Last week I started a new Instagram account for my Etsy shop. I had been using my @meganmcgory account for Etsy related posts but realized I needed to break it out if I was going to grow my shop and traffic to it.
Follow here!
Search #mannequinreject for all the earlier posts under @meganmcgory.
So far I'm doing a daily "Button a Day" post where I feature different buttons! A couple other button collectors and I are also doing this, so check out #buttonaday. I think, after I amass enough photos of buttons, I'm going to offer button photo prints for sale through my smugmug and maybe even through Etsy. Maybe I'll do a photobook and sell that too. I am still a photographer and a writer, after all.
Check out #buttonaday ! Also #buttonlove
These buttons sold a couple months ago.
In other news, it's FINALLY spring! And that means it's time for SPRING CLEANING, which I've been dying to do because my craft room (above) sure as heck isn't that clean right now, and the rest of the house needs a good do-over. We've only been here just over a year but my god with all the baby stuff that he's growing out of and all the stuff we never really finished, the whole house looks like it's exploded from every angle you look at it.
Meanwhile, this morning I had my biggest Etsy sale EVER. So big that it actually trumped every MONTH's worth of sales on Etsy EVER. I just about fainted. However, I had just awakened when I saw the email and promptly made myself an entire pot of coffee, since I'm the only one around here who drinks it.
Biggest. Sale. EVER. And they were all the boho bracelets --one rainbow bracelet and two others. Why did I not think to make those sooner? Wow!
A part of me wants to get out of selling vintage clothes. I've had a bunch of clothes in the shop going on 7 years now and (as I usually do) I go through phases of wanting to sell off the entire lot and be done with it. They are just so much work and I have about 75 pieces of clothes to list and it takes all day to do just 1/10th of that if I were working on it full time. I hate to say I just don't have that kind of time, because a 5 month old demands a lot of work. There is no such thing as putting in a solid 8 or 12 hours of work on dresses right now, unless I had help, and I don't make enough money to hire an assistant. So...the dresses either have to go or they have to wait. I'm not sure what I should do there.
