Just a heads up!

Cool, I'll have to keep aneye out for your shop and try to be the first to send your shop a "heart" !!

Thank you will let you know when we get it up. Right now I am photoshopping some of the photos. Just the things that don't need to be there. Ainge

It's actually the first thread that shows at the bottom of the page inder this thread. I think it's in the hobbies section and it is Etsy.com. If I can find it again, I'll forward the link to the thread.

Ah rats, I'm still a couple of posts short of being able to copy and paste...LOL If you look at the bottom of this thread, you may see the other post.

Your welcome! Yes I am totally convinced that effort is 75% responsible for success on Etsy. Effort meaning promoting and getting invloved in the forums. The other 25% is creating something sellable and having it priced correctly. Etsy is very competitive and you either need to be one of the best at what you do and have a big outside following or you need to plug away in the forums, making friends, promoting your items (sounds alot like myLot)to have success.

It probably would be a good time to start. Income tax checks coming in, then the rebate checks in another few months... I can't believe how busy I've been so far this year. Not that I'm complaining...LOL Hope to see you on the Etsy site one day soon, mention your shop name so I can stop by and give you a "heart"!!

Actually, she did mention something about ETSY being on her website near the end of the segment. The segment wasn't what I expected... Martha seems to be impressed with the Etsy sellers that actually do the crafting and creating. The Friday show was with one of the founders of the site. While he brought a lot of items from some of the top Etsy sellers, he was looking to promote his site, while Martha wanted to talk about the crafters. (the word crafter made him cringe a bit, as Etsy refers to their sellers as artists) There was an Etsy seller on the Martha last Weds and she made baby clothes (customized onesies, I believe) after her segment on Martha, her shop made 50 sales that day! Etsy is competitive, but it really is a lot of fun. After my boys are in bed for the night, I split my evening on my laptop, promoting and chatting on Etsy & myLot!

Handmade clothing has been surprisingly very hot lately. Etsy has somethin new in the BUY menu called "Pounce". Pounce is a section that features sellers that have just recently sold an item and it shows 5 or 6 items still in the sellers shop. Quite often recently, Pounce is filled with clothes that have been sold over the past hour or so and I jave also seen the front page treasury filled with clothing items. Handmade and custom clothes seem to be very hot right now at ETSY! As far as mass-produced items, I don't believe that will ever happen (unless it is supplies) as it goes against everything that Etsy stands for...all handmade-all the time! You should seriously consider taking your clothes to Etsy, clothes is a super-hot catagory right now! Thanks for the comments!

I haven't look into the collage medium at Etsy.com all that much, but I do know there some sellers that sell collages. Etsy does offer free stores, with .20 listings that last for 4 months. As far as cost effective items, i think there is only one way to find out ; ) You never know what people are in the market for on Etsy, but very little surprises me on the site anymore. Thnaks for your comment!