Blogging Machine - Etsy

I'm a blogging machine lately, and I plan to do more. Today I put together a new banner and avatar for my Etsy shop vegcraft.etsy.com, so please go see what it looks like on the site and let me know what you think. I've used a similar color palette as my blog, which you are now reading, and my homepage, which has past projects. I might change out the items in the banner later as I photograph more projects. Yes, I still don't have anything for sale in my shop, but they will come. I want it to look great first!

I'm also working on some Christmas gifts that I will make more of to sell on etsy, which I plan to take photographs of as I put them together to show the process. And I have ideas coming out of my ears of other items I will put in my shop. Right now I need to get back to finishing Christmas gifts and wrapping, eat something, and continue packing for my move. Unfortunately half the things I already had packed I pulled out for some craft time...

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Now playing: Björk - Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right)
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Stocked

I went to my favorite store in the world today. It was a day full of public transit and now I am tired, but I just had to give props to SCRAP. If you live in San Francisco and do anything artsy, are a teacher, whatever, you need to go there. Then, I went to my favorite ice cream shop in the world, Maggie Mudd, and they finally had my favorite ice cream flavor - MEXICAN CHOCOLATE! Vegan goodness on a sugar cone. Plus, to add to my nifty thrifty day, I had a card full of punches and I got it free.

I picked up so many great items at SCRAP for $10. I was going to bring home this fat folder of wallpaper samples but just carrying it around the store made me tired so I had to give it up. Of course, my favorite part of their warehouse is the "free" section at the front. And getting a taco and having vegan ice cream at Maggie Mudd afterwards was awesome.

I am totally stocked up for crafting and packaging things for my shop, vegcraft.etsy.com, and I am going to try and make a spreadsheet of all my supplies and ideas tonight so that everything gets used. Everyone on the Etsy forums were all about packaging and things in little plastic baggies and bows but I just couldn't see myself buying a stock of those items when I don't even know when or how quickly things will get bought. I can spare $10, though, and last night I went on USPS.com and ordered all the free priority shipping boxes I might need to get started.

I have been organizing my desk as well, getting things where I can use them - I'll post a picture when it's all set. Our back room is still a mess even though we moved in over six months ago. Being unemployed has given me some time to organize. I'm really trying to be prepared and stocked and set for a small craft business, and once I am I can sit down and get that store stocked with my amazing goods :)


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Now playing: The New Pornographers - Go Places
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