I spent yesterday working on an
Amazon store with my favorite paper craft books, bead books, cookbooks, and some of my favorite music to link to my
paper crafts page. I also designed a full set of Advent ornament boxes, and realized, as I was printing out one to test it, I probably should have tested the template BEFORE I numbered and designed the whole set. Fortunately, it worked out fine. I designed the set as my gift for people who donate to my site until Christmas, and posted the last box, the one I printed and folded, as a sample.
Click on the image to get the box to print out.
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Did you know in a pinch, a guitar pick makes a pretty good replacement for a bone folder which I *still* can't find.
Then I did dishes, cleaned up a bit in the house, REALLY started my back spasming really badly, and wound up feeding Mike leftovers for dinner. Fortunately, he likes leftovers, and even said so. "I love leftovers!"
Well.. the leftovers were baked chicken breasts, and homemade mac and cheese, which he had with a couple oranges. Yum yum!
My site is slowly getting self sustaining with mostly donations. So I'm pretty happy. I mean.. sure, in my dreams, everyone who hits my site and uses it donates a dollar, but let's face it,that's now how it works out. For maybe every 1000 hits I get a donation. But people are contributing, and helping with costs.
I think.. since I have to go to Costco in the morning, I may ask Mike to stop at
The Flying Dutchman for a cream puff. I've been in the mood for a while, and they've got such good cream puffs there. I wish I had an excuse to buy one of their cakes more than once a year!