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Alejandra on
Jun 14th, 2009 | 3 comments 
I never ever check the Featured tab from CraftCult because I´m never there :-p and I don´t mind, but I did today, because I was bored… and OMG!!!
I was on Etsy´s Front Page last night! I can´t believe it!
Posted by
Alejandra on
Abr 23rd, 2009 | 2 comments 
School has been very slow this past week, and starting today, the teachers are on a strike… I was supposed to have an exam today, but my teacher didn’t show up.
Now, I have to make a Company Newspaper, for my Public Relations class… I’m really excited about the assignment, because I picked a bookstore (I looooove them!) and I have a million ideas! But I’ve been working soooooo much on my store that I haven’t even started…
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Alejandra on
Abr 17th, 2009 | no comments 
I don’t have much to say today, I’m going out of town tomorrow… I’m not really that excited… but I’ll live…
I just wanted to show the treasury I made today!

Finally! I never ever get right on time to the treasuries, but tonight I did… It features rings from members of the
EtsyinSpanish team, really beautiful rings that I LOVE!
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Alejandra on
Mar 30th, 2009 | 6 comments 
Yup, I made it into another treasury!
Twice in two weeks! Etsy is becoming more exciting every day… The treasury expired yesterday and I totally forgot to post it here, but here´s a screenshot
it was Lupitita, a teeny tiny Virgen de Guadalupe cellphone thingie…
This week I also decided to go back to craftster… It´s been o
ver a year since I´ve logged in there and I really missed it… I left a few swaps hanging and I have 3 negatives in my feedback and now I´m trying to fix that. I was advised to send three packages as an angel or as a part of a swap that has been made for people with negatives on their profile…

I found a lot of people requesting stuff that I can send I just have to decide exactly what I´ll send and to whom, but in one of the lists I found someone requesting a crocheted Sock Monkey Coffee Cup Cozy… after a bit of analysis I figured I could try and knit one, just to see if I could make it work and then make one to send on the swap…
I made it without a pattern and in a couple of hours… I´m so proud! He´s so cute! Judge for yourself…. Let me know what you think…
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Alejandra on
Mar 16th, 2009 | no comments 
I was really bored last night… when I should have been working in something else :-p and for some reason I decided to check if any of my Etsy things had been featured on a treasury or something like that…
So I went to Craftopolis, which I discovered last week. It’s a great tool, you just add your Etsy username and it will show you if you have been featured on a gift list or on a treasury. And amazingly enough, I was in one!!!
I freaked out for a second, then calmed down a bit… :-p and started looking for a way to create a print screen of the page, because I did want proof of it for posterity :-p
Take a look ( I’m the very first one, Dewdrops
) :

It will expire in about a day, so if you want to see it in all its glory you can click on the photo or go here soon. A huge thank you to Zia Zia for adding me!
ETA. Oh, in case you were wondering what I used to make the print screen you can go to Thumbalizr, I found no way to get the part of the screen the monitor wasn’t showing just clicking print screen in my keyboard, so I did a bit of research and it worked great… Just in case you ever need it…
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Alejandra on
Dic 6th, 2008 | no comments 
As I said on my previous post this blog is undergoing some renovations and is currently dead… :-pOk, not really… But we moved the domain and now we are having problems… and since the person that moved it is really busy and I’m getting the hosting for free as a favor I can’t demand too much, just be patient…
So, But now that I think about it, I still have 1 or 1 and 1/2 loyal reader who get it on their rss reader, and for them I’m posting this… Just know that TPB is being moved somewhere, prettier I hope… and that I’ll keep writing here until that happens… It could have been tomorrow, but I have exam on monday and lots to study… so much that I shouldn’t be here anyway… I just wanted to let you know what was going on… and hoping that my faithful readers who go to www.thepurpleblug.com can find a way here… and find out what’s going on… If you want a sneak peek at the new blug or what may look like go here
Thank you for being so patient… btw… I made a couple of sales while the blug has been in its coma… so come on, join them and visit my tiny store
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Alejandra on
Nov 26th, 2008 | no comments 
I´m convinced that going to the
WebConf Latino 08 was a huge hit…and also it brings lots of problems…
Well, one problem… that will, most definitively, unravel in many many more…
The desperate need to do things! I want to do everything!! I´m not a designer, but I do have my teeny tiny blog with its teeny tiny shop in some, nearly,
undisclosed location.
And I have millions of ideas for possible blogs that, I think, might actually be more interesting or attractive than The Purple Blug(TPB)… And now I want to develop them all at the same time! :-p
Also, TPB has to change… The sidebar is a major mess! And no matter what I remove it still looks cluttered… And come on! I know the color isn´t the most pleasant to watch for a long time… It worked eight months ago when I was just playing with blogger and photoshop…
I still am, but even I know it needs some freshen up…
Most of the things I´ve done have been a huge trial-and-error thing, as it tends to be with most things I do and I´m pleased with the results so far, but I want to make it in a bigger scale… Probably moving the blog to its own hosting(Or Luis’ in this case), and blogging in a less messy way… actually getting traffic because of relevant things, not just the sponsored post about Virtual Closet, that keeps bringing me lots of visits…
Changes are afoot… Big ones, little ones and new roads will be finally taken… (Uhhhh, I know… deep… :-p)
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Alejandra on
Nov 7th, 2008 | no comments 
I gotta be honest, I should be ashamed of myself… 50?! I could have many more… and not silly posts but decent ones, with interesting things… But I’m so lazy… I don’t even have a good excuse… ok, maybe I do have an excuse for a week when I was feeling like crap… but that’s only one week…The rest is laziness at its best… And what brings me here today, you may be asking yourself… Well, I was sitting in front of the computer just pushing F5 every couple of minutes at Facebook and Ravelry and thought “Don’t you have more interesting things to do that refresh a page just to see if something ever happens?”So, here I am!I think it’s hard not to go through these dry spots when you don’t have the will to write on your blog… is not that you don’t like it, or that you got tired of it… it’s just that you forget why you started blogging in the first place…I started because I wanted to have somewhere to vent from time to time, practice my english, or talk about stuff that I cared about… and, why not? Make some money…Venting? Yes, there’s been some of that…. (Here)English? Oh, come on!Stuff I care about? All over the place!Money? I’ve done quite well actually… I’ve earned over $100 in 8 months and 49 posts! That’s good for me! And quite a way of proving me that you CAN make money blogging…I think the whole store business exhausted me a little… All the photo taking and the setting the store up was far more difficult that the blog was when I started… specially when I made my first sale… everything seemed to be going out of hand… The whole getting paid and having to deal with revised invoices on remote control was awful… but I haven’t made any more sales soooo everything is at peace at the moment… and, thanks God, my customer was extremely patient and never complained…
ETA. I had to leave for school when I was first writing this… and now when I´m finally publishing this, I checked if it was really post 50 and guess what? It isn´t!!! It´s #48… But since I´m determined to blog more I will not erase it… Even if it´s not quite accurate…
By the way, the giveaway is a bit on hold as it needs to be made more seriously… and not in a rush like the last one… (Sorry Marito… I´ll buy u a Donut to make it up and let you know when I finally do it for real)