Category Archives: This Blog

I’m Back

Posted on September 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

I can’t even begin to explain what a hassle this blog-moving has been. If you follow my twitter or the blog’s facebook page then you might have some idea, but basically the last four days have been an endless cavalcade of support emails and error messages, finally culminating this afternoon in a flurry of my most hysterical tweets yet. At one pm I posted my now-classic rant and within hours everything was resolved and my blog was all nice and cozy in its new hosting home. FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS.

Thank you to everyone who gave me emotional support during this time of extreme crisis, I really appreciate it! And to everyone who was inundated with a bunch of old posts when I was editing them earlier this week: I’m sorry. Now I’m ready to start posting all the posts I didn’t post in the past week, so get ready for posts on hese exciting topics!

• triple-chocolate mini-donuts!

• all the make up & nail polish Hardy Candy sent me as a runner-up prize from the StyleOn DIY Manicure contest!

• the food I’ve been making to fit in with Taylor’s stringent new dietary restrictions!

•my new neighbors’ new fence!

•I got my hair done and it looks exactly the same!

• my new raincoat!

• people sent me socks and scarves in the mail!

• aaaaaaaaaand lots more new & adorable pet pictures!

Now that the move is made it’s possible that some posts might be weird, or missing images/videos, or have broken links. If anyone is creepy creeping through my archives and finds a broken post, I would love it if you could leave a quick comment to let me know something needs fixing.

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Posted in Pets and Husbands, This Blog

Slow It Down

Posted on September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

I don’t know if I’m going to be posting much this week, because I’m going to be busy with a new, super-fun project. That was sarcasm btw, because the project I’m working on is moving this blog off of wordpress.com and self-hosting it. Actually Taylor very thoughtfully (at my insistence) already did all that HOWEVER I need to re-redo the layout (that I just redid, argh) and find and reinsert a bunch of pictures into my posts. See, MOST of the pictures you see on this blog are on my flickr, but in the wayback long time ago before I had a flickr account I just uploaded all the pictures right to wordpress.com, and I still sometimes do if it’s something like a screencap or picture from someone’s etsy or something. So yeah. I need to download all those pictures (since most of them I don’t have on my computer anymore), upload them to flickr and edit them back into the posts. There’s only like TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY of them so it’s no big deal. (More sarcasm)

Argh.

Anyway this also means that if you didn’t update your links when I first switched from unicornparade.wordpress.com to unicornpara.de, then you need to go do it! Right now!

Anyway, hopefully I’ll get this all done pretty quickly and get back to posting like normal! Of course, I need to actually START doing it first. Today I was so desperate to find something to procrastinate on I actually started ironing my sheets and pillowcases O____o

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A Clean Start

Posted on September 18, 2011 | 4 Comments

I’ve mentioned here recently that I’ve been in a rut, a slump, a funk, whatever. I’ve been feeling very :/ about a lot of things, and one of them is this blog. I’m sick of my posts! I’m sick of my pictures! I’m sick of thinking up titles! But most of all, I’m (was) sick of the layout, so last night I steeled myself for a huge hassle and changed it.

It’s not one hundred percent perfectly how I want it, but it’s pretty close! I think it’s a lot cleaner looking than the old layout, which is definitely what I was going for. I’d love to hear any thoughts or feedback you guys might have about it, and as a thank you here’s a Georgie for your troubles.

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Posted in Issues, Life Etc, Pets and Husbands, This Blog

Golden Giveaway Winner

Posted on September 16, 2011 | 4 Comments

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway to win the golden mini bunting necklace from Little Pancakes! I’ve selected the winner using Random.org‘s random number generator, and that winner is…

April from So Yeah… So! Congratulations April! I’ll be giving your email to Melissa so she can contact you for your mailing address.

Thanks again everyone who entered, you are all winners in my book ^___^

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Golden Giveaway

Posted on September 9, 2011 | 57 Comments

Good morning everyone, I have a super fun post for you today! I’m teaming up with my friend Melissa to do a fantastic giveaway.

Melissa has an Etsy shop, Little Pancakes, where she sells absolutely adorable and affordable jewelry pieces.

I love all her stuff so much, but of course you all know there’s nothing I love more than a little bunting ^___^

In this giveaway you have the chance to win this completely wonderful gold bunting necklace. So cute! This necklace is 20 inches long and features five golden triangles on a raw brass chain.

There are three ways to enter:
1. “Like” Little Pancakes on facebook
2. Add the Little Pancakes shop to your Etsy favorites or your circle.
3. Tweet about the giveaway! Sample tweet: “I entered to win a golden bunting necklace via Little Pancakes http://etsy.me/hkOw1Z and Unicorn Parade http://wp.me/pqURz-Y1″

Leave a SEPARATE comment on this post for each entry, telling me you’ve liked/added/tweeted (be sure to include a link to your tweet). The giveaway will run until midnight PST next Thursday, September 15th. Good luck everyone!

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Posted in Arts & Crafts, Giveaways

Any Minute Now

Posted on September 1, 2011 | 7 Comments

I swear these dogs are thisclose to becoming best friends.

Since it’s September 1st, I figured it was about time I got started on some Halloween crafts. I’m planning on some spooky glitter banners, but I need to get more black and white glitter sheets, and try to suss out some orange- for some reason it’s basically impossible for me to find orange glitter! I thought I found some but as it turned out it was orange glitter paint, and it’s not working the way I want. You have to do a billion coats and once you put down one, the glitter in the successive coats just gloms on to where there is already glitter, leaving some parts chunky and clumpy and others patchy and bare.

ANYWAY in the meantime I’ve whipped up some micro-bunting (remember micro bunting?) in Halloween colours. These are 12″ long and priced oh-so-reasonably at just $1.80, although if I’d thought ahead a bit more I’d have made them 13″ for even more spookiness.

In black, orange, white or any colour you want!

Speaking of crafts, my friend Rhiannon pointed out my space shirt tutorial was featured on craftzine.com today!

I swear, I never need to make another craft or write another blog post. I’ll just coast on that one shirt for the rest of my internet career.

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Posted in Arts & Crafts, Halloween, Pets and Husbands, This Blog

You Like Me!

Posted on August 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Even though I hate facebook, I made pages for this blog and my shop, if you like you can “like” them and keep yourself up to date with any important breaking news and even possible future giveaways or promotions!

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And the Winner Is…

Posted on August 2, 2011 | 9 Comments

I want to thank everyone who entered my giveaway. In my mind you are all winners. Except there’s only one ACTUAL winner, and that winner (generated by the random number generator on Random.org) is….

LUCKY NUMBER 31, ERIN!

I guess you’ve got some deciding to do To everyone else, thank you so much and remember, you can still order your own banner at a discount by using the code UNICORN15

note: I started the numbers at 3 instead of 1 because the first two comments on the post weren’t entries.

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Posted in Arts & Crafts, This Blog

One Hundred Percent

Posted on July 25, 2011 | 74 Comments

Today this little blog of mine reached 100 subscribers. I know that’s not a lot but it’s a milestone for me, so I’m going to celebrate the only way I know how. A big glass of gin, and a…

THAT’S RIGHT IT’S GLITTER BANNER GIVEAWAY TIME AGAIN!
You can win your very own totally free custom glitter banner with up to 12 letters and/or shapes in the colour or colours of your choice! These banners are basically awesome, but don’t take my word for it, listen to these testimonials from satisfied banner owners:

“I GOT MY BUNTING YESTERDAY AND I LOVE IT THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH :’3″ -Sara

“O M G I LOVE IT!!!! Thank you so so so so much!! she is going to be so excited to see it” -Jessica

“OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL” -Georgeanne (previous giveaway winner)

To enter:
• leave a comment and tell me what you’d want your banner to say for one entry
• tweet “I entered @taniewanie’s glitter banner giveaway on http://unicornpara.de/2011/07/25/one-hundred-percent/” and leave a separate comment with a link to you tweet for two entries
• make a post on your blog or tumblr mentioning the giveaway and linking to http://unicornpara.de/2011/07/25/one-hundred-percent/ and leave a separate comment with a link to your post for three entries

The giveaway will run until midnight PST on Monday, August 1st, so you all have a week to get your entries in! And as a special bonus I’m also offering a 15% discount on all the buntings and banners in my shop, including custom work, when you enter the code UNICORN15 at checkout.

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