My first BNS on Etsy

Woohoo! My First BNS!
For everyone who doesn't know (and I only recently understood the concept), a BNS or buy and stay is a treasury list to promote sellers.
Its held in a number of rounds, and some have different rules with minimum buys etc. But basically you buy something from one of the shops listed and then post a comment listing the transaction id and the shop name. And then your shop gets a turn in the next round. Simple.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTIzNTgzMDJ8NTc4NDkyNjYy/open-bns-oh-so-blueby-comfy-36-sales

So please go and take a look at the wonderful stuff on offer in the shops (mine included) and don't forget to leave a comment saying pixiecorpse sent you offer, I would totally appreciate that one!
Thanks and don't forget to check out my new ACEO's and paintings while your there!

Ted's 1 Already...

Wow I can't believe its been a whole year since we had Ted. Well saying that it is 3am and all 3 kids are up and I'm super tired...In fact Ted's only managed 8 full nights sleep in a year so I'm definitely feeling it...
Anyhoo..Here's some pics of Ted for his birthday!

NEW STUFF ON ETSY

New stuff on etsy click images to go straight to item! woohoo!

I made a treasury!

Free Gift!!

Ok so to celebrate my birthday, throughout August I will be giving a blank ACEO card inside one of my envelopes, with every purchase on my etsy store... Gems Menagerie or click the store widget on the right...
A bit of a crap free gift I hear some of you cry...Well fear not theres another part to this. When you get your order with the blank ACEO I will also include my email address so once you've created your fabulous ACEO, just email me a pic with any links to etsy stores, or your own blog and I will be more than happy to post a blog entry here for you! And don't worry it won't take me as long as my last post to write it!
So happy viewing in my etsy store!

Xmas,New Year and various sicknesses

So its been a while!...I hope everyone had a fantastic Xmas and New Year, we did but ever since hubby came down with tonsillitis in between the two it seems like the sick bugs have been rife in our house, G and I had throat infections then it was back to school and the nit problems that just seem to love our daughter just don't seem to be letting up. Its a definate case of vigilance on that one that's for sure.
The past fortnight its been eye infections with the kids going from G to Ted and now Dub came out with it last night. And if that wasn't the worst hubby has just got over another throat infection and I'm feeling like I could be coming down with it too, which has really knackered my half term week of cleaning.
Oh well, but on a lighter note Ted is now 7 months and has slept through 5 whole nights not together but he's getting there...

Book 20

Ok so it's confession time... I acted like a spoilt little kid when my sister gave me this book for my birthday, I was ungrateful and acted like a brat. The reason being (although it doesn't excuse my behaviour) I don't like/read King, his books are too long winded and I get fed up with them, I just can't get into his style of writing. Not only that she did give me the gift when I was in the hospital after having Ted, I was tired and grumpy and had been there for three days already. (This also does not excuse my behaviour, merely placement within the narrative as it were).

I did apologise to my sister because I did appreciate the gift, and I liked it even more when I realised it was a compendium of short stories. There would be little time for my aversion to Kings descriptive writing to kick in, I hoped.

And because it was a gift from my sister and she didn't have to, I thought the least I can do is read it. My mind wanders absently to the two mammoth King tomes sitting in the kitchen gathering dust, which will not be read by me but will be when I've donated them to the library.

I do feel bad for this almost phobia to King novels if you will because I even read the introduction and I thought he seems like a likeable person. So I feel a little bad for not liking his novels.

But all that aside, I really did enjoy it. My favourite stories were:

Willa, Stationary Bike, The Gingerbread Girl, The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates and A Very Tight Place.

One thing that did irritate me though was the fact that some of them stop without explanation or a conclusion. ( I don't like having to make assumptions to how their lives go on after the events).

If you've read it let me know which stories you enjoyed and why.