Friday, July 30, 2010

Rockets, Trucks and Cars Oh my!!






A delightfully talented clayworks artist, teacher and neighbour who can be found at www.tarafirmastudios.com - was kind enough to loan me the use of her children's playhouse for a little photoshoot of my kids oriented wallflags and what a playhouse it is! All by the hands of her man - who designed and built this wonderful structure!! I had to give credit to her children to - who put me to shame by having a spotlessly clean and inviting home, compared to my current struggling domestic environment. I simply cannot be bothered with household chores when the weather is this lovely..umm or when it is cold...slightly damp or lets face it somewhere in between.

I am still playing the photos for my etsy store, but have definitely found that outside light is best so far (lord help me in the grey days of the year). I was really pleased with what I achieved today photos wise, however productivity dwindled once the items were all posted as I meandered my way through the etsy stores when I should have been doing any number of other things! Shopping is indeed good business networking and product research - hmmmmmmm! Hopping onto my store every 2 mins to see if I had any more views was also pretty sad of me..I am not a cool esty customer at all and when I get a hearts me .. I gush over and thank them because I cannot believe that someone has not only found me, but LIKED the stuff I do...play it cool Caz, play it cool!

Monday, July 12, 2010

Etsy Begins!!

So I have been meaning to join etsy for the last five years, but life got in the way and this week I have finally listed some of my new wallflags. Oh my goodness I have so much to learn!! I have no idea really what I am doing!! On top of that my photos look terrible! I love my wallflags and they look so great in the flesh - but they look so amateur in the photographs and I could cry - but decided to go for it anyway and to grow, grow, grow in my internet saviness! It took me hours and hours to take the photos - work out postage - work out downloads and then when I pressed finish there the wallflags were in all their non - glory and then I looked at other sellers and their products look soooooooo beautiful!! Ahhhh lessons to be learnt.