I thought today would be a great day to make a blog post though! You only get these days ever so often, in fact, the next one will be 3/3/33! The weather where I’m at is not great unfortunately. Lots of wind, rain and storms so I think we’ll be staying in. We do have some news, the website will be updated today! We’re going to be adding Fred8ear’s streaming link and social medias for anyone interested in following him! We hope that some of you guys might find him enjoyable and start following him! He is definitely worth the watch!

Sorry this post is so short! May today be as magical and rare for you all, as the actual day itself! You can follow us here on our social medias. Check out our shop and tell your friends and family about us.

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Hi and Hello! Sorry it’s been a while, todays post is going to be a short one unfortunately. We’ve had some unfortunate technical difficulties that resulted in the blog being down. My partner has also been going through some troubles with health so we haven’t been able to get together to put anything out. Don’t worry though, we will eventually get everything out that was talked about in previous M.O updates.

We’ll also be adding something new here on the blog and website though, we are going to start supporting an up coming video game streamer who goes by the name Fred8ear. He’s funny and the games he plays are interesting and fun! He’s been streaming Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays so far. So if you like video games then we’ll be posting once a week about him in our blog and adding the links to his pages on the website so you can follow him as he goes and grows!

Have a wonderful day and we hope it’s a good one! Remember, Valentines Day doesn’t have to be about romance with someone else, today can be a self love day for just yourself! For those of you who are celebrating with a romantic partner though, you get out there and have a great time. Although, one of the most important things to remember is, while today might be the day of romance on the calendar, you can show the people in your life that you love them every day and do special things for them any day of the year.

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Etching can be a fast or slow process depending on how much you want on it, how big your stencils are, the size of your cup, how many cups you wang and so on. At first while doing them I went pretty slow. I was very timid with what I did but as I went on I learned that as long as I made sure the names were strait and the designs looked good then I didn’t need to be worried! It was actually my first large cup order that I learned that with. Our first customer at The M.O ordered 7 cups! It was pretty amazing honestly. Now let’s get into some of the things that make etched glasses. 

Etched glasses take several things to make them look the way they do. You need etching cream, good stencils and stencil brushes, lots of painters tape, and most importantly rubber gloves. Etching cream can cause serious injury if you get it on your skin. With that being said, I’m definitely not that careful and I don’t always wear gloves. I have smallish medium hands and I can’t ever get a glove that fits me right and I’ve almost messed up a glass because my glove got caught in the cream and smudged it. My saving grace was that I had enough painters tape covering the rest of the glass that it didn’t matter. 

Why painters tape? We’ll let me explain! When you’re doing etched glasses, you only want the etching cream in a certain place. So, say you have a nice mug, you need to clean it first with soap and water, then after you dry it, you need to clean the places you’re going to put your stencils with rubbing alcohol. After your stencils are places you need to put painters tape around the stencils. Anywhere that you don’t want that etching cream, you need to cover it. After that you’re all set to start putting the cream on!  

The type of stencils you get and use is also very important. Good quality stencils is what makes or breaks your glass. Through trial and error I learned that you definitely should not use plastic non adhesive stencils on mugs, or cups at all. With plastic stencils you can only tape down the outside which is a problem if that stencil has multiple small inner lines, like letters, numbers, or intricate designs. Why? Well because you can’t tape those down. The glasses are rounded which cause the inside parts of your stencil to stick up and move around every time you stroke the brush on it which makes the cream run under those parts of the stencils, and you essentially lose whatever design you had. BUT! Plastic stencils work just as great as adhesive ones when you use them on flat surfaces like mirrors, windows, or picture frames!

Self adhesive stencils are best when you want to do cups. They’re just like stickers, you place them where ever you want them and boom, you don’t have to worry about any part of them moving around as long as you’re not placing intense pressure while brushing the etching cream on. Now what makes the self adhesive’s different than actual stickers is, you can reuse them multiple times. That’s right! With adhesive stencils you don’t have to worry about them losing their stick. Depending on the brand you use, you can use adhesives 20+ or so times if you take care of them. 

I use FolkArt and Martha Stewart brand adhesive stencils and between the two, I have to say FolkArt is my favorite. The font for the letters are very cute and really make your glasses look amazing. They also have pretty great holiday stencils that I use too. They’re very resilient and there’s no discoloration on them from either brand of etching cream. The only thing about FolkArt is, that their letter stencils don’t come in packs of two. Not that I’ve seen yet anyway. I had to buy my capital and lowercase letters separately which can get pretty pricy. 

Now, I’m not saying the Martha Stewart brand is bad. It’s definitely not. I like the block letter font that I picked up. Another thing with this brand is that you get two sheets of stencils in one pack. Like my block letters came with the capital and lowercase letters, the same goes for the holiday stencils too. Almost all the Martha Stewart stencils will come in two packs depending on what you’re looking for. My issue with the Martha Stewart stencils is, discoloration. I have a single set of cursive letters that aren’t as thick as my block letters and after only using the M a couple of times, the gray has started to discolor and chip away making it hard to use the stencil and the adhesive is running out faster than the smaller letters. 

As for Etching creams, there isn’t really a difference between the FolkArt brand and the Armour Etch brand. The only real difference between the two is that with FolkArt Etch Cream, you need to keep it on for 15 minuets and the color it leaves on the glass is a nice lighter white. Whilst the Armour Etch only needs to be on for 3 minuets max and is a more solid defined white. Both are really great honestly and both creams are dishwasher safe, so your etched designs won’t come off! 

Our Etched Glasses are always available even though they aren’t on our Etsy shop yet! There are several different ways you can get ahold of us and request an etched glass order. You can go to our Contact Page here on the website and email us or you can send us a message over any of our social media accounts! I’ll send you prices of our etched glasses and what we have available and what stencils we have for you to choose from!

Please continue to tell people about The M.O! Our shop, our blog, and our social media pages! Have a wonderful day and a great week! You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 

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Yesterday I met with a customer, who actually was our first customer, to give her another big order! She previously had ordered 7 etched glasses and all of our Halloween magnets. This time she ordered 4 of our Halloween Beaker surprises and two sets of earrings! It was definitely a slippery ride on the road while the snow was coming down but we made it and I would do it again if she asked! We here at The M.O can’t thank her enough for buying so much from us! People like her, and our customers from Etsy, help us out every day with growing our business!

Speaking of The M.O and business, our Jewelry crafting has been temporarily halted due to my partner having been sick this last week and a half. She’s feeling a lot better though, and don’t worry, she didn’t catch Covid! We should be back in business here in the coming week. She’s come up with a lot of ideas for our bracelets, necklaces, and earrings! As for me, I’m currently working on an etched glass order for a new customer, and I’m also going to start working on some things for Valentines Day and will have them available in the Etsy shop for you guys to buy! Get ahead and grab a gift for that special someone!

Everyone stay safe if you’re in an area with heavy snow or icy roads, we hope to hear from you guys in the comments or on social media which, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Share our website and share our pages! Tell people about us and help spread the word and help our crafting business grow! Don’t forget to visit Our Shop! Have great day and a great weekend, another About The Product will be posted on Sunday!

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This first pair is apart of our Fall Earrings. They can be customized to be any color, but were first introduced during November for Thanksgiving. Why Thanksgiving you might ask? Well because let’s be honest, there is not a lot of stuff for this holiday, and people often gloss over it and go strait to Christmas. So, me and Stephanie thought, why not make something for people who are really into Thanksgiving and that’s how we came up these earrings! Next year I hope to add Thanksgiving themed charms to our earrings to give them that extra solidarity to the Holiday.

This next set of earrings are actually recycled in a way. We used old mini Christmas tree bulbs for a small tree. We looked at them and thought to ourselves, “someone out there would totally love these to go with a Christmas sweater”. So we decided to make them with Christmas lovers in mind. I know several people who absolutely die over Christmas and wear Christmas attire the entire month of December. After we put these together, we just kept going. We found other old Christmas ornaments and evolved them into a wearable product!

At one point we were going to make candy cane earrings in the same way that we made our fall earrings but unfortunately my self and my entire household got Covid and that caused Stephanie and I to halt our operations for that project. They will be available next year though.

So there you have it! A little something about some of our crafts! I hope you enjoyed this, or thought it useful or informative. We hope that you’ll follow us on our social media, and share our shop and blog with others! Help us spread the word and grow our small business!

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Hi and Hello! It’s New Years Eve! We hope all of you guys have a great time no matter what you’re doing! If you’re single and you wanna mingle, go to that party your friends invited you to! If you’re a parent and your kids are staying over at their friends, throw your own party! Are you finally able to see your friend and loved one who’s visiting from the Military? Cherish the time with them and make memories. If you’re deciding to stay in with your kids/friends/relatives, enjoy it, make memories. Have a great time! Enjoy yourself! It’s going to be a New Year!

DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE!

Since it is New Years Eve, I thought I would share a personal story/tradition about this day. My Husband and I have a friend that we’ve know since we were in high school, his name is Ethan. Me and Ethan shared several band classes together and he and my husband had a normal class together. Anyway, fast forward to after high school. Me and Brenden(my husband) had started dating again and our friend Ethan was in the Military. Well, around this time every year Ethan would be on leave from the Military, and every New Years Eve we would get together with Ethan and my best friend, and we would drink together and have a grand time. We spend every New Years Eve together and I hope to do it again with him this year and his new wife Emily who I absolutely adore.

DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE!

Onto a more somewhat depressing topic, 2021, just like 2020, wasn’t what anyone wanted or expected, and everything’s been hard since Covid 19 started and everything that followed happened. Things have been hard, things that people ignored were shone in a very bright light and there are unfortunately people who will still continue to ignore it no matter what anyone says. That’s not ok, but there’s only so much anyone can do and sometimes you just have to accept that those people aren’t going to change. The best thing you can do is help the younger generation understand and hope that history won’t repeat itself. I hope that 2022 will be better in regards to Covid and how we as people handle it, I have hopes that people will continue to work toward tolerance and more people will become more aware of others and what they go through.

DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE!

We at The M.O hope to grow our small craft business in 2022! Our goals are to refine the things we’ve released already, to perfect the things we’re going to release, and to have enough crafts ready to do fairs like Harvest Homecoming in New Albany, and other places and events like that. We have so much planned for this coming year and we really hope to make everyone who buys from The M.O happy and satisfied! Crafting is enjoyable, and brings me and Stephanie a lot of happiness and it makes me even happier to make people things that they enjoy. A very big thank you to everyone who has bought things from our business and I hope that you love what you got and that it holds well. We hope to get more customers and make more people happy. I also hope that more and more people will visit our website and read our blog, because it’s also a big part of The M.O.

DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE Don’t Ruin Someone’s Family/Life because you decided to dive under the influence! Call a friend, Taxi, Or Uber! Save yourself and a Life this New Years Eve by NOT DRINKING AND DRIVING!

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As for The M.O, we’ll be working on new stuff and new seasonal crafts. It’s a little early but we’re going to start working on Valentines Day themed crafts so you can get a jump on a gift for that special day! We’re also going to be adding new letter earrings to our earring selections, as well as making bracelets and necklaces. Personalized Etched Glass Cups will also be making an appearance to the site soon. We’ve sold some already, but due to issues with availability in glasses we haven’t put them on the Etsy shop yet! My plan is to have them up in the shop by mid January to early February but if you would like to see some definitely visit our Facebook Page and check them out! They’re made to order so if you’d like any personalized glasses before they hit the Etsy Shop just send us a message! 

We plan to start posting on the Blog twice a week starting January of 2022! One of them will be craft updates, and the other will vary, weather it be a Story, a How-To, or Tips on crafting! Keep checking back to find out! Until then we hope everyone has the best of Holidays! Please visit us on our Social Medias; facebook, twitter , and instagram! Like and Share The M.O and visit Our Shop!

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Let me introduce to you, The M.O. The M.O is a stay at home mom-made crafts business. Everything sold on The M.O is carefully hand made by me or my partner. The shop has crochet blankets, handmade earrings, customizable etched glass cups, and handmade decorative magnets. We’ll be adding more things as we go so we have a wider verity for you guys to buy from, and we’ll also be selling specialized items during Holidays and special occasions! The goal of The M.O is to make people happy and to give people something special that they love or to give to someone so that they can love it. So please, spread the word and enjoy our website and our shop!

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