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 was so happy to see that one of our favorite Etsyians, stelabird, was featured in Urban Tulsa’s Annual Manual. The piece includes a full color photo of Ms. Estela, along with one of her trademark yeti. Check out the post on the always delightful Life of a Bird. And check out stelabird’s yetis (above) and little bigfoots on Etsy!
I couldn’t decide whether to call these Tequila Sunrise or Mango Sunrise. I finally went with the latter to match the neat background card against which I shot these. (For my Etsy shop listing I cropped the photo, but all of you lucky duckies here on the blog get a peek at my carpet, too!)
The Mango de Manila card in the background is just one of a set of “Loteria” cards I picked up from ImagineArt7’s shop. She has terrific vintage and ephemera items as well as supplies for altered art projects. Loteria is a Mexican picture matching game similar to bingo. The cards have such neat images and pictures — some of my favorites are pictured at right. I especially liked the mango magnets against the midnight blue of the Mango de Manila card.
My Favorites section on Etsy is overflowing — I wish I could make a slideshow here to highlight everyone, including Design By Vanessa’s fab Funky Wrap Bracelet, which is an ongoing fave. But since I had a good weekend sales-wise, I think I want to give a little shout-out to a shop that’s still awaiting its first sale. Kaleikyn has such pretty jewelry, most of it in silver tones with a lot of delicate blues and pinks. I’m a big fan of her necklaces, especially Cherry Blossoms by the Lake as well as Persephone (pictured here). All of you amazing and talented jewelry artists face a market with lots of competition — and we all remember what it was like wondering about that first sale! I’m sure Kaleikyn won’t have to wait too long, but I wanted to send some blog ♥s in the meantime!
Image copyright © 2008 by Kaleikyn’s Jewelry.
I’ve started my own little tradition here on the blog, pausing to feature a favorite Etsy shop as a sort of thank-you to the universe (or the Etsy sprites) after a sale in my shop. For this installment I wanted to spotlight this beautiful Red and Orange Button Bracelet pictured at left, from my Etsy “birthday twin” Boxingday. I like her shop motto (“Saving the world, one art project at a time”), and I love her creative take on recycling and art. Beautiful work and such a fun, generous, and creative artist — the best part of Etsy really is the people. Yay, all of you!
Image copyright © 2008 by Boxingday.
Orange you glad when you get a sale? I am! I sold this “Orange. Apple. Fish!” set today (left), which made my day. 
It also gives me a very happy excuse, as always after a sale, to feature the work of another Etsy seller from my Favorites. I'm crazy about these cards at the mother-daughter shop The Mum and the Rose, made from sketches (right) that “Mum” made as a student at New York City’s Art Students League in the early 1960s. You will literally have to hurry to snatch these up before I do!Image © 2008 by The Mum and the Rose.
1% of the sales price for today’s sales (and all my Etsy sales) donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
I logged on today to find an unusually (but happily) high number of views on my Orange Green Mod Magnets — and a multi-item sale!One of the first items I listed, my China Radio black and white bubbles (right), sold; as did my favorite Tangerine Pinks; some pretty Almond Flowers; my first time with a larger bubble in a yellow flower set; and a newly listed Blue Feather Print set (below). 
Although I couldn’t find a listing, I’'m guessing this was the result of a Treasury listing (click to see while it’s still active) — with a big thank-you to my anonymous curator Entropia who was the curator! I think I want to continue the practice from my first sale and use this as an an opportunity to promote someone else’s item from my Favorites, just as a PIF thank-you for the sale (see image at botttom of the post).
As always, 1% of this sale (and all my Etsy sales) will be donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
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I love these “Seaside Notecards in Lagoon,” from PeaseBlossomStudios. Snatch them up before I do!
Like these? Well, you can’t have ’em because they sold! I’m really psyched about this. They went to a person who’s active doing positive things on Etsy, which was also very nice.
As a pay-it-forward kind of thank-you, I'm going to do a little promo here for one of the items in my Favorites. It’s from Little Hands Studios, which has a beautiful array of sushi plates. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I thought this Transparent Aqua Three-Striped Plate (below) was especially lovely. You can see all of Little Hands Studio’s work here. 
1% of the sales price my first sale (and all my Etsy sales) donated quarterly to earth-friendly nonprofits.
