Happy · goodies, · proud · to · be · homemade

I have not disappeared in the dark, but I've realized that I can't find enough time to update a site and two (well, three) weblogs and a flickr account all together. So, I have updated my blog at Ciao! Cimba in these past days (more melmini, a bag and a pouch, some other crazy things), and I'm wrtiting it in italian and english, so also non italian people can eventually read it. I also added a link at the bottom of every entry that translates quick the site in english, and you can set Google to fast translate even in another language what you don't get. Please refer to it in the near future since I will not have much time to update here too (making double posts is insane). I will anyway maintain this account to read all of your journals and communities I'm in (I'm so behind, agh!).

And now: last week I received a wonderful pouch from Rachel, aren't you curious to see? :) Thanks Rachel!

In response to the comments on my previous poll/entry: thank you all for your support!

Seems we have 5 for happy/happily homemade and 2 for proud/proudly. So, I will leave it Happy to be homemade for now (not using happily only because i live in Italy and the same tags etc are also for italians, that are more likely to understand "happy" than "happily").

But meanwhile I'm thinking some way to incorporate the proud thing (or maybe using it only for specific occasions or products), since I like it most personally and I've become a little attached to it :)
All I have till now is "Happy goodies - proudly homemade" but maybe is too long, I don't know.

EDIT
Also, what is your experience about exchanges and returns? For now all my sales are final, but I was wondering if it would be better to offer a form of support, like allow returns etc only in some cases. I usually feel sort of reassured when I read it on a site, but how do you prevent this from being crazy? ...like people pretending to return all or used things that they don't want anymore, or ...I don't know, in a word: is there a way to handle it good?

Which you like the best (and why, eventually)?

1. Happy to be homemade
2. Proud to be homemade

(This is meant to be the "claim" or "slogan" to go with Ciao! Cimba)

thank you in advance!

The site is up! The site is up! I must repeat it twice because I hardly believe it myself. It was a long an hard road, and the site got changes and forced semplifications on the way, but still I'm happy to have finallly done with it, even if it's slightly different on how I had imagined initially. But. Who cares? It's like a big stone fell off my shoulders: it's a relief. And it's online now! HA!
Let me know of errors or anything that's wrong, every kind of feedback is appreciated. There's still a little visualization problem with Mozilla (the page "moves" from some sections to others), but I'll try to fix that soon. Also, I will add other items to the shop in the coming weeks. Oh, and let me know if you want to be in the links page: maybe I forgot to put in your site/blog or maybe I don't know you yet, so contact me if you'd like to be added.
I'm back to life now! hehehe

Just to say I'm still alive, though having no time at all to update and/or to make anything (& read other journals, too!).
Plus, the other day my monitor broke, so I don't have computer access from home and probably will not have access to a computer during the next days.

Sorry for you people that are awaiting swaps from me or maybe emails or anything else (I don't know if I forgot to reply to anyone, in this case, sorry).
A super special sorry to Lizette, whom I want to say I'm here and will complete all - please don't worry or don't think I'm disappearing.

I'll try to come back soon, sigh, ciao for now!

Pick ONE word from each pair that you think describes me the best and leave it in the comments. Then copy this and post it in your own journal to see how your friends view you.

* dominant or submissive
* logical or intuitive
* social or loner
* kinky or vanilla
* cute or sophisticated
* kitten or puppy
* warm flannel sheets or sleek satin
* leader or follower
* quiet or talkative
* spontaneous or planned
* teddy bear or porcelain doll
* hiking or window shopping
* tequila or vodka
* top or bottom
* bare foot or shoes
* jeans or slacks
* tender or rough
* aware or dreamy
* nerd or jock

[taken from ana]

I have been reading/finding out repeatly here and there online about this book, so finally I decided to order it some time ago, though the expensive shipping costs. But they were worth it, because I love this tiny book now!

   

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Last week my previously ordered pins from  Buttonarcade arrived and I couldn't be more happy with them! Kyle was lovely to work with and she is also a nice and kind person, so visit her site and see all the buttons she have or if you want some with your designs on it!

( Here's mine )

Interesting dress. I would imagine to do something similar with tights (they're so versatile)
Beautiful knitwear.
Just beautiful. (although not much wearable)
Great. (would it be difficult to take on? :))

My kitchen sink (that thing you use for washing dishes by hands, right?) is broken from days. Yesterday finally I had to wash my dishes in the laundry. Funny because I still have to get used to have a laundry! Bad sink smell is around the house and tomorrow the idraulico (the man who fixes sinks - sorry i have too little time now to search ALL the words that I don't know, that are many as you imagine!) will try to repair it. But there's a strong chance he would then (not tomorrow, but in the future) break the wall because the problem is actually over there, where the eyes can't see. I live here from, like, 7 months now, and this house was totally renewed. All this is because some really fucked up people worked on here and did lots of awful, unprofessional things. I hate them all. I fantasize about, like, burn their cars or something.

Now I have to go. (no! I won't burn anything, don't worry! hehe)