etsy

Wow I’m really no good at consistency. I’ve been trying to stick to at least a weekly post here, but time continues to slip away from me.

I finally started an etsy account, which I have high hopes for but at the same time, understand it will be a  slow start. 

Last week I worked for hours in GIMP creating banners (because I’m too poor for photoshop) I just kind of pulled whatever images I had and played around with resizing, color effects, transparencies, and millions of fonts. Here’s the one I ended up using, but hopefully it’s only temporary, since I’ve got a slightly different vision for the final result.

However I made two others, which I like but decided not to use

I also have been trying to list a new item every day. You can be very startegic about when you post your listings. If you’re  really with it, you research the hour of the day/ week with the most site traffic and post then. This is my goal today; RESEARCH!

You can see my store by clicking here. I was excited this morning to wake up and see that someone “favorited” my charm bracelet. I’m still working on figuring out treasuries and circles of etsy friends. One step at a time!

as a side note, here’s an AWESOME video I found on facebook via miss Cassie Stone, who also happens to be a great artist.

see the photos here

Also I have a new business I’m idolzing. I stumbled across this little jewelry shop; Agas and Tamar in the east village while in NYC. The beautiful window display caught my eye, and then from there I just fell in love with the rest of the store.

They have this awesome rustic and raw looking jewelry which is worn by celebrities (I guess Sex and the City’s cast are big fans, as well as the Olsen Twins) but what really stands out are the simple but gorgeous natural elements in display. In the photos you can kind of see what I mean. They wouldn’t allow me to take pictures, but these are from their blog. They had old fashioned dress forms, antique barn wood, and sets of extremely old wooden boat oar tips they’d lay bracelets on.