twocatscreative, how old is your son?  My middle son had food allergies and it was difficult, but now he has outgrown them.  Feel free to email me if I can help.

Suggestion:  Create a thread with a to-do list for the dlisters and let people volunteer for certain tasks and list things some people are already doing. That way, we can take some of the stress off of you, and share in the responsibilities.  That can also be the place we go to see what resources we create for ourselves as we go.

I'm feeling much better now and want to help.  I can host a chat if you want.

Ok i'll try to get a to-do list together today and hopefully get it posted. I have to do some grocery shopping today and get a towel order mailed out to my mother in law otherwise i'm not crazy busy.

Try not to get too discouraged.  At least for me there was a big downer after the initial adrenalin rush of starting up.

Your stuff is soooo unique.  I think it will sell for sure if you can just get it in front of the right people.  Have you tried museum shops??  Seriously, I have not seen anything like your stuff.

BTW I'm still interested in getting some book origami just don't have the finances just yet.  Makes me think though.  What about targeting publishers.  I showed the work to the author of the book I wanted origamied (is that a verb?).  He was psyched and wanted to photograph it if I got it done.  I've been trying to sell your work to my husband as sort of "thank you's" to high selling authors.  Right now he's hearing nothing as he is off to Frankfurt Germany for the big book fair.

In any case it's ok to take a little break.  Sometime's the inspiration comes when your least thinking of it. 

Christl

Anyone else a little burnt out?  Since selling the majority of my inventory to a local store I have been crazy busy trying to restock.  I have another shop that saw prior inventory and was interested as well.  So now I basically have to restock 2X before I can get my etsy shop off vacation mode.  I really really should not complain I know.  But I am tired.  I knit and felted 2 hats yesterday and 2 scarves and a sample child hat today. I think the thing that's bugging me the most is that I am basically re-creating what I've already done.  I'm almost tired of cats.  I want to try to make something new but thats on the back burner for now.  Anyway please disregard my rant.  I should wish these kind of problems on the rest of you who haven't had sales (well not the burn out part).  Anyway I'm taking the night off (well not actually since I haven't cleaned since hubby left for Germany ).  Errr did I even brush my teeth this morning?  LOL

So he might consider the 10 we have outside too many?  Just kidding.  We live in the middle of nowhere and started with just 2 cats and it is amazing how they reproduce!

I had one inside and it was too much with the kids.  So he had to go out.  It was a bit sad though because I bottlefed him.  He is enjoying it outside though.

Ok PMS bout over.  Glass of wine, pizza and cheesy tv and I'm feeling cat love again.    I wish I could have a cat.  We will probably get one but my 13+ year old weimaraner (big dog) would probably keel over at the stress of a kitten.  He's getting so batty that if he farts too loud he jumps up and looks all startled at the ground.  LOL I wish I could capture that for America's funniest home videos.

I want to let you guys know that this week I might be missing in action...I'm working with my dad to set up a business structure and will be in and out of the house all week to go to meetings with him and his boss to sign papers and get things going. FYI my dad works for a company that sets up LLC's (limited liability corporation) and other corporate/non-corporate business structures and they're setting mine up for me for free Yeah I said it FREE! It normally costs about $500.  And I found out today that my dad's boss is hooking it up as a bonus type thing to my dad since he's been kicking so much butt at the office lately, and as a favor to me since he knows me ( I used to work there). I'm really excited about this! It should really help me get some things that I need to progress forward with growing the shop.

Yeah I'm pretty excited about it. I know this isn't a cheap thing to have happen, and for my old boss to foot the bill is even cooler!

lol the boobie shop is hilarious. I mean really, she's selling scarves and womens shirts...focusing on your enormous boobs is not going to appeal to the female buyer.

OMG dude Christl...i've been sitting here look at this for awhile....this...this one is just strange....and people have actually bought things from this person.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5431377

this picture makes me laugh a little but at the same time want to cry. Dude...how can this person have over 400 sales with photos like this.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20674474

and again with the vagina/uterus stuff....come on. seriously? I can't sell kitchen towels...but this person can sell underwear with uterus pictures on the front...what the hell?

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=82284

ok and last but not least, why oh why would I want to wash bloody items in my washing machine. I"m already fairly disgusted by that time of the month, I most definately don't want to wash my pads and re use them.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5457624

*sigh* what are people thinking when they come up with this stuff. I just don't get it. seriously....

LOL no kidding...it's like damn...can't you put that thing down for like 10 secs while you take photos...or better yet...just don't be in the photo HAHA!

Yeah, I like having these towels in my diaper bag. I usually hang one on the stroller Maybe I need to start including that kind of usage in my descriptions.