a week gone by

.. and Etsy has been working hard to improve TEast.
Now we could link our lists using a single address and the
rank of hotness seems to change into a better one, even
if there are sometimes glitches regarding to empty lists.
If they will provide a button or permanent link from our
shop to our lists, TEast would be a great tool for our own
gift guides, wish lists, etc (this is my gift guide for mother's
day ;)).

The new T is coming and the old ones will probably be
gone. While it's great not to wait until the indexing is done
on Flash, I'll be missing seeing this though - I always see
a calm face in this, which always makes me smile.



But not only on the T scene, old ones have to make place
for new things. I've been working in the garden yesterday.
Haven't planted anything new yet, but I've removed dried
plants, cut plants in shape, weeded and collected things to
photograph.


More here.

Hope, you had a great weekend.

what a day

It has been a busy week for me. It's school holiday.
Because my boss is having a holiday too, I worked on
the B&M store each day except for today. So, I thought
my son could finally invite friends to play today and he
did. Two of his friends were here the whole day long.

I made some fresh ice tea (green tea with lemon and
sugar) for them. Since it was still hot (hot ice tea..
funny :)), I served them in mugs. And since I only have
some boring blue Ikea mugs, I needed something to
mark them, so that the boys won't mix up their mugs.
I then made wire tags with their initials to hang on the
handle.



I wanted to make some crepes for lunch, but I didn't
have enough eggs. I decided to take the boys to the
supermarket, as I didn't want them to do something
crazy at home. So I sent them out of the door, I went
out myself, closed the door, put my shoes on and...
gosh! I didn't have any key in my pocket! Arrrghhhhh!!
Something must be wrong with me - I have never locked
myself out of my apartment for the last 20 years and
suddenly it happened twice within a few weeks! And of
course, I haven't deposited a second key to a friend.
Again, I had to call the fire department *sniff*

So, that was the bad part of the day. But! There was
luckily also a good part of the day as well :) I got two
sales and.. I was three times on Etsy front page today.
Unbelievable!! That has never happened to me before..
Thank you, moonovermaize, 3FUN and joojoo! Also my
big thanks to rawartletterpress, felicitycrew, joojooland
(yes, it's the talented Afi, who runs joojoo and also the
PersianGarden), Lori411 and slinkymalinkicat, who
have brought my items to the front page in this month!

Oh,.. and my showcase on Paper 'n Stitch is up since
last Tuesday.

knots in my head

Days went so fast and I realized, I haven't
done many things lately. I know, I'm a
procrastinator - a BIG one! I have to make
new things for my shop, but something is
preventing me from doing so. I have a long
queue of mails, which need to be replied, but
I'm simply not able to do it at the moment
because of the knots in my head. And my blog..
I have also neglected it - arghh..!! Instead
I've done things, that was not first priority
(or maybe they were?? I don't understand
the psychology of mind anyway..).

I've always enjoyed curating treasuries.
Not enough, that I can make two (the real one
and on the test Treasury West), I thought,
I'll make one to promote the European Street
Team. Glad, that QueenBLingerie let me
use the favorite list of EST-shop to prepare
the treasuries. I've started "Shopping Trip in
Europe" as theme to be able to present each
member. First I've made a map of EST on
GoogleMap, since I'm bad in geography. That
way, I have an overview of the countries.
I was happy, Ixela was agree to help me with
the map.

That was still not enough though. I thought,
it would be nice to have a tool to be able
to browse EST sellers by category e.g., since
I try to mix the items in my treasuries lately
(so it might be a help for the next themes or
if we promote our team somewhere else).
So, I've started another project: shop catalog
(still under heavy construction).

I like the idea of the EtsyMiniBlog, which is
administrated by dottyral, littleputbooks,
liskidder and schOOLOcker. So, I have asked
for littleput's permission to use their idea of
using the comment area as kind of a request
form and the idea of using the EtsyMinis
for the catalog - not to feel guilty using them :)
I've also asked an Etsy admin, if I can modify
the look of the EtsyMini, since it needs a lot of
space otherwise. Finally I've asked Kreativling
if I could modify the EST banner. Now, having
all the permissions and positive feedbacks from
EST members, I can go on. In March I'll start
turning the criterias into pages. Once the frame
is finish, it's ready to accept requests to fill
the pages.

Doing all that (regardless of 1st priority or not)
has helped to loose some knots in my head.
I've started to make some collage ACEOs on a
pizza board two days ago. Yes! A pizza board!!
It's adhesive and clean, that's why I thought
I have to use it instead of throwing it into
the recycle bin :D I've used some papers
I've got few weeks ago to decorate it.
Although I didn't have special intends while
making them, I think, they reflect my mood
on the past days :)







And my fish.. I've sent him a few days
later than planned to Etsy, but I hope he has
swum across the ocean safely and is now
happy among his friends. This is his back.

2nd frontpage

Another necklace has made it to the FP yesterday.
I've missed it since I was singing in my choir.
But XbyLeinaNeima has taken a screenshot for me. Thanks!
As I saw, that it was curated by daniellexo,
I knew it must be because of one of the newbie thread.
But I've just applied my name once in an older thread.
Curious as I was, I've plugged the new one and
found out, that Estherly has added my shop there.
Thank you!!



And the best thing being on the FP this time:
I have sold 2 of my flowers -
ice flower and smoky sunday!! Yayy!!!

Now I have to stock again, hoping of good weather for photos.
*singing* :-)

what a weekend!

On Friday I've joined the VirtualLabs again.
Again, they told us amongst others to join
street teams and indie community.
I've joined indiepublic the other day.
So now, I've joined the European Street Team (EST)
and also We Love Etsy.
I really enjoy EST - they're a happy, chatty folk,
but I need more time to discover the two communities.
I feel like I'm running out of time!!

On Saturday I've found my items in 3 different treasury lists.
This morning while I was reading and writing in the forum,
I was told that red velvet was on the front page
- my very first front page!!
I'm really thankful. Thank you, EtsyLabs!
It didn't bring me a sale, but many hearts and views.
I didn't know before,
why all the people are SO thrilled being on the frontpage.
Now I know and I AM thrilled about it too :-))
The view has gone up just like a rocket
- from under 50 to over 400 just for that item!!!
And it affects also the other items too -
so how cool is that?!!