Sale!!

My family and I are finally going to move within the next couple of weeks. I am afraid to pack up all of my alyns and have them be moved across country, so all of the alyns in my shop right now are currently 25% off. The prices they are at now reflect the sale.

I hope you are all having a safe and warm winter, and also happy holidays!

-Avarie & Alyns

New Alyns

Hello!! Well, finally, clay was onsale at JoAnn's when I had money to buy some. I bought seven packages, and I only have one pack left! I made over forty new alyns yesterday and three new ones today. Mom had me make 30 for her to send out with the bags she sells. I am hopeful that with all of the alyns I have sent out for 'promotion' that I will attract more people to my shop.

I am also attempting at finding new backgrounds for my alyns. I like to have a plain, white background, but I decided that was getting a bit repetitive and I really wanted something new for my alyns. I photographed Xavier on a book (in blog pic) and I am happy with the way it came out. I'm trying to find some more new, interesting backgrounds that aren't too distracting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Keep checking my shop all this week, I will try to list a new alyn every day.

Also!! I will be gone from Friday the 7th to Sunday the 16th. We will be in Massachusetts on a house hunting trip! I am so excited and I am going to bring some alyns to show my grandmothers. I can't wait until I get home, though. We will have been in a hotel for over a week.

Ahh.

So I really wanted to keep this blog updated, but I have had no alyn news lately! I am curious if I should start blogging every once in awhile on here just to keep people updated. I think that would be a good addition to this page. Maybe every month or so?

School has been going very well for me. The first quarter just ended and I am very pleased with my grades, and I think my teachers are too. :D My grade in English was so good that my teacher gave me a copy of a book of poems she wrote on desert animals. It's a coloring book (which I may be a bit old for? idk), but I still plan on coloring in all of the animals my teacher's mother illustrated.

Hmm, what else. Well, in my art class we have started felting. I was so looking forward to this part of the year! We started out with making felt balls. My friend and I had a pretty funny yet painful time making them. The needles you use to compact the wool are very sharp even if they don't appear to be that way. The needles also caused some frustration which resulted in my teacher yelling "WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!!" every couple of minutes.

Another one of my friends (I guess you could call her my best public school friend?) gave me some sad news today. Her mom is really sick of Vegas, and they might have to move really soon. I know we'll be moving soon, too, but I sort of which my friend would stay just a bit longer. I think I'll miss having her around, especially since she is really cool and I've only known her since the beginning of school. :(

Also, I joined twitter (yes, I copied my mom). My url is: http://twitter.com/slevinteen

Please ignore the Josh-Hartnett-fangirl-ness of my page. D:

I need to go back to studying for my tennis test. 8D BYYYYYYYYYE

Whoo!

Hi! Sorry that I have not posted in so long. I haven't really been making any new alyns because I've needed to buy other things rather than clay. =P School has been going well for me and the weekends are the worst part of the week because I just want to go back to school! Some of the students have been inspiring alyns designs, which I will work on when I get more clay. Hope everyone is doing well!

The Alyn Etsy Shop Debut!

Hi! I just wanted to make a blog post to announce that the alyns have made their debut into their own shop! I'm very excited they are there and I get to keep track of the shop (with mom's supervision). If you would like to check them out, the new shop is alyns.etsy.com. Or click here. I am going to list new alyns every day so keep checking back.

Survey, School and New Alyns

Hi! I just wanted to post a quick blog to talk about a couple of things. First off, we're finally home from our camping trip. Today I bought 10 new packs of Fimo clay, but sadly two were too dry to use. :( But with the remaining eight packages I am working on new alyns to put into my shops. Also, my baby alyns are going to make their debut into our Etsy shop very soon!

As for the school part of this entry, school starts for me on August 25th. I will probably not be posting a lot in my blog during the week, but I am hopeful that I will be able to post and make new alyns on the weekends. Although I am looking forward to school, I am a bit sad that I won't have as much time as I wanted to work on the alyn business.

And last but not least... Survey! Brooke Medlin on etsy (view her shop here) has created an survey for people on Etsy to take. I think it will be interesting to see the results. You can take the survey here.

Anyways, that's all for now. A big slimy hug to all of you from the alyns! :D

Tiny Alyns and Custom Orders

Hi! I just wanted to post to introduce my newest creations: baby alyns! I have made some that are about the size of a quarter. But also there are some that fit right on a penny. I'm going to be making them to sell in my shop soon, and I am also going to try to figure out how to make them into pendants.

Also, I am thinking about doing custom orders. Basically, you can pick what alyn species you want, what colors you want, what size you want and if you want any add ons (like a hat, cape, GameBoy, etc.). I'm not sure if I can do custom species yet since the ideas for the species come a bit slower than ideas for actual alyns. :D

I suppose that is it for now. I will update asap! =P