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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I am VegCraft!

Everything I am doing is now under the name VegCraft, and while I look for a new job I am also focusing time on setting up shop at vegcraft.etsy.com.

I had a previous account there but I spent a ton of time searching through their forums and wikis and FAQs and decided that branding and consistency in my name was important. So everything I'm going to use to promote the shop will be VegCraft and people will be able to remember just one name. I still have old stuff - myspace and whatnot - where I'll put links to my new VegCraft spaces.

I actually did a search for VegCraft and there is very little around with that name so once I promote like crazy it should be pretty easy for people to find me with just searching the term "vegcraft".

I am very excited for all of this. Tonight I plan to make my banner, avatar, and collect the few items I have at home that are ready to sell. Then in the next few days I can get crafting, promote and see what happens.


Also, I am still trying to create comics but it is definitely on the back burner. I attempt to sit down every night and work on that 20 panel comic but crafts and my job search just creep into my mind. It would be fun to work on some comics, but the fact that I'm doing Etsy and crafts still makes me pretty happy.

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Now playing: Jamiroquai - Corner Of The Earth
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