Fuchsia Zebra Print

I just listed this market bag in my Grandmother's Artfire studio, and its just so cute I had to share! Checkout her shop as well at http://Nonnie.Artfire.com

Fuchsia Zebra Print Market Bag




-3z

Some blog with your coffee?

Good morning friends!  First day of the rest of my life...blah blah blah =) anyone else say that every morning?  Only on my second cup of coffee so this blog post may not be as emoticon filled haha.  Well for starters I have to say that I absolutely love Psych and I woke up chuckling about the part where the victims name was Kenny Loggins and Shawn said, "So he's not alright?" *snort*  A little 'serious' stuff...finally finished all of my tax stuff, just gotta figure out what I do with it now! Really happy only ended up losing about $600 last year (I didn't calculate in my car payments for the time I had the biz or my laptop), not bad for my first year of working for myself. I also decided a few days ago that I'm going to take this semester online. Last semester I had to commute 30mins there and 30mins back, almost everything I learned was something I read in one of the books or looked up online, and we took our tests online.....so I decided this semester I will save my gas & time and just do it on my own schedule at home (which will help the biz a lot b/c its unpredictable).

Well I need to start working. I'm trying to add some more items to the free online marketplaces and link back to my Artfire shop to help bring in some more traffic. Which reminds me, if you haven't already check out www.foundhandmade.com its no longer free but if you have a little extra to spend promoting its a kind of cool site (and you can change out the items in your blocks as often as you want). I'm giving the 5 blocks for $20 a try this month, I'll let everyone know how it goes! New item: Zebra Double Light Plate Cover If you have a moment stop by and enter in the Artfire Fun Cute & Whimsical Guild's first giveaway HERE. I'm the sponsor! The winner gets 1 free switch plate from my shop!

And please stop by and show this week's featured product for my guild, Artfire Décor,  some love

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I almost forgot to say!! Artfire is now offering market hubs! They show up on your listings and link back to sites you have accounts with (Etsy, blogger, flickr, etc.). Here's a snapshot of what mine looks like:(To access your hub go to "My Artfire" and on the left hand menu, under 'Promote' you will see "Market Hub")

I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe weekend!!!

-3zArt

Things have been crazy...sorry for neglecting!

I guess I should say things have been crazIER!  Been doing pretty well with sales lately and have a lot more motivation.  I think that extreme decline in sales for 10 days in December helped bring back the motivation when I finally started making sales again.  I actually worked from 8 to almost 6 nonstop (well there were a few twitter breaks but they were very short!) and now I don't know what to do with myself!  Usually in the evenings I'm still finishing up work but other than making new product (which I don't really need to do right now as I made new product today) there isn't anything that HAS to be done.  Maybe this free time will help me to quit neglecting my blog :) 

More serious news, my stepdad had to go in for a triple bypass last week .  My mom was staying at the hospital with him the entire week so on top of the normal work stuff I was running around taking care of her errands.  I wanted to help of course & didn't mind it at all but I have to say by about Saturday afternoon my head was ready to explode!  He got to check out yesterday and is at home now.  He has to go back in for another surgery on his leg as soon as he is well enough for it, then hopefully after that he will be surgery free.

and in the midst of all of this I decided to start an Artfire guild!  The turn out has been very good and I must admit I am very, very excited about it!!  I've started a blog for the guild if you'd like to check it out: http://ArtfireDecorGuild.Blogspot.com and if you sell décor products on Artfire and are interested in joining you can do so HERE.  

Two last things, I got the most fantastic fabric in the post today and of course made switch plates out of it as soon as it arrived!  Here is the outcome: 

Hot Pink Zebra Print....wowzas!!  I'm very excited about it, I think this one is about to top my best sellers list!  I'll take new pictures tomorrow when it is actually light outside so the colors will be true and everyone can see how hot pink it really is! I also have a new creation....my Original Photography Switch Plates!  I have many photos from when I lived in Hawaii that I've been pondering what to do with other than just selling the prints and I think I may have figured it out (well atleast one thing to do with them).  Here is the first of the collection: That's all for now =)-3zArt