Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Ice Age Art - Venus figurines by crafters on Etsy
Here is a treasury I made on Etsy featuring different items inspired by European Palaeolithic Venus Figurines:
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Teapot Earrings Galore
I've started making my tiny teapot earrings again and putting them back into my shop :) They're quite fun to make, and I'm getting better at making them match. It's a bit hard not to make one spout longer than the other, or one with a slightly wonky handle...
They look quite cute on little ears, and I have a couple pairs myself that I like to wear. I find these don't sell well online for some reason, but are the most common item I sell at craft fairs! Hmm...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Unique, Cheapest or Best: My 3 rules for success on Etsy
I've chatted to a lot of interesting and creative people about starting up a site on Etsy to sell crafts, and what the secret ingredient it is to making sales... it's unfortunately all too easy to have lovely items but still not make any sales, since there's just so much competition out there.
From the conversations I've had and the people I've met and tips I've picked up in my own experience, I've developed a rule of three (since in our culture we just love threes, dont we...!). A sucessful item on Etsy (or any other online selling site really) needs to fit into one of the three categories to make good sales. It needs to be either:
I've always prided my bookshelf necklaces as falling into the first category (and therefore, also the third haha). But since I've stumbled across another bookshelf necklace seller (*sob* see previous post), I'm afraid I'm just going to have to hold on to 3 very tightly!
How am I going to do this? I need better photos, more communication with everyone through social media, and I need to roll out my new bookshelf necklaces (I have some really cute themed ideas cooking!). I also need to bring this blog a bit more up to snuff, and get back into giving YOU lovely readers free swag. Ugh, I just used the word swag.
But I'm committed to being number three. I will stay number three!!!
From the conversations I've had and the people I've met and tips I've picked up in my own experience, I've developed a rule of three (since in our culture we just love threes, dont we...!). A sucessful item on Etsy (or any other online selling site really) needs to fit into one of the three categories to make good sales. It needs to be either:
1. Unique
2. The Cheapest
3. The Best
I've always prided my bookshelf necklaces as falling into the first category (and therefore, also the third haha). But since I've stumbled across another bookshelf necklace seller (*sob* see previous post), I'm afraid I'm just going to have to hold on to 3 very tightly!
How am I going to do this? I need better photos, more communication with everyone through social media, and I need to roll out my new bookshelf necklaces (I have some really cute themed ideas cooking!). I also need to bring this blog a bit more up to snuff, and get back into giving YOU lovely readers free swag. Ugh, I just used the word swag.But I'm committed to being number three. I will stay number three!!!
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
A New Saw!
It turns out it works like a dream and cuts way nicer than my previous saw - it has a really thin sharp blade and is much more 'ergonomic'! My hand was actually going numb from sawing with the other one, so this one should increase my productivity AND not give me carpal tunnel! WOOHOO!
Note the Tim Horton's mug in the corner of the photo... Canadian at work!
Friday, 2 November 2012
November 3rd and 4th Christmas fairs in Woodstock!
I'll be at the Woodstock Town Hall this Saturday (10-5) and Sunday (10-4) with lots of bookshelf necklaces and teapot earrings and Christmas-y extras!
Come and visit if you want to browse around and say hi :)
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Cory's Christmas Tour
The Christmas Season is upon us! If that sounds cringy to your ears than I apologise. But unfortunately in the world of crafting, Christmas season seems to start in September and end in January (nearly half a year long? Phew!)
Anyway, this season you can catch me and Coryographies items at various craft fairs in the Berkshire and Oxfordshire area between now and December. Please come by and say hello!
Anyway, this season you can catch me and Coryographies items at various craft fairs in the Berkshire and Oxfordshire area between now and December. Please come by and say hello!
October 28th (Sunday): Hungerford Town Hall, 10am - 4pm- November 3rd (Saturday): Woodstock Town Hall (upstairs), 10am -5pm
- November 4th (Sunday): Woodstock Town Hall (upstairs), 10am - 4pm
- November 10th (Saturday): Burbage Village Hall, 11am - 3pm
- November 17th (Saturday): Malborough Town Hall, 10am - 4pm
- November 24th (Saturday): Newbury Congregation Hall, 10am - 4pm
- December 9th (Sunday): Hungerford Town Hall, 10am - 4pm
Sunday, 30 September 2012
My best review ever!
http://www.lindsayavalon.blogspot.ca/2012/09/beautiful-handmade-gifts-by.html
She writes paranormal romance books, and her novel Breaking the Nexus will be coming out soon - in the meantime she has been posting excerpts and other tidbits on her blog to keep us in suspense! She also has a webpage here which logs the progress on her projects:
www.lindsayavalon.com
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Cory is a fan: AimeesHomestead
Alright, stop everything! I have found a sheep shaped tea-cosy:
From AimeesHomestead on Etsy - this has to be owned!!!
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