Giveaway oh giveaway

Hello studmuffins (yes, I'm talking to you). Hope your Thanksgiving was thankfully good. Guess what? I got called on to speak in sacrament meeting again. This time I wasn't asleep. It's because I got a new calling. After having somehow avoiding it my whole young adult life, I got put in the Relief Society presidency, 1st counselor. Yeah for me.

Onto more exciting things. I am doing a giveaway ($60 worth) of my LetterChef products. You have to visit my friend's blog to enter: In the Kitchen Where I Belong and for all the juicy details. Hey, you know it would be a great and easy Christmas gift (for yourself, of course...). The contest ends Sunday, so I suggest you get on your e-pony and enter. Unless, you hate me. That's fine too. Good luck!

I wish this were my life...

I found a new blog today that 1)I'm mad I didn't come up with the idea first and 2)I wish I were Elaine and Gary and could live as fancy as they do. Let me explain. This blog is called Catalog Living, and features pictures from home decor magazines with captions that correlate. For example (and no, I didn't write this)

"Frankly Gary, I’m still worried that the Turners are going to think our lamps are too small."


Or

When Gary and Elaine host a cocktail party, you can always rest assured that they’ll be serving at least one bowl of giant rope.


Genius and hilarious. I probably spent an hour look at all the past posts. I read an article about the mastermind behind it and she said she gets e-mails all the times from photographers and the such who tell her they know what they're doing is absolutely ridiculous, so they find her stuff funny and not insulting. Maybe one day Adrian will have a picture featured on this lady's blog. But mark my words, I'll have the first poke at it. 


I know I didn't have that genius idea, but I did have another one: if I ever get married, I'm thinking instead of having a flower bouquet, I'll have an Edible Arrangement, you know, the fancy fruit basket? That way, I can just nibble on it the whole day while still looking put together. I don't want to take business away from Melissa or anything, so everyone should keep this idea on the down low.


And last but not least...I've had two sales! What's even cooler is that they were from people that randomly found me on Etsy. Speaking of my store, the week after Thanksgiving I'm doing a giveaway on Joelle's blog, so make sure you check it out (I'll remind everyone, no worries!).


And that, my friends, is all she wrote. For today. 

Business Cards and What woke Me Up

I have been pretty busy with this whole Letter Chef thing I'm doing. And yes, I except all of you to have gone and look at my stuff. Or bad karma will happen. Yesterday, I got my business cards from MOO. For those who haven't heard of them, your business cards are printed front and back on the nicest-thickest paper, and the best part, you can have a different photo/design on every single card! So I uploaded some of my alphabet photos for the back. This way, when people ask what in the heck I'm talking about, I pull out three to four of my business cards and make a word.

This picture really doesn't do them justice, but you get the idea. I'm in love with them.

In other news, on Sunday at church I was unusually tired from right off the bat. I usually don't start falling asleep until the 2nd speaker, but I was a goner right after the sacrament ended. I was soon awoken from a dead rock sleep when I suddenly heard my name from the pulpit. I did not know what was going on, but my fears were confirmed when they repeated the order of impromtu speakers (because for some reason we had no speakers so the called people out from the audience). The sad part was, apparently those that were speaking were supposedly those who had recently returned home from their missions. When I got up I made sure to let them know it has almost been 3 YEARS since I've been home. Sheesh. The good news is I stayed awake for the rest of Sacrament. Moral of story- if you are going to fall asleep in church every Sunday, make sure your subconscious is alert for you.

I am the Letter Chef

Remember a long time ago when I said I was going to try to make money designing blogs? Well...that didn't pan out like the 1849 gold rush. But remember those alphabet name pictures I made for my mom's sisters? Well...that's panning out a little better. In fact, my mom decided I should try to actually sell them. So I've been taking hundreds of pictures in cool spots around here in So Cal to beef up my stock of letters. And then we got a business license. And a seller's permit. And a fictitious business name. And I signed up on Etsy (because I could have made my own website, but honestly did not want to deal with that mess).  And we found a great local printer for the pictures. And we found a custom frame shop. And now I'm finally posting about this and introducing that I am the Letter Chef (not to be confused with any super hero of the same name. It's not like I'm revealing my secret identity. Or maybe I am). Without further adieu:


First you take a picture of something that looks like a letter (in this case an "E")

Find some other letters (S)

And then combine them together (it says "Cundiff")

To see more, go to my site: www.letterchef.etsy.com. When you click on the individual letters, there is another picture in a column that shows you more options of the same letter. Except "Z" - I only have two lonely ones. I know, I'm working on it. I may be willing to pay for a good Z picture (or any letter for that fact) if you'd like to submit one. The problem is they need to be in a vertical format, so remember that when looking for me. Because let's face it, I'll never have Oompa Loompas, so I'm relying on you.