The Potbelly Pixie

Facebook got me

My friend Laura noodged me into joining FaceBook 'cause she's there.  Being an occasional lemming, I caved without much struggle, and added FaceBook to my list of web haunts (and bookmarks) today.  If you're on FaceBook, too, look me up and let's be friends; you can find me by searching Shelli Heinemann. 

Turns out, FaceBook is a cool little tool for networking and reconnecting and other stuff like passing around completely meaningless, hysterical videos.  Plus, I was able to look up friends through other friends in a six-degrees-of-separation kind of way; it was, admittedly, very cool to see faces I haven't seen in 20 years or more!

Along the way, as I familiarized myself with this newest time-suck/diversion, I stumbled across many a FaceBook widget, the most silly-good-girly-fun of which is, without question, StyleFeeder.  This nifty little tool takes you to stylefeeder.com where you are asked to select a few items that appeal to your shopping tastes. Then, the site builds a virtual shopping list of items tailored to your choices, featuring items that strangers who like what you like, have chosen. Thus, the entire purpose of StyleFeeder is to expose you to heaping hoardes of cute stuff you want but don't really need, encouraging ever more avenues through which you can quickly spend your hard earned cash.  What every girl needs.

   

I added StyleFeeder to my FaceBook profile and also to the bottom left of my blog.  I decided it would be a great place not just to bookmark what I think is uber-cute, but also, what inspires; wish-list items I can't currently afford; and just plain kewl stuff that makes me smile, whether I'd actually ever buy/wear it or not.

Having said that, I really am jonesing hard for the Calvin Klein periwinkle bedding and those awesome julidadesigns wire-wrap earrings.  Some things never change.

Hope you're happy and well.  And please, do look me up on FaceBook.  Can't wait to see you there!

SnapShots

I've added a new function to my blog with SnapShots.  SnapShots is a widget that enhances links by providing visual previews of the destination site.  Mouse over (but don't click) this link to my website to see what I mean.

This is especially handy for the visual person (like me) who doesn't like wasting a lot of time clicking through to ugly, boring, disappointing websites!  Of course, I'd never put links like that on MY blog... :)

To customize SnapShots here at The Potbelly Pixie, simply scroll to the bottom of the right-hand (mauve) column and follow the directions under SnapShots.

A huge shout of thanks to fantabulous bear artist (and supremely cool person) Kim Basta of Wild Thyme Originals for this.  She had SnapShots on her blog and that was where I first stumbled onto this awesome utility that some might find cool and useful.  Thanks for being a trendsetter, Kim!

Website updated

Some of you may have noticed a recent facelift to this blog. I hope you're enjoying it, because it's an exact match to my website, which just last week received a total extreme makeover.  One new feature that I added, that I'm really liking, is a home page that functions as command central.  From that page, you can do it all, with ease!  I also really enjoyed putting together a FAQ page; I've never had one on my website before and I hope it answers a lot of the questions that get sent to me privately via PM or eMail by bearmakers and collectors, because I know that for every person who writes me, there are five more who were too shy or sheepish to do so.

I hope you'll find a sec to pop by for a visit.  On the web, I'm at:

www.potbellyarts.com
www.potbellybears.com