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Five new clocks on Etsy
20 Sunday Nov 2011
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Category Archives: Etsy
25 hour day = 25% discount
30 Sunday Oct 2011
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It’s the end of British Summer time, which means we have a 25 hour day today. In the spirit of time travel and 25 hour days, I am giving you a 25% discount code to use on ready made clocks* in my Etsy shop!!!
Just enter the code Sale25 when you check out.
With the code you can this baby for £18.75 in stead of the usual £25 (excl. postage)! Credit cards at the ready.
*Not to be used for “design your own” clocks or brooches.
My earrings arrived!
28 Friday Oct 2011
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Remember I told you about my custom made earrings from Etsy in this post? Well, they arrived this morning all the way from Bahrain. Oh Joy!!
Here they are: the cutest little turtles for my ears.
Needless to say this morning’s chosen earrings are no longer in my ears. (At this stage they don’t even warrant a large photo.)
I love my turtles!! Thank you so much Dafni!
The Like factor
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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Etsy has recently launched a very handy little feature. If you have a Facebook page and an Etsy shop, you can now link the two with a handy “fLike” button on your Etsy shop Homepage. This means that whenever someone fLikes your Etsy shop, they automatically also like your Facebook page! How cool is that!
I linked the two a few minutes ago and immediately Etsy told me I have 154 likes on my Facebook page. Brilliant!
It would be super duper nice if you, my dear blog readers, could visit my Etsy shop and fLike my shop, and thereby also fLike my Facebook page. There hasn’t been much activity in my shop recently as I’m working hard to create stock for the Christmas markets. Whatever is left over after the markets will however be put up for sale in the shop, so stock levels will increase towards the beginning of December. My Facebook page however is a bit more alive 😉
Other Etsy shop owners who read this blog should also think about linking their Etsy shop to Facebook (and/or Twitter). It’s a win-win situation!
I hope to see your name as a new like on my Facebook page, soon!
Etsy in The Wall Street Journal
18 Tuesday Oct 2011
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…and the CEO has a granny square cushion on his couch!!! I think Etsy is in good hands.
You can read the article, and see the video here.
It’s a small (colourful and creative) world
12 Wednesday Oct 2011
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As sales in my Etsy shop are a bit slow, I thought I’d support fellow crafters and be a buyer on Etsy – spread the love, pay it forward, what you give is what you get and all those lovely things, right?
I’ve had two great experiences with earrings that I bought from fellow Etsy sellers in the past. I bought ruby red felt rose earrings from bunkleberrystudios in Northern Idaho and green crochet earrings from Fr33na in California. I love wearing them – it gives me such a thrill knowing that they were hand made and not mass-produced in a factory somewhere, and I always get compliments when I wear either one of these two pairs of earrings.
Today I bought Plexiglass turtle earrings from Dafni, a Greek lady living in Bahrain. The earrings are based on this turtle brooch,
but I like the colours of this cat brooch,
and want the earrings to look like these exotic bird earrings.
Where else but on Etsy can you have colourful inexpensive earrings custom made for you by a Greek lady living in Bahrain who will post it to a South African-born, Brit?! Small, but very colourful and creative, world indeed. I love it!
Crochet jewellery, proper jewellery
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
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Lots of people make crochet jewellery. I had a go with amigurimi balls that I threaded through ribbon. I’ve bought crochet earrings from FR33na on Etsy. Crochet jewellery are cheap and cheerful. Right? Nope.
WhiteFly, an Etsy seller from California, takes vintage crochet and casts it in sterling silver or gold! Gold people!
When I first saw the top photo on Pinterest I thought, just like the person who originally pinned it, that it’s grey yarn, or metallic yarn at the most, stiffened with fabric stiffener and shaped into a cuff. How wrong were we?!
This item is cast from real vintage lace in Sterling Silver, then plated with a thick coating of 14K gold. Every intricate detail is evident in the metal.
It is stunning to wear, a show stopper with any outfit.
Please note I cast all my items from an actual piece of lace, I use only the highest quality vintage lace and I can only make a limited edition.Flexible to fit all sizes, stiff to hold it’s shape. Very comfortable to wear. Fit size is a standard 7″ wrist circumference.
Available in 14K gold for $6,000. Please contact me for a listing if your interested.
Have you ever seen anything so exquisite and unique?!
If you want to know more about Whitefly, bikudesigns did an interview with her on her blog. You can read it here.
Crochet jewellery will never be the same again. Suddenly my amigurimi balls on a ribbon seems very drab.
Knitted designer clocks
08 Thursday Sep 2011
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Last night in the Evening Standard I saw a picture of a knitted clock being sold at the Conran shop – for £350! That’s the price of my crochet clocks with an extra zero!!! This morning I couldn’t find that specific clock on the Conran shop website, but they do have these two knitted clocks, designed by Benedetta and Carlo Tamborini for Diamantani & Domeniconi.
The covers can be removed for hand-washing and are £130 each. It looks like it’s knitted in moss stitch so it has a nice texture, which will probably gather dust – hence removable covers for washing. I love the simplicity of it.
However….. the two Tamborini designers also make huge knitted clocks, called the Gomitolo Clocks, in six colours.
Gomitolo is the result of a collaboration between an industrial designer (Carlo) and a fashion designer (Benedetta). It’s beauty lies in the transfer of material and technology from the fashion industry.
The smallest of the huge clocks are 50cm diameter at £246.50 (my biggest clock sells for £50) and their big one is, wait for it, 90cm diameter – that’s almost 1 meter at £462.50!!!! But just look how amazingly it is!
I have no plans to crochet a 90cm clock – I’ll leave that to Benedetta and Carlo. I can however appreciate a beautiful thing when I see it, even if it is knitted 😉
You can buy the Gomitolo clocks at Nest, or you can buy (ten of) my crochet clocks at Etsy.
Crochet rugs
23 Tuesday Aug 2011
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This morning I saw I love pom-poms’s post about the amazing Nona Pepa rug. It’s the first time I’ve seen this amazing flowery rug by Natalie Pepe. Can you imagine how many hours must have gone into making and attaching all those tiny flowers?!
This rug reminded me of another rug I saw on Pinterest. This time it’s a granny square rug by Kasthall called Karin. Here the grannies are printed on the wool of the rug. Far less work than crocheting every granny square, and just as amazingly beautiful. Isn’t it amazing?! It’s named after the designer’s grandmother who loved to crochet.
Lately I’ve also been seeing a lot of big doilie style crochet rugs. If I had a bigger house I would definitely make one. In ihanitse’s Etsy shop (ihanitse is Finnish for “made by myself”) you can buy ready made rugs, or buy the pattern from the designer to tackle your own – using a size 6 hook and super chunky yarn. Isn’t it just beautiful?!
Now that I lay down the groundwork (see what I did there?) High Five to walking on crochet!!
Ola, I’m in Spanish!
18 Thursday Aug 2011
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So yesterday I spent the whole day retaking all the photos for the clocks currently in my Etsy shop. Yup, I retook them all. I did this on advice from an Etsy guru, Amity, who said that I need to make my photos more crisp and “clean” so that magazine could pick up on the crochet clocks and use them in features, which would generate more sales.
I’ve always been hanging my clocks against my kitchen wall, which is painted a very light green, in order to take photos for Etsy. The photos were fine and I still got a lot of Favourites and Treasury finds using them, but I needed to perfect them, hence following Amity’s advice. I have to say Amity was right! It made a huge difference and it wasn’t even hard to do. I went outside and lay the clocks down flat on white hardboard. It was an overcast day which makes for perfect photos – no harsh shadows, and no glare. Perfect for Etsy photos.
Apart from updating my current listings, I also listed two new clocks: a blue and purple granny
and a jumbo circles clock in shades of green. This bad boy is 45cm diameter!
Guess what happened then… I got an email from Ingrid Valls saying that she has featured my three granny square clocks (therefore including newly listed blue granny square clock) on her Spanish blog lastejeymaneje.blogspot.com, which according to Google Translates means “The Weave Endorsements”. How cool is that?! One day on Etsy and the blue clock is picked up by a blogger! Hooray for Amity!
Ingrid’s blog features amazing crochet finds. You should really go have a look! I’ve added a link to the blog in my blogroll for easy clicking.
I was especially blown away by John Hamilton’s crochet faces. Thanks Ingrid for introducing me to an amazing artist and of course for including my grannies!
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