Showing posts with label Toad Suck Days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toad Suck Days. Show all posts

4.03.2008

Marketing and Rain

As I said in a previous post, a fellow AREtsian is handing out some AREtsy street team promo bags at Toad Suck Days. I've been waiting on some new business cards from Zazzle.com to come in before I could put together some promos to send down to her. Well, the new cards are in and I'm quite happy. I was kind of hoping for the same quality I found in the Moo cards, these aren't quite the same. BUT they are very nice and perfect for what I'm doing.

Aside from the promo bags, these will be perfect for craft shows. They are unique, show off my product, and aren't so small (like Moo cards) that they will get lost in pockets and purses. I can't wait to start getting them in people's hands and pointing them to my shop.

I'd like to retract what I said about weather in my last post. I'd rather have some colder days than rain drenched ones. I do understand that rain is quite important to my other passion (gardening) but I'm a bit tired of it right now. It's just rained, rained, rained, and rained this spring. No sprinkling, pitiful rain, but RAIN. Ditches are overflowing, rivers are up, creeks are flowing where I didn't even know creeks existed - let me tell you, it's RAINING this spring. It is doing nice things for my herb garden. The parsley is gorgeous, the oregano stunning, catnip and mint as envasive as ever, and chives are coming up where they didn't come up last year. I can't wait to get the basil and other goodies into the ground.

I'm off to do a bit of swimming in the lake that is now my backyard and then off to make promo items.

3.29.2008

Is the weather confused?


If I didn't know any better, I'd say we're still smack dab in the middle of winter. We had a few beautiful days in a row this week with weather warm enough for short sleeves. However, I woke up yesterday to a cold and gray day. Today is cold, gray, and rainy. It's hard to believe it was spring a few days ago.

I'm still going forward with some spring designs and preparing for the craft show in May even though I want to cuddle up under a blanket on the couch and eat cookies and drink tea. Thankfully, my being on the front page the other day is still fueling my desire to sit and make wonderful things. I did a few bracelets today and might sit down to a few pairs of earrings like the ones above.

Today would have been a perfect day to work on some promotional items I'm sending down to TwistedPurl for her weekend at Toad Suck Days (yes, it's Toad Suck Days) later this season. But alas, I'm at the mercy of Zazzle while waiting on my new business cards to get here. I'm planning on tying coupons to business cards. The cards have pictures of my items so hopefully that will entice people to come do a bit of shopping on my Etsy shop. It will be my first time to send some promo items to another shop owner to pass out and I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity to do so. Thanks, TwistedPurl!