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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

To Etsy or Not To Etsy

Once upon a time I was the proud owner of an Etsy shop. I had homemade items in it like baby tutu's

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Pumpkin Fun

and scarfs with flowers on them:

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and little baby cocoons

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I also had little baby beanies but I seem to have misplaced my pictures of them. I counted my etsy shop as a success when I started getting orders in, and then more and more orders came in. Pretty soon, I was rushing home from my 8-5 job to then spend 4-5 hours a night busy crocheting so that I could meet my order deadlines. After a few months of this my wrists started tingling...uh oh, big problemo. Then, I had a few large orders get lost in the mail, (thanks a lot postal service!!!) and the customer had not purchased insurance....and in my stupidity I didn't post in my store policies that you are SOL if you don't purchase your own insurance....I had to RE-CROCHET everything in that large order. At that point I was at my wits end...and I deleted everything in the store and closed up shop.

BUT....lately I've been feeling crafty...should I start this madness up again????

3 comments:

Olivia Carter said...

I say go for it! lOVE YOUR STUFF!

Kenzie said...

They are very cute... maybe you should

Kenzie said...

wait I know, made a bunch then just keep replacing them.. you might get ahead :)