100 SALES!!!

That made you look didnt it? wish I could say it was me, but alas no. (or at least not yet) This afternoon my team on Etsy 'Crafty Folk' clocked up 100 sales for their daily listing club for October, and its only the 17th. As a team we are very proud of this, as we are quite new and many of us have only been on Etsy for a month or so. Its a great team to be part of and we are growing daily, plenty of support for each other and the important promotion, infact again today I was added to a superb treasury which all helps to be noticed on such a vast selling platform.

Speaking of which I do find myself in a dilema about whether or not to stay on Folksy at all, I am so disheatened with it. More talented shops are closing each day due to the new rules which keep appearing at random, with the exception of some of the remaining sellers the forum isnt a very nice place to be, so much confusion of what is allowed and what is not? I know it doesn't affect me (so far) but the treatment of so many hard working crafters so close to the best selling time of the year cant help but make one think...

Must stop waffling and get to the point, whilst trying to think of who to feature from the team I decided to show off the most recent new members, so are some of them. I have chosen my favourite item from each shop, but if you would like to look at the item in more detail and the rest of the shop simply click on the picture and it will take you there.

Here are our latest Crafty Folk members from Etsy.

'Bluebell & Rosie' have this lovely patchwork cushion.



'Esme Dodsworth Design' with these simply gorgeous porcelain earrings



'Little Red Robin' with a Panda Bear Bracelet



'Garden Shed Silver' with one of her own creations, Silver Eucalyptus Leaf Earrings



'madebyclifford' new to the team, but I have 'chatted' with on Etsy, lovely person and what a great shop, here is one of her bugs - but there are other great ones too



'Vintage Jewellery Box' with a Bird of Paradise Ring



'CatsCeramics' with this lovely Wild Meadow Necklace




Lastly, me SimJaTa - I'm not as new as the others but still new to Etsy and still need some promo, so here is my latest addition to my shop.




I think I may have mentioned the clay making in my last blog entry, not as easy as it looked so taking a bit more time, even I am not brave enough to show those disasters on here. I am really enjoying 'trying' to create, but not quite managed anything worthwhile so far, but keep at it this week I might improve, sure cant get much worse!

Hope you are all staying warm, hands up all those with the heating on? we are holding out so far, but probably wont be much longer..

~Bags of Swank by SimJaTa~

Crafty Folk on Etsy

Since joining Etsy I have been lucky enough to have found the best team there, we have lots to do and spend our time as well as promoting ourselves - promoting each other. Our Team Leader 'Lillys night Garden' also was kind enough to start us up a daily list club, we are now on day 4 and enjoying viewing our new sparkly items and showing all on Facebook and Twitter, certainly keeps us out of mischief.


About time I showed off a few on here, so here are just a small selection of what is on offer from my superb team on Etsy.

Begin with our leader 'Lilly's Night Garden' and her latest dragonfly card



From 'Blue Daisy Glass' never too early for a Christmas Tree Decoration (you wont find these in high street shops)



'Gweddus Art' has this lovely ACEO of fantasy castles



Great to see 'Clover Jewels' join us, here are some hair pins from her, called Perfect Day



These gorgeous earrings from 'Lou Lous Luxuries' also have a matching bracelet in the Etsy shop



This would look great on your Christmas table, from 'Madmunknits' a Christmas Pudding tea cosy




'Mish73' has a super vintage finds shop going on, if you fancy a spot of knitting here is one of her patters




..and lastly from me here at Bags of Swank by SimJaTa, a new bag featuring a very cute Pug dog




Still an awful lot for me to learn on Etsy, hopefully this evening I will be joining in with the BNR? no, I dont know how that works yet but sounds fun, always good to learn new things keeps the grey matter in working order.
Speaking of which I have set another lot of resin to cure today, might even get brave enough to show you how that went next time.

~Bags of Swank by SimJaTa~