Friday is my Day

Ever wonder what a day in the life of Morrgan looks like? Well, now you can find out!

Friday is my day: Morrgan

Big thanks to Heli for inviting me over to her blog for a day! Check out her Etsy shops: HeliS and helisengezer.

Current mood: Tired but feeling good

I'm feeling good right now. It's rare, to actually feel good like this.

Partly, this is due to having a great time at the first day of the aquarium exhibition. It certainly was a lot of work for us to organize it, but after today it feels worth it.

Secondly, once I got back home I realized I was on the front page of Etsy! This was thanks to the lovely ArtMind, who was kind enough to include my arm warmers in her Treasury list. (Treasuries are fleeting things, alas, so the list will be gone on Monday. Take a look while you can!)

Coming back to that just made my day. Really. A great big thank you to ArtMind, my customers and the kind people who took a moment to send me a note. It's much appreciated!

Now before I get too gooey and soppy, I'll send you off to take a look at ArtMind's shop, because it's definitely worth a look. Just look at fiber jewelry below if you need proof!

Busy times plus a front page feature!

I guess I've been busy this week:
Most of them will show up in my shop(s) eventually.

So, my mind's been preoccupied with work and other stuff this week and this morning was no different. I was quite lost in my thoughts. Imagine my surprise then, when I went to the Etsy front page and saw my gloves right there in the middle of the page! Thanks so much, artish!

The treasury list will be up for a few more days, if you'd like to take a look:
f r o s t y

Oh, my poor neglected blog...

...how will I ever make this up to thee?

Well, one thing that comes to mind is by getting on with writing blog posts, oddly enough. I shall do so immediately.

I don't have anything new to show you, because I have more custom orders I'm working on. Instead I'll show you this list I made of other people's cool stuff. It was a treasury list on Etsy which expired already. I think the items in it are worth showing off a bit more though, so here it is in image form. The image has the shop names listed under each item, so to visit a shop you like, just type shopname.etsy.com into your browser's address bar.

Speaking of treasuries, I found myself in one that made me laugh out loud, featuring my small wild heart. Take a peek, it's got a lot of great items in it!

EUROVISION Vol.3

Thanks XbyLeinaNeima! Be sure to also take a peek at her Etsy shop, for it is full of all kinds of lovelies!

Of sharks and muffins

My sweet little Horace got a mention in Lime & Violet's Daily Chum, along with some other sea creatures. This is the second time he's been mentioned in a blog, he's become a popular little shark! And good thing he is, for I am of the firm belief that the world needs more friendly, snuggly sharks.

I'll have the listing for a finished Horace up in a little bit, but in the mean time his pattern is already available in my Etsy shop.

In other news, I've been busy in the "kitchen" again. This time I experimented with bananas and raspberries in muffin form, making up a recipe based on the one for carrot muffins. The carrot one used to be my favourite muffin recipe, but this new one is an awfully strong challenger. They're just oh so moist, a quality I appreciate in muffins. Plus they've got raspberries! And bananas! And make a whole 18!

As usual, the less you mix the batter, the better they'll be.

Banana-Raspberry Muffins (makes 18)

4 dl (~1 1/2 cups) flour
3 dl (~1 1/4 cups) sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla sugar
100 g (~1/2 cup) melted butter
3 eggs
2 ripe bananas
100 g raspberries (that's about 1 1/2-2 dl or 2/3 cup)

Mix the dry ingredients together. Whisk the eggs, then add sliced bananas, raspberries and melted and somewhat cooled butter. Fold the wet ingredients into the flour mixture. Divide the batter into 18 muffin cups and bake for 20-25 minutes at 200°C (392°F).

Enjoy!

A day of extremely fancy pizzas and fiery tango

Ahhhh, what a day yesterday. Starting with my armwarmers on the Etsy frontpage (*happy dance!*) and the sale of said armwarmers(*happy happy dance!*), then continuing with good food, drink, art and music during the Night of the Arts. The weather was rather awful, but we had a good time anyway and didn't get back until about midnight, at which point I crashed into bed immediately and slept like a rock (unlike my poor hubby, who still had a bit of work to do).

Hubby and I went to this very nice pizza place for dinner. Verrrrrry nice. My pizza toppings consisted of smoked reindeer, pickled onions, mushrooms, leipäjuusto (I love the English name "Finnish squeaky cheese") and lingonberries.

It was truly the work of a mad pizza genius. So strange, yet so delicious. Genius!

Hubby's pizza certainly didn't pale in comparison, for his had spicy pork fillet strips, goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and pesto. Mmmmmmmmmm!

After plenty of wandering around art markets and galleries, the high point of the evening was listening to the fiery Argentinian tango of Astor Piazzolla, performed by Quinteto Fuego, while enjoying a cup of tea in the company of friends.

Oh MY! *faints*

My monster hat is on the Etsy front page! And I'm in a whole three treasuries! Oh my! :D I've never been in three at once. Thank you revontulitikku, tortillagirl and BINAGEYER!

It's been an amazing few days as far as my little shop is concerned. Reaching 100 sales, front page feature, blog feature, treasuries... Thank you all, especially my wonderful customers!




But lest you think it's all fluff and bunnies, I have a confession to make. I have been cursed with evil cookies. Evil, evil cookies. Just look at how evil they are.


Sure, they may look like perfectly innocent big peanut-chocolate cookies, but do not be fooled. Before you know it you have eaten four of these tempting things and are suffering from an aching tummy. At that point you may try to say "no more!", but it will be in vain. Ten minutes later you'll find yourself munching on the fifth, despite your tummyache. Oh yes.

Such eeeevil oh-so-good cookies!

Time for a happy dance!

So yesterday I reached my 100th sale on Etsy, got featured in the PlushYou! blog and today I was included in a treasury by fellow Finnish Etsy seller revontulitikku. Oh my! It's time for a happy dance! A triple happy dance!

My 100th sold item was the knitting pattern for Salvador the Seahorse. I redid the photos for Salvador and am now much happier with how the listings look.

Now that I have my lightbox and a bit of extra time, I've been redoing a lot of my creature photos and plan to redo them all in a similar way to get a more unified look to the listings and my whole shop. It's a lot of work, but I think it'll be worth it.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to do that happy dance. Have a great weekend, all!