Well, after much procrastination I have finally opened my Etsy shop, and thus now offer online sales. The shop’s still a bit empty (understatement), but I’m getting the hang of it, so I will be filling it up. A trifle late for the holiday season, but better late than…
So, what is Etsy? It typifies itself as “Your place to buy & sell all things handmade.” A sortof eBay for handmade goods, but then without the auctions (the seller determines the price). Purchases can be paid for by PayPal, or any other intermediary that the seller chooses. You do need to be a registered user of Etsy to purchase something, but registration is free, and as far as I can tell does not bring you bad karma (I don’t think I experienced any leap in junk mail for example).
Let’s see if this works. You should see a set of images, clicking on an image should take you to my Etsy shop.
If you have any questions about Etsy, PayPal or about buying my beads, please don’t hesitate to ask. (End of commercial :-)
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It’s been a bit busy around here. I had a few orders to fulfill after the party. Then our modem died which meant that the website, blog and email address were offline. And of course I wasted a couple of precious days installing the modem, updating the (internal) IP addresses, getting my mail server running, checking that all the websites work again, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
(We won’t talk about the two days where I got side-tracked obsessing about the idea of automating my workflow … it was only a teeny-eeny little bit of programming after all. Not something that we need to talk about.)
And recently I’ve been wrestling, yet again, with the camera. Taking photos. Blech. Taking photos of glass objects. Double blech.
Anyway, here is a bead pic to show how far I’ve got. Photographing light coloured beads on a white background has been a bit tricky up to now—the edges tend to wash out. But I think my camera skills are improving. What do you think?
Oh. I’m quite pleased with how the bead turned out too ;-)
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