you make my day

I've got the "you make my day"
award from Ale aka Ixela a few
days ago (maybe even weeks -
slow me!!) and from Suse aka
Revoluzzza before. Thank you!!

It's hard to choose 5 blogs to pass this award on.
Actually I'd love to pass this back on to Ale and
Suse. Ale makes the most beautiful collages of
photos of items, as she features other Etsy sellers
in her blog, and she is a lovely friend, who has
helped me in building the EST-Googlemap. Her
jewelry are beautiful and sometimes cute :) Look
at her shop or more in her gallery on Flickr.
And if you don't know Suse yet, I've written a bit
about her here. Yes, you do make my day, Ale & Suse!

But ok, not to make it into a ping pong game, I've
chosen 5 more blogs to pass the award on (even
though I'd like to pass this to more people on -
far more people make my day than just 5):

1. To my dear friends on Etsy, who make my
day in one and another way again and again.
Thank you, girls!!
Ira aka Iragrant, Renate aka Kreativlink,
Mitsy aka Artmind and Alisa aka Treasurefield.

2. To moonstitches, who always makes
my day with her photos and blog posts, whenever
I see/read it. I've found her gallery on Flickr
and went to read her blog. Her blog was the very
first blog, that I've read! Thanks, Alex!

Have a lovely new week, you all! *hugs*

good mood

I feel so good today. Waking up freshly and
now I'm listening to my new CD (I'm one of
those dinosaurs, who still buy CDs ;)) I've
bought yesterday: Yael Naim, as I love her
songs so much. She sang many songs in
Hebrew and I love to hear language I don't
understand. It's simply a lovely CD, which
brings me a light sentimental, but good mood.



While listening, I started to update the EST
shop catalog. There I can always see the newest
items of EST sellers. One of them, who regularly
make new items is Kreativlink. She makes
beautiful journals and other accesories of leather.
I've bought an Aphorism from her. It combines all
elements I loved in her different journals. Right
now I'm still afraid to write anything in it, that
I'll ruin it - although I have already 2 aphorisms
in my mind, which I want to put it in there. But
I will do it one day! :)


(These items are in my favorite list, so they will be
set inactive, once I've put new fave items into my list)
edit 2008.03.20: EtsyMini is now set inactive

Kreativlink sells very well, so if you like something
in her shop, don't waver a second or you'll lose it!
I've seen this one in her gallery on Flickr and
felt directly in love, but as I've thought over a night
on it, it was of course already sold the next morning.

Why I wavered? My brother will get marry
at the end of the year and he lives in Australia.
The second reason is I want to buy me an
overlock machine one day :)
Well, now I better start to torch to make money ;)

busy, busy

I'm quite busy at the moment with the other blog -
the EST shop catalog. First I thought, it would be
easy to manage it, but I've overlooked many
things. So, I've got to repair things. And new
ideas keep coming too! But I think, the site looks
nice now and slowly I get a routine too :)
I really enjoy working on this project.

Mondays are somehow my day - I got sales mostly
on Mondays. So was yesterday. I've got a sale as
I woke up (and I went to bed at 4 am ;)).
Later on I've read in the forum, that my item was
on the Etsy front page. And later in the evening,
as I came back from my choir session, I've found
two more sales. Yayyy! But then I realized, that
I had my first non-paying customer :( Everything
on that transaction has made me suspicious. First
I asked a friend, who had also the bad experience
before - just to make sure, it's a fake buyer.

Then I asked support for advice. Impatience as
I was, I contacted the buyer too - per email and
per convo. The mail address was a fake - my mail
couldn't be delivered. But today he has answered
my convo. I didn't expected, he would even reply.
So his honesty has shocked me, even though I'm
thankful for that. I knew, that it'll happen to me
one day, since it happened to many sellers lately.
A sad fact. But I guess, it's naive to think, that
everybody is good. Or? Anyway he was honest
and I respect honestly!

So I re-listed the brooch. The lost of views, like
it has happened a few days before, is nothing
in compare to the lost of hearts. Oh, well,..
it's just like in real life *lol*

just books?

I was seldom SO fascinated by anything, like I was
as I browsed through decklededgebindery's shop.
It is rather an inconspicuous shop at first glace,
but as I looked closer into the items, I am
really impressed!!

Urban landscapes, Paris, Pyramid In Pink and
Dragonfly are some of my favorites - they are
definitely NOT just books! And look at the fish,
she has made for the Etsy action!


(These photos are in my favorite list, so they will be
set inactive, once I've put new fave items into my list)
edit 2008.03.07: EtsyMini is now set inactive

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.