it was still on because I couldn't feel it! 

It's a little uncomfortable at first but you do get used to it and you won't even notice it's there still. 

All in all this is a wonderful product and I love it!

Store Is Now Open!

I finally got a few things uploaded on Storenvy, and I've opened the store for everyone to see. If you would all take a minute and head on over to the store and if you have the time/money buy something to support me throughout my journey of getting to this program. I know at the moment the pictures aren't very well taken and edited but at the moment I don't have a lot available to me so I had to make do with what I had while working through this.

Art Academy - Please Help

Okay, so there's this program in the fall for this Art Academy I'm really interested in going to for college. The program is a high-school student pre-college program that helps earn credits online for their college if you decide to go. I'm in homeschool, which the representative I have talked to said it would be the same for me as anyone else, and I've never stepped foot in a High School building which honestly is damaging my chances of getting into a college. This program costs $235.00 for 2 courses and that includes materials. My mom doesn't think she'll be able to pay it and I don't think I will have a job around the time the program starts so I'm raising money for going to it. I only have $5.00 out of the $235.00 I'm needing which is why I'm asking my followers and my friends to please try to either donate points on DevianART to help get me closer to at least $10.00 or buy something from my store when I post everything over the next 2 days. 

I'm posting all over DeviantART and soon after this is posted I will be going to Facebook and Twitter posting there as well. 

If you have a DeviantART then this part of the post will make complete sense to you otherwise it won't. 

I will be trying to update regularly on my progress because I'm going to be looking for odd jobs to get some extra cash and hopefully my boyfriend is nice enough to give me any change in his room. Oh, and if you donate points, I will feature you in a journal on my account for 2 weeks. I will also feature you on my blog, that is very well read, and I will choose my favorite pieces of your art to share on my social media of your choosing. It doesn't even have to be a lot, 1 point would help seriously. 

I'm going to be opening up Literature Commissions on my account here within the next 2 days to help raise money and I will be opening up jewelry commissions on my other account ~Neon-Abyss. If you are kind enough to help me out I could never repay you no matter how much I do for you because going to this school and earning college credits doing what I love and learning to make new exciting jewelry and fashion while also writing and starting a new novel would get me so much closer to my dream of opening my own physical store. 

Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this entire entry, be looking out for commission information as soon as possible.

For anyone willing to help, my devianART accounts are: http://unattentive-teen.deviantart.com/ and http://neon-abyss.deviantart.com/

I Got to go Shopping Today!

Today my mom took my step-sister and I out to eat at Moe's in Indiana, thankfully though Jo Ann's was in a neighboring parking lot so I convinced my mom to take me over there. When we went in I originally just wanted to look at fabric prices because I was thinking of making a skirt. Well I got frustrated looking at all the fabric because I'm a very impatient person, that's why shipping kills me, and I went over to the jewelry supplies! Of course, my mom was already picking out stuff to buy so my mom went ahead and let me pick out a few things. I ended up getting 2 kinds of blank hair clips/pins, brooch pins, earring cards for display purposes, 1 1/2 Inch Elastic, 2 packs of 2 sizes with rainbow colored flat-back rhinestones, and I even managed to get some Red cotton fabric. I've already used some of the blank hair clips and rhinestones so those are put away in my boxes but the other stuff I haven't opened yet or put away which I probably should soon. Anyways, that's all I've pretty much done all day. I will hopefully be putting up a post showing the new practice bows I've been making and some new stock, since I've been researching how to sterilize some body jewelry [never worn] for resale. The relaunch is getting closer!! 

I Purchased Something Today

I'm not 100% sure if it will go through yet but if it does, I got this really cool snake earring thing from this amazing store called Shadow Town that is actually having a pretty awesome sale right now. The business itself is a really nice business and their products are mostly focused around Victorian/Steam Punk type style and I'm sure many will love them. If my PayPal let's it go through I'll post a review of the item once I get it :)

I've seen many really good reviews so I'll keep my finger's crossed.

Using This Blog Again

I have returned to use this blog again, although it's not very popular and barely has 200 views I will start remaining active on this blog to the best of my current ability. First thing I'd like to start doing on here is reviewing shops or promoting shops that would like a bit of help getting their names out. I don't have much to say at the moment since I'm trying to get everything worked out but I will be back with an update soon I hope!