Cute Shop I Found Today

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Today I took Alex to school on my way to mail an Etsy order at the post office.  Since I found free 2-hour parking, I decided to walk around a little bit after I mailed the package.  I saw a store called Maja that looked cute so I went inside.  It had so many pretty things!  A lot of the items were labeled Fair Trade and pretty much everything was made in another country.  There were tons of African things from drums and wall hangings to jewelry and clothes.

The woman working there, who also happens to be the owner, is named Mary.  We started talking and I ended up staying there for almost an hour!  She is so nice!  We talked about the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show (she has never been to it but she's heard of it and wants to go), my musical background, when she's gone to different countries in Africa and when I went to Ghana.  She goes to Mali a lot!  She told me about a show she's going to do in her shop some time next year and asked if maybe Alex and I would like to play our djembes for it!  She played a CD for me with lots of really great drumming music and she told me about different drumming things she goes to in DC.

There were so many pretty things there.  I need to go back soon!  I bought a few little things, but they're presents so I won't post what I got!  :)  I'm so glad I walked into that store today!  Mary is so so nice and it's fun to meet new people here!

I had a phone interview tonight with Charm City Yoga for a (potential) work-study position!  They interview people occasionally and they decide whether or not to add you to their waiting list for when there are openings.  I hope I get a chance to do it someday!  You work at the desk and/or clean up the studio in exchange for free, unlimited yoga classes.  There are several locations and I said I'd prefer to work at the one that is right around the corner from us.  We'll see!!  :)

Tomorrow I need to finish up the design for my custom order wedding fans!  The girl loves the picture I sent her of the half-finished design, so that's good!

Here's a picture of the elastic I used to make a polka dot set of hair ties yesterday!

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Early Evenings

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I went to Michael's today and got some fun stuff!  I have a good idea for selling hair ties at the Christmas Market craft fair where I'm going to be a vendor.  Once I make some I'll post a picture!  All of the Halloween and "fall" stuff is 80% off so I got some more of the cork stuff (like the clothes pins I got last week!), too.  

I have another custom order on Etsy for wedding fans that I'm going to work on tomorrow!  The couple has a cat that they want to be on there somewhere so that will be fun to work on :)  Their wedding sounds like it's going to be so cute!!

My aunt and uncle (whose wedding we went to at the beginning of last month) went to Italy for their honeymoon!  Yesterday I got this bracelet in the mail that they got for me while they were there!

I love it!!!  That was so nice of them!  We actually get to see them this Friday!  They're going to be in Virginia visiting my uncle's daughter and her family so we're driving there to visit :)

Now that Daylight Savings has ended, it gets dark at 5pm!  It's so weird!!  I don't think I like that very much haha.  When I picked Alex up after school yesterday around 5:20pm, I realized I haven't driven in the dark in probably three months!  Definitely not since we've been in Baltimore.  Weird!

Speaking of driving, yesterday I found out that I won an Uber gift card from an Instagram contest that Strangers with Style and Uber-Maryland were doing!  I started following Strangers with Style, which is a website that posts about all kinds of fashion, arts, etc. things around Baltimore, after I went to CreativeMornings.  So that's exciting!  We've never used Uber before so now we have another reason to try it (the first reason being that we've heard so many great things about it from so many people)!

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Etsy Fun

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I've been having so much fun working on my Etsy shop!  I've gotten 4 orders so far, including a custom order for a bachelorette party!  

Birchbox has a group called Birchbloggers that you can be part of if you have a blog.  I have just started posting things in the group and I have read lots of great blog posts written by other girls in the group,  I've gotten lots of new Instagram friends, too!  Naomi, who is the author of Broke College Beauty, wrote such a great feature on her blog yesterday about my Etsy shop!  That was so nice of her!  She also just started blogging like me, and she has a really cute blog with lots of great posts and reviews on Birchbox products.  She ordered some hair ties from me, too!  I mailed her order yesterday and I hope she loves them!

This morning my parents and I explored a little bit more near our neighborhood.  I have been wanting to go to a place called Antique Row where there are lots of antique shops.  I couldn't find much information about it online so we just walked over there.  Turns out, most of the shops are closed on Tuesday!  But we had fun walking over there and looking at some really old buildings on the way!  We also found another really great art supplies store, Blick, that is close to our apartment.  So fun!

This church was built in 1761!

Alex is home from class now so we're going to go to the Inner Harbor for lunch!

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