Etsy Twitter Team Shop Of The Week!

Uber Art's Shop is in the spotlight this week bringing to you beautiful designs for unique handmade journals, guest books and polymer clay pendants. The beautiful selection of journals takes you from rustic styles with sea glass embellishments to beautiful guest books for your next special party! Do stop by her shop and tell her that "Yarn" sent ya!

Etsy Twitter Team Shop Of The Week!

Rose Bush Designs takes the spotlight as this week's featured Twitter Team member! Rose Bush Designs' shop is filled with wonderful handmade cards for all occasions. This Thank You Card is just one of the many wonderful designs that this shop has to offer. Stop on by and see just what else is waiting for you!

My First Bloggy Giveaway!!!!

Hi Everyone!! I thought it would be neat to run a GIVEAWAY!!!! To promote my Yarncoture Spa/Kitchen Collection I will be giving away this lovely spa set, crocheted in a multi-colored pink and cream 100% cotton yarn with contrasting but elegant white cotton yarn. I will also include a bar of peppermint soap from Gassner Custom Soaps (one of my favorite scents!) ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS

1) FOLLOW my BLOG and *make a comment* about which one of my items you like in my spa/kitchen collection and WHY.

2) Pick a number between 1 and 100 and CHECK THE POSTS because no number may be posted twice! Also..if the number that I have chosen has not been picked, the entry with the closest number to it WITHOUT GOING PAST THE NUMBER wins! That's it! The deadline is February 3! Please INCLUDE your e-mail address IN YOUR POSTS. The spa set includes:

~ 1 double-sided ruffled bath sponge
~ 2 medium sized exfoliating cloths (I have one of these and I use it everyday!)
~ 1 ruffled bath mitt
~ 1 bar of peppermint soap!

The winner will receive the complete set shipped for free and gift wrapped !! Ok...POST AWAY! **WINNER ANNOUNCED FEBRUARY 4**
More giveaways here at Bloggy Giveaways!

Why Do I Feature Shops On TWITTER???

I'll tell you why. When I opened my shop in July, I was sooo excited! I just KNEW that I would get my first sale within the week. Well, I didn't. In fact, I didn't get my first sale until October 13! Before that happened I tried to frequent the Etsy forums and quickly learned that I needed to advertise my store OUTSIDE of Etsy. Occasionaly I would even see people posting threads encouraging others to post their shops for a "chance" to be "picked" to be featured on a blog or something. I tried posting my shop, but I was never picked and after being disappointed I decided not to do that anymore. I stumbled upon twitter by way of some discussion threads mentioning it in the forums and quickly learned that twitter could be an awesome way of promoting my shop and others as well. However, I still didn't want to make people feel like they had to be "picked" and I didn't want to promote shops that were always picked. I wanted to focus on the store owners that had the guts to open a shop but unfortunately were buried in the Etsy database of shops. I decided to develop a simple criterion which would give everyone a shot:

~ Promote shops with 5 sales or less

~ Require that they have a Twitter page

~ Tell them to tell all their friends (by doing this, they help promote their
shop as well)

Remember, all multi-million corporations were once the "little guy", but they were fortunate to get their foot-in-the-door and through time their businesses skyrocketed. Hopefully I represent the "little guy" and am trying to do my part in contributing to the success of the handmade movement.