A day late and a Twitter account short...

If work hadn't been a little on the crazy side yesterday I probably would've seen a mention about Etsy Day somewhere in the forums. Instead it caught my eye in the Announcements section as I was on my way to post a "JUST LISTED" post in the Promotions section. I wish I could've helped the movement yesterday! I've been thinking about starting a Twitter account but I'm still trying to decide if I want a personal acct where I can post personal and etsy stuff or an etsy only acct. I don't think I have the time to update 2 accounts so this is why I'm still trying to decide what I want. I'm always telling people about Etsy and this would've been a great way to help out our awesome community as a whole. That's one thing I love about Etsy. It's driven by the community that uses this amazing platform to buy and sell hand made goods! Since opening my shop I now tend to lean towards picking the hand made item or the local shops and restaurants over the mass produced national chains. I love supporting the hard working small businesses like myself!!

Check out the Wall Street Journal article about it

Happy 4 month Esty-versary!!

Wow it's been 4 months already since I opened my shop with the inital 10 bags! Of those 10, only 3 are still for sale. Today has been a banner day. Not only has it been 4 months but I've sold 5 bags today! That is the most I've sold in a single day so far!! All of these bags can be relisted as I have enough for at least 1 bag of each :) So those will be doled out in 2's for the rest of the week to give me more opportunities at promoting my "new" items in the forums! I've learned so much since I've begun that when my friends express interested in opening their own shop I'm bursting with tid-bits on how to get up to speed much faster then I did. I don't think I'd be where I am today if I didn't discover the forums and the chats. Oh! I sold 2 bags to Austria today! That brings my foreign countries to 3! I would have never specified UK and a couple other countries if I hadn't been in a chat room with a couple UK people who advised they wouldn't bother asking for a quote for shipping. They want it listed or else they don't even think twice about buying. Since then 3 UK and 1 Austria buyer! Yeah me! 57 down and 63 to go till my Bernina sewing machine is paid off!!

My etsy shop

Since I'm determined to make my new used sewing machine pay for itself, I've turned my ideas for cool things into real items to put in an Etsy shop. I have the inital 10 medium sized project bags finished with 3 more almost done and 8 linings for future bags done. I'm cropping the photos for the initial 10 now and will be creating all the "terms and conditions" for my shop and listings afterward. Hopefully within the next day or 2 my shop will launch. I just need to sell 100 bags to pay for my machine :) which I think is totally doable!