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...

New Fav's and a local show

Here is a mosaic ( I learned how to do this from kunderwood) of some of my favs' I have seen. There are so many talented people all over and it makes me happy that I have some many fav's for the past couple of weeks I do not have enough space for them on two mosaic's..

There are so many people to mention so I am going to direct you to my flickr to have direct links to all the fabulous artists.


My friend Stacey and I are working on creating our own local shows. We both feel that there is a need for more specific types of shows and we can promote them ourselves and know that we are doing the best to make these shows a success for everyone involved. More to come on that for sure!


I am doing a big show called Atomic Holiday Bazaar with Stacey in December which should be tons of fun.


Not sure how much crafting will be done this weekend it is my mom's b-day and there is a ton of cleaning that needs to be done at the homefront.