This weeks Featured Artisan on Share the Love – Blogger’s Unite is Caliope! Jazz up your warderobe with a stunning creation by Caliope. Visit her shop to see all of her beautiful works of art!!
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I just opened a new Wedding Shop on my website – Julia Hutchins Designs. Since I currently offer handmade, custom wedding jewelry on my site, I have lots of prospective brides coming to my site. I decided it was time to add a full fledged Wedding Shop for my customers. You can find everything from wedding planning help to items for the ceremony, and everything in between. I offer products from several different manufacturer’s, so you are sure to find what you are looking for in my shop!
Please visit the Wedding Shop at Julia Hutchins Designs today! Be sure to check out the Coupons and Deals (button is on the right hand side of the shop) section for some great savings!
Here is just a sample of what is available. To see the entire shop, click on this link – Wedding Shop
This summer, while I’ve been working full time to promote & market my online businesses (handcrafted jewelry and political gifts & apparel on Zazzle & CafePress), I’ve found so many great places to buy and sell handmade items! I thought that I should post about a few that I’ve joined, just in time for Christmas shopping! I plan on buying handmade gifts this year, and I have so many great places to shop now!
One of my favorite sites is ArtFire Studios. They have a beautiful site that is easy to navigate, easy to list, and they are so very much in tune with what their sellers want! They recently added an ArtFire kiosk that you can use on your Facebook profile or page, and the new coupon option is wonderful! (I have one of the coupons posted on my blog sidebar – be sure to use it if you order from me!)
To join in the fun and open your shop on ArtFire, click the link! You won’t regret it! Register on ArtFire.com
Here is my ArtFire Rapid Cart (another cool widget that they have)
Another place that I’ve been spending a lot of time at is Ning. There are so many groups to join on Ning! I’ve met some great new friends and fellow craftspeople there! I’m a member of several groups over there. Have you tried Ning? If you join, please let me know and I’ll add you as a friend! Here’s my Ning profile.
One of the most recent sites I’ve joined is called FuzzB – I just love that name! FuzzB is another place to buy and sell handcrafted and other items. I just opened my shop over there and really like the set up they have. You can even upload a video commercial to your profile! To join, click here Register on Fuzzb.com.
Here is a link to my FuzzB shop (again, using one of their super cool widgets)…
These are just a few of the many new sites and networks I’ve found and joined recently. I’ll add some more later. There IS a reason that they call it the “world wide web”. It’s just like a spiderweb, once you get started. If I wasn’t a multi-tasker before I started selling and blogging online, I would for sure be one now. I have no less than 5 or 6 tabs open on my browser at all times, and I’m constantly updating, adding, joining and traveling around the never ending web! I always think that I’ve joined just about everything that I can, and have seen it all, but every day I find more places to join and more friends to meet and things to do!
There have been lots of changes for me this summer! The biggest change is my big move…in May, I moved back to my small home town in Western Kansas. My parents are in their 70′s and 80′s, and needed somebody to help look after them and their home. Since my business is entirely online, I was able to easily (well… is any move easy?) move from my home in the Kansas City area back to the farm in small town Scott City, Kansas.
Moving was not fun! You see, in addition to designing jewelry, I also buy and sell vintage and antique items that I sell in my Ebay store. I have boxes and boxes of great stuff, and it was not fun to move! Luckily, I have a cousin who very much wanted me back home, and she just happens to run a moving company. She offered to pack us up and move us back home, and gave us a special “family deal”! They have a huge trailer, and let me tell you it was full! Jana and Fred Brittan were a special blessing to us! If you are in need of moving services in the mid-west, contact Windy West Moving Service at 620-872-2957 – 512 W. 5th Street, Scott City, KS 67871.
It has been an adjustment, but I’m really loving being back in a small town. I’ve already reconnected with old friends, and meeting new ones through my family and business! I’m getting ready for the Whimmydiddle, a huge arts & craft fair that takes place here every September. I’m getting excited!
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