Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Okay, my first adventure in blogging.

Plagued by doubts that anyone will actually care to peruse my day-to-day, I press on. I'm blogging, me, for a variety of reasons. I have started a new business and I hope this will provide much needed publicity and give buyers a window into the heart of their budding jewelry designer. Hey, I'm honest! Also, I think maybe if I share some of my thoughts with the world, perhaps I can experience more of it in return than time and money and circumstance allow.
My world has closed in of late, day job, religious commitments, tiny apartment...lather, rinse, repeat... Not to say at all that I don't have happiness; I'm proud to have an amazing husband, good friends, future plans...they are all bright stars in my sky. I'm just the type of girl that will always want a bigger sky.
Therefore, I am taking my love of jewelry out for a real test drive. I was the teenager that had more jewelry of the handmade, friend made, and (eek!) Claire's varieties than I did clothing. To me, clothes seemed like an impossible medium of expression for the shyer, plumper girl, but with jewelry I could do anything I wanted. So, I am taking my favorite medium of expression and a tiny start up budget (that I have stretched really, really transparently thin) and a beautiful friend's introduction to Etsy.com and transforming it into my very own storefront. I am so proud of my little store, I could totally burst. I don't have any kids yet, but it's probably even better than this, so bursting may be an inevitable eventuality.
If you have time to check out the store, please do! Let me know what you love, what you hate, or what you want to see next. Thanks for reading about my little corner of reality and my big (to me) new venture.

5 comments:

  1. Welcome to the blogging world. You are off to a good start. Be sure to look through the etsy promotions forum and join in on the threads that are about blogs, getting blog followers, and those "Have you blogged today" posts. :)
    I am your very first follower. Hope you'll pay my blog a visit.

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  2. Vary nice blog. I am just starting out as well. Good luck to both of us. Keep it up.

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  3. Welcome welcome to etsy, found you in the Making New Friends thread. i am a newbie myself, just over a month and I'm liking it so far. I also have a blog and like you I need to do some marketing so maybe tonight I need to update my posts. My last one was in December lol.

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  4. Very nice blog! I love the color palette you have chosen and the layout is great too. I checked out your Etsy shop. Very nice, I especially love the strawberry quartz!

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