Today I had a very hard to please customer turn irate on me... wait make that two.
Best thing to do; Never go off. Say what you want in your head. Keep your face calm, Then get someone who can say what you are thinking in your head =)
One customer realized they were unnecessarily rude and nasty about something I had no control over and resorted to boot licking after seeing that despite his attitude he was being politely helped.
The other remains an unwanted, unhappy customer who despite ALL of our miserable failures will return.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
International Glimmery Purse Clip Giveaway
CONGRATULATIONS to S. PRIDDY
Stay tuned for more giveaways =)
Autumn
Enter to win a beautiful Swarovski charm clip. It may be used as a purse adornment. The entire clip is about 3 inches long. Handmade with love from my etsy shop http://www.autumnreed.etsy.com/ You must be 18 or over to enter. Please submit one entry per person. Extra submissions will void your entry. SUBMIT YOUR NAME AND EMAIL in the comment box below. Your information will not be seen on this blog. The winner will be chosen Dec. 18th and notified by email. The winner will be chosen by random drawing. Tata for now.Warm Regards, Autumn ;')
Thanks to all.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Featured Art Work of the Week "Greece"
We women love beautiful jewelry. This delicious pair was made by AmitieDesigns who sells her things on Etsy.com You can view more photos or these and more by visiting http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34957792
Genuine London Blue Topaz
Sparkling...bits of LONDON BLUE TOPAZ petite heart briolettes dangle and dance from sterling silver cable chain, framed by sterling silver lotus petals and set on french earwires. Reminds me of the colors of Greece.
There will be a new piece of art a week!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Get Creative
Make your own jewelry. The advantage is that you can spend $20 and make a necklace of $75 in quality and value. Sterling silver and gold filled ear hooks cost much more at Macy's. Go to www.autumnreed.etsy.com or www.autumnreed.com to shop for beads and supplies. There will be e books soon to post.
Friday, November 6, 2009
A Visit from the Men in Black
One day while I was making these crazy little handbags from gourds in the garage, a neighbor of mine saw me and got really scared. She got so scared in fact, that her actions following the "sighting," snowballed in to a strange chain of events. Let me explain.
Like any other family, our trash goes out once a week for pick up. One week we noticed a "homeless guy" going through our trash on the curb. No one else's...just ours. We never see the homeless in this area of suburbia California but Dad, nonetheless, gave him $5 bucks and thought nothing of it. Then about a month later our trash simply dissappeared. Our bags mysteriously taken out of the recepticle bin with no trashman even coming to get it. At this point we figured the guy had returned and taken our trash for himself. Then reality hit.
While I was out showing my sparkling purses to a few boutiques, two men made a visit to my house. One approached my brother and said, "We got a report that someone living here was wearing a hazmat suit and was terrorizing the neighborhood." He flashed his FBI badge, and the second man, his Homeland Security id. Since my brother had no idea what a hazmat suit even was, he snatched Dad to answer their questions. He rats me out and tells them, "Oh yeah that's my daughter...She wears it while working on her purses the garage.Wanna see?"
"Really? Sure," answered the FBI agent. He was clearly relieved at how easily this call was going.
Dad opens the garage, let's them walk in and points to my makeshift workshop. Meanwhile, the Homeland Security agent scanned every container and label in plain sight within seconds. Dad find's the suit and holds it up. "Here's the suit right here." he announced. "Wanna take it?"
The agents burst out in laughter. " Naw I think we're good here," they assured him. Then they told him about the nosey neighbor who didn't like all the protective gear they saw on me, and how they then reported me to them. They have to check every report they get, so here they were.
Getting home I couldn't believe my ears. Suddenly however, it all made sense. Why our trash had gone missing and why we had a random "homeless" person sifting through our garbage. Of course, like the agents said, everything was fine and they had no further suspicions about us or the report.
3 months later our trash did dissappeared again.
Like any other family, our trash goes out once a week for pick up. One week we noticed a "homeless guy" going through our trash on the curb. No one else's...just ours. We never see the homeless in this area of suburbia California but Dad, nonetheless, gave him $5 bucks and thought nothing of it. Then about a month later our trash simply dissappeared. Our bags mysteriously taken out of the recepticle bin with no trashman even coming to get it. At this point we figured the guy had returned and taken our trash for himself. Then reality hit.
While I was out showing my sparkling purses to a few boutiques, two men made a visit to my house. One approached my brother and said, "We got a report that someone living here was wearing a hazmat suit and was terrorizing the neighborhood." He flashed his FBI badge, and the second man, his Homeland Security id. Since my brother had no idea what a hazmat suit even was, he snatched Dad to answer their questions. He rats me out and tells them, "Oh yeah that's my daughter...She wears it while working on her purses the garage.Wanna see?"
"Really? Sure," answered the FBI agent. He was clearly relieved at how easily this call was going.
Dad opens the garage, let's them walk in and points to my makeshift workshop. Meanwhile, the Homeland Security agent scanned every container and label in plain sight within seconds. Dad find's the suit and holds it up. "Here's the suit right here." he announced. "Wanna take it?"
The agents burst out in laughter. " Naw I think we're good here," they assured him. Then they told him about the nosey neighbor who didn't like all the protective gear they saw on me, and how they then reported me to them. They have to check every report they get, so here they were.
Getting home I couldn't believe my ears. Suddenly however, it all made sense. Why our trash had gone missing and why we had a random "homeless" person sifting through our garbage. Of course, like the agents said, everything was fine and they had no further suspicions about us or the report.
3 months later our trash did dissappeared again.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Home Cooked in 15 Minutes
The best meal is home cooked, fast, healthy and easy. This section is to eliminate that death dealing trip to Mc Donald's we all may fall victim to when way too busy and or tired to cook. Just think about how you can cut indigestible chemicals and calories out in 15 minutes. The prize ingredient here is a rotisserie chicken. Ready to go chickens can be easily torn up and shredded into almost recipe. the 1st
Chicken Corn Chowder
Grab that chicken, 2 cans of chicken corn chowder soup, frozen broccoli and a fresh baked loaf of french bread.
1) Open the cans of soup and put them in a pot. Start cooking on med. Next take the chicken meat off of the bones and add them to the soup. Then add a bag of fresh frozen vegetables like broccoli and let that heat up with no lid. You want the water from the frozen vegetables to evaporate. While that is cooking together, turn your oven broiler to 500 then cut your french bread in half. Spread some olive oil or butter onto your bread and shake on some Italian seasoning and fresh garlic if you have it. Toss it in the oven for 5 minutes then check it. The broiler doesn't take long at all to toast bread. When its brown take it out of the oven and get into your pj's. When you get back to the kitchen your meal will be hot, ready and much healthier than the drive thru.
Chicken Corn Chowder
Grab that chicken, 2 cans of chicken corn chowder soup, frozen broccoli and a fresh baked loaf of french bread.
1) Open the cans of soup and put them in a pot. Start cooking on med. Next take the chicken meat off of the bones and add them to the soup. Then add a bag of fresh frozen vegetables like broccoli and let that heat up with no lid. You want the water from the frozen vegetables to evaporate. While that is cooking together, turn your oven broiler to 500 then cut your french bread in half. Spread some olive oil or butter onto your bread and shake on some Italian seasoning and fresh garlic if you have it. Toss it in the oven for 5 minutes then check it. The broiler doesn't take long at all to toast bread. When its brown take it out of the oven and get into your pj's. When you get back to the kitchen your meal will be hot, ready and much healthier than the drive thru.
Super Easy Natural Skin Rejuvenator
Every woman wants soft glowing skin especially when you need to look your best. Healthy looking skin is a major result of a good diet and exercise. Drinking water is possibly one of the majorest issues with our skin. Dehydration causes uneven skin tone, over oil production and shoddy make-up application. 50% of women are chronically dehydrated. One answer to giving your skin a boost is to drink lemon water. Lemon is a natural cleansing agent that taste good to boot so grab 2 lemons, cut them in half and squeeze one half into an 8oz glass. Drink this down as fast as possible. Repeat this for at least 4 glasses and possibly within 2 hours. If you can do more, do it but DO NOT drink more than a gallon and hour. This will not only flush your body but it will force your body to deliver much needed hydration with a little bit of inside cleansing to your skin. In 4 hours I'm willing to bet you will feel and see a difference in your skin.
Amazing Skin Treatment Part II
Okay so this week I tried a new homemade scrub which really turned my hands into silk. This time I used sea salt and walnut oil for conditioning, sugar for revitalization and coffee for the alleged skin tightening effects. It worked! My hands were visibly smooth, soft and youthful looking. This scrub looks like uncooked brownie mix but it works great and you don't have to pay $20 for a product that has less than half the nutrients and double the shelf life because of chemicals.
! tbsp coffee grounds
2 teaspoons sea salt
1tbsp granulated white or brown sugar
2 tablespoons walnut oil (or olive)
Dump all of the coffee, salt and sugar into a bowl, then mix in the oil slowly. If you get an even texture you dont need more oil. Mix it with a spoon and then scoop some into your hand and rub the scrub around for 2 to 3 minutes. If this becomes abrasive, congratulations. Your skin is super dry, has absorbed most of the oil and you needed this treatment! Add more oil to lessen the abrasion. When you finish scrubbing, rinse your hands with lukewarm water and soap. Towel dry your hands and then add your hand creme to seal in the moisture.
Please tell me who's tried it and if you loved it! Any suggestions are welcome.
! tbsp coffee grounds
2 teaspoons sea salt
1tbsp granulated white or brown sugar
2 tablespoons walnut oil (or olive)
Dump all of the coffee, salt and sugar into a bowl, then mix in the oil slowly. If you get an even texture you dont need more oil. Mix it with a spoon and then scoop some into your hand and rub the scrub around for 2 to 3 minutes. If this becomes abrasive, congratulations. Your skin is super dry, has absorbed most of the oil and you needed this treatment! Add more oil to lessen the abrasion. When you finish scrubbing, rinse your hands with lukewarm water and soap. Towel dry your hands and then add your hand creme to seal in the moisture.
Please tell me who's tried it and if you loved it! Any suggestions are welcome.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Turn Your Alligator Hands into Silk
This season feels like a dry one and as we know Winter may bring much of the same. Here's a way to naturally and affordably give your hands VIP treatment so they feel like silk. You'll need 1 lemon, 1 cup of white or medium brown granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon warm coconut oil (or some other kind of natural oil) and creme lotion. I personally like to do this with coconut oil and nivea hand creme because its so moisturizing but any lotion will do. Use corn oil if thats what you got. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze as much as possible into a bowl. Half will yield enough. Then add your sugar 1/4 cup at a time stirring until the sugar dissolves. Depending on the amount of juice you sqeezed, you may be able to use more than a cup of sugar but you won't need it. The mix should be thick but pourable. Next take two spoonfuls of the mix and rub it into your hands as thought you are washing your hands. Get between your fingers and keep this up for 3 minutes. If the mix gets too dry add more lemon juice. Don't rub your hands raw. Next rinse your hands off completely in the sink with lukewarm water. Next take the oil (warmed if possible) and rub that into your hands till its gone. Next rub in some hand creme and voila! Your hands will be exfoliated naturally, infused with vitamins and protected. Now you've got soft holdable hands.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Fast Fashion Fixes
There is always a time and place for everything...including that fresh snag in your pantyhose or unsightly crack in your nail when you're in a rush. Here are some fast fashion fixes that are sure to make your life easier.
1. That snag in your hose, easy. While there is no way to wave a wand and completely erase the snag you can apply CLEAR nail polish to the end of the run while wearing the hose to stop any further running. If you have to throw on the boots to cover up what is showing do it!
2. Oh it's not the night to have chipped nails or unpolished ones, but that 3 hour make-up session you just spent in the mirror took up all the time you had to wait for polish to dry. But alas there is a solution! Chipped nails are not an option nor chunky over polished ones. Take off the old polish and put on the new. Sounds totally backwards but wait 1 minute after you finish applying the last coat to your nails then, run them under cold water for a minute or two. The colder the better. The water actually hardens the polish sooner because of their chemical properties. You are now ready to run out the door without worrying that your nails will be ruined. You can actually touch your nail and feel its dry, but don't go too crazy. Good-bye chemical sprays.
3. You just took weeks maybe months to grow YOUR OWN nails out. They're beautiful and then in a momont POW. Painfully you wonder why now of all times you just clawed the kitchen counter only to draw back one jagged cracked nail in a line of four perfectly manicured ones. Should you cut it off? File it smooth and hope no one notices? Cut all the nails and start from scratch? No. Take a tiny and i do mean tiny piece of tissue paper and cover the crack. Next take some nail glue and tweezers. Carefully drop a drop of glue on the tissue and move it over the crack if need be with the tweezers. When this dries you can file the paper down till its smooth and cover it with polish. It will be next to perfect which is better than loosing all your hard earned growing.
4. The ultimate insult is a $64 super push'em up to your throat bra that springs a wire and leaves you trying to feed that wire back into its place everytime you wear it. What's more is as the night goes on you know that wire is going to be rearing its harsh stabbing head into your under pit. You could have spent $12 at target for a wire popping bra but they just wern't as cute. What to do? Break out that nail glue once again. After feeding that wire back through to it's proper place, drop a tiny amount of glue in the tear's opening and pinch together with a pair of tweezers. The fabric should actually melt together. Put just a little glue because you don't want the glue to bleed all the way through to the outside fabric and have it harden as well. Then it would be fixed but harshly brushing up against your skin as well so keep the glue amount minimal. Now you've saved a bra and yourself from a potentially embarrasing moment.
1. That snag in your hose, easy. While there is no way to wave a wand and completely erase the snag you can apply CLEAR nail polish to the end of the run while wearing the hose to stop any further running. If you have to throw on the boots to cover up what is showing do it!
2. Oh it's not the night to have chipped nails or unpolished ones, but that 3 hour make-up session you just spent in the mirror took up all the time you had to wait for polish to dry. But alas there is a solution! Chipped nails are not an option nor chunky over polished ones. Take off the old polish and put on the new. Sounds totally backwards but wait 1 minute after you finish applying the last coat to your nails then, run them under cold water for a minute or two. The colder the better. The water actually hardens the polish sooner because of their chemical properties. You are now ready to run out the door without worrying that your nails will be ruined. You can actually touch your nail and feel its dry, but don't go too crazy. Good-bye chemical sprays.
3. You just took weeks maybe months to grow YOUR OWN nails out. They're beautiful and then in a momont POW. Painfully you wonder why now of all times you just clawed the kitchen counter only to draw back one jagged cracked nail in a line of four perfectly manicured ones. Should you cut it off? File it smooth and hope no one notices? Cut all the nails and start from scratch? No. Take a tiny and i do mean tiny piece of tissue paper and cover the crack. Next take some nail glue and tweezers. Carefully drop a drop of glue on the tissue and move it over the crack if need be with the tweezers. When this dries you can file the paper down till its smooth and cover it with polish. It will be next to perfect which is better than loosing all your hard earned growing.
4. The ultimate insult is a $64 super push'em up to your throat bra that springs a wire and leaves you trying to feed that wire back into its place everytime you wear it. What's more is as the night goes on you know that wire is going to be rearing its harsh stabbing head into your under pit. You could have spent $12 at target for a wire popping bra but they just wern't as cute. What to do? Break out that nail glue once again. After feeding that wire back through to it's proper place, drop a tiny amount of glue in the tear's opening and pinch together with a pair of tweezers. The fabric should actually melt together. Put just a little glue because you don't want the glue to bleed all the way through to the outside fabric and have it harden as well. Then it would be fixed but harshly brushing up against your skin as well so keep the glue amount minimal. Now you've saved a bra and yourself from a potentially embarrasing moment.
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