Goals, Ideas and Hopes for 2010

Merry Eve of Christmas Eve to you all! This could potentially be my last post for the year (but who knows, I make no promises) and I wanted to let you know some of my goals, ideas and hopes for the next year concerning this blog and my shop.

In the shop:

• I want to bring more luxury knits, cashmere, silk, angora, etc
• I want to bring more patterns - since the patterns I have in there are doing so well I really want to bring more to the table.
• I want to bring better photos and descriptions

*Your turn: What do you suggest for my shop? Any items or materials in particular? A certain type of pattern you'd like to see? Anything you'd like NOT to change? Please help me out with this :)

For the blog:

• I want to engage my readers a bit more - I know you're out there, my analytics tell me that you read, but you don't comment so I need to figure out a better way to entice comments :)
• I want to interview some other bloggers or shop owners and perhaps do more giveaways (if you're interested, please let me know!)
• I want to know what you want to read - which features did you like that I tested out this year? The Monday Color? Tuesday Learn Something New Day? Friday Feature? Again, please let me know so I can bring you what you want to read :)

I hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season and that its filled with rest, relaxation, food, family and laughter :)

*and, as always, if you click on the pictures, it will take you to the item listing in the Etsy shop ;)

Avocados and Guac

Avocado Love from ara133photography

After his recent trip to San Diego with Winston (you can see photos of Winston's adventure here) Matt brought back a duffle bag's worth of avocados. They weren't all ripe yet, but they are ripening everyday and we've had avocado in some form everyday for the past week and a half!

Avocado Danglies from dirtroadsouth

Yesterday we made a tub of guacamole. A tub. A Large Tub. The kind of tub that would cost you $20-$30-$50 at the store so you could have enough guac for your entire family and their pets. Some of the avocados were so ripe that many of the pits were sprouting, they were very easy to split in half accidentally while stabbing with a knife and I may or may not have a stab wound in my left hand that happened to be underneath the kamikaze pit.

letterpress avocado postcard from harpoon

So needless to say, I have avocados on the brain.