It is just one month away from Christmas Day, the only gift I have given any thought to is for my grandaughter.
I have been moaning about the fact that customers haven't been in the mood for shopping, but I am equally disorganised and disinclined!!
Today is market day, perhaps today will be "the day"!
I am going to have a look at shops on Etsy for some of my presents, best do it soon hey.
I have put the first of my jackets up in the shop, I like it let's hope others do to.
This months I have tried to become more active in the Etsybaby forum and wrote a tiny blurb for the Etsykids blogsite about TweedleBee and her gorgeous quilts.

More sewing, more photos.

Here is my poppy hat. This time I have added a coloured background to add interest.

I am pleased with how it turned out.

Etsybaby seems to be a very motivated and active team that are in the forums every day. I am still trying to post every day, although I am not online when the forums have the heaviest traffic, simply because I live in Australia and the time zones are so different.

Perhaps I should soend more time looking at and commenting on other peoples blogs. I'll see how that goes.

Strawberry Hat

Here is my little knitted strawberry hat. She went online today, along with one of the handbags.
I suppose I should put my goals for November up, although I am so busy with putting photos together I cannot spend too much time doing anything else, here goes.

• Get those booties that I should have done in October made and photographed this week.

• Get some more trousers made for boys as well as girls.
• Try to add to the blog at least twice a week

• TRY not to buy any more fabric or wool, I failed miserably last month.
• TRY to add something to the shop every couple of days
  

Frill skirt in photoshop & other things.

There are so many things going on at the moment that my brain is not able to keep up!
I have managed to add at least one item a day to the shop and a few people are looking, bless 'em.
I haven't made my goals for November yet, other than to just hang in there. The weather last weekend was miserable consequently there were not many customers at either Hall markets or Old Bus Depot.
I've been learning heaps about taking photos, photoshop and etsy. I think that I should take photos of dark and medium coloured things on a light background and white or light coloured things on a dark coloured background. Although taking photos with a model looks nice and gives the clothes life the backgrounds are sometimes so busy that it makes "photoshopping" time consuming. So when I use a little person to wear the clothes I will be leaving most backgrounds in the shot, after all most of my time should be spent making the clothes not sitting at the computer for hours!
This is a photo showing one of the skirts to go onto the shop, very sweet, took a couple of hours to cut out and sew, it took a couple of hours to choose the group of shots to go onto the shop and tinker with them enough to figure out I should leave the background alone and just crop!

My other lesson was to write down my passwords, twice this week I went totally blank for two different passwords! Another couple of hours were wasted trying to remember them getting help e mailing across to the other side of the world and feeling really, really stupid.