Seller Spotlight - Dayzee Love Designs

Seller Spotlight: Dayzee Love Designs @ Etsy

* Tell me a little about yourself?
My name is Stacey, often confused with Dayzee and I am a Graphic Designer / Games Tester from Birmingham.

* What is your shop name and what do you sell?
My shop name is Dayzee Love Designs. I create custom designs for business cards, labels, pin buttons and various other promotional items.

* What inspires you to create?
I love video games, music and cakes, these three things along with my partner have motivated a lot of my own work. My customers are very inspiring too, helping them create what they had envisaged is a very exciting process and the lovely feedback they have left me makes the long hours worth it.

* What is your favourite item from your shop?



* How and where do you promote your shop?
http://dayzeelove.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/dayzeelove
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dayzee-Love/122895620318
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6413132

* What do you find to be the biggest challenge of running your own shop?
The biggest challenge is finding the time to fit it all in. Sometimes there just isn’t time to create new items then get them listed so you can give your customers some more ideas. Procrastination also plays a big part.

* What advice would you offer to new sellers?
I think you should get in the forums and in chat and make as many friends from around the world as you can. This is the best way to learn about Etsy and running your own shop.
Finding a local team is also a good way to get more regional / local advice and to feel like you have a closer connection to the community.

Fun Questions -
* Favourite Colour? – Purple / orange
* Favourite Book? – Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
* Favourite Music? – Drum n Bass
* Favourite Season? - Autumn
* Favourite independant sellers? There are many but I am just going to list 5.FullTilt, LucidOpticLab, Dr Strychnine, MissElany, Titchables (aww thanks!!).

WIP

I thought I would show you a little sneaky peak at some of the new brooches I finished at the weekend. I bought the teeny tiny pom pom trim a while ago and was racking my brain for a use for it - finally decided it would make a cute border. :)

I really love how these turned out. I will probably start listing them tomorrow. Just waiting on some decent light - very dark and rainy today!

Flickr Friday - Spring!

Well Spring has definitely arrived. Pretty flowers, lovely blue sky - it's even starting to feel a smidge warmer outside! Yay!


1. Spring snail magnets, 2. spring boxes, 3. Girl in Spring Flower Garden Original Mixed Media Collage Painting by Sascalia, 4. spring antlers, 5. spring chicks, 6. Tone - a breath of spring!, 7. Bunny Gardener Yarn Wreath, 8. yellow tweets, 9. A Spring bracelet

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Don't forget about my Free Shipping on handmade items over at the Titchables Etsy Shop! Continues until Monday at Midnight!

Special offer!

Hi all! Hope you have all had a good week so far. Just wanted to let you know about a special weekend offer I am doing over at the Titchables Etsy shop!

You may or may not be aware, but this week is Euro Week on Etsy. Because I am hugely unorganised, I hadn't really thought to do anything to celebrate but I thought I would do a special offer for the last few days.

From the moment this post goes live until Monday at midnight, I am offering FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING on ALL HANDMADE ITEMS - this also includes the fabric buttons sets. To claim this offer, just progress through checkout as normal and EITHER wait for me to send a new invoice OR pay and I will refund the postage via paypal asap!

Sorry I can't extend this to my craft supplies, but I can't afford to do that right now. :)

So check out the Titchables Etsy shop!

Seller Spotlight: Pink Tiger Textiles

Seller Spotlight: Pink Tiger Textiles @ Etsy

* Tell me a little about yourself?
Hello, my name is Anna and I'm currently based in Hull, East Yorkshire.

* What is your shop name and what do you sell?
My shop name is Pink Tiger Textiles and I sell textile related goodies. Embroidered wall hangings are my speciality but I also dabble in illustration and accessories.

* What inspires you to create?
Lots of things I guess, could be a piece of fabric I've found that has a great print on it that I know I could turn into a great product, or something I've read about or seen. I think animals are a big inspiration for me, I like to try and create characters from them!

* What is your favourite item from your shop?
I have a couple of favourites so it's hard to choose but I would have to say this item is my fave (below). I think it is because of the time it took, there's a lot of embroidery involved..so it feels worth the effort!


* How and where do you promote your shop?
I promote my shop on Facebook

* What do you find to be the biggest challenge of running your own shop?
The time it takes to promote! At first I thought Etsy would be easy, I'd just add items to sell and they would, but now I know that you really have to put the time in to actively go on the forums and promote your wares.

* What advice would you offer to new sellers?
To promote! haha, that and have fun and try not to get too upset if you haven't had a sale in a while...it can be disheartening but Etsy is a big place!

Fun Questions -
* Favourite Colour? It changes quite a bit but I do love Navy blue :)

* Favourite Book? The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

* Favourite Music? I like lots of different genres of music, but at the moment my favourite band is Friendly Fires. They're amazing live!

* Favourite Season? Autumn, the season I was born in and I just think it's so inspiring!

* Favourite independant sellers? There's a little shop near me in Hull called Pollyanna which is great, it sells lots of cute and interesting gifts, a lot of them handmade by local people too. On Etsy I love Polkadotscloud, really quirky illustrations!

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Thank you Anna for taking part in this week's seller spotlight!

If you would like to be featured on an upcoming spotlight, feel free to send me an email here: titchables(at)gmail(dot)com. I welcome any kinds of artists/sellers so do get in touch!