Better late than never!

Alas I did not have time to blog today, but gleefully I have already completed tomorrow's post! Tune in tomorrow for my exploration of Friendly Plastic. I had a lot of fun exploring this medium and I'm going to share what I discovered here.

I am frustrated with YouTube today. It turns out that YouTube freezes video counts on occasion at around the 300 mark if your video seems to have too many hits in a short time period. I'm not sure how long our new video will be frozen at 303, but the most frustrating thing is you apparently lose any hits that occur while the view counter is frozen.

Seems kinda lame, doesn't it?!

We work hard on our videos, it'd be nice to know what kind of traffic it's generating. Sigh.

It's always something!

Not a biggie...but still...

Until tomorrow...craft on with your bad selves!

Cheers,
Madge

The Impatient Crafter Presents Le Cricut Artiste

We promised you a new video and here it is! We had to laugh when ten minutes after we uploaded the video someone had already given us a 3 star rating, wah, wah. Admittedly these videos are not for everyone, but we do our best to keep them fun! We tried to make this short, sweet and...well not neccessarily to the point but hopefully infotaining.

I'm loving the Cricut Expression. It's got a lot of potential and I think I'm seriously going to enjoy exploring it. Having a variety of tools at your fingertips makes creativity far easier. We're hoping to get the longer cutting mat and the transfer tape so we can add some words to other walls in the house. Definitely get the transfer tape if you attempt this, we had a heckuva time lining the letters even with a laser level. I'm brainstorming ways I can use this machine for the holidays...

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Madge (and family)

Let Us Craftertain You!

Copyright Margot Potter and Alexa Westerfield

Hey Howdy Hey Boys and Girls!

It's Monday, Monday and I'm gearing up for a busy week at Studio Margot. I'm still working on the 'in-use' designs, I've got a post for I Love to Create to finish for tomorrow and the instructions and step outs to work on for a contributor book. We shot a new The Impatient Crafter video yesterday. It took six hours...egads! Now come the hours and hours of editing.

A lot of people who make YouTube videos just sit in front of a camera and shoot the footage from start to finish. We could do that, but we want our videos to stand out from the rest. We shoot a lot of raw footage, doing several takes of each segment and then we edit that 15-30 minutes of video down to 3-8 minutes. We wade through the footage and create a story board. My husband dives in and makes cuts with bleeds, sound effects, music, text...it's hours and hours of work. We are totally making it up as we go along. Every video represents hours of effort and we make no money on them. So why on earth do we do it?!

Well, we're building something that will hopefully one of these days result in a real show. As we work on each video we learn something new about the process. We see what works well and what isn't so effective. We fine tune, we carve away the excess...we add a dash of this and a sprinkle of that. We try to maintain a balance between entertainment and information. It's not always as easy as it sounds!

Soon, hopefully by next week sometime at the latest, we'll have a new video for your entertainment and edification. I'll keep you posted. For now...I'm afraid I must get back to the craft mines.

Until next time...craft on with your bad self!

Cheers,
Madge

Linky Love Showers!

Image Copyright Gil Elvgren

We interrupt this blog for the following newsflash! The folks from ArtBeads are having a $1.00 Super Bead Sale! Run don't walk!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled post.

This is a hearty and heartfelt THANK YOU to the following talented folks who posted our new The Impatient Crafter I do, YuDu video in their blogs this past week. All of these artists are people you should visit. I’m so incredibly blessed to have so many amazing friends scattered like wildflowers across the planet. No one can live in a bubble, though we all know I’d like to this time of year. Wah, wah. We're here to connect and to celebrate those connections.

We put a lot of love into our humble video offerings. It’s our intention to educate, empower and entertain. We try not to take them or ourselves too seriously. I mean...it’s crafting. We’re not saving the universe, but we are doing all we can to make it a prettier place.

Grab your slicker and your wellies folks! Linky Love Showers are commencing for the following friends of The Impatient Crafter™:

The Technicolor Crafty Goddess Ms. Jennifer Perkins of The Naughty Secretary Club

Thoughtful, Talented and Thought Provoking Mr. Andrew Thornton

Ever Inspiring and Inspired Leslie Smith Gidden of Mad Maggie Designs

Porcelain Bead Master and Steampunk Genius Ms. Melanie Brooks of Earthenwood Studios

Delightful and Endlessly Eclectic Designer Candie Cooper kindly added us to her weekly link round up.

I’m also sending a whole lotta Linky Love to the O June Jewelry Blog for posting a fabulous original project utilizing a fun chipboard technique from my new book Beyond the Bead.

If you linky love us, we’ll linky love you back. It’s only fair. If I’ve neglected to mention you, just shoot me an email at theimpatientcrafter@gmail.com so I know in case Google Alerts don’t pick it up.

Until next time...Carpe Gaudium!

xoxo
Madge