Posts from — March 2010

Sweet Beii is hosting her first giveaway in her blog, and she is being very very!!! generous. Just take a look at what she is giving away.

Stash of colorful craft supplies.

And another handful of beautiful handmade crafts, of course, all made by talented Beii (oh my, she’s giving away a set of those cute kitty ears too).

Don’t miss out, follow her blog and leave a comment, and before you know it, those crafty lovelies might end up at your mailbox.

Probably Project Wonderful is not something new in advertising, but if you haven’t heard about this, I would like to shed some light.

As an advertiser…
I’d been an advertiser and also as publisher with them for almost 2 years. I start off with advertising my first Etsy shop, of course. As a newbie (and also being a cheapskate), I would not want to spend more than $5 a month on advertising and where on earth am I able to do that? Well, on Project Wonderful, I can. I can spend as little as $3 a month and sometimes I might get lucky and get free advertisement slots. Yes, a lot of new Project Wonderful ad publisher will offer them for free. Is it beneficial? I believe no site that provides advertisement space will guarantee 100% return of sales but if you are able to get more traffic to our shop, we will have higher chances to get more sales. That is why we have to know the performance of the site we want to advertise on (Project Wonderful will provide you with the statistics). And what I like most is the flexibility. We are in control of the advertisement, how much we are willing to spend, how long we want the ad to run and we can cancel the ad box whenever we want. Project Wonderful uses bidding system for the ad boxes, which might be a bit confusing if you’re not familiar with it but do a bit of reading on their comprehensive guide, it’s not as complicated as Ebay.

As a publisher…
I started with $5 (we have to put in at least $5 in our PW account if we wanted to advertise) and apply as ad publisher on my personal blog. I offered free ad boxes because it was a very low traffic blog. Since it is a bidding system, sometimes the ad box bid can go as high as $0.04/day and over a year, I earned $20+. Not much but I can’t complain, I never really optimize my personal blog. However, not all blog is qualify for being publisher. The blog must be at least 3 months old and has more than 30 posts. Bloggers, write more, your blog really can earn you some money. And it’s less annoying than those Google Adsense thing, I love seeing beautiful banners all over my blog. They ‘jazz up’ my blog. And as you can see, Project Wonderful just approved KiireyBlog as one of the publisher and now I am offering ad boxes under Project Wonderful for as low as $0.10 per day. I hope they get fill up really soon.

Enchanting photography from Andrew Pearce. A young 20 years old photographer from Australia.

“I’m continuously interweaving film and photography techniques, to hopefully create unique and engaging works, which I would like the world to see!”.

via eyecandies

I really have no idea how to decorate and design my own place but home decor genius like Leslie gave me a lot of inspiration. Now lets take a look at her beautiful home.

The living room…

and the kitchen…white cabinets, yummy. (with kitchen like this, I will cook everyday! )

For more before and after comparisons, check out her blog.

White and earth tones are my favorite colors too, they just get along so well with anything. But Berg seems to disagree and want the house to have bright and contrasting colors, such as red and black. hmm… I hope there won’t be much conflict when it comes to our house interior designing. We’ll know, soon.

Today Sunday Supplies features a lot of fun bright colors from Etsy. Enjoy the colors and start to stash some supplies

1. 50 striped paper straws from fortandfield
2. gemstone mix from yukimeli
3. 12pcs ink for fabric from karaku
4. 125yards baker twine from CaliforniaCraft
5. 56pcs mini mum cabachons from Hebeaccessories
6. cupcake liners from CupcakeSocial
7. spring green acrylic beads from mambearbeads
8. yummy candy buttons from TheBestCraftSupplies
9. 60 rainbowcolor felt from snapcrafty

Think this bear is oh-so-cute?
Make one for yourself or more for your friends.

(hehe…teddy’s nose is cute)

Thanks Evangelione for sharing.
Check out her shop for more adorable zakka crafts.

Side note : Zakka craft - simplicity at it’s best (zakka is Japanese inspired craft, that is simple but overwhelms with beauty and cuteness, not too much and not too less.)

Happy weekend morning everyone. It’s a good day to have a cuppa coffee, dress up pretty, pack some stuff, and go out have some fresh air and fun.

from stacey winters

from DawnCorrespondence

from den10studio

from beth retro

from Evangelione

from Anastasiac

from thesmalljoys

Are you catching any Friday night movie tonight?

I’m going to watch Alice in Wonderland tonight…woohoo…and in 3D (first time experience). So today feature of course must be Alice. Which one is your favorite version of Alice?

The indie Alice:

from lenaah (I love this one, so funny)

from StephanieFizer

from albert.asensio

from junkerjane

from darklingwoods

from TheNebulousKingdom

from itsybitsyspill

from thepoppytree

from Brandon Christopher Warren

from danitashop

from Elsita

from booksontape

The popular Alice:

Lewis Carroll’s Alice

Walt Disney’s Alice (for some unknown reason, I don’t really like the Disney version of Alice)

Blythe’s Alice (photographed by Jodi C)

American McGee’s Alice
(Of all the popular version of Alice, I like this version of Alice the most)

Tim Burton’s Alice

Southern Belle Aroma creates wonderful scented aroma beads. The beads are infused with scented oils. Once the oils have asorbed into the bead, the beads
becomes dry to the touch. Locking in the great scent that last for up to 6 months. You can refresh your beads by shaking the sachet or pillow. If out in a dish place near fans or windows.

Check out the shop for more delightful selection of aromas for your house, car, room, kitchen, your office, anywhere!

Stacey Winters’ daily photo journal is one of the blog that I always stop by for inspiration, for amusement and for some sweet eye candy. Her pictures are full with charm, whimsical and playful colors. I feel like seeing Christmas in her photography.