More, more!

More listings are here and more are on their way!

I've started to list some of those beads that I've had around for ages but not yet done anything with. There's so many that would make really great projects but none that I can think of that I would have the time or materials to do.

I've been meaning to do some introductory sales, and I most likely will soon enough. Once I have a few more listings up, I think... I might also at that point in time shell out for a bit of advertising, perhaps.

It's pretty exciting to see the number of views on my items going up, even though I know some of them are people I've told to look. :P

Now selling!!

I've finally listed some items!

This is pretty exciting - the plunge has been taken!

I had been hoping to start off with a bang, putting as many items as I could all at once. Yeah - not exactly the best idea to begin with, I'm sure, but I'm ambitious like that. It certainly hasn't worked. It's been a lot of work, and there's still more to do, so I'm just going to take it one step at a time.

Now that I've started to list items I'm going to need to get my @#% in gear to get the rest out and off to the world.

My first batch is less than ten items and is being listed with the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in the background.

The items listed include Eve - one of my first and favourite wire pictures. It'll be a while before I can list any other like it.

There are also some of the "dimensional" pieces - so named because of the dimensions of colour in the metal. Although it may not be an appealing comparison it's not unlike the kindof rainbow you get in drops of oil, though perhaps less colours.

Another of my favourites is the "Expanding Heart" it's just pretty :D

Now on Flickr!

Okay - so there are a lot of steps I'm taking to get my shop set up. I set up the shop part (without the items), the blog, and now...

dun da naaa! - A Flickr account! Now I can show off pictures!

www.flickr.com/photos/30660528@N02/

The only thing I really have left to do is, 'gulp', list items.

I wonder if I'm subconsciously trying to prolong the last part for any particular reason.

I have been trying to get things ready, getting a bit of inventory of all the things I've done ready with pictures and descriptions and things like that.

It's an adventure, let me say... I think I'm just going to start listing what I have, and then continue listing things as soon as I get them ready. I have a lot of things that I've made, and the making always seems to be the easiest.

But why?

I feel as though I should be giving excuses as to why I need to have a blog. There are lots of reasons. A pretty big one is my ego.

Surprisingly more important than my ego, I want to find a way to promote my little store. It's great to see fun stuff and to buy it, but to have a chance at knowing who you are buying from and most importantly who makes what you are buying is something that I think is important. I always love the personal experience shopping is when it's someone you have gotten to know, whether by being local or just plain friendly. It's the feeling that you are receiving more than just the item and paying your money. You are having a discourse, an interaction, with someone and supporting them. What you get from that experience, and what you give, is far more than the sum of it's parts.

This blog is my opportunity to speak to you, to talk about my work, the crafts that I do, my experience trying to run a this smallest of small businesses among all the other things that I do.

(Wish me luck.)

Huzzah!

This is an exciting new thing... the arevera blog!