Christine Jones

 

Christine Jones was a very good friend of mine.  I called her “Tina”.  Mr. Dennard, a man I used to work for, once told me that, there’s a time in every person life, when life it self will begin to take things from you.  And One of those things life have taken is time.  I didn’t take time to see her once more before she died.  And I could have but I didn’t take time.  I haven’t seen her in years and through facebook, I got back in touch with her.  I even spoke to her on the phone.  I even planned to visit her down in Jacksonville Florida.  I kept making stupid excuses not to stop by my good friend.  And I didn’t even know she has passed away and it’s been years.  Here I am thinking she’s still alive and I can just reconnect.  But I am years too late.  

So learn this lesson from me, go see your friends before its too late.

To make it even worst, her brother and sister also passed not too long after her.

Wednesday Selfie

 

Ready to face the rest of the year.  

Tybee Island Lighthouse

 

Stop by to Tybee Island Lighthouse this weekend from our way back home.

We got there on time to enjoy the scenery and shop at the local market.  

Purchased some handmade jewelry and original watercolor painting.  We also grabbed homemade Kimchi and flavored walnuts.

Was suppose to see my auntie and uncle in Jacksonville and totally missed everyone.  I’m still thankful I seen mom.  And it was a nice brake.  

Loved our stay at Wyndham Hotel.  It was wayyyyy more affordable than staying by the beach.  I did wanted to visit a local museum but they were closed due to Columbus Day.

Cleaned Siding

 We cleaned the siding of the front of the house

Literally scrubbing the house siding down today.  

I’m glad the weather is still some what cool. 

I hate to be doing this on summer. 

April is perfect.

We still don’t have the water connected because the plumbing hasn’t started yet.  

The house need new plumbing all the way.

I managed to clean the front siding with just a a 1.5 gallon water spray.

I did add some bleach to the water and its removing the mildew off the aluminum siding.

It looks much better

Not so new Shuttle Bus

 Yes, I’ve been wishing for this and now it is here.  My new shuttle bus.  Won it at a government auctions.  Ok, so the listing stated that it wasn’t running.  But it does. And it runs goood.  So apparently these auctions are sometimes rigged.  The mechanic will list the bus or van as no good so their family or friends would go bid on them and know exactly what’s wrong or detail about these vehicles.  

Thank goodness!! I won!! And I nabbed it for a very good price about $1100.  Yes that’ a little over a thousand dollars.

2014 Ford Econoline Cutaway

And I got it towed for free cause I used my AAA membership.  I was able to save over $300 bucks for having AAA service.  Just simply ad RV/Bus  on your service. 

Inside of the Shuttle Bus

Yep, its gonna need major cleaning.

Just thinking of the many uses for this Shuttle bus…. Maybe a Crochet Bus, Little Camper, Airbnb Rental?   

I’m gonna clean it up and maybe sew some curtains for some privacy.  

Are we keeping the wheel chair lift.  I do like the idea that its manual.  So I don’t have to fiddle with the electric.  

Sunday Hair Day

 

Applying Jojoba oil and Biringa Oil  to my hair today.  and when I do I say this mantra.

My favorite is my homemade rosemary oil.

Love your hair and take time for self care.

Scrapbooking - Last scrapbook of the day.

 

had to share this scrapbook page of my nephews and niece

with my two cats

Did I mentioned I won me a couple of buses this year.  Yes a school bus and a shuttle bus.

My Saturday

 

Some work much needed work today on my website of course.

Not much cleaning cause my hubby was working on plumbing, the bathroom shower, the tub faucet, the toilet leak and installed a new faucet in the kitchen.  Wooohooo, all done in one Saturday.

We managed to grab some Caribbean food, and he managed to installed and deliver a sign.  He's a work-a-holic.  

Now I don't have no excuse not to have a clean kitchen. But while he was hard at work, I made coffee and breakfast before I got started on product photoshoot.  I was able to do photoshoot today on mug cozies, edit them, and upload them to my website.

please check it out at www.handmadebyhaniyyah.com

and made time for scrapbooking, digitally.

Tried Junk Journaling digitally

I love all those vintage paper Junk Journalists uses... 

but I just don't think Junk Journaling is for me.  

so I tried Digital Junk Journaling. 

can this even be called "Junk Journaling"

or is it scrapbooking.  I must have reason to my madness.  

so on this page I included the newly listed item on my website.

my 2024 eclipse moment.  I even included today's Facebook post, which is an ai generated image of my hometown or at least use to be.

I did post my beach cruiser, all deck down in crochet, which I featured this week on my TikTok

watercolor paintings of hydrangea and yellow roses, what I've been working on all this week.

You can find these clipart on my shop available for a low low $.99

www.handmadebyhaniyyah.com

and hoping to see my buses tomorrow.

 

Etsy Updates from January to March

Yeah, I just found this area of Etsy where you can actually see monthly summary.  It's located under Finance Tab, and click on Monthly Statement.  What else is hiding on Etsy.  I must really take my time and click on each link.  I've been so busy optimizing my listing.  Anyway.  Yes, even today, you can still make some money selling Digital Goods on Etsy.  

 

March 2024

February 2024

January 2024

My Sunday

 I'm suppose to be resting.  Resting so I could survive the following work week.  But I tend to go to bed exhausted each night.  Maybe by choice.

I have to ask myself sometimes what's the goal or the point of working so dang much.  Enough of that here is my Sunday Story.

the exterior of the bus was getting to dingy.  Specially the top or the roof of the bus.

I actually bought an extended electric bus for cleaning the shower and I used it to somewhat clean the exterior of the bus.  It looks a little better on both sides.

Next time I'm getting the ladder to really scrub the top of the bus.

I am planning on painting the bus myself.  

Then we went to the office to processed some yard sign orders.

Afterwards we headed off to Barnes and Nobles, just to get out of the house. 

For me I like their Black or Early Grey Tea.

I tried to do some work but it is Easter Sunday and I got booted out before I could sit another hour.

I should be working on Leland's website

But I really need some alone time so I could just spend hours on his website.

Anyway I got booted out of the bookstore before I could really dig into work

After grabbing a $50 worth of grocery from Kroger, I'm back at home boiling some eggs for my tuna and crackers dinner.  

That's my Sunday Easter.  How was yours?

Etsy Updates for the Month of March

 It's 11:05 pm But I'm gonna go ahead and tally my March Madness on Etsy.  

How do I feel about this month?

I am impressed.  I actually scored over 100 orders.  and Made $689.91.  About 95% Digital.  and I'm loving it.  I'm gonna continue making digital products to compliment my Listings.  and I do believed I have a "Nitch".  

I will continue to sale Canva Templates.  and I am not convinced that there's still a market for it.  I don't know how long because of this AI thing.   But I will ride it out until then.  

I also do like this stats.  It gives me an idea how to maximize my listing even further. 

I am still cautious about asking my customers to leave me a feedback.

I need to do more research on feedbacks.  

Currently I do not want to bother my customers to leave me a feedback.

My Saturday

 March 30th, 2024 

It's Saturday.  

Let's go to the property.  He hasn't been working on the property lately.  He is sick today with a little flu or cold or something.  

On stand by at the moment.  But we have brand new roof and we have bought some brand new windows, that are waiting to be installed.  

Luckily we installed some wireless security cameras through out the property and we caught some very strange visit from... I believe inspectors or zoning guys.  

But they're trespassing.  We gonna check on that.  They were all over our property.

But I did took photos of my buses :) 😁. At the moment they're doing their job, acting as my storage.  Because I got rid of my storage and it's monthly fee or bill and just loaded both buses with it's content, books lots of books.

and here they are!! Tada!!

and what else did we do today?

This is sun down on our Street.  Isn't it just beautiful!

Etsy Updates for February 2024

 

Just wanted to share my Etsy Update for the month of February this year of 2024.

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I post often.  Not in any Chronological way. But leave me a comment below of what you would like to see.

Etsy Store Update for January 2024

 

This is my January 2024 Etsy Store Update

I actually made 3 sales this month.  Which probably triggered my motivation.

I don't think all this is digital.  

My goal is to sell Digital and Canva Templates.

and if you would like to see my shop and what I'm selling,  Join the Club. 

Etsy Store Update

 Going on 3rd month and I can't believed that I made over 100 sales.  Here is my current update.

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March 22, 2024 

I made $42.12 with 9 orders

114 Views with 58 Visits

I am planning on creating a 

Tracking Page like a habit page.  But instead of tracking habits, I would like to track my sales, Quantity, how much Etsy Ads I'm using  etc.  So I created this Etsy Sales & Ads Tracker so I can focus my limited $3 per day budget around the peak time.  

Since only one Category in my shop is doing well.  I would like to apply whatever I learned from this tracker toward another category that's not doing so good.

Ofcourse I will also maximize each listing to their fullest potential.  Meaning:

1. Photo of each Listing should have a top notch quality.  and I'm going to use all available slots for images.

2.  All listing in this experiment will also contain one 10 second VIDEO

3.  I will double check and use all available ALL TAGS

4.  I will get Chat GPT to help me create a better Description

5.  I will advertise each listing on social media (Maybe and Facebook)

6.  I will add these listing to the website also

7.  I will promote them on Pinterest

8.  I will adjust the price.

Is my cat vicious?

 

My cat sleeps with my dog Hershey.  She doesn’t mind sometimes.

I’m proud of her for sharing.

Bear 

my beautiful cat Bear

He just looks so regal.  This is one of his favorite spot in the kitchen.  He likes to watch the birds outside.

We’ve had a couple of birds came in the house and ofcourse they killed them.