You know when you read someone for a while and you get an idea of how they sound in your head? Well I’m about to bust that image you have of me wide open.
Fact: I’ve got the voice of a 12 year old.
Fact: It took 5 takes for me to not swear. Though I do say ‘shake your boobs’, and ‘booblacious’.
Fact: I don’t know what I was trying to say at the end of this video. It’s like 3 sentences in 1 and it sounds like I have a speech impediment.
Fact: I don’t have a speech impediment, despite what you are about to see.
Fact: I make a joke about how $18 is not a lot of money in this video. I don’t know why! $18 is a lot of money to me! For anyone to pay me $18 for anything is a big deal to me and something I don’t take lightly. Sometimes I try to pretend I’m much more cavalier about money than I really am.
This is HUGE and I couldn’t just write it! So, without further ado, The Conquistador and I are breaking some Sweatshop news:
Cool right?
But the problem with vlogs is that you need sound to watch them. My computer at work doesn’t have speakers so when I find a video I want to see I have to save it to watch at home and it’s so annoying! So if you don’t have sound or time, here is the condensed version (still with The Conquistador):
I’m partial to the second one because, thinking that no one with sound would watch it, I left my iTunes and TweetDeck on. So you can watch the condensed version and rock out to The Walkmen, with a side of TweetDeck tweeting.
However, I do know sign language, and trying not to use it on this video was really hard. A few signs sneak in. ‘Bring you’ and ‘thank you’, being two of them. I couldn’t for the life of me think of how to say ‘pattern’! You get the idea.
So exciting right?! The ebook is going to hit your inboxes, this blog, twitter, and facebook, on June 1st! It’s chocked full of fun projects and other little tidbits and me and my 12 year old voice couldn’t be more excited about it.
Save up your pennies this week because you are going to want to be spending 1,800 of them on The Sweatshop of Love’s Summer 2010 Ebook of Knitting Patterns on June 1st. Promise!
This is beyond awesome!
What a great idea and I’m so going to have to get a copy. Immediately!!
And you don’t sound like a 12 year old, but I do hear your Michigan accent (mixed in with that hey y’all!)
Congrats on the new project! If I lived in Chicago, I’d be coming over with some bubbly. Can you mail that? We’ll just pretend then.
Comment by Jeanna — May 25, 2010 @ 7:02 am
Woo Hoo- Great Vlog Allyson! Such exciting and great news! Congratulations, can’t wait to get my copy!
Comment by rAchel.jones — May 25, 2010 @ 7:53 am
So exciting! What formats will be available for download & how do I buy it?
Comment by Ann — May 25, 2010 @ 9:43 am
So exciting!!!! I’ll be buying a copy, for sure!! Thanks for have the sound free video- I do a horrible amount of blog reading at work. Don’t tell me boss.
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Comment by Julie — May 25, 2010 @ 9:44 am
Wow, Allyson, that is some big news! Congrats on publishing you first e-book! That’s exciting!
Comment by Alice — May 25, 2010 @ 10:30 am
You are so cute! Love the vlog, both with sound and without!
Comment by Rachael — May 25, 2010 @ 11:10 am
What’s up with that Boston shirt?
Comment by Jamie — May 25, 2010 @ 1:29 pm
Thanks Ann! It’s going to be a PDF and will be available on http://www.e-junkie.com. I’ll be emailing and keeping everyone posted when it’s ready!
Comment by allyson — May 25, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
oh
my
god
you are adorable and hysterical!
totally love the 2nd one (without sound) I laughed my ARSE off.
especially when you couldn’t come up with a sign for knitting!
hehehe
I am SO in…(did you doubt that?)
do more Vlogs! you and conquistador are a great team!
xoxox
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Comment by Cindy — May 25, 2010 @ 5:04 pm