I’m stuck at 199 sales. Oh, how marvelous it will be to finally be at the big 2-0-0! And yet, it’s just not happening. I sit here, twitchily, glancing at the always-open Gmail tab in my Firefox window. No matter how many tabs I have open for various things, the first tab will always be Gmail. And you have no idea how excited I get when I glance up there, and it’ll say ‘Google Mail – Inbox (2)’. Two emails? That might be a sale! A glorious ‘Etsy Transaction Email’ followed by a ‘Notification of Payment Received’ email. Best. Emails. Ever. It’s been a slow week for me, but I’m hoping that at least by this time next week, I will be somewhere in the realms of having 200 sales on Etsy. How exciting!

I’d also like to give awkward’s Etsy shop a mention. She makes gorgeous knitted things, and has a lovely shop. I’m mentioning her because she’s currently at 199 sales too, and I’d love for us to hit 200!

Check out these cute ‘glovelets’ from her shop!

Anyway, I’ve added some new things to my shop, including my Haunted Moon Earrings. I’ve had such amazing feedback for the Haunted Moon Necklace, that I decided to make the matching earrings:

Also new to my shop are my Ice Melt Earrings – made with sparkly crystal quartz and oxidized sterling silver.

In other news, I finally made it onto the Etsy front page last week! About time too! It’s so hard to get noticed on Etsy, especially now that the weekend deals and gift guides have gone – so it was great to get my twenty minutes on the front page. (I say twenty, because the item actually sold and so was all-too-promptly replaced by another item made by someone else!) But still, I’m pleased to have finally been on there. Also, if you read my previous post, you’ll know about the ad I put in the school paper. Well, I was never under any delusions that I was going to be faced with a flood of sales – since it was only the school paper. But I still got a handful of sales on Folksy, and my traffic is up – so that’s something.

Anyway, that’s it for now. Have a great week!

I’m always happy when someone picks an item from my shop to be in their treasury, but I was ecstatic to find that the lovely lunalove had not only featured a necklace of mine, but named the whole treasury after my shop! Even better, the treasury was a gorgeous one, and even better than that, it made the front page of Etsy last night! I was SO pleased about that. It had been weeks and weeks since I’d been on the front page, it’s a very rare occurrence for me. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be picked several times a week for the front page! Anyway, I was lucky enough to get a some sales from it, and so it’s turned into a pretty good week for me on Etsy. Here’s the treasury!

Not much has been going on here, really (apart from school). I’ve been trying to add more items to my shop in the last week – but it’s been difficult to fit the time in. But I have less than a week of school left, so I’m really looking forward to being able to chill out and make some new things. Sometimes I look at my cat, Snuffle, and I’m envious. For example:

She just lays around. It’s so unfair.

Tonight was awesome because for the first time, I had some of my jewelry featured on the Etsy front page! Of course, I just had to take a screenshot of the momentous event. And then I had to post it here. I may have been drinking a little cherry beer, also. :p

Luckily enough, the earrings sold! I’m also in one of Etsy’s Gift Guides, which is also something new for me. Apologies for all the excited blabbering I did on Twitter. I’m sorry. I just got so excited about it… lol.

Anyway, back to work!

Here’s the proof!

I don’t know how long my Leafy Green Hobo Bag was on there for, but I got a bunch of views and hearts from it. So yay! Now I get to put the little ‘I made it onto the front page of Etsy badge’ somewhere. Yeah. If there is a badge for that. If not, then there should be!