Photography

Photography is one of the areas of my shop that I know I've needed to work on.  With the help of a $1.10 sheet of grey paper from Hobby Lobby I had an amazing success taking photos today.  Why didn't I buy this sooner!  So here's a preview of the (unedited) photos for some upcoming listings.

Show This Weekend = Stress

First I have to say that I really am so excited for a unique holiday home tour and art sale that I'm participating in this weekend called "Beneath the Tree."  I have to follow that up with - why do I always manage to stress out SO bad.  Oh I know, it's because I have so much to do.  It's one of those things where I think that I'm doing plenty to make progress and move along in the weeks before.  That is, until the week of the show.  Then I wonder what I did with all that time!  I just hope that I get most of what I want completed.  After that it'll mean taking pictures and listing things in my Etsy shop.  Wednesday I'll be putting my shop in vacation mode until after I pick my things up from the show.  Wish me luck!

Gifts of West Michigan Treasury

I've had this treasury ready for what seems like forever! The past couple times I tried to snag a treasury I would stalk craftopolis until I deemed the time close enough to move over to stalking the actual treasury site.  Up to the last minutes I was paying attention and somehow got caught up with whatever else and missed it!  This time I checked out craftopolis and the main treasury was at the "opening soon" stage - generally a sign that I just missed it.  Get to the site and the list is at 333 and I waited for less than a minute!  Ah, luck.

Anyway, this is a collection of items from the Etsy West Michigan Team aka EtsyWMI.  Enjoy!

Buttons!

I finally found some buttons that I think will be just perfect for my Lab Rats Challenge Entry.  I found this button pack for a really great price at LittleRedCottage's Etsy Shop and I'm so excited to pick through them.  The only bad news is that I have to wait at least a week before starting on my new item.  The positive side is that I am participating in really unique holiday home and art sale tour that is keeping me busy making items in the meantime.

In Waiting... Treasury

Every once and a while (ok, so quite frequently) I find myself just perusing Etsy.  One of my favorite ways to do this, especially when I'm not looking for anything in particular, is to use the Pounce feature.  All of the shops that I chose for this treasury were found using the "undiscovered" side of pounce.  It took me a while to find all of these great items, but I love how the treasury turned out.  It expires tonight so take a second to check out these great items.