Find of the Day: Part Deux!

I have a mild addiction to watching BBC America. This, I won't deny. I kind of love it. This morning, the schedule showed that rugby was going to be on. I've never watched rugby, and I'm not much of a sports fan, so I figured I'd find something else to watch. Well, that didn't happen. I watched my first rugby match today! I can tell you that it's VERY entertaining! I started with no clue about what was going on. I can honestly say that I've now only got a slight idea what's going on. Maybe it's my cluelessness that's making this entertaining. Who knows? I do know that I think I enjoy it and I've looked up a local league. I'm not planning on joining them, I just want to go watch!

In honor of seeing my first rugby match, I bring you today's Find of the Day!

Find this, and other fun stuff, at The Frantic Meerkat.



I should probably take this moment to explain the Find of the Day, eh? I tend to be crap about updating things and it crossed my mind that if I have something that NEEDS to be done every day, it will keep me posting. Aside from that, there are TONS of things on etsy, and there's no way that they'll all get seen. When I get online, I read my normal places and then head over to etsy. I type in something that relates to what I'm currently doing, and then find something that I like and share it here. It becomes my Find of the Day. It often leads to things that I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Take today's, for example. A search for rugby lead me to a shop full of cute and fun cards and magnets. Cards and magnets aren't something that I'd usually search for, and if I did, I'm sure that I'd get thousands of results. I may not have found The Frantic Meerkat. The purpose of Find of the Day is to find things that you may not see otherwise...to hopefully direct others to something that they might find useful, even if it's not particularly useful to me.

Right then. I've got some jumprings to make and a new book to read! I should probably also read my biology for the week, eh?

Blog Etiquette

Just something that I've been wondering about...

This is my first public blog, so I'm not too clear on some things. My personal blog is over at LiveJournal, and it's all locked down. Because of that, in order for someone to read my entries, they have to be on my friends list. When someone adds you, they generally leave you a comment to let you know, and if you want them to be able to read your entries, you friend them back. How does that work here? What do you do for etsy-related blogs? They're all public, obviously, so you don't have to add people so that they can your posts. I'm wondering specifically the etiquette when you follow someone. Do you comment and let them know? Do they really care, or are they just interested in having as many followers, and reaching as many people as possible? I ask because there are many threads with people asking for others to follow their blog. I went through a few of them, followed a lot of people, and posted my link. Maybe it's just me, but I go back to those threads and add new people who have posted their link if their blog interests me. (I need to make sure that I've got everyone following added!) I just feel that if you're going to ask for people to follow you, you should return the gesture, you know? Maybe it's just me, I don't know. I'm not complaining, by any means, I'm just wondering. Honestly, I'd rather have a small group that I can interact with instead of hundreds that I can't keep track of!

It does make me wonder though, if people aren't interested because this is a new blog. If it's because the two posts that I have are just not interesting, which I can understand. Or if people are just after numbers and just don't care. It's just something that crossed my mind in all of this following madness. What do you think? I'd love to hear what you think about this. What the generally accepted rules to following people are, because I've got no idea and am honestly interested!

Pondering out of the way, I need to go and read up on all of the blogs that I'm now following! I've got A LOT of reading ahead of me!