Etsy One Million Challenge

Our street team, AREtsy, is putting out a Etsy Wide challenge to pool ONE MILLION pictures of their art work and items for sale. The Flickr Group can be found by clicking HERE. You don’t have to be in AREtsy or in any street team to participate – but this is a great way to […]

Satisfied

After a weeks worth of trying new ways to do my Etsy shop photos, I think I’ve found some I’m satisfied with. One of the rocks I dug up when working on my front flower bed last spring works quite well as a background to my bracelets and my earrings. Some items didn’t take as […]

My Latest Purchase

I’ve talked about AREtsy in my blog before. If you have time, you can go back and see many of the wonderful shops that make it up, if you are lazy, then I’ll give you a quick description of AREtsy. AREtsy is an Etsy Street Team for the state of Arkansas. That’s it, simple, easy, […]

Moo Cards

For a few months I’ve been hearing about some little things (or not so little if you consider their popularity) called Moo Cards. They are cards printed with your pictures or artwork on one side and your contact information on the back. They are smaller than business cards and therefore more interesting (different equals good, […]

Custom

I *heart* custom orders. While selling anything I make is good in my book, custom orders allow me to make things that a customer specifically asked for. I don’t have to worry about if someone is going to like it enough to buy it or if it will sell at all. I just have to […]

Let The Gardening Games Begin

We’ll now take a break from discussions of crafting and turn out attention to something just as tasty. Today deserves a real post, a post with substance, not just a letter to my Etsy shop. Today (a very cold today I might add) deserves my first gardening post for the year. Ever since college I […]

A Promise To My Etsy Shop

Dear Etsy Shop, I promise that I will add more things to you as 2008 progresses, however, the setting of the sun is working against me right now. I will be better prepared as the weekend approaches to do some mass jewelry making and mass photography while I’m home when the sun is up. I […]

The other day I tried my hand at hand spinning yarn on my new drop spindle. I suppose it could have gone worse. What I have resembles yarn… doesn’t it? I knew it would take practice and because of that, I’m not disappointed with the fruits of my first attempt. I’m actually quite excited to […]

Lights… Camera…

One of my goals for Etsy and the new year was to streamline the photographs in my shop. Well, it’s not quite the new year, but I’m hoping I got an early start. I listed a couple of new items with a new photo style in my shop today. I think I like it better […]

Hand Spun

One of my Christmas presents from my mom was a drop spindle and some roving so I can learn to hand spin my own yarn. While I have not anywhere near mastered the art of hand spinning… yet… I have mastered the art of shopping for roving on Etsy. My first purchase was from a […]