Showing posts with label dawanda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dawanda. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 April 2008

Featured on Catldy99's Weblog

Catldy99, from the USA, who i met through Dawanda, has featured me in her blog here.

Judy herself has a shop on Dawanda, here, and Etsy, here, selling lampwork beads, other beads and jewellery that she makes.

I think my favourite that she has in her shops right now is this Daffodil focal bead:

catlady99

Friday, 22 February 2008

Featured once again by Dawanda Shop Directory

Even though it was only a direct copy of a blog post i did recently - my last post i think actually - it was still nice to be featured and hopefully my experiences will help others.

http://dawandashopdirectory.blogspot.com/2008/02/jenny-bs-bottlecaps-first-craft-fair.html

i will be writing more for Sara but its been a hectic week and i need a rest!

Friday, 15 February 2008

Ugley Famers' Market - Tomorrow!!

Well, I'm starting to get a tad nervous now. i'm all packed up ready to go, is just a case of waiting until i get there to see how i can position things on the table. I've got all my new items such as the mirrors, keyrings and buttons as well as more magnets and brooches that haven't been listed on Dawanda yet - after all, there's no point listing them, then deactivating them and then relisting again!


There was this small ad in this weeks paper for the market too, so with that publicity i hope it will be busy which will mean more sales!

Thursday, 14 February 2008

Featured on Cuteable!

The wonderful Elizabeth at Dawanda, who is also on the admin team, let me a comment on my Dawanda profile to say i have been featured on another blog called cuteable!


My How To Guide - featured on the dawanda shop directory blog

After i discovered the idea of creating a business page on Facebook for my online Dawanda shop and then shared this with other Dawanda sellers, Sara asked me to write a guide on how to create a facebook page, which she has published on the blog today!






Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Catch-up time

Easy way to do a catch, as i have a bad memory is by the photos i've taken, so here goes:


Well, i received a wonderful Jiffy Bag full of Crystal Light Honey and Lemon Green Tea from Christina in the USA, for which i sent her a set of personalized bottlecap magnets (i'm sure i blogged about them before i sent them)

Then i did a handmade magnet swap on swap bot - the brief was "4 handmade magnets" for 2 different partners. i wanted to do 2 sets of for but it ended up a set of 3 and a single for one parnter (runningoutofroom). this is the single:

and then the set of 3: she's received them as said she loves them.

Then the set of four for my other parnter, who i can't remember off the top of my head, but they are in the USA so it will be a couple of days before they get there yet i think. and both people sending to me are in the states, plus the send date hasn't passed yet - it was the 28th i think.

i received my letter in a matchbox, which was the swap i hosted, from clareyfairy


and her's the one i sent to chappykat, who received it happily!

I responded to Diddldonna's rquest on the forum for some swap cards, which i designed, printed and cut up - they are about ATC size (2.5 " x 3.5") - and in return she has sent a little suprise for a special occasion to a person who is special to me.

I've started cooking dinner once a week for mum and david again, to give mum a night off, so for the first week it was shin of beef and ale casserole with potato and celeriac mash. i dug up the 3 celeriac we planted from the seedlings grandpa gave us.........the thing about root veg is that ou don't know whats under the surface......

Not much was the answer!!!

lots if bits of roots but not much main root!

Mum got a new orchid as the last flowering one had finally dropped its flowers after 2 months and wanted some photos:

i might try this one as a greetings card, and mum mentioned there was one she thought might look nice on a canvas.

Then came Mojo's Digital ATC swap, 2 ATCs of digitally altered images for 2 parnters:
2 for Chaz:

And 2 for my other partner (sorry bad memory):

My final photos are of a cake mum asked me to make ready for the canadian visitors on sunday, it was a kind of fruit cake but the bog standard dried fruit in tesco looked so unappealing so i got a bag of jumbo raisins, golden raisins and dried cherries. doesn't look too bad, does it?

Only a couple of days now to find out if it's "matured" nicely and tastes ok!

Friday, 8 February 2008

Dawanda Shop Directory again!

Another mention from Sara on the Dawanda Shop Directory blog

I shared my facebook advertising idea on the Dawanda Forum. You can create pages for musicians, charities, teams, organisations and also businesses like online stores! This way people can become fans and show their support.

Here is the facebook page for Jennyb's Bottlecaps

and

Here is the facebook page for Sara's Texture Crafts

Another way to promote Dawanda and help each other promote our shops and hopefully sell more handmade crafts!






Thursday, 7 February 2008

Jennyb's Bottlecaps featured on the Dawanda shop directory blog


Sara has been kind enough to feature sellers from Dawanda with a simple questionaire i replied to and has today published my article on the blog here


The blog also has great guides on dawanda and how to buy, sell and promote etc.

Monday, 4 February 2008

jennyb's bottle caps


jennyb's bottle caps
Originally uploaded by courtly
found a photo on flickr of the bottlecap i sent to Courtney for introducing me to Dawanda!

Thursday, 17 January 2008

No Room On the Canvas!

i literally have no more room now on the canvas.....but i did just get some more brooch backings.....and there is still room on my belt.......
No. i need to work on promotion i think - so feel free to pass on the link people!!

i've completed a custom order or Jenny's mum, and i'm quite pleased with it.

The only things i'm working on now are a custom order of a set of 5 which i've been having a few issues with and have had to restart, a set of 8 for a swap for Christina from swap-bot who is kindly sending me some crystal light, a brooch for me and another brooch for the shop. the picture below is the beginnings:

Sunday, 13 January 2008

More Space or Fewer Bottlecaps?

i need one or the other...

or i simply need to sell more! my magnetic canvas is rather full....

and that doesn't include the 10 i have drying and also the 5 brooches that are upstairs.
david also suggested painting the back of it too, to improve the magnetic strength.

Friday, 4 January 2008

Bottle top bounty!

I popped down to my local pub today to ask them if they wouldn't mind collecting the bottle caps for me over the weekend. Having sold 10 now at DaWanda i thought i should perhaps make some more. I also made 3 for a swap on swap-bot.



anyway it seems although Jo the bar maid has left she had been saving them and i was handed this brown paper bag full!



i have added more to the shop and there are still more waiting to be finished. i have just started doing a custom order of 5 as well.



so at the moment my "for sale" canvas looks like this:

Wednesday, 2 January 2008

Selling and Sold!!!

As i blogged last night i have set up a shop here at DaWanda.

Brilliant news! I've sold 2 items!

My first customer, Jules, bought my set of 4 purple countryside magnets:

and my 2nd customer, Kaye in the USA, bought my Green Queen Magnet:

the bad news though........ after seeing the transactions go through paypal and losing some of the money due to fees, i have had to put my prices up slightly - and thats before DaWanda take their 5%! when i compared my prices to other i thought they looked cheap - now i know why!

Tuesday, 1 January 2008

My New Shop at DaWanda

After finding that you need a credit card to be able to sell at Etsy a fellow swapper on the forums at Swap-bot directed me to DaWanda a similar place where you can set up a shop and sell your handmade items and crafts.

I bought some magnetic/chalkboard paint a couple of weeks back and have painted a canvas with it. My idea was that if i ever managed to find a craft show or event to sell at, i could take that along and display my magnets on it but also write the price etc on the canvas in chalk. I thought it would look quite effective. I used the canvas today as a background when i was photographing the magnets for my DaWanda shop. I think it needs a couple more coats as the strength of magnatism between the 2 wasn't great. i know its not my magnets as they stuck fine on our fridge for the very first photos i did.

I pinned the brooches to a cushion to photograph them.

anyway, i've run out of time to blog now - the oven timer has sounded! so you can see (and buy!!) my magnets and brooches here!

Friday, 28 December 2007

More bottle caps

a few more photos of my experiments. you can see some of them how the background paper has changed colour due to soaking up the liquid laquer.

i've done about 30 more which are drying......

all i have to do now if find some way and somewhere to sell them.

here's a slideshow of the ones that are dry so far