first offical custom order.

I created, packaged, and sent my very first custom order. I’ve made custom items for my friends and family before, but never for someone I’ve just meet. I was really excited about the whole thing. This awesome young man was at First Friday while I was set up outside of the Butter Toast Boutique and commented that he liked my button necklaces. He just wished the chains were longer and the pieces were larger. I assured him it would be no problem for me to make him exactly what he wanted.

This was defiantly a learning experience for me. Although I was kind of stressed out about making sure it was what he wanted it was fun to make something with someone in mind. I could picture in my head what he would look like wearing it, and it made it a little simpler to make. I also learned that I totally under charged for the piece. I am not going to make a big deal about it at all. I’ve never made a piece like it before so I was unsure of the cost of materials, lesson learned! Next time I’ll know better.

For some reason I had a lot of trouble taking a decent picture of this lovely necklace. I probably should have waited for better lighting.

I’m really happy with the way it came out. His idea was great and I’m so glad I could create it for him. It’s nice to sort of “collaborate” with other creative people ever once in a while.

i change blog layouts like i change underwear.

I decided I need a little change of scenery. I was working on editing a different photo for my new banner and it ended up changing completely. I came up with the one I have now. I'm still not sure if it's 100% the way I want it, but I decided to take it for a test drive. I have some other work on the blog layout that I'm going to be perfecting here. I love working with editing and graphics. Sometimes I forget how fun it is for me. I get totally sucked into it and before I know it two or three hours have zoomed by and I've done nothing but poke around with an image.

While I was working on my banner I also came up with two new lovely little buttons to share. Having four different blog buttons at this point might be a little much, but oh well! I do love sharing blog buttons!!

<center><a href="http://withachanceof.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img alt="with a chance of" src="http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i440/withachanceof/withachanceofbutton.jpg"/></a></center>

<center><a href="http://withachanceof.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img alt="with a chance of" src="http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i440/withachanceof/rainbutton.jpg"/></a></center>

Let me know what you think. I always love feedback. If you add one of my buttons to your blog let me know so I can add you to my blogs i heart page. Have a great Wednesday!!

new layout!

While my husband, Marc, was watching football on Sunday, and Aurora was taking a nap I decided it was time to revamp my blog layout. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I think there's still some fine toning I need to do but I haven't decided on what yet.


I love Shabby Blogs, they have the best free layouts I've found. Their website is really easy to use too.

With the new blog also came a new blog button! Yay! I used pinik.com to edit the image. I thought I needed something to go with my new theme.

<center><a href="http://withachanceof.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img alt="with a chance of" src="http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i440/withachanceof/newbutton.jpg" /></a></center>

Want to make a grabable blog button of your own? Check out Manic Mother's button how-to! It was so helpful! I also checked out Linneyville, which is where I found picnik.com. Some really awesome stuff. Happy editing!

So, what do you think?