2 times in one day!!!!

i cannot believe what a day it's been for me on etsy :) :) :) believe it or not i managed to get onto the front page 2times today!! this time was thanks to the lovely miss rikrak and her sweet blue pics from team ecoetsy. yay! this has really been an excellent etsy day! i also had 2 sales...yippeeee! now if anything can motivate me (which i need sometimes) it's being on the front page and making sales.....so with that said,i'm gonna go get back to work!

~hugs~

front page

yay! i woke up this morning to find out a treasury i was featured in had made the front page of etsy!

thanks so much to teamzvonik for the feature! it seems like forever since i made the front page...it was definitely the little etsy pick me up i needed :)

sales seem to be really picking up as of late....i'm trying hard to get my shop stocked for christmas. i've got a lot of new goods coming daily so stop by and check them out...i'd love to hear what everyone thinks!

time to go pack up some orders and head out to the post office. have a beautiful day folks!

calling all green businesses!

i'd like send out your business cards or coupons with my orders! if you have an earth conscious shop on etsy please leave a comment here. we can also do a swap if you like (i'll send you mine as well). just let me know if you'd like to participate!

also...click out the link on the left. i've been featured on fellow etsy seller SimplySentimental's blog. check it out!

i made the front page again last night! it was another one of my wallets :) it didn't sell but i got a lot of traffic and hearts for my shop because of it! i feel so lucky to have made it up there again...and to be featured amongst these talented etsians just made my day,my week,my year!
i should be sewing right now...i'm taking a little break though. i have a custom order i need to get done quickly(since we have family coming to visit) and i want to get a few more things finished before esther goes into the shop.
i'm so excited about this custom order i'm making...it's a matching purse and wallet and she'd like one of my relax yah packs too. i love being able to put together a beautiful piece that the buyer envisioned. makes me happy to make others happy!
anyways...hopefully it'll warm up here.it was 70+ on saturday then it snowed last night. what the hell is that? at least i got some yard work done. our oldest daughter turns 10 on sunday and we usually are able to have the party in the backyard...not so sure this year! send warm, fuzzy vibes everyone!
i'd better get back to work. hope you all have an excellent day!
~fare the well~

I made the front page on Etsy!

yay! the treasury i was featured in made the front page of etsy tonight :) i tried to take a screenshot of the front page but guess what? my wallet sold before i could! so i got a screenshot of the treasury instead :) i'm so happy! i've had an icky day since waking up with my back killing me....after hobbling around in pain all day, this sure is a nice way to end the day! just thought i'd share :)

***Featured Artists Infinitecosmos***

hello folks! i decided to feature one of my favorite sellers that i have had the pleasure of doing business with. they are marlena and todd a husband/wife team who make beautifully crafted goods! i asked marlena to tell us a bit about themselves and their work and here is what she had to say.....

"Where to begin....we are a family run business of artists (Todd, the glass blower and Marlena, the computer/packing/shipping goddess and part time seamstress/designer ) with our lovely daughter Leona Fern and our many animals (2 dogs, 1 cat, 2 pygmy goats, 7 chickens, 2 alpacas and 2 sheep). We live out in the country and enjoy the simple pleasures in life such as gardening, tending to our many animals, seeing live music every once in a while, and hiking in the woods. So, in short, we're mellow, easy going, obsessively creative and ALWAYS looking for new ways to improve our business and crafts.

I started sewing when i was about 15. Before that i felt kinda lost and like i didn't have a purpose or talent but once i found sewing it was like a light went on in the creative part of my brain and all of a sudden you couldn't pry me away from my sewing machine with the jaws of life! Needless to say, my grades suffered but I felt like I had finally found my calling and there was no turning back!I became inspired to make my own patchwork clothing when i started going to Phish shows. I saw all these gorgeous mamas in their colorful clothing, selling arm loads of twirly dresses and apron tops in the parking lots and I was just like "oh my goddess, i want to be just like you!!" I remember being in awe of these mamas who would spend all winter and spring sewing away and when summer tour came around they would be able to support themselves by selling their wares. I eventually became one of the stitchin' patchwork dready goddesses that i had so envied in my early teenage years. I spent a couple years on the road making just enough money to get by on my sewing. My stitching style has evolved so much over the years. I first started using bright colored cotton calico fabric to make intricate patchwork apron dresses and such and slowly gravitated towards more sustainable fabrics such as hemp, bamboo and organic cottons. Nowadays, i enjoy incorporating recycled materials such as discarded feedbags to make purses and things like that. Shortly after I moved to Eugene, Oregon in 2001, I met my husband Todd and we joined forces and became Infinite Cosmos. He was the hot, dready (and single!!) glassblowing dude from the Eugene Saturday Market and I was the ragged, just-off-phish-tour sassy stitchin' mama: a match made in hippie heaven! Todd started blowing glass in 1999. He was lucky enough to have a roommate show him some simple techniques and with many MANY hours of practice, he soon became more comfortable behind the torch and developed and perfected many new techniques all on his own. Even though Todd has had a couple lessons early on in his glassblowing days, he really is the ultimate do-it-yourselfer and is 99% self taught! one of the keys to his success (besides his obvious talent!) is the fact that he has a really magnetic and charismatic personality without being obnoxious and overbearing. He has been selling at the Eugene Saturday Market for almost 13 years so he has all but perfected the art of in-person customer service. He has so many loyal return customers who come back to his booth at least a couple times a year (you can't imagine how many times a season i hear people say "you're my favorite booth here at the market! i buy something from you every time i'm in eugene!") and for that we are extremely thankful! Todd and I make a really great team because he is awesome at all the in person transactions at the market (and of course making all the glass!) and I am the "computer genius" (as he likes to call me!) who deals with all the online transactions/emails/shipping/etsy stuff.

These days, I have mostly been sewing for fun rather than profit and have mostly been helping todd sell his glass on our etsy shop. I am slowly getting my sewn items together and have been thinking about opening a separate etsy shop of my own. That is still just an idea but I have so much creative energy and would like to share my new styles with the etsy community!! We'll see how things go i guess....Over the years, we've grown our business more and more every year and the ideas on how to improve are always flowing through us. I'm so proud that we can make a comfortable living doing what we love because it really doesn't feel like work but rather profitable fun."

you can find marlena and todd's goods at the following places:
http://InfiniteCosmosGirl.etsy.com

http://icoregonglass.com

http://icoregongear.com

you can find their blog here:

http://icoregongear.blogspot.com

you can also find them on myspace at:

http://myspace.com/infinitecosmos420dotcom

please do take a minute and check out these kind crafters....you will not regret it. they provide great customer service and top notch goods!!!