I found an AWESOME new site!!!

Subject: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:52 am

I don't know how many of you are crafters, but I found this site......

http://www.etsy.com

Once we get settled in our new home, I will be spending some serious time there! I'm all excited!!

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

Looks like a fun site! Hmmm, wonder how many years it will be until you're settled in your new house and the business going... flower

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:44 am

LOL I'm hoping it won't be too long as crafts are my first true love.....oh yeah...and boyfriend is in there somewhere too! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:07 pm

I had heard that mentioned in a mag somewhere as I was thinking of selling my watercolours there but never got around to it

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:01 am

I do things like doll houses:

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And water gardens:

And fairy homes:

and tons of stuff like that. I sell it at local doll house shops. On line would be good since I'm moving.

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:07 am

I do doll house furniture too:

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:12 am

I've even done some commissioned pieces...like this shadow box....

Posts : 159 Join date : 2009-04-25 Location : Mississippi

UNBELIEVABLE, BAMBI, that's all I can say.

They are so beautiful. I found an AWESOME new site!!! 187714

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:07 pm

That is so beautiful, Bambi! I just love things like that!

I might call on you for some custom furniture in a few years - our granddaughter is a year old, and I want to make her a Victorian dollshouse (one with servants quarters downstairs, and several stories, garden etc) for her birthday when she´s older.

Hilly

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:02 am

Thanks guys!

Hilly- I'd love to do that for you. Victorian gardens are so super formal! I have done a couple. I'm more into the fun and fantasy stuff for myself, but I love doing any of it! In the doll house at the top, I made each and every plant that is in that yard...trees too. God maybe the only one who can make a tree, but I sure enjoy making little itty bitty copies! LOL Actually, I made all the plants in all of them, but that doll house was a HUGE project!

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:11 am

Bambi's Designs wrote:: Thanks guys!

Hilly- I'd love to do that for you.

I just don´t know how we´d get it to Germany yet - probably have to send it bit-by-bit ...
I won´t start the project until a couple of years yet - Shania is only a year old on the 25th this month. It´s just something I always wanted to do, and even if it ends up a showpiece for my daughter-in-law (she loves stuff like that, too).

Hilly

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:31 am

Well, I put a couple of little water garden/ponds, that I had sitting around, up on that site yesterday morning, and had made $81 by last night. Yeah, I'm gonna be liking that site! Very Happy

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:53 am

Wheee! Bambi! Way to go!!!

I simply MUST find the time to do more than work on patches for CP's mess !!!

Congratulations on the swift sales. . .your tiny masterpieces are wonderful.

Ann K.

Posts : 35 Join date : 2009-05-02 Location : Tokyo, Japan

I do love Bambi's doll houses. They are wonderful!!
And congrats on your sales on Etsy.com. You do your job so quickly!!
I also have a plan to sell my originals at Etsy.com someday within this year.

And now, I've been busy for uploading my designs to PF because I felt like
it's too difficult to sell my items at Zazzle.
However, at last, I sold my print last night. My profit was GOOD. I have to
thank Zazzle's print options. Again, their quality is great. I ordered 2 different
sized prints at the previous sale to check out how the resolution works and
there was no difference between them.
At Zazzle you may receive such a bonus sometimes.

I really hope that I'll make sales at PF, too.

Good luck to all!! I found an AWESOME new site!!! 187714

Subject: Re: I found an AWESOME new site!!! Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:38 am

Bambi - I´m not surprised you sold your "gems" so quickly, they are fantastic! Congrats on the sales! cheers

happylab wrote:: I really hope that I'll make sales at PF, too.

You will, but don´t forget that PF does not promote their marketplace! That means good descriptions so Google can find you (the use the product description as alt text for the images, so I´ve had lots of visits/sales over Google´s image search), plus do some advertising yourself.

I´ve been doing ok there myself (I´ve been there three years now). Haven´t been working on the shops lately, as Zazzle is better for my artsy stuff and the prints (and I´m doing really well at Zazzle Very Happy

) so I´ve been filling my shops there before getting on with new designs at OF. But I love the branding you can achive with the shops (no leaks to Pf at all if you want) - they want you to be successful with your stuff, because in the end it´s a win-win situation.

best of luck with your shop(s) there!

A week-end with plenty of sales for all of you!

Hilly I found an AWESOME new site!!! 187714

Posts : 35 Join date : 2009-05-02 Location : Tokyo, Japan

Hilly,
Thanks so much for your input. I appreciate them all.
I'd like to sell my cards and prints at Zazzle and T-shirts at PF, if possible.

Good luck to you, too!

I found an AWESOME new site!!! 187714