sell things on etsy

I have been reading the “Quitting your daily job” interviews on the Storque.

I’d like to go creative and connect with people from all over the world. I just have to figure out what to sell :).

I got in my first BIG custom order last week! TWENTY Sorority Letters Plaques. I am sooo excited about this! I was going to give up making the sorority stuff but this gave me a lot of encouragement! Now I can keep my sorority listings in my shop without feeling as if they are there for nothing. I need to make the directions in my listings more specific though. Now I just need to go finish painting for the new order and get them shipped out! :)

That puts me at 4 sales!

Hopefully I get more soon!

I have two shops, a paper product one and a photographic print one, but I don’t spend nearly enough time working on either. We’re moving in a month, so once that’s done, I’ll be making things as often as possible and listing frequently, plus working on marketing. My print shop I’ll be adding to as frequently as possible, doing more marketing, and spending time creating new photos to add. I’ll update as things move along.

I have friends on etsy who say that etsy is not all that.

So…I may go low tech on this. Talked with some local crafty friends about having a ‘craft item garage sale’. We’re looking at 10/17. Hopefully that will give me plenty o time to get off my butt and go thru my craft room and organize stuff to get rid of.

I’m up to about 4 sales now, and have some custom orders that I need to work on, as well. In the last month or so, my page views have decreased a little. Not sure why, but I’m working on promoting myself. If you are in need of a cuddly sock animal that you’d like to open your home to, go and check out the site. I have monkeys, bears, dogs, and am working on some more animals as well!

http://fourheartscreations.etsy.com

I haven’t had any sales since the last two and I think my page views have decreased as well. I haven’t had the time to promote my site or even create new things for it, so obviously thats not going to attract any attention. I am working on an idea now to do custom shop banners. Since my shop has a boutique feel though, I’m not sure if I should just make a new shop for graphics or just add a graphics line. I have tons of other handmade ideas but otherwise lack the time and materials to complete them.

Off etsy though, I’m working on a painting for a friend so I’ll get some extra money from that without having to give etsy a percent of the transaction.

I have big ideas so I’m just gonna have to keep working.

it’s in the works, ladies & gents! & i’m oh so very excited :)

-chris

Even more so with the beautiful headbands I’ve seen. I anticipate that I will be spending far too much money on decorative hair accessories sooner or later.

Last week, I was talking to someone and they said something along the lines of how I don’t want to be working in a bakery for the rest of my life (I’m 18 and have been working their for 2 and a half months – this strikes me as a little overstated). Anyway, I said that I’ve never truely known what I want to do with my life other than work for myself. I don’t want to be rich or famous, I just want to live comfortably doing something I love. I know that I’d prefer to be doing something creative and fashion design has stuck out to me for quite some time. After watching series after series of Project Runway/Catwalk however, I realised that there is only one aspect of fashion that I have real passion for and that’s lingerie. I’m a girly girl when it comes to clothes so making romantic handmade matching bars and knickers gets me excited and where better to start than Etsy!

I was even more inspired when I went looking for inexpensive, elegant underwear in soft satin fabrics and pretty pastle colours with cute little details like bows, pleats, ruffles and lace. Unfortunately, nothing really fit my criteria and the closest things I could find were very expensive. The rest of the lingerie I found was, to put it quite bluntly, slutty. I’m the kind of person who likes classy, feminine underwear and choose it based on how it makes me feel as opposed to what a man would prefer.

Anyway, I’m very excited and inspired and am hoping to crack on with it all as soon as possible!

I’m just at the very beginning stages of planning this one. It is going to take a lot of steps before I can even start listing items. I will consider this goal met when I have successfully completed a sale and shipped out my first item.