A Little Craft Fair Today...

I write this entry this evening sitting here in my jammies and bunny slippers, fireplace ablaze, pumpkin candle, vanilla latte, and a cat on my foot.

This after working all day at a small local craft fair the results of which I was happy with. (I took the opportunity there to hand out my new Etsy business card to several likely prospects. It has a picture of my most viewed item, my American Teapot pendant.)

Also, it was thrilling to wake up this morning to another Etsy order. That makes 9 between my two stores MiniaturesByNanette and EarringExplosion.

I have other irons in the fire as well. I am teaching The Art Of Selling Your Arts And Crafts in November in San Francisco and in January in Oregon both to nice-sized class rosters and both well paid. I'm also teaching "Getting Your Work Into A Gift Catalog" in November as well....paid too.

This week I plan to start paying attention to my third Etsy store which I hope will begin to be "stocked" by next week. This is the steampunk suppliers store. I will list a variety of vintage findings and ornaments from vintage jewelry I have taken apart. And I came across some wonderful old optician lenses, some watch faces, watch parts, and various cute brass charms and stampings as well.

I want the steampunk store to offer items unavailable elsewhere and I have accumulated quite a backlog of vintage jewelry to deconstruct and offer.

Who knows...I may become so enamored with steampunk that I begin designing it as well as offering supplies to other designers.

By the way...signed up for twitter even though, quite honestly, I just don't get it. More to come on this later as I get my bearings.

Also found an Etsy mentor at Sassy on Etsy. There are mentors there available to Etsy members in virtually every area of expertise.

I'll let you know what she offers up in the way of homework and tweakings and what results they yield.

Love,

Nanette