Etsy Updates and Plans

Etsy has been going very well! Anthony and I are getting lots of sales and making a good amount of money on the side to buy things that we want or need. We have been backed up for the last two weeks with sales but after tonight we will be all caught up again seeing as they really slowed down this week. I am glad for the extra time I will have to clean and spend time with Bear but I really hope things pick up again soon as I really want some extra money to buy stuff to start my new hobby :]

Our new schedule is working great! We are sticking to is pretty well, all though I did work a lot on Saturday and a little on Sunday too, but that was because I wanted to get caught up on backed orders. I am glad I did too. I have still have pics of two new products that are in my camera that I have yet to list. (I also have lots of pics of Bear in there too!) I need to empty my SD card and edit them all very soon as my SD card is now full (my SD card is tiny and only holds about 150 pics). I hope to get that done tomorrow night.

I soon plan to start working on my Christmas line! I do not know how extensive this will be, but I will at least have 5 items. Maybe I will just keep it at 5 this year seeing as my funds are sort of low. I do have the turkeys for Thanksgiving so that will be all I will be doing with that. Next year I will have a much larger holiday selection.

I am also super exited about our soap shop! We plan to launch on the 1 year anniversary of our crayon shop - May 23rd, 2014 I plan to start working on the soap stuff in late February of next year. It took us about 4 months to set up for our crayon shop launch, so I am hoping I can get it all done in time to launch on the scheduled date.

I am also debating adding scented play dough to my crayon shop and launching a candle shop too. If I do launch a candle shop all candles will be pre-made. I will not be making them to order. This would just be a small side project that I would mess around with when I ran out of stuff to do with the other two shops. If it ever does happen, it is a long way down the road and lots and lots of researching away too! I have never really made candles so I would have to practice a lot before I would feel confident with selling them. And in this world practicing means spending lots of money on supplies, because lots get wasted during the trial and error process. So this would be a project for a time when we have lots of extra money hanging around.

I believe that's it everything that is going on with Etsy and all my plans too! :] Stay tuned for new pics of Bear coming Friday (more than likely).

Ta-Ta!

We Reached 100 Sales on Etsy!!

Yesterday Anthony and I got our 100th sale! Woot! Our sales have slowed down a lot this month, I am not really sure why that is but we are not all that disappointed as we happen to be super busy with the court and custody stuff going on right now anyways. 

I am so thrilled that we reached 100 sales though it feels like a huge victory and to have reached it this soon, blows my mind. Our shop has only been open for 4 months! I just LOVE making crayons and coming up new ideas! 

I really want to launch my Halloween line that I have been working on, but I can not at this time because it is too rainy, and I take all my pics outside :[ Serious bummer. It has been raining EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. for about 3 weeks now here in Florida. There are few days where it does not rain but even on those days it has been very cloudy and the pictures that I have taken, have come out much too dark. So for now, we are sitting on it and hopping the rain will go away and the sun will come out, but there may be no Halloween line this year.

Now about our 100th sale! 

 It was for a 24 pack of these marbled star crayons. 

We will be writing them a special note and giving them a free gift. 

In the note to the seller it stated that these are going to be given out to students in the customers daughter's classroom as fun gifts.

I really hope they all enjoy them!