Mini Cards for my online stores!!
10/24/2009 at 23:44 | In Button Biz, kawaii paradise | Leave a CommentTags: business card, mini card, online shopping, online store, shopping, thank you card
It’s been over a month when I posted about my new Mini Cards order! Of course, the cards came long time ago, and I LOVE THEM… LOVE THEM… LOVE THEM.
My mini cards are smaller than half the size of regular business card. I opted to have them made that small because I sell small and cute items. So why not have them look cute and small!!
My cards are made by AR Graphics. They have several online stores and here are the links:
I designed my own cards and it proved to be a particularly difficult order for them because of my specific requests and super tight margins. They worked with me all the way, suggesting several minor design changes. Their communication was super fast and once the design was finalized, the cards were printed right away and shipped out promptly.
I also find that contacting them directly using their contact email address (argraphics@me.com) was the best way (rather than using market place messaging system). I got my answers and replies within a few minutes (during normal business hours: they are located in Florida).
So if you need full color UV coated business cards or postcards, check AR Graphics out! They sure do wonderful jobs. Plus all the feedbacks I saw are also super fantastic. Oh, and if you don’t have your own card design, they can design one for you too.
button bistro Mini Cards
kawaii paradise Mini Cards
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Mini Cards in a Business Card Size Card: I asked AR Graphics team not to cut them
Mr. Sashimi hates me
10/20/2009 at 19:13 | In Mr. Sashimi & Mr. Sushi | Leave a CommentTags: cat, mr. sashimi, pet, vet
I noticed Mr. Sashimi’s swollen lips about 2 weeks ago. Ok, it was more like raw and swollen looking. At first, I and the huge grizzly bear thought it was raw scratch from Mr. Sushi’s aggressive kicking during their numerous play fights. We observed it daily and it seemed like getting better, so we didn’t think of it too much.
A week passed by and we realized that we were fooling ourselves by believing it was getting better because it wasn’t. Then last Thursday, the huge grizzly bear noticed Mr. Sashimi’s inner ears was black. You know the tell tale signs of ear mites. His left ear was full of it. The black ground coffee like substance ear mites produce. I could not believe how I missed it until it got that bad.
So Mr. Sashimi had an unwanted trip to the vet on Saturday. I thought the ear mites and lip problem were not related. BUT the vet said it wasn’t ear mites. He has an ear infection and lip infection and they are related. Something is bothering him. I suggested if recently change cat food might be problem. No. I asked my unusual choice of litter (chicken feed) may be the problem. Highly unlikely.
Mr. Sashimi got a shot of steroid on his rump, and I was instructed to give him two pills and apply ointment on the infected area twice daily.
So right now, Mr. Sashimi hates me because I’m force feeding pills and putting on gooey sticky stuff inside his ears. He would not come near me (only when I sleep) and every time I get up, I only get to see his cute furry butt and tail hiding somewhere. At least, he doing so much better: the lips and ears are getting better by day!!
J&R Commercial – Headphone Wall
10/17/2009 at 20:52 | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: commercial, fun, funny, you tube
I don’t know why, but every time I see this commercial on TV, I’m ROTFLOL.
Yellow on the Front, Brown on the Back
10/11/2009 at 01:48 | In Story of Me | Leave a CommentTags: fun, funny
Back when I was going out with the huge grizzly bear, he had this line he used everywhere we went together. At this point, I can’t really pin point why and in what context he used the line, but it was always funny, especially with drunk audience.
I was reminded of this line tonight, because I was looking through pictures of People of Walmart and stumbled upon this picture:
So the infamous line the huge grizzly bear always used is:
There I was on the Verrazano Bridge in my tighty whitey, yellow on the front, brown on the back…. blah blah blah…
See I told you he is funny!!
BTW, in case if he ever sees this, no the huge grizzly bear is not that big, no he graduated the tighty whitney since adolescences, no he’s a very clean person.
In case you are wondering about me, yes I used to go Walmart with my PJs (you could find me @ 3am going thru every single items on the selves: insomnia induced), yes I may, MAY, have worn some skimpy outfits while being in Walmart.
Tanya’s Art Design
10/10/2009 at 19:14 | In Story of Me | Leave a CommentTags: 1.25 buttons, 1.25", 32mm buttons, artworks, bonanzle, buttons, custom buttons, cute, fun, pet
If you’ve clicked my store links (right side—>), you probably noticed that I have two booths (stores called booths over there) on bonanzle. On the bonanzle forum, there are many buying and selling games and once in a while, I participate one of them. So this week’s game I was playing, the prize was mine (I donated it: 50 promotional button magnets) and a member with booth won the game.
It happened that the winning member, Tanya’s Art Design, sells prints of her and her husband’s artworks. Their artworks mainly focus on aniamls and pets and they are super cute!!! So if you have a time to browse, go check it out. She also does custom pet portraits if you are interested.
Here are the button magnets featuring her artworks.
There will be Blood
10/10/2009 at 16:33 | In Story of Me | Leave a CommentTags: accident, mr. sashimi, mr. sushi
There will be Blood. What a great movie that was, but this post isn’t about the movie. I want to talk about the event happened to me a few days ago and it unfolded like the movie.
The story goes:
I woke up early on this particular day and hit the oil field. I mean literally found the oil field and for a nano second, I thought I was going to be filthy rich!! Hallelujah!!
Well that nano second passed like lightening and I realized that our tile floor kitchen was flowing with oil. I left a big opened tin can of anchovy in oil on the dining table previous night. Sometime over the night, either Mr. Sushi or Mr. Sashimi knocked it over to the floor and the impact opened the tin can cover, spewing the contents (anchovies and oil) on the the tile floor. Now I’d like to think it was Mr. Sushi’s doing (he’s the house trouble maker), but I’m not really sure since Mr. Sashimi is a master at knocking things over.
Due to gravity, this spilled out anchovy oil slowly flowed and spread throughout the kitchen floor through grout lines. I guess I will never be a Photo Journalist because instead grabbing my camera and took the pictures of oil field and spewed out anchovies, I immediately started cleaning.
The cleaning didn’t last too long because on this particular day, I had to go out early. I left everything just like that. The huge mess. The oily mess. Might I add fishy smelling oily mess!!
Came back home late afternoon, and I resumed the cleaning. An entire roll of kitchen towel (to absorb oil) was spent. Then entire contents of baby butt wipes were used to wipe the kitchen floor three times. Then vacuum followed to collect litter track. Then steam mop followed: 3 times. Total time spent was about 2 hours.
While cleaning, the anger slowly grew in me. The madness reached the maximum by the time I finished. This is where it’s different from the movie. Instead of bloody mess and anger/madness driven murder, I took a cool shower and gave Mr. Sashimi and Mr. Sushi kiss kiss on their noses and their favorite wet food: but I didn’t forget to yell at them several times while cleaning.
Shagged by a Rare Parrot
10/04/2009 at 05:44 | In Laugh Out Loud | Leave a CommentTags: cute, fun, funny, lol, video, you tube
New Digital Camera
09/24/2009 at 21:09 | In Story of Me | 1 CommentTags: digital camera, photo, picture, product picture, shopping
Yes, I got a new digital camera! As I mentioned on the Jackpot post, my 5 year old digital camera went dead after taking close to infinite number of pictures. It was top of the line compact digital camera back then (no I didn’t buy it, it came with the huge grizzly bear), and I’d say I probably got the every penny worth several hundred times over.
I have been thinking about getting myself a DSLR for some time and planning to save money for it. Death of the digital camera seemed like a great time to get one for myself. But it’s funny how life happens. It was difficult to save money for it so sudden, and little money saved up was spent on an unexpected expense.
Right now, I have many holiday/christmas themed stickers and I couldn’t wait no longer. So yesterday I went out with $200 in my hand and visited best buy, sears, radio shack and target.
I told every one, I need a digital camera, resolution isn’t important (1 to 2 mp is good enough for most product photography, at least in my case), need at least some kind of manual control for some functions, good/decent macro function, great selection of white balance settings, and as cheap as possible. When I said that, I also mentioned my maximum budget is about $150 ~ $160.
Ultimately I bought mine at Target: apparently the Target guy at the digital camera/electronics department was the most pleasant and helpful (he didn’t push me toward the expensive ones). Kudos to you my target man!!
My new digital camera is an entry-level Fujifilm Finepix J20 and it costed me $119 plus tax. It has a 10 MP capacity (will be using it for Mr. Sushi and Mr. Sashimi) and is fairly new model from Fujifilm: just debuted Feburary 2009. At first glance, the camera looks a lot more expensive with its compact and sleek black metal body (yes, real metal body!!).
Here’s my confession! I didn’t read the manual. I only read manual when I’m completely unsure of what I’m doing. I’m more of learning things by fumbling rather then reading, especially when it comes to electronics, oh and I do fix my basic plumbings, change fixtures and eager to do DIY (man, it’s more fun and it costs so much less than hiring a professional for such a simple job: my last project was doing bath tub chalking and minor grout job- had to fight off the huge grizzly bear as he wanted to call a person). I’ve been playing with it since last night as soon as the battery was fully charged, and I think I know how to use it about 95%.
Just took bunch of sticker pictures today, and they look great. I just need to post-process and they are going to be listed in my store: kawaii paradise.
Water Bowl Situation
09/16/2009 at 00:24 | In Mr. Sashimi & Mr. Sushi | Leave a CommentTags: cat, funny, mr. sashimi, mr. sushi, pet
The white round bowl in the middle was the water bowl
The location of watering hole is always the problem when you are living with 4 legged family members.
I always HAD this problem with Mr. Sashimi and Mr. Sushi. They were always provided the fresh water right next to their food bowls. But somehow they preferred to drink from somewhere else: that left over water in the mug/cup, dish water standing still in the soon to be cleaned dish and the toilet water (yeah, unlike many household rule, sit down, we had a rule of the cover down after the business).
Then one day this all changed.
I don’t know why, but one day I decided to put the water bowl away from the feed station: a few feet from the food bowls. The result were amazing!! Mr. Sashimi and Mr. Sushi started to drink from their own water bowl, not anywhere else.
To this day, I do not know the reasons behind their behavior change, but I’m so happy that I no longer have to yell at them because they are drinking from the cup/mug left on the countertop or from the toilet (I’m pretty sure its ok but I do not like it).
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