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Time to get back to normal.
Now that some of the buzz is wearing off about the E Giant I'm starting to settle in and my mind is racing about Mothers Day and the Americana Line. Of course Halloween never leaves me so I am drawing and writing things down. You know, just when you think you have found an idea that has lay dormant in the back of your mind and you go to start to create it. Then you go to the prim village and find that someone has already done it. OH BOY!! Back to square one cause the last thing you want to do is step on any one's toes. Sometimes you just go ahead and do it anyway but I find myself feeling like I shouldn't have. Then again if I don't no one will have a variation or choice of which one they like better and I could just keep rambling on about this but do you know what I mean? So just in case your reading this and may be one of those people, I just want you to know I don't do it on purpose or to take any glory away from anyone.
Oh well, back to work
Hope you have a wonderful day. . .
till next time

Bliss to you and thanks for visiting my blog

Free Shipping Community

So there's a new community for you to join and it's all about driving traffic to two other web stores, ecrater and etsy to promote business outside of the E Giant. Ecrater actually is offering a Ecrater Mall so you can set your store up and list it in the mall. Ecrater is totally free, no listing or sales commissions involved where Etsy, you pay .20 to list a a minimal selling fee but your items stay in the listings for 6 full months.

The E Giant is really getting costly to run and they are being unfair to the digital markets when I comes to selling digital transfer items such as patterns and hang tags, pictures etc. So go post and list on the free shipping link and drive traffic to your site as it's also free

Bliss to you

Penny

P.S. I created a new pattern, here's a peak

Free Shipping Community: It's Time to Bond As A Community Of Independant Online Stores

Free Shipping Community: It's Time to Bond As A Community Of Independant Online Stores

www.cranesnest.etsy.com

FREE SHIPPING AT CRANENEST.ETSY.COM

OK, There's this big buzz going on and people are really angry with the way one of every one's favorite buying and selling places is sticking it to the sellers. I'm an avid SBayer and use the site to buy and sell but they are totally out of line with the new policies on E Patterns, pricing to Power sellers, store owners and there is some talk about a huge boycott of the site. It used to be that everyone selling there had even billing when it comes to the first listed, first shown policies but things seem to be going haywire over there in the past month where they are setting things up by best match and using feedback percentages to rank how your items come up on the roster. Now when you search a product line the best sellers with the highest rankings come up first and they actually rank by sales instead of the time that an item is listed, so in order to see all items in that category you have to use the drop down list to pick how you want to see the items, as in "time ending", "newly listed" but people who don't use this site as much as others may be a little lost and uncaring about the changes causing people with less volume of sales or lower feed back percentages to be pushed to the wayside even though they are paying premium dollars to list the items they want to sell.
So, In an effort to drive traffic to other sources besides to the big guy, I am offering FREE SHIPPING on my other sights to drive traffic to those communities where I can sell my goods and pay less to do that.
Please join me at
cranesnest.etsy.com
cranesnest.ecrater.com
Springbrooksoapco.ecrater.com
Thank you for your support and for visiting my blog
Happy buying instead of bidding and free shipping too

Spring Equinox fools Wisconsin and brings more snow

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter or what ever it is that you celebrate. For me it is Ostara, which is the celebration of the spring Equinox when the moon and sun share equal hours. Yes, they both get even billing of 12 hours. No matter what it is we call our holiday it all comes down to the same thing, God, so I guess what we call it makes no difference does it? Spring has arrived in all it's glory and the full moon brought snow to the mid west. (a little trick it likes to play on us every now and again). It's actually quite beautiful and covered the spring thaw and mud for a few more days which is just fine with me. The little creatures had all come out of hiding so they weren't to thrilled with the coldness under their little feet but they know that this too shall pass. So I just put extra bird food, cracked corn and sunflower seeds in pie tins for them too. The robins have arrived and as of today they actually are digging worms from the unfrozen earth so it won't be long now before the warmth of the sun will be in full force bringing us the happy days of summer.

During the spring cleaning ( which for me is putting away the last of my winter decorations) I came across some art work that I have decided to put up for sale in my store pretty soon. ( pictured) It is of the Hallows Eve theme but I'm sure you'll enjoy them never the less. I must say, all in all that life is good and finding a few surprises I had stashed away makes it all the sweeter.

I have finished a few new epatterns and you can check those out at my store also as they're fun too. Thanks for visiting my blog and make sure you stop in my shop to see what's new. . .

till next time

with love and light,

Penny

Cranesnest.etsy.com

A Whole New World in E Patterns

So, I've been dreaming up some new stuff and thought, what the heck, maybe I'll try e pattern's. For those of you whom are not familiar with them, you create an item, in my case it's something along the primitive lines, even though I do go off in other directions sometimes leaning toward a creativity that I have not learned to manage yet. I believe that art comes from spirit. It's like a blending of personalities that just comes to the surface and it's always surprising to see what will develop when you just sit back and go with the flow of it. Being creative is sometimes not of yourself but a flow of the universe through you. Anyway, so I wrote a few e pattern's, which are patterns you draw up after creating something and then turn it into a PDF file and market the pattern instead of selling the original art. I have had a few problems getting them into PDF format as they are too large and so I have to edit them and then it's just not the same as it was in it's original context. I like to make sure there is no doubt in someones mind when they are attempting to follow a pattern to make something and so I struggle with the instructions to shorten them and still help the person recreating them. It's been frustrating and fun all at the same time. But e pattern's are interesting as they are like an affiliate program instead of selling an item, you are selling an idea and just guiding them along.

I have had the opportunity to chat with some of the folks at etsy, an online market place for handmade items, and they have been most gracious in helping me find my way with this new venture. I love the community at etsy. What a bunch of awesome shop owners. They are most friendly and helpful. I hope they know how much I appreciate them. I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to take a look,

Till next time. . . have a great day, thanks for stopping by ,

with love and light. . . Penny

Cranesnest.etsy.com