500 Sales Part 3

My third etsy store is called ButtonsBanglesandWeeds. It is mostly for my vintage button jewelry and bangle bracelets, but I also sell my destash supplies there as well. Beads and buttons. I am a flea market addict, in addition to my other addictions like knitting, weaving, jewelry making, crafting, so every Sunday, religiously, I find more crap I don't need. Well, when I see it I think I need it, but then I get home and realize I really didn't. So, for all you beaders, jewelry makes and vintage button addicts, check out my etsy store, and you may find something you really need. My prices are ridiculously low, but it is all because I need to sell things. Celebrate #500 with me, buy something and make it 501.

Goals

I'm not really a goal person, hate being pressured to perform, rather let things happen as they will. So setting myself a goal to list 100 items on my etsy store threads in the bed is something I don't usually worry about. But some of my teamies say that the optimum number of items listed is 100 and that is when you get the sales and looks, so I just realized I am at 96 items, so I am going to hurry up and list 4 more just so I can say I did.

Novelty yarns make up most of the items in this store as I have to destash, I just have too many, so I am trying to list a few a day, but danged if someone doesn't up and buy a few every day or so, not that I'm complaining mind you. I love when someone finds some of their favorite yarns and are excited about it and come back to shop again.

The other day I googled a yarn I have been looking for made by Trendsetter, one of my favorite yarn manufacturers, and my store came up about 5 down on the google page as someone who sells Trendsetter yarns. It was quite a funny feeling, of course it listed my buttons bangles and weeds store, which hasn't had yarn in a few years, as I moved my destash to my threads in the bed store, it just seemed more logical to put fibers with fibers.

I have been bad about listing beads and buttons in that etsy store, as I decided to sort them and take pictures just before I list them, but the weather doesn't always cooperate for taking pix when you need them. So my new goal, oh no not another one, will be to list my vintage buttons and beads more regularly. Like a lotto ticket, you can't win if you don't have one, I need to get my buttons and beads listed in order to sell them, duh.

So many goals for this old broad, tweet on twitter, post on your blog, get promoting on facebook, list new items, and still make time to clean the house, work in the garden, etc. - oh the heck with that, the house just gets dirty again, and the weeds just keep popping up. Why bother.

Almost Here - Team ESST Weekend Extravaganza

The tension is mounting, excitement is in the air, the approximately 25,000 supplies listed by Team ESST members are ready to be viewed by an excited public. Please check out my fellow team members who are selling such wonderful supplies, all types of things for crafters, jewelers, and others.

My personal items for sale are buttons and beads in my http://www.buttonsbanglesandwee.etsy.com/ etsy store, my wonderful destash of novelty yarns, with many name brands such as Trendsetter, Crystal Palace, Plymouth, Berroco, Knitting Fever, and all at half the original price, at http://www.threadsinthebed.etsy.com/ and I have just reinstated my third etsy store, http://www.sallycrafts.etsy.com/ for the craft supplies that I can't resist buying and then can't get around to doing anything with. Too little time, too many addictions, and that dear friends is why I am destashing from 3 different stores.

Please go to etsy this weekend and click on Team ESST and choose your favorite thing to play with and the etsy stores that sell them.

ESST Weekend Extravaganza

February 26th and 27th are the EtsySupply Team's Weekend Extravaganza dates and I have been posting new items in all 3 of my etsy stores, as well as adding them to my Flickr photostream. www.flickr.com/people/threadsinthebed/photos I think. I have been adding photos all week as I have been really bad at adding photos before that.

The weekend extravaganza should be quite exciting, so far the ESST has almost 25,000 items listed on etsy from its members, so anyone looking for supplies should have a huge shopping weekend. My etsy store www.buttonsbanglesandwee.etsy.com has vintage buttons and beads and I have very reasonable prices and pay shipping for any 3 or more items purchased.

My www.sallycrafts.etsy.com store does the same, buy 3 or more craft supplies and I will refund your shipping. There are a large variety of supplies in this store, and more coming.

My www.threadsinthebed.etsy.com store is mostly yarn destash, and since I am selling them all at half of the original price, I do not usually offer any other incentives. But for the weekend extravaganza I will be offering refunded shipping for any purchase of 3 or more yarns.

Check out the ESST sellers, you will be glad you did, and I will be right there with you shopping for supplies.

Exciting Scrolling Photos

Wow, a new (to me) site called cr8tivity allows you to show all your items in all your etsy stores in a scrolling photo display. I just downloaded one for all 3 stores. The exciting part is you don't have to go to the etsy store, you can purchase items right here, right now, directly from my blog.

It was a bit of a problem to non-techie me to get them hooked up, but now they are happily scrolling, over there to the right. The yarns and handmade scarves, handbags, etc. for Threads in the Bed are first, as they are my very best sellers, followed by Sally Crafts with all my craft destash, which has been doing quite well too, and lastly by Buttons Bangles and weeds destash with vintage buttons and beads, and of course my famous vintage button brooches, just going from one item to the next. How exciting. Now I need to get more followers to check them out.

Supplies for your addiction

Hello everyone, I am now selling supplies on all 3 of my etsy stores, buttons and beads on http://www.buttonsbanglesandwee.etsy.com/, yarn destash, mostly novelty yarns but many others on http://www.threadsinthebed.etsy.com/, and most recently I have brought http://www.sallycrafts.etsy.com/ alive again to sell my craft supplies that I can't resist buying and think someday I will do something exciting with, and, well you all know how it is.

So please check out my 3 TeamESST stores and the many, many other Etsy Supply Team stores, I find many wonderful things to buy from my teamies. Just look for the Supplies team under Team profiles, it is broken down by the things we sell.

Team ESST Weekend Extravaganza

This weekend, Sept. 5 and 6, the Etsy Supply Street Team is sponsoring the Weekend Extravaganza for September, and all Etsians are invited to join in, not just supply sellers, but also handmade and vintage. My etsy store ThreadsintheBed will be adding new novelty yarns for the occasion, and I have just begun listing vintage buttons in my Buttonsbanglesandweeds
etsy store. Please check out Etsy and the TeamESST threads to add your comments. Sally

Finally It's Done

So happy, I just entered my blog on the EtsyFAST team blogroll and hopefully can start showing my team members as followers. I do think perhaps I made a mistake calling my first post Virgin Blogger's. I hope I don't get a bunch of perverts, but won't they be disappointed when all I have to offer is yarn, beads, buttons, button jewelry and handmades. Well, just a little celebration that I actually did it.

Virgin Blogger's First Post

Well, I started this last Saturday, and many problems with google and blogger caused my first blog, ButtonsandThreads to disappear, so my mama didn't raise no dummies, it only took me a week to realize that I could start a new blog and name it ThreadsandButtons, and have the same things as the other one, but actually have a blog someone could find (I hope). So wish me luck and I will be entering my blog on the EtsyFAST team blogroll and hopefully adding you all as my followers.