Over 450 listings on Etsy!

Wow! I just noticed that I now have over 450 items in my Etsy shop! Some of these are repeats, but still that is a lot of beads. And yet it is only a small fraction of my collection. I am going to work at getting more of my beads into my shop.



I've made great progress at moving beads from eBay to Etsy - I am hoping to finish with this project by the end of the week. While working on the transfer, I have found some beads that I thought I had sold out of but still have a few of. It is funny to see my reaction when I find them - you'd think I had ran into an old friend. If you are into beads like I am you probably understand.



I have to go & see if I can get to 500!

March Madness

After much thought I have decided to close my eBay shop at least temporarily. I am going to keep my account open, just not my store. I am instead going to concentrate on selling via my Etsy shop and getting my beads more organized. I want to close by the end of March - when eBay changes the fees/rules for sellers yet again. So now I am in the mad rush to get everything out of the eBay store & into my Etsy shop. While I have been doing this I have found beads that I frankly had no idea I still had. It's funny because I find myself falling in love with beads I've had for years all over again.

ESST Semi Annual Sale is this weekend (2/26-28)

This coming weekend (Feb 26-28) the Etsy Supply Street Team (ESST) will be having our semi annual sale. Many of the wonderful vendors will be having all kinds of great offers. You can check the information on our team blog - http://teamesst.blogspot.com or enter ESST on the search line (on Etsy).

For this event EVAROSE1900 has FREE shipping & handling on orders $25 or greater. As always, I am happy to combine orders between Etsy & eBay.

First Post

Wow! Things are happening today!

A couple of days ago I sent a request to join Etsy's Supply Street Team knowing that there was a waiting list. This morning I got a nice message from the leader of that team, Carla (www.CarDonCreativeDesign.etsy.com), she loves my shop & put it at the top of the list. All I have to do is add the Team ESST to my listings. Of course, I have over 300 listings on Etsy, but it shouldn't take me too long.

I decided that since I was going to be editing my listings anyways, this would be a good time for me to start the blog that I have been thinking about for so long. Ta-da! Here it is! I'll add this site to my Etsy listings at the same time.

My bead goals for this week are to edit at least 75% of my Etsy listings, change my eBay promo box (since my 'dog days of summer sale' ends late tonight), take photos of the beads that I have already sorted & counted, and if at all possible list some of these 'new to shop/store' on either eBay or Etsy.

The challenge will be to find bead time this week - it is my son's last week of summer vacation. He still needs school clothes & some supplies and his birthday is on Friday. I need and want to spend some quality time with my kids before our insane fall schedule starts. Of course, my son doesn't think that uniform shopping qualifies as quality together time.