Florida Sunshine

I had been hoping for some more sales in my Etsy shop so I didn't end the month on the worse month in my shop history. Today, I made the decision to relist 1 bag that was expiring in a few days to help me promote a relisted item and put me in the list of newly listed items. I noticed 1 sale right before I left for work and then it was like a buying frenzy started in my shop. I noticed they were all coming from around the same area in Florida and figured I must have been lucky enough to be posted somewhere good to get noticed. Then lovely Michelle replied back to my "thanks for purchasing a bag from my shop" convo in Etsy, saying that she loved my bags and passed along my shop link to all the people in her knitting group. More purchases kept pouring in. I'm in shock, so excited and grateful. I met my monthly goal today thanks to them. Tonight once I'm home from work, I'm going to be packaging everything up and running to the post office to mail them since tomorrow we are forecast to have a blizzard all day. Most of the prints that were sold today I have more bags made in so they will be relisted this week. Wow, this must be what a sneak attack feels like :) I can't stop smiling!

Ravelry Market Listing Ad

I only took me 20 days to finally design my little market listing ad for this month.


I need to research what is acceptable to put in the market listing graphics. I'm curious if I can advertize a sale there like I would in a group forum banner.

First post of 2009!

I'm not one for resolutions since I always fail at them but I really do want to post more in my fiber blog this year. My goal is to post something every 2 weeks. So far it's almost 3 weeks into the new year and I'm already failing LOL but I need to start somewhere right?

The Holiday rush was very good to me. I sold 83 bags from October through December. I successfully saved up enough to pay cash for my washer and dryer too thanks to everyone buying gifts! Now if only I could get my butt in gear and buy it but I'm being the thrifty buyer and waiting for a sale on the set I want :)

I was going to take January off from sewing new bags for my shop but had a stack of bags I wanted to finish before I took my break. As of this morning I only have 2 zipper box bags left to do that are half finished. These will be done tonight! Since I've been working on bags so much this month, I'm going to move on to designing my new bag and then *fingers crossed* take February as a craft for me only month! I actually finished 1 of the new bag design this past weekend but I think I want to modify it just a tad before I make it my final design. Hopefully I'll have a bunch ready by the end of the month!

I haven't knit anything is probably 4 months. Even then I was only working on a cabled hat (similar to the pink one I knit before but the rim is not a fold over) but accidentally did a few too many repeats on the main body before I started to tapper it off. So that will need to be frogged! Thankfully the yarn won't be ruined and I can just start over. My Aunt has breast cancer so I think my first knit project next month will be this same hat but in a fiber that isn't so scratchy on a bald head!

February "craft for me only" Projects:
1. Hat for my Aunt.
2. Floor length crimson red fleece rob, pattern modified for buttons inside of wrap around tie belt. (I feel warmer just typing this).
2. Fingerless cable gloves (first attempt at gloves!).