Creative Compulsion

I’m on a roll lately setting up new shops and finally got around to something I’ve been thinking about for over a year now. I opened an Etsy shop! And the name… big surprise here… Creative Compulsion.

So far, I only have two items listed:

I have several things to list but need to get around to taking pictures. In the meantime, please visit and heart me as I will be trying to add more daily!

Visit Creative Compulsion on Etsy

Unconscious Mutterings - Week 229

OK - so I’m a little behind!

1. Compulsion :: Creative!
2. Spiritual :: Mystic
3. Spray :: Vapor
4. Compatibility :: None
5. Pursuit :: Chase
6. Fake :: People
7. Mobile :: Blackberry
8. Ceremony :: Ritual
9. Ribbons :: Prizes
10. Mozart :: Genius

Unconscious Mutterings - Week 228

I say … and you think … ?

1. Riding :: Polo
2. Actress :: Fake
3. Flowers :: Bouquet
4. Making :: Love
5. Robot :: Wired
6. Enjoy :: Savor
7. Identify :: Name
8. 22 :: Jersey
9. Busy :: Working
10. Forward :: Fast

Everyone that knows me knows that I just have to try out anything new that comes along. The eBay To Go Widget is no different

It’s a pretty nifty tool. Unless you put your user ID or some identifying word in your titles, only the single or multiple item showcases are going to be useful for showing off your items. The search option (which I think looks the coolest) pulls auctions from various sellers based on keywords or a key phrase. Not exactly what you want if you’re trying to draw people to your own auctions. That said, the widget is still very useful and has the potential for being a great marketing tool on blogs, social networking sites or anywhere else you can think to plug it in. Here’s mine:

Unconscious Mutterings - 6/10/07

1. Acoustic :: Guitar
2. Sanity :: Soundness
3. Mambo :: Dance
4. Session :: Cookies
5. Hound :: Noisy
6. Cat :: Toonces
7. Coward :: Wimp
8. Trunk :: Show
9. Hold me :: Comfort
10. Psychological :: Thriller

I found this really cool site today courtesy of Blogs By Women (and thanks Nicole, for pointing me there!).

This site does exactly what the name says - it makes chicklets! You know, those cool little rectangular graphics you see on lots of blogs. The Chicklet Maker lets you choose background colors, font colors and family and even offers three sizes: Standard (80 x 15), Yahoo Size (91 x 17) and Google Size (104 x 17). Very cool and useful tool!

Visit the Chicklet Maker

I’m wondering if tonight may mark the beginning of the end for Wagglepop (or WP2 as it’s been coined by some). I commented several months ago about my feelings regarding the site and things have only gotten worse since then. To recap some of the things that have happened (or not happened) up to this point:

1. InventoryDirect: What a flippin joke! Touted as a “powerful” tool by Karen of Wagglepop’s Customer Service, this great invention was nothing more than an Excel Spreadsheet. An unusable spreadsheet for most that have attempted to use it.
2. The Wagglepop Grand Opening Debacle: Again, whaaaat??? Karen said that staff estimated that traffic would triple. Sellers and buyers would be pouring in. She said “Fasten your seatbelts”. The only reason the poor sellers there needed a seatbelt was to prevent them from hitting the windshield when the Wagglepop Traffic Train came to a deadstop almost overnight. Rather than tripling, or even doubling, traffic, WP has been almost non-existent per the Alexa charts. Way to go, Karen and Ray!
3. Downtime: Recently, some significant downtime has been noted. People attempting to access the site were greeted with database errors. Karen suggested that it was Hop Interference. She even deleted a post that mentioned the database errors. Why? The SQL database crashed and there is NO engineering team on call to fix it. We wouldn’t want the Poppers to find out that WP “staff” consists of only one person now would we? At no time does Wagglepop ever take responsibility for problems. It’s always the user’s fault, their ISP’s fault, the user’s router’s fault. Never WP - ummm, yeah right.
4. Board Censorship: This has always been an issue but in recent weeks has become ridiculous. Honest questions and constructive criticism are obviously not allowed at WP. Cross that line and risk your account being suspended. Oh, and if they don’t like you, here is the kind of email you can expect to receive from WP staff:
   

   XXXXX,

   It’s not your specific post we find rude, it’s you.

   You’ll find I am quite a bit less tolerant than Karen as we move forward and
   any further emails on this issue will mark the start of a complete account
   review.

   Andrew P.
   WP Customer Care

   Great way to treat YOUR paying customers!

Tonight has been interesting over in Poopland as many of us (infiltrating, naysaying, morally bankrupt) miscreants have termed it.

Long standing members that at one time were huge WP cheerleaders are being terminated and banned for speaking out against the almighty Ray. Posts have been deleted right and left. Whole boards on the forums are being deleted. As BBH at Tulip Tools pointed out on the WP thread, this looks very similar to the beginning of the end of WP1.

So, grab some popcorn and a cold beverage. The next couple of days could prove to be very interesting over at Waggleflop.

I used to do these every week and thought I would start doing them again. Unconscious Mutterings plays a word association game weekly by giving 10 words and the object is to “reply” with whatever word comes to your head first. For anyone that would like to play more interactively, there is a very similar “game” on the Word Association Game thread on Tulip Tools.

Unconscious Mutterings - 6/3/07

1. Savage :: Beast
2. Warrior :: Fighter
3. Daisy :: Duck
4. Schedule :: Work
5. Rock, paper, scissors :: Game
6. Medical :: Mom
7. Jade :: Green
8. Elevator :: Car
9. Drain :: Clog
10. Goldfish :: Pet