SALE in my etsy store

Due to the CSPIA kinda of screwing up everyone's livelihoods I am having a sale on blank kids items in my etsy store. I need to go through and see what else I do have but the quality of all these items are fantastic. I love them amd will continue to use them until I can't. I figured it would be great for someone who has small kids now to get some good deals!

Really nice tight absorbant weave for the diapers. People use them as decorative burp cloths. I use some of them that I messed up on to clean my house..lol
A lady on etsy said her 18 month old fits in these mock drawstring yoga pants.

These fit around my husbands neck and have super strong velcro so kids can't pull them off.

My Goals For The Shop in 2009

I would love to figure out what I could do to get my shop to get more sales. I think for 2009 I need to focus on making my shop a better one. I am lucky because I do have a pretty good following outside of etsy. It makes me sad I never get to share the compliments I receive from my outside sales because they have purchased locally. I have some women that order from me all of the time. I think a lot of them are not super comfortable using the computer to purchase items so they go through me personally and not etsy. My mom gets between 4 and 6 items a month from me for gifts. She is my best advertisement. I feel that the economy has a lot of people spending less for everything, including discretionary items, and that hurts my sales too.

I am very worried about the CSPIA and I think that this in turn will effect my shop. I will go back to making gifts for friends and their children and take all of the items out of my shop which means I will have a much smaller inventory. I am going to focus on more unique items. I am working with a friend to open another etsy store to sell patterns which I am super stoked about. I have a couple friends that draw and I think they would translate into great, different patterns.

I am also looking at running more shows. Once again the CSPIA puts a bit of a damper on that because I do not want to get sued for having people that sell items that need to be tested and it limits the vendors I can have at a show. I am hoping some of the people from HHB will join me for the spring show I'd like to have...

On a side note these are some of the item I made this weekend.


from Sublime Stitching, the fab Emily Martin pattern. I picked up a hankie from a vintage store that is closing and I made it for my purse. I love it!

I'm not "lion" shirt for my mom to give as a gift.

A bib for my mom to give as a gift too...