The Etsy shop and the blog have been on hiatus, but we are back! I'm working with existing stock for now, but enjoying making some sales and getting to know new visitors to Etsy.
My best wishes to friends old and new during this long, cold winter. Have some soup!
I need to shoot some additional items but I keep getting lured outside by our newly beautiful weather. While I get motivated, here’s a little preview of what’s in the shop — with a special shout out to our Stumble Upon visitors!
I love the purple-lavender hues in this little magnet set. And I’m having fun finding backgrounds for the photos. This is a happy change from my initial struggles with white balance. The colorful backgrounds are much more user friendly and forgiving!
Or at least that’s what these colors reminded me of, from visiting Villefranche-sur-Mer in the summers. And of course a bit of a play on words, since I’m blue that I’m not there!
This has been the busiest period in the Etsy shop since just after I opened it, which is quite gratifying. I hope everyone else’s sales are on an upswing, too!
After a few months when life insisted I pay attention to things other than the Etsy shop — I'm baaaack! I thank my customers who have been purchasing magnet sets even in my blogging absence, including my Happy Animals, which I was happy to see find a good home. I’ve met such wonderful people in this process. The recent sales have also inspired me to begin adding some new items this week. Let’s start with the newest today, which I’m calling Green Starring Orange!
I also have some other items to add this week and next, including some pretty blue and pink bubbles, and even a spring bouquet of flowers. Stay tuned!
1% of the sales price for these items (and all my Etsy sales) donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
The Etsy shop has been quiet but steady. I haven’t been good about blogging but we continue to make quarterly donations to Carbonfund.org. I also wanted to mention an earth-friendly activity we're doing at my house for the second year now: the Carbon Fast for Lent. This was the brainchild of a group in England called Tearfund. The idea is to undertake a simple action each day during Lent, to reduce one's carbon footprint. The daily actions appear on Tearfund’s web site here. They also have an RSS feed, which I’m posting in this blog’s right sidebar. Or you can sign up for a daily email reminder (or download the full 40-day schedule as a PDF) on their site.
I wanted to participate in the Bloggers Unite group activity for World AIDS Day, which is easy to do on my personal blog, but I was unsure how best to do so here the blog for my shop. But then I saw some other neat promos on Etsy, which inspired me as well.So here’s my idea: For any purchases in my shop completed on December 1, I will donate 10% of the item price to the South Central Wisconsin AIDS Network.
Are you promo-ing for World AIDS Day? I would be happy to help spread the word. If you are doing something similar in your shop, I invite you to post the details in a comment. (Just World AIDS day promos; no spam or other promos, please.)
I love the purple-lavender hues in this little magnet set. And I’m having fun finding backgrounds for the photos. This is a happy change from my initial struggles with white balance. The colorful backgrounds are much more user friendly and forgiving!
Or at least that’s what these colors reminded me of, from visiting Villefranche-sur-Mer in the summers. And of course a bit of a play on words, since I’m blue that I’m not there!
After a few months when life insisted I pay attention to things other than the Etsy shop — I'm baaaack! I thank my customers who have been purchasing magnet sets even in my blogging absence, including my Happy Animals, which I was happy to see find a good home. I’ve met such wonderful people in this process. The recent sales have also inspired me to begin adding some new items this week. Let’s start with the newest today, which I’m calling Green Starring Orange!
I also have some other items to add this week and next, including some pretty blue and pink bubbles, and even a spring bouquet of flowers. Stay tuned!
I wanted to participate in the Bloggers Unite group activity for World AIDS Day, which is easy to do on my personal blog, but I was unsure how best to do so here the blog for my shop. But then I saw some other neat promos on Etsy, which inspired me as well. So here’s my idea: For any purchases in my shop completed on December 1, I will donate 10% of the item price to the South Central Wisconsin AIDS Network.
