The Etsy Shop is finally up!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/oldknittylady
Spent some little while yesterday trying to figure out how to put a link to an Etsy listing into a WordPress post. I will be spending more time on this. There is progress, but it is slooooow.
And then there is my Listing Process, which I am trying formally to organize, and which is also slooooow.
And so far, the only actual fun I am having with my Listing Process is getting the pieces ready to mail. My photographs are boring; the descriptors are dull. But I like to make the packages pretty: all wrapped up in felt with hand cut envelopes and elegant embellishment (that is, stickers). And yet even with this, there is aggravation.
If you are tempted by one of these volumes in the Barnes and Noble … resist. They have them for several subjects, this is the Botanist’s Sticker Book … but the stickers don’t stick. My researches to date: if you want to use them on your brown-grocery bag-junk journal pages, they will peel up. If you want to use them on cardstock or even your 20-lb recycled white, they will peel up.
Damned annoying. Paint them with some white glue, apply, and they will wrinkle up. My next effort will involve some spray adhesive, but that is so messy, I’m stalling. It’s lovely to know my susceptibility to “pretties” has got me ripped off, yet again.
Still, I decided that on my mailing packages, the stickers can just peel up. There is a limit to how much a sensible person fusses over such things, and it will use the stickers up … and the spray adhesive may allow for the production of decoupaged boxes during my next spate of house/cat sitting, some months off. We persevere. We make the best.
But it’s more than I really want to be thinking about. My semi-retirement is supposed to be about less thinking and less stress. Frankly, this whole project has been altogether stress-laden. (I will quit obsessing and get back to the post at hand.) I posted in my Etsy Shop two snake chains, and I want to fix them up for mailing (should they actually sell) so they stay clean and don’t get damaged, and are all ready to just slip into a padded envelope and take to the post office.
I unhooked the necklace, and wound it flat, and stitched it into some enveloping felt.
Then I folded some cardstock into an envelope, and stuck stickers . . .
. . . wound some yarn round and made a bow.
Finally, a little piece of card stock naming the contents gets slipped into the packaging. And then it sits in the storage box with all its fellows for some months to come. When and if it ever sells, I will not have to try and remember which pretty envelope contains what !
How’s that for process.
An Old Knitty Lady 