Etsy Update

Hi!  For those of you still watching this blog for updates....Just a quick note that my annual winter/Christmas update of my Etsy shop will start happening the week before Thanksgiving.  I usually open the shop back up the weekend after Thanksgiving so I can start shipping Christmas orders right after the holiday!  (Thanksgiving that is!)

Fall shows have been a huge success.  I have one more coming up in Fairfax, VA.  The Icelandic Association of DC Christmas Bazaar.  If you have a hankering for Icelandic food and would like to see more of my work in person (along with several other wonderful vendors; Icelandic wool products, Icelandic chocolate and these awesome little Icelandic Elf/Santa characters among others) put November 11 on your calendar!

Now off to unload the truck!!

Horrifying.

ONE post since the beginning of the year?  

Spring show accomplished between DAYS of rain.  We were SO lucky.  It poured last year the ENTIRE TIME.

Once we returned home I packed up and headed to visit my Mom and bring her back to my house in Fredericksburg.  She bought me a tree for my birthday!  It will be delivered tomorrow.  And IF the rain is not too bad I will put it in the ground.  Our back yard was a blank slate when we moved here.  (And I CAN'T believe I have no pictures of our empty yard!  All I have are pictures towards the house of the addition...)  But here you can see I am making headway.  The crepe myrtle is all that was there before.  Baby steps....a fence will be added next year.

 Thanks to friends with transplants!  I am determined not to plant anything treated with the neonicotinoids that are harming the bees.  I don't know when they started that, or how long (maybe forever??) they are harmful but at least I am doing my best by buying only from nurseries that don't use them any longer (and most in Virginia still do) or go the transplant route. :) There will be lots of daisies, cone flower, black eyed susans, lillies, peonies (another birthday gift) and more.  The dogwood that arrives tomorrow will go somewhere in the back corner...

While here Mom wanted to stop in at LibertyTown...where she found this gorgeous pot by Scottish potter Hannah McAndrew.  

It really is a treasure to be able to buy her pots here in the states....if you love her work come down to Fredericksburg!

After Mom's visit Greg and I took off for Florida.  It has been raining here in Virginia for WEEKS.  All sun in St. Augustine.

There are LOTS of wonderful galleries in St Augustine.  This is a piece that was in  Amiro.  This piece is an awesome example of Estella Fransbergen's work.  Raku and wire.  AMAZING.

Every time we drove from our hotel to town we passed a nursery full of these gorgeous pots from Mexico.  One big one and a few small ones came home with me.  It was hard to choose!!

And now we are back to rain.  But I've used this day to lunch with friends and start stocking up the Etsy shop!  

So now it is back to business!

Tile Order.

I loved making these.  AND they all came out flat!  If you are a clay artist you know how special that is.  Wonder if the person who ordered a "variety of tiles" will take all of them?  If not they will end up on Etsy!  

Stay tuned!

Etsy. I've Done It.

It took ALOT of work...well sitting at the computer, cussing and carrying on....

But I have my store set up and stocked a bit.  From everything I have read it is better to add a few things over time rather than everything all once.

I have learned some things.

1.  I don't like taking pictures (I think I already knew this one.)

2.  If I wanted to take pictures I would have become a photographer.

3.  I don't like my camera.

4. My tripod is awful.

.......

I have been obsessing over the last week about making my store perfect.  The banner, the policies, how to do shipping, what to charge, THE PICTURES....

I finally realized I need to start somewhere.  So I have.

Next I need to figure out how to put the direct link in blogger.

Meanwhile.

Here's the LINK.

Check it out and let me know what you think.