Jolly's posts

@Ruby:
Ooooh, that may well be an investment Ill add to my list!

@Totalanimefan:
I MEAN
I was already thinking about getting one for almost two years now
but your crafts definitely encouraged me XD
so cute

Also I did order one >>
for pickup
sending husband to get it on his way home from work

@Ruby:
Yeah I havent looked into them in about a decade, so Im sure its way different now.
I'd probably want to have a full craft room before I get TOO many machines anyway ;; I dont really have a designated place even for a cricut I'd make it work. But then again, maybe printers aren't as huge as they used to be... for the good ones?

In any case I'm sure I could find a good print shop nearby :D
I haven't explored that yet here

@Ruby:
The only thing is, it doesn't print color? So I'd need a regular printer before I could make actual stickers.
The kinds that print digital colors good are 'spency

I think that I should start planning projects before I drop money on the machine itself
:vanora_sweat:
I always worry getting new things that I'll just make one thing and then it sits there. That's why I haven't bought it yet..

@Ruby:
Hahaha the dream of running a craft business and making a ton of cool things
but also not becoming a hoarder with big excuses :vanora_xd:

Imagining the things I could make with just the cricut though! It would be way fun

I WANT THIS






and more
and more and more
I want to make things and I wanna build on crafty skills
I WANT TO MAKE A CRAFT BUSINESS on the side and get better and better and then
maybe
one
day
I can stop working 11 hour retail shifts and instead work 11 hour crafting shifts
:vanora-celebrate:

Could this be an illness or could this be my moment?


Silliness aside, any of you use cricuts? Or silouett cameo is another one I heard of, but havent yet compared them.
the cricut maker 3 sounds like a blast to use.

The pens here are unrelated to cricut cause Im also wanting to learn how to make tiny clay confetti xD

Work in progress - First ever wreath! :D
I halted when it came to the last step cause I realize I dont know how to make nice bows. So once I master that, I'll be able to slap this onto my door!
I'll take a better photo at that point too without my legs involved XD
I literally just got home from work, plopped down and started at it on the floor

*edit update
Decided I'm too impatient to make nice bows, so calling this wreath done!

Oh good!! I hope that this will result in good news <3

@Ruby:
Yeah as long as corporate guys dont walk in and catch me napping :vanora_xd:
But if they walk in and I'm laying on a mattress? They wouldn't mind as long as I say something funny (and if there's no customers needing service)

Gotta know what we're sellin ;D

@Ruby:
thank you thank you :D

Following up on an old post I did in the serious topics forum, about my dad being in a motorbike accident.
He was making real fast progress and sort of impressing the doctors and surgeons along the way. He still cant walk or move to his wheel chair on his own yet, mainly that he cant put weight on his pelvic/hip bone (it was shattered but all put back together and healing too). There's still a lot he's dealing with but he is stabilizing and they cleared him to go home!!

He went home yesterday, on my wedding day!
:vanora_cry:

(I eloped so he didnt miss anything) I called him once I got home and turned the face time thing on. He looks like he lost a ton of weight from being in the hospital for a month and a half. But he looks good! He looks very healthy, just got casts on and tape over one of his glasses lens. His vision got messed up a bit where when he tries to look out of both eyes, he sees double. But if he covers one eye he's good. The tape blurs the one eye so he can see but still lets sunlight in a bit.
They think that may or may not fix itself, so they're watching it and doing exercises with him to help strengthen his eyes. He just noticed improvement that when he looks up, his eyes stop seeing double in that angle. So HOPING thats a sign it might clear up in time!

He's big happy though
and he's back to his normal sassy personality
so the brain damage really didn't get him
:vanora_smile:
My job approved me time off to go visit them in october, so I'm excited

@Totalanimefan:

My phone camera makes it look a lot more dull and hazy cause I have no photo taking skills
but the colors actually printed out just as crisp as the digital version, just with texture! :D

I printed it rather smol
I measure with my brain sjzfgh but actually I think the size is perfect, I wanna collage pretty art on my wall so it fits really well in this spot for that

@Ruby:
LIL BIT :vanora_xd:
Yeah, I have such a love/hate with this job. Cause if the shifts weren't 11 hours long, I would -love- my job overall. The people I work with are a ton of fun lol

@blue:
That last one is so dang funny, I love it!
Also how does one rubber band a whole desk? XD

My manager does -not- like christmas. Like, he really despises it. So last year when he was off for a day, my coworker (the "gullible girl") I came in to decorate his desk

I realized I should have bought way more bows but it was still fun. Ended up interrupted by a customer while doing this and he JOINED IN helping us tape the bows down while we discussed his invoice :vanora_xd:
The funniest thing is that because I put those eraser things on his pens, ALL OF HIS PENS GOT STOLEN by customers before the holiday season even ended???? THEY'RE THE CHEAPEST GREY PENS YOU GET EVERYWHERE just with dollar tree erasers worth a nickle ea.
Why yall want them lmfao

I can't get over how much this made me laugh yesterday.
Everyone was on staff, so that's me, my coworker K, manager C, store manager S and comanager J.

Well S and J were acting like they were having a normal conversation next to K. They were talking about a gun shop in town and mentioned something about donuts being sold at the counter "again". These guys are solid actors, even I thought they were having a normal conversation, so I wasnt even paying attention yet.

K is confused, like uh what guns and donuts??? She didn't believe them when they were elaborating. So S and J turn to manager C who was not part of this, but very convincingly joins in. He's like "Huh? The one on [street name]? They moved the donuts there again??"
S is like "Yeah!!! They took it out for a while but they just moved it back not too long ago!"

K is so confused, thinking they must be pulling her leg. She's trying SO HARD not to be gullible.

They show her a photo of a gun shop with donuts in a glass case (my husband said this is a meme going around lol)

She's still like no there's no way, yall are foolin

S, J and C have MAD poker face, that even i started to get fooled by them.

Somehow

K was convinced to call the store

SHE CALLS THEM

We're all laughing cause even if it was true it's funny to ask. K was all "fine, I'll put on my most southern accent i can" (she's from NC so her accent is different from theirs)

On the call she politely asks them, "If I came in to buy ammo, would I be able to get some donuts with that?"

We're laughing cause it sounds like a prank call but she's serious. Like she fully believes what she's saying.

The person on the other line HAD TO ASK THEIR MANAGER

That's where the manager reveals the truth, they do not sell donuts. She apologized and got off the phone and all of us laughed so much our customers might have thought us mad :vanora_xd:

Thought I'd share!
This has to be the best prank they've done to her yet. Topping the one from when she first got hired last year and she asked S how to tell if a mattress is a flippable or nonflip mattress (all of our are nonflip) and he told her to knock on them cause they'll sounds more hollow. She did to one before realizing... lmfao