Addicted to creating

Current Mood: Esctatic

So I’ve gotten back into making items full time. I listed a bunch of new items on my zibbet shop.. wookieheadgifts and I have so many more to list. I have made at least 10 items today alone.. and I STILL WANT TO MAKE MORE! I love listing at zibbet so much more. With etsy I would think first and list only a few items. Mostly because I didn’t want my bill to get HUGE.. With zibbet I can list like mad the bill will still be $7 a month.. like i said before thats the main reason I even joined..

I feel so much better.. I even sold some things yesterday off etsy. And tomorrow Isacc is buying me an EPSON printer.. the best of the best for printing art! So excited! And he’s taking off also..

So right now I am going to take a break.. go down stairs let the baby run around.. and run with him a bit.. and start cooking dinner at 5pm.. Meatloaf tonight I think.. we will see.. anyways.. check out the banner below to be taken to my store.. LOTS of new love items..

Enjoy!

FYI- Recipes With Love

Current Mood: Esctatic

After a very long time of promoting Recipes with love.. I have decided to sell the recipes as a newsletter. This makes the program so much more worth wild.  The newsletter will have many more features plus the normal features as it did before. PLUS I am now selling the newsletter on Zibbet so buyers have the chance to leave bad feedback or request a refund in public.. not only is that safe for me but also for you. The price is $5.95 for each issue that features 20 recipes and 4 free recipes ( I’m also thinking of  adding some dessert recipes also ) AND each issue has at least 2 pictures…  soon I will give out coupons on my other blog. Be on the look out.

If you would like to grab it… Just visit the classic website for links to the first 3 issues selling listing.  Thanks bunches!

Recipeswithlove.com

Doing Better But Still

I’m feeling better and feeling happy for what I have.. Even with those around me who have more.

I’ve been doing PTC sites lately.  I even started a new blog to watch how much money I am making and to keep myself confident .

I changed Peek A Boo smiles into a blog on marketing advice and shopping handmade. This morning I posted a super long post on using PTC sites to market. I even posted it on Etsy… bad choice.. no one said thank you.. nothing. I am beginning to think I might as well stop trying to help these ungreatful people. Some one even rudely replayed they didn’t know what PTC or Gpt meant. If they hadn’t been lazy they could have clicked the link to the marketing list and found out. Some people are so mean and rude. Yet they think that helps them make sales. Last time I EVER offer those rude people advice. I will just keep it to myself.. Shit it’s not like they will care anyway.

GRR!  I hate etsy these days.. No sales, Mean people , No views.. why bother..

At the moment Zibbet doesn’t have a Forum.. Amen it don’t need one to me.. Then it will become just like etsy.

Ok time to be possitive!

On the positive… I won’t have any compation when it comes to marketing with GPT sites.. LOL their lost right.

I’ll be able to market wiser and for less money and still have a fairly good return.

Since I am moving my stores to a ZIBBET I have a better chance to make more money with a lot less competion.. I don’t have to keep renewing.

Not only that but my bill is a lot lower.

I’m about to list more items on there today. So far I have 33 on one site ( Can’t remember which one lol) and 30 on another.. I made a few designs yesterday that are lovely so I need to add them.. Not to mention I need to make some Valentines day cards still..  So excited…

I love Zibbet.. I hate etsy.. too many rude and ungreatful sellers!

However some of the sellers are nice.. just today a lot of them aren’t being very nice..

Feeling Depressed

Current Mood: Sad

So my mom dropped by… to show me her ring.. that’s right she and James are getting married. It’s a huge ring too. 18k gold with at least 3 carats. Pissed me off as soon as I saw it.  Isacc and I had our wedding.. but we still aren’t “married” it just instantly made me so mad. They have all the money in the world and we have nothing. I work so hard on my businesses each day and I get almost nothing for it. I’ve been doing this online thing for almost 6 years and I have still yet to have success. I am still waiting for money to just flow in daily like all those etsy sellers have it and like all those people on dp have it . I mean some  etsy sellers with like 100 sales in under 6 months and they have never been in the FS room. I hate it

I hate it more than you know. I feel like crying. I feel like quitting more and more each minute right now. Why does it seem like I am working as hard as can be yet those who barely do anything have so much more success and are making all the money. Maybe I should just give up. Find a baby sitter and get a day job. Work the same hours as Issac , have him pick me up from work and go home together.

My mom has everything. She has a man who can afford a super expensive ring and makes lots of money. I think what pisses me off a bunch is that we don’t even have a bed to sleep on when we go there.. yet he can get a ring.  That home is no longer my home. It’s just a place I visit every once in awhile.  It sucks that we have to sleep on the floor and I have to risk one of his shoes falling in my face while I sleep. It’s just so unfair.

We have like nothing.. I mean we are on food stamps, we can’t even pay our rent because of Isacc lost job. We can’t even pay for older past bills  and we were on unemployment. It’s just not fair. It’s just so sad.  I work so hard and nothing. I put my heart and what money I have in my websites and stores and yet nothing. I work and work and work.  The only time I make good money is when I do something I hate ( write articles ) and that money is a load of crap!

I really feel like quitting … like just giving up working from home.. I can just get a day job and do all this crap over the weekend.. it’s not like the crap I am doing all day long is doing any good.  I am just wasting my time.  And what money or family has.  Like I said I am really feeling depressed right now.  I think I should just give up.

When is all this hard work going to pay off.. WHEN?

Zibbet WORKS!

Current Mood: Esctatic

Why you ask .. Well yesterday I listed 12 items in the hugs with smile shop.. I was checking out how the shop look when I was about to list a few more and it said 1 ITEM SOLD! I was like darn things in beta must be a mistake.. OH NO it wasn’t!

My very first active day on Zibbet and it works.. I already got a sale. with only a few items in shop!  Today I plan on listing a lot more.. for both of the new stores. I have a lot of projects in mind that I would love to create but since I’m not listing on etsy anymore ( Which also got a 65 cent sale ) I need to move fast and list as much as I can each day so that my store is full as can be.

I love how with zibbet there is no question on how much my bill with be… it’s very liberating compared to etsy. I mean if I wanted I could have like over 500 items.. and it would still only cost $7 a month.

I look forward to zibbet making it more and better than etsy in every way.. I mean they have a coupon system.. something etsy really needs.. so that buyers don’t have to leave “COMMENTS” and wait for a refund.. they can just enter a real coupon code. Plus a coupon system is great for those who want to advertise on coupon sites and coupon blog and even coupon forums. I don’t have enough products in my zibbet shops to offer a coupon but I will once I have enough.

I really hope sales continue to come from there.  I would be very happy with like one or two sales a week. But I am hoping for so much more than that. Last night I was thinking of selling soap.. then it hit me.. starting another business isn’t easy nor needed.  I need to focus on making this one ROCK! And once I make this one ROCK.. then maybe just maybe I can think about it.. but I doubt I’d want to.

So because of all my personal domains not really selling their products well.. I am going to be moving them to Zibbet also.  I’m talking about selling Recipe With Love as a ZINE and Simple Vocab Lessons also.  And even Pink Forex.  All those are already typed so why not.  Forgot to say Simple Math Lessons. Only the young lesson is done but it’s a start no? … I think it’s a good idea to sale those as a real item instead of just a digital item.  I need to search printing prices but I’m sure MOXIcopy will be the company I choose.

I also want to start a shopping blog. I am for some reason considering starting this blog on a hosted site like blog spot or blogger.. gross I know but it is said that those sites get lots of follows and fast.  Plus I will also be able to get an adsense account from google.  Whatever I go with I will still be using my domain to link to the site.  Still thinking about whats best for me and for my business.. and I really think having one blog on those gross hosted sites might be ok..

Ok It’s like 7:33am starting to get nice and warm in the house now so I should go ahead and make Isacc lunch bag.  Him working isn’t so bad. I miss him a lot .. and Caisien does too. Many time Caisien will just cry for hours for nothing.. and just want to cry while in my lap. And lately even when I get him to go to sleep he still won’t let me put him down onto the couch. Not fun at all.. But hey that is mother hood.. I LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT. I’m sure today will be great.. A new season of The Tyra Show is back so I am VERY EXCITED!  Caisien and I love watching.

Ok I’m off to go back hubby’s lunch..

Don’t forget to look at my etsy stores… they are closing the end of May so HURRY!

No More Etsy For me

Current Mood: Happy

So after a long talk with my husband and thinking hard to myself.  I think it makes no since to use etsy anymore. Here are my reasons.

1. The most important reason is that it is so expensive. My bill for both stores combined is already $30.

2. Yesterday I listed 3 new products and  I only get 3 views combined.

3. Because of the new search features it is made to benefit the buyer rather than the seller. That’s great and all but daily renewing of listings isn’t working anymore thus being a complete waste of money.

4.  I want to start one or two more stores however etsy is just too expensive to do that with.

5. Zibbet has many more features that etsy doesn’t have.  These features include copy a listing and bulk uploads. Plus it’s only $7 a month

6.  If I use zibbet for all three or four stores I will only be paying like $21 to $28 a month. Which is already less than the two etsy stores.

7.  Because of the lower cost I will be able to reduce my prices back to what they were before.

I’m not saying I will just unlist all the items in both of my etsy stores.  I will just keep them in there until they expire. No reason to waste any more money. And if I remove them then it’s a complete waste of time.

I love etsy.. however many of the people on there don’t like me.  The advice I get is mostly ignored and many times I get advice from people when I really don’t want it and thus my feeling are hurt.  Plus it annoys me when they too need help with their store yet want to pick on me.  Zibbet doesn’t have a forum that I know of. I like that. I don’t have to feel like a looser and a bad person when I offer advice or ask questions.

So why 3 to 4 stores? I’m sure you are thinking that’s a bunch of work and it’s not needed. However I think it’s a lot easier for me to split things up instead of having one huge store that has over 100 items!  With Zibbet that’s sounds like a nice idea and I might even consider doing that and combine some of Wookie Head Gifts with Hugs with Smiles products.  However I will think about it more over the weekend.  I know with etsy that would be sure hard! Because it takes me like 3 to 5 minutes to add an items unlike with zibbet only 2 to 4 minutes.  And I haven’t even upgrading my account that offers the copy listing feature.. so excited about that feature!  Anyways so visit my stores on etsy before they disappear!

So much to talk about

Current Mood: Happy

It’s been a very long time I KNOW.. so much has happened.. It’s easier for me to list things rather than just type like normal so here goes:

1.  Caisien had an alligeric reaction to some fish on Jan 11th. However a few days later both Isacc and I got sick so we considered it food possion. We bought the fish from walmart and I cooked it just right.  Now I hate walmart even more. We even took him to the hospital because of how bad his rash and fever was. He’s lost of a bunch of weight because of it. He’s doing a lot better now.

2. We went to nanas the same day I got sick.. However we woke up too late and missed our food stamp appointment. So this means we most likely won’t be getting them anytime soon. However there is an office in lancaster so when the time is right we will go back and see if we still can get them. Food stamps really help us.. and the 5 to 6 hour wait is really worth it.

3.  I was going to offer free webhosting and a web hosting site However upon offering the people on etsy some free space I was totally told off. Not only that after creating a site for a store owner she didn’t even used it and changed to intuit.com.. such a piss off. So I won’t be offering hosting right now. I think it’s a great way to make money however it’s a bunch of work and I need a lot of money to get started.

4. I’ve decided to make that webhosting site into a referral web hosting site. There are tons of sites that pay for members plus I think it will be a lot easier for me. I can just review each site for one month of hosting and rate it.  So this will be my third blog.. happy dance!

5. Isacc is finally working! Today was his first day. He gets home in under and hour. I can’t wait to hear how it went.

6. Both tv remotes aren’t working. Caisien dropped the one down stairs and it broke open.. when I put it back together it just didn’t work. The one upstairs won’t do certain things but it works when changing the channel and the volume. I think it’s time we get up to change the channel. However now a days there are hundreds of channels so it will take some time! LOL

7. I’ve been working very hard with both my stores and I have made a nice number of sales. Not all sales from the featured seller chatroom also. I have been doing so well;  I have decided to open another store but not on etsy. I have decided to use a site called ZIBBET. The reason being it’s free for up to 25 items and it’s completely different.  It has almost the same features as etsy however it’s new so why not. Plus if I want to sale more ( I don’t think I will ) I can for just $7  a month.  I was going to use artfire but to me it’s super ugly. So I’m not even going to bother. The store won’t sale the same things as my other two do. It will sale address labels and something else. I’m thinking of selling post cards on it or bookmarks. Still in the process of designing.

8.  For new years my friends and I want to the park to take pictures with the baby. I will be uploading them in a few minutes. They came out great. I had to leave soon because my mom wanted us to go with her and James to Mac’s party. Funny thing was I left so early and then when we got back they won’t even ready yet!

9.  On Saturday my mom , Caisien and I went shopping. However lately the baby can’t stand being in his car set for too long. And my mom want to 99 cent store after eating breakfast.  On our way to Big Lots my mom was tickling the baby while waiting for the light to turn. Then we got hit. At first I thought my mom had let loose of the brake while playing. The lady had nothing wrong with her car she had kids in her car too.  They exchanged information and we left. She had said she wasn’t going to file a claim, However she submitted a report saying to her agent she was hurt. But admitting that shes the one who put her car in reverse.  Thank god I took pictures.. stupid girl. You can’t get hurt when there is no damage at all. Not even a pin sized scratch. Plus her car already had a number of scratches on it. So I need to email those images to my mom tonight. Not a fun way to end a day of shopping.  It was cut short because of the baby and because of the car issue.

10.  I get two new aprons. One I bought online that I love and the other my mother got me. The one I got online is very colorful and my mom is just black. They both will help me so much when I’m home with the baby.

11. Laleh and I had a very cool play day on Friday. We watched to movies and talked a bunch. Stiffany stopped buy and I gave her her present from her birthday and Christmas. It was so fun!

I think that is all for now.  Talk later.. Hugs!

My 60 CENT 13 minute soup

Current Mood: Esctatic

I just finished making this soup and it’s tasty cheap and EASY!

1 can of Black eyed Peas ( 60 cents at big lots )

1 1/2 cup Chicken Broth

1 1/2 tbsp butter

1 1/2 tbsp chopped onion

1/2 tbsp minced garlic

6 baby carrots chopped

1 tbsp italian parsley chopped

1/2 tbsp black pepper

1/4 tbsp seasoning salt

1/4 tsp chili powder

1/8 tsp garlic chili paste

In large skillet heat broth and butter until butter is melted.  Then stir in onion, garlic and carrots. Next add all of seasonings. Then stir in black eyed peas and paste. Cook for 4 minutes more until soup begins to bubble. Remove from heat and serve right away..

I love this recipe! I made it a lot like my normal black eyed pea recipe however a lot quicker. The recipe only serves two people at the most three.

ENJOY!

New year, new goals, new products

Current Mood: Happy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I truly hope you had a great one. Mine was just fine.. I’m pretty happy about this year. I look forward to watching my son grow up. He’s already having tamtrums so it’s becoming a really task…WHICH IS GREAT! He is starting to enjoy walking more and more. However I still can’t get him to wear shoes sadly. And he’s getting more and more use to being good in public. We went out to lunch yesterday and he didn’t make me take him outside or anything. AMEN!

At first this year my goal was to write 2500 recipes. Now I am changing it. The reason being is I want to make a better and more fun goal.  So my goal now is to write 800 recipes ( seems like a bunch but it really isn’t ) and to design 1000 new digital products for my store ( This is A LOT ) . Surpricely I’m doing pretty well with the digi products! I’ve already made a great handful of new and exciting products for both stores. I have also gotten back into ACEOs for awhile there I just didn’t want to do them. Not only that but because I’ve fallen back in love with them.. I’ve lower the prices of them! I’ll show some samples at the very end of this post of the new items I posted this morning.

My other goal is to print another cook book in color with full pictures and to print a new poetry book in color. I think by making them color I can make them shorter but still have a lovely and unique book. I’ve very excited by all this! Please pray for me as I do all this new work.

I also want to market my store much better but this will take lots of time and of course money. Isacc will be begin working soon again and that means I will have the baby and the house all to myself. I look forward to it but at the same time I worry. Caisien can be a big issue. But I’m sure one or two days off from my computer won’t damage anything and will keep him happy.

I want to say thank you to everyone who continues  to read this blog. I know in the beginning  I was depressed, rude and just plain mean. I have learn my lesson. I am thankful for my blog and I am thankful for my husband and my son. I am happy with my stores and my websites. I plan to put more work into them each and every week.

I am also very much considering making RECIPE WITH LOVE a free site. The reason being is even with the first month free I am not gaining any members. And I am marketing like crazy. However with the marketing I’ve done I’ve gotten a nice number of sales. If I make it into a free site there will be a bunch of affliate ads.. not to mention I’d sale banner and link space to DP members. There is no guarantee that I will really do this but it’s an idea so be on the look out for the notice. I love writing recipes and I know I will continue however it’s really hard to write when you aren’t getting any sales… It makes testing recipes and trying new things very hard.

Click on the image to be taken to my favorite ACEO!

Grr.. Videos on sites!

Current Mood: Angry

For awhile I haven’t been listening to music online.. mostly because I want to be able to hear Caisien at all times.. but today I’m listening to some music off JANGO.COM my fav site for music.. anyways .. I’m also surfing EASYHITS4U.COM and I really really hate when these stupid ad sites on marketing have all that stupid video marketing.. it is really annoying. I think that was the one reason I never bought speakers for this computer or pluged in the small ones that game with it. Can you image a sleeping baby in your arms and them some stupid person starts talking.. grr.. and then the baby wakes up because the sound scares him. UGH! I have never put those onto my sites.. and if I ever did I would have them on off and allow the visitor to decide if they want to listen or not. Ok I’m done ranting.. thanks for letting me.. Hugs!

Merry Late Christmas

Current Mood: Happy

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For four days we were in west covina so I was unable to say merry Christmas.. SORRY!

Our Christmas was pretty good this year. No fights, no tears… just family and nothing else. Nana however isn’t feeling well. Prayers are out for her like crazy..

We got a lot of helpful and great things that made since this year. Last year the gifts didn’t make since this year they did. We got from his family a frame, some tupperwear and a gift card. The baby got a cute little toy music set. Very nice stuff. Isacc also got some sleepers.

My mom got us a stoller,some pjs and sleepers for me , a jump suit for Isacc , a out fit sit for the baby. My mom and I also when shopping. It was great.

His family didn’t eat the item I made.. last time I cook for them. They want us to do New years. Not going to happen. Our plan is to just stay home. I am however planning a dinner party for next year but not for his family. More details on that later.

I have so much work to do next week. Like the blog commenting, the forum posting and some articles need to be written.. ugh!

And trying to plan this party and manger all of our little bit of money.. lol Love working though.. wish I had more work to do. work = money!

Anyways talk  to you later!  HUGS HUGS HUGS

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