Publication News.. Craft Fair Update..

I am very honored to be published in Fox Channel's My9 News - NJMyWay blog ( online blog that feature food, shopping, businesses, events and good causes around the state of New Jersey ).

I got in touch with HauteKeys on Etsy who was looking for local artisans to feature in her article. She was so sweet to include my little shop as well in her article - Jersey Crafters On Line

I also had my first Holiday Boutique Craft Show last week. It was a great experience. I packed up everything carefully and forgot to take one important thing, guess what - a CAMERA. So sorry friends, I don't have picture of my booth setup but if I say so myself, I was quite impressed with how it came together. I took all the help from Etsy forums regarding Craft Shows that I could get regarding table display, approaching customers, etiquette and everything in between.

I didn't buy anything new for the setup as this was my first craft show and I haven't planned on doing more shows for this year.

I used everything that I could find around the house.

I already had Bed Risers that I used to raise the height of my table. I then put a queen size bed sheet as my table cloth ( worked perfectly fine ) which covered all 3 sides ( front, and 2 sides ) so I could hide all the boxes and extras underneath the table without showing mess to the customers. On top of the bed sheet, I laid a lace bathroom shower curtain which looked very sophisticated.

I then started setting up products. I took 4 white trays in which I put my Post It Holders. I raised height of 2 trays by putting white boxes beneath them - it gave height variation and added more interest. I put all my Scrapbook Albums in a rectangle basket and few for display outside on the table.

I took 2 cheap plastic shoe racks which were easy to assemble/disassemble and added Checkbook Covers, Passport Covers, and Business Card Covers by putting them on hooks. They were exactly at the eye level and drew lot of people to the table.

I had one design open of each cover if somebody wanted to touch and see them :)

For Magnetic Calendars, I took a cookie baking tray with me which stayed nice and tall showing each one in detail.

I know its hard to visualize all these without a picture, but what can I say I totally forgot to bring a camera in all the hurry and excitement :(

The response was good whoever stopped at the table but there were not many people who came for the event.

Its not that hard to explain to people about your own product. I wasn't sure if I would be able to say anything to people looking at my products and market them effectively. Response was good so I can say I can do my own marketing in future face-to-face ( my biggest worry ).

So overall, I would say I gained lot of experience, found out I can do marketing and made some money while doing it!

Publication in Magazine - OWL Post It Holder

I am so excited to share with you that this OWL Post It Holder has been featured in April 09 edition of Pregnancy Magazine.

Etsy Front Page, Feature on Scrapscene.com and few more Amy Butler Post It Note Holders..

So yesterday I was just casually checking the stats of my shop at around 1:15PM on majaba.org now craftcult.com ( a site to check Etsy shop and item hearts ) and saw that I had 10 new shop hearts in just one minute so immediately I knew something big had happened. I checked the item hearts and found that the Amy Butler Danmask Post It Holder that I had listed just sometime back had 132 hits.. I knew either someone has put me in Treasury or something but then I never had so many hits even after being featured in a Treasury.. I was wondering and went on Etsy homepage and what I see is that the Danmask Post It Holder is on the Front Page of Etsy. I was over the top and could not believe my eyes!!! I was doing a happy dance :) The page was curated by Admin based on Recently listed items. Here are some screenshots of it :)



Borrowed from Etsy Front Pager's group on Flickr -




Another good thing that happened 2 days back was when I had a Flickr Mail from Angie from Scrapscene.com who wrote to me that she wanted to feature Zebra Print Post It Holder ( the one that I shared with you in the last post ) in one of the articles that she is doing on Scrapbooking Trends. You can checkout the article and other scrapbooking trends on her website at ScrapScene.com.

Today I share with you few Amy Butler Post It Holders available in shop in celebration of making it to Front Page on Etsy :)

Featured in Etsy Treasury..

I found this calendar in one more treasury this morning. Such an eye-catching collection. Made my day!!

Another from 2 days back -


I was very pleasantly surprised to find my calendar featured in this lovely treasury - Holiday Cheer. I was just browsing through the treasury lists to check the number & expiry time to see if I can curate one myself & came across the little yellow star on the list which means your listing has been featured in this treasury :) Its always nice to find unexpected surprises :)

Birdie Desk Calendar - Featured on another blog!

Elisa from MyBoutique was very kind to feature this 2009 Birdie desktop calendar on her blog for the holiday gift guide. She is running 2008 gift guide series every friday. This is second in the series - "Stocking Stuffer" gift guide - Friday @ 5

Don't forget to checkout her Etsy shop for some really cool jewelry - http://MyBoutique.etsy.com
Thank you Elisa :)