Goodbye To You, Messy Etsy!

Update. 

I've officially closed shop at Etsy.

Before any of you start crying hysterically, I'll explain.

{The Etsy Mess}

I've decided to leave Etsy because of the following reasons:

• It takes a chunk percentage out of my earnings
• To use Etsy, you have to sign up for Paypal, who ALSO takes a percentage
• Way too many people, and too wide of an audience for me. Aka, how the heck was anyone gonna find my little shop with the millions of other cute shops on there?! 
• Every time you put up a listing on Etsy, they charge 20 cents to your account that it's linked to. Which doesn't seem like much, but when you start getting gung-ho about uploading before anything is being bought, that's money you are throwing away.
• There is an Etsy bill they email you at the end of each month, with a fee and the percentage you owe them back from your sale. Which isn't too horrible if you are selling 200 dollar leather bags. But when you are already poor AND you gotta pay someone for the 10 dollar headband? Eek.
• And finally....I don't like selling my stuff for like 40 bucks a pop to actually make decent money on it. It's got to be reasonably priced.

Hopefully you've read this before you've gone and made 50 flowers and uploaded them all on Etsy. Cause now you all know what you could possibly be getting yourself into if you are thinking of starting an account. I'll admit it is easy to use, convenient, and quite fun.

 Yet I digress, I can now be reasonably priced and still make some money off my products. Plus, a lot of people don't even know what the heck etsy is. Sad, huh? Ok, it's mostly the old farts who don't know what it is...but they are the ones with the moolah and grandbabies to put cute headbands on! 

NOW the plan...is to sell off stuff my own site, continue with blog postings, start up my facebook Breezy Days business page, and start selling my stuff locally in salons/boutiques. 

I'M ON FIRE.

<3 Bri

Sickly Crafting & Cooking: Part Deux

So I'm still freaking sick. {Here is the original "Sickly Crafting" post from a couple weeks ago}
Thus, the crafts came out

AND 

I tried a delicious new recipe. Very much guy approved. 

Mike {landlord/our homie}from upstairs found out I was making this recipe and was practically salivating at the sound of it, cause Kelli {his wife/our friend} had made it for him before, and it was obviously delicious. If just the NAME of the recipe gets people stoked? I'm down for it! 

{Etsy Crafts}

{Leopard Bow & Coral Flower Headband}

{Vintage Lace & Coral w/Turquoise Beads Headband}

{Coca-Cola Cap Headband}

{Burlap, Lace, Coral, and Turquoise Headband}

{70s Inspired: Brown, orange, yellow, and burgandy headband}

All available on my etsy shop up the screen and to the right! If you want something similar but with your own twist on it, let me know and I'll sell it to you for cheaper than the etsy prices ;)

{Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos} by Our Best Bites

1/3 cup (3oz) cream cheese

1/4 cup green salsa (found in the Latin foods aisle)

1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice (half a lime)

1/2 teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon chili powder

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

3 Tablespoons chopped cilantro

2 Tablespoons sliced green onions

2 cups shredded cooked chicken

1 cup grated pepperjack cheese

Flour tortillas

Salt

Cooking Spray

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 425. Line baking sheet with foil and lightly coat with cooking spray {original Pam}

-Heat cream cheese until it's soft & easy to stir. Add green salsa, lime juice, cumin, chili powder, onion powder, and garlic powder. Mix well. Then add cilantro, green onions, chicken, and pepperjack cheese and combine well.

-Put a little in the tortilla, wrap tightly. Spray cooking spray lightly over the taquitos, and sprinkle with salt. Cook for 15-20 min, or until crisp. Then, all done! Down below are random pictures of the process. 

{My cooking corner, with Mad Men on}

{The chicken taquito mix, and cornbread mix}

{Spray the foiled pan with Pam, then put the mix in a tortilla and wrap it tightly}

{Then lightly spray the top with Pam, and sprinkle with salt}

{Put in the oven to 425 for 15-20 minutes, and Voila!}

If you try out the recipe, let me know how you like it! And if anyone out there is sick and has a better remedy than: sleep, hot showers, Zicam, Dayquil, Vitamin C water, and Advil please spill! 

<3 Bri

Butterfly Poop

Taken by Marissa Pinnegar

I was just fiddling around on my computer and ran across this random picture from almost exactly a year ago. With three of my roommates {one is taking the pictures}, we ventured out to have a photo shoot on a crisp fall Utah day. I remember asking my roommates...

"Should I date this Ryan guy? What do you all know about him?

Ohhh that question. I was told many a things about this "Ryan" guy. I gathered that he was cocky and loved to be the center of attention. For some unbeknownst reason I started to come up with these random illusions of what he was really like, itso facto having a conversation with myself.

He must be so full of himself!

Hmmmm, he probably likes to woo girls with his charm too!

YA!

{Side note, he is still these things... now they are called confidence and being adorable. Two of the reasons I fell in love with him}

I finally decide that I was gonna hang out with him, cause what could it hurt? He is cute, and hopefully he isn't what I was expecting. {Especially after all the horrible dates I had recently been on, an awkward date with a cute guy would have been the least of my worries}.

He texted if I had eaten lunch yet. Nope! Not yet! 

We end up at Tucano's after my suggestion.

Hold on...before you start thinking

Bri is a gold digger! She was totally using Ryan to pay for an expensive and especially delicious lunch. 

I can prove you wrong becauseeee....I didn't even know it was a date. PSYCH! I'm sure you didn't see that coming! Yup, I was naive in thinking he wanted to be just my friend. {And if I had one bit of a clue, I would have noticed the staring, and realized he would want to be more than just friends. I did look pretty cute that day} I totally thought it was a "friend date" sort of thing. You pay for your own part of the check sort of deal.

We end up at Tucanos, have awesome conversation {the kind that doesn't have ANY awk pauses, nice huh?}, and eat delicious food and it isn't one bit awk until... 

THE CHECK.

He pays for my part of the bill. Uhhhh....I thought this was a friend thing? I'm confused? Was I asked on a date and I didn't even know about it? I thought dates were dinner and a movie, not lunch? 

I totally got suckered into a date. 

So, I'm assuming that you're thinking....

I pretty much read this novel of a story and have no clue why Bri even brought this up. Is there a point to this? I'm starving and my Bagel Bites are done in the microwave.

Aka you're wondering what the moral of the story is? The typical 'don't judge a book by it's cover crap' of course...AND

Not all relationships start off with butterflies. There is this "Twilight" fad going around that guys are this mystical species that are supposed to sweep you off your feet. NOT TRUE. Not at first at least. It's extremely rare that you hear those types of stories. But how often do you hear the..."I didn't like him at first, but then I got to know him and realized that we were so meant for each other!" stories?

Think about ittttttt.

I feel as if girls expect the whole 'love at first sight' thing, or the 'butterflies in my stomach' trash, and that's alot for a guy to live up to! 

So you're wondering...do the butterflies EVER come!?

Yup. They do. And in ten-fold too! Ryan and I became the bestest of friends, starting November 4, 2010. I can depend on him for anything, and vice versa. The sweet notes he leaves in my scriptures or the cute kisses on my forehead he gives before going to work and he thinks I'm still sleeping {shhhh!} are what kick-starts the butterflies more than anything. So girls. Give the geeky/cocky/nerdy/quiet/loud/weird guy a chance. 

Cause, what could it hurt?

<3 Bri