Is Spring Here?

Beautiful day, today.  I took the dogs out for a walk.  Poor creatures!  They didn't remember how it feels to walk on leash.  Is their first outside walk this year.  Their noses were up in the air or low on the ground, sniffing every little blade of grass.  If you don't count the pulling, I had a rather enjoyable walk with my two four-legged friends. 






Shall I hope that Spring is here?  I am afraid!  This is Chicago after all.  I remember a year, in the mid 1990s, when we had a snow storm on April 1.  Yep!  I got fooled.  But, like Spring, hope springs eternal.  It's time for me to finish any Fall/Winter knitting projects I have started, and dive whole heartily in Spring and Summer items.

Stay tuned for pictures of new items.

Until next time...

My First Try

I have a store on etsy.com and every time I look at the "how to" emails, I see that everybody has a blog and they write about their store and things in their blog.  So, this is my blog and my first, feeble attempt to compose a post.  They say that you're supposed to write what you know.  Well, that might be difficult for me, because I know a little about a lot. But, let's start with my little store on etsy.com.  For lack of imagination I called it Olivia's Shop.  Simple.  It's my name after all.  I loved making every item that is listed on my site, and a lot of people admire them.  With all that, I still have only three sales since I opened it in July of 2010.  Wait!  I know what is wrong.  My pictures.  I don't have models and is hard for people to buy something that they can't touch or try on.  I am getting better, though.  I discovered a site, picnik.com, where you can upload your photos, fix them and then save them back on your computer.  My latest listing looks a lot better than my previous ones.  Besides, after much begging and cajoling, I convinced my daughter to model the hat.  THAT was hard work!

Anyway, for now I will limit myself to only this much rambling about my blog, and my first posting.  Let me know what you think, and if you have suggestions, please, don't be shy, and, if you have time, check out my store http://www.OliviasShop.etsy.com

Until next time ...