etsy

Feathers and Seahawks and Blogging; OH MY!

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I’m back!

Well technically I’m bed-ridden because of my back, but we’re not splitting hairs here.

If you’re one of the handful of people who follow me on Instagram you may have noticed I’ve been crafting more lately. Lots of feathers and hair pieces. Time to set up an Etsy for myself, I think.

I’m still selling craft goodies for my Aunt over here and that’s going ok.

So back to my back. Or spine I should say. I have a strained lumbar. Three days off work ugghggh. Well, I’m okay with the not working part, but not the lack of pay. You’ve gotta work to make that skrilla!

I have been meaning to jump back into blogging though. I just need to get my shit together.

Commerce

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My sister sells stuff on Etsy.com and makes money. I’ve considered the idea but never really ran with it. You see, while I can do a lot of crafty stuff my attention span for it is very limited. However, I am really really good at Crochet. I taught it in Oregon as well as doing demo’s and making hats here and there for my friends. I’ve worked on projects privately but never for any sort of income, or expected sales. People just don’t like crochet. Or so I thought.

I browsed around Etsy and decided to see what kind of random shit people were crocheting and trying to market these days. And then I see shit like this: http://www.etsy.com/shop_sold.php?user_id=5178081 Okay, so what the fuck. People are actually buying these?! I can make these!

So I decided to try my hand at making a beret/tam/whatever-the-fuck hippy/indie hat. http://twitpic.com/1csmfu It wasn’t very hard, that’s for damn sure. I kept track of my pattern and just improvised as I went along. I actually never had to frog (pull out) any of the rows. That surprised me.

Now I’m on a hat kick. Haha. Ironic. I always thought people didn’t like crochet. Hopefully I can make some money on the side.