I’ve been putting off debuting my shop and my own items, thinking, “I’m not ready!” and “I want the optimal day/time/exposure!” Oh bah. Stop procrastinating. My readers need to see this! I’m going to feature one of my items every week, so as not to over do it.

My designer company name is Milly & Nans, and I stress everything yarn, knitting and crochet accessories. I have lots of jewelry made and eventually will have lots of great purses.

What you see here is a large coin purse, knitted, with a zipper and a bracelet wrist strap and decorative button. It features a gathered design and is fully lined. It measures 4.5″ x 3″. Price: $14. Buy here on Etsy! Craving another colour? “Convo” me through Etsy!

This was the first purse I’ve ever made, but I have more in the works for Fall.

*Update* What I meant was it’s the first purse I ever designed and made. It’s still the only style of which I’ve brought to life, but I’m working on another and more are waiting to be made!*

My shop address is www.millyandnans.etsy.com and the blog is at www.millyandnans.com! (The ad to the left is moi, easily clickable anytime!)

Yes, congratulations to me, I’m starting my dream! And I’m really enjoying it.

I apologize for KM*S being down all week. The reason is all so very technical that it took me nearly the entire down time to understand what I do of it (I don’t completely, and never could), but it’s important to discuss this in detail. However you bloggers will know what I’m talking about, if just a little bit, and it’s important you, especially, read this.

You know when your content gets “scraped” and put up on a splog - spam blog - and you get that rude trackback, to boot? That’s apparantely called referrer spam. And it’s made possible by evil (and I mean EVIL) spam types sending “bots” to crawl pages for content, but I still don’t know how it’s posted to the splogs.

But the truly damaging point IS in fact that crawling. It takes “CPU time” and bandwidth and can drain a domain’s entire shared server, causing on and off 500 Internal Server Errors on any and all domains hosted on one machine with your company. (This is the part in which I feel guilty even though I’m quite innocent.)

And the next part is the point that should make you bloggers using your own hosting nervous. My host had to shut down Kiss Me, Stace until we figured out why it was such a drain and then set up a script to prevent it. It took 5 days. Of downtime. And a Final Warning letter from an advertising service I use (eek!) notifying me the ads could not be found at the location (well duh, nothing could be).

But the bright spot is there in that script. It can be used with any blogging script, even! I believe it’s necessary for any blog getting lots of posts published elsewhere in this manner. It’s helpful for any blogger, even (as long as you host your own blog so you can actually upload the files).

Get it: Referrer Karma

And I’ll be posting again starting today, not Monday. Let’s hope things flow normally from now on!

Spam is not chic. It’s not even fabulously ugly. It’s a nasty, falling-apart, little child-hands-bleeding, terrorist-supporting counterfeit. It’s evil.