ETSY TREASURY

YEAH - I got an etsy treasury!!

AFTER WEEKS OF TRYING...

ENJOY MY ELEPHANT TREASURY

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=57822

My Painting

I recently purchased a painting from www.hjmart.etsy.com

http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=13888514

When I first saw it I couldn't take my eyes off it and I hearted it and kept going back to it! Then finally I couldn't resist any longer and bought it. Helen (the painter) was fantastic and provided excellent customer service. The painting arrived in Oman in around 2 weeks I think and Helen had packaged it carefully so it arrived in perfect condition!

It now takes pride of place on the wall directly as you enter our house! I love it!

FEATURED SELLER - PPDesigns

I love to browse Etsy!! Here is one of my recent great find shops!! I am totally in AWE of Jen's beautiful photographs!! I love the vibrant colours and the story that each individual picture tells!

http://ppdesigns.etsy.com

Check out her other store also
http://jumpyfrog.etsy.com

Q1. How did you find out about Etsy?
It was a long time ago now but I think I found out about it when I saw it linked to someones blog. I clicked on that link and got lost in Etsy World!

Q2. Why did you decided to sell on Etsy?
I started out as a buyer and thought - hey maybe I can sell some of my own earrings and photographs, hoping it would support my buying habit on etsy! I've been lucky to have made some sales (yay!) but not enough to fully support my etsy shopping habit :)

Q3. What started your interest in Photography?
I've always been a snap-a-holic even from when I was very little. I used to take rolls and rolls of film whether i'd be at school camp, local holidays away or just at friends places. Ofcourse when I got older and was able to venture out to wonderful and far away places I was even more into it trying to capture the beautiful beautiful scenery and views so I could share some of it with family and friends back home.

Q4. Do you have a favourite photograph and if so why?
I was just thinking about this as I was trying to decide which photos I wanted to enlarge and frame to put up in our new house. It's quite hard to decide I guess because every image has a memory attached to it for me.

I'm liking my 'Waterfall at Plitvice Lakes' photo quite abit at the moment. I have it as my laptop wallpaper. I like going to look at it when i'm tired of doing other stuff because its paradise like and I love escaping to paradise!

But to be honest I'm finding it really hard to pick a favourite!

Q5. Do you have an interesting story involved in getting one of your shots?
Well when we were in Norway we got stuck in a small town as we didn't realise buses didn't run on Sundays. The only thing was that we really needed to get to the next little town as we had to get connecting trains to get our ship out to Denmark which we had already paid for. So we were forced to get the one and only taxi in the town to drive us there and it cost us a massive 110GBP (150USD) to get there!! We almost died when we realised the price but I guess it was worth it for the gorgeous photographs we took at the Fjords.

Q6. What do you enjoy photographing the most?
I never really thought about this before until I started my shop and realised that all the photos that I chose to include in my shop were landscape/scenic type shots. So I guess I must be drawn to photographing that! I think it must be because I get blown away by the beauty of it all that i am desperate to try and capture it so I can share with family and friends and also so I won't forget when i'm 90 or something or rather.

Q7. What inspires you most?
This giant world of ours inspires me the most. I love to travel and see different places, experience different cultures and meet people from all sorts of backgrounds. happy. Its refreshing and eye opening at the same time. It reminds me that the world is much much bigger than my backyard and I shouldn't forget that when stressing about little things so much. If I can capture just a little of what this world has to offer in my photographs i'm a very happy chappy :)

Q8. You have another shop on Etsy also. What prompted the start of this shop?
I started http://jumpyfrog.etsy.com when I returned to Sydney at the end of 2008 (I was living in London the last 3.5years). I got reacquainted with my sewing machine when I returned and because the economy is so dead at the moment I had some (lots of) spare time while looking for a job (i'm still looking!). It's kept me busy and given me great little projects to do so I thought why not try and open another shop with all my hand crafted goodies. Maybe it will sustain me just a teeny tiny bit (or at least pay for all my fabric purchases!), while i'm still looking for a job. And thus Jumpy Frog was born!

Surprises come in small bundles!

Well after my excitement of getting a treasury!! One of my necklaces is now featured in a treasury too!! Here it is...

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=43344

Plus to top if off my husband just called to say I have a package to pick up from the post office - I am hoping it is my gas regulator for my Nortel torch!!

ETSY TREASURY

I just got an etsy treasury!!!

I am soo excited. Now I hope to have more of a profile across etsy and get some more customers!!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=43397

Finally something Happening

WOW one of my necklaces made a ByHand Spotlight page!!

http://www.byhand.me/component/option,com_content/Itemid,70/id,2432/task,view/

It was a treasury page for etsy - but the person who created it did not make it into the treasury - hopes to soon!!! I really hope so it will bring more traffic to my website.

ETSY - Time to make it happen

So far I have had 3 sales on etsy. But not any of my necklaces. I get lots of good feedback from people saying they are unique and sure to do well. BUT no sales...

Are they too expensive - well with the exchange rate soo bad at the moment I really have no choice or I will loose money.

SO what is it? I don't know.

I think I am going to try some paid advertising and see how I go...

ETSY - YEAH

Last night I finally listed my first 3 items in my ETSY shop!! I am very happy with how it looks. Now I just have to build up my profile around the world so people get to know my shop. I think it is going to be a hard task but anyway will see how it goes...

Etsy

I have been working on my etsy website all day. Took photos of some of my jewellery this afternoon but i am not completely happy with the pics. Will try again tomorrow. I am really happy with my avatar. It looks great. So hopefully in the next day or 2 I will have a few things up for sale!!!