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Eventually I had to close my shop just so I could concentrate on the orders at hand! I reopened my shop on January 2nd, and things seem to be back to normal now. It was a bit hectic and worrying at times, but luckily all the orders went out on the days they were planned. It looks like 3 orders to the US got lost in the mail and never showed, and 1 was very late but showed up right on Christmas eve!
All in all it was the most orders I've even done during the Christmas season, this being Coryographies' third Christmas. I also reached a milestone - I sold my 1000th item on Etsy! That calls for big cheers. But since it happened in the middle of the crazy December, I didn't have any time to celebrate!
So now, I've finally recovered, and as I say, things are back to normal. I can start going to the library again for studying, do my Etsy admin in the morning and make jewellery when I come back in the evenings. My husband, a fellow archaeology PhD, will be leaving for a month of fieldwork starting next week so I'll be all on my lonesome! Luckily, that means you'll probably see more posts from me as I become bored and start posting more...
I've been spending the morning looking back on 2013 (and trying to make sense of what just happened in December!), and looking at the places I was able to send my packages in 2013. Here are the countries I was lucky enough to send to, in a rough order of most to least:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Australia
- France
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Italy
- The Netherlands
- Finland
- Russia
- Czech Republic
- Romania
- South Korea
- Brazil
- Peru
Hooray! All that was pretty exciting - I thin the most exciting was Peru, which I had never sold to before and sent my first ever order. I've always wanted to visit Peru after I read a book set there when I was a child, and when I was a child my family actually looked after a llama in our back yard for a couple of months. A funny story for another time...
Well I'm off to tabulate if I've finally reached my goal of selling to all 50 states in the US. I know I haven't completely, as I've never sold to Hawaii. So... if you are from hawaii and reading this... please have a look at my cute book jewellery and see if you'd like it! Maybe I should make a unique discount for all Hawaiian customers? What do you think, 50% off to Hawaiian addresses???
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