The best years I had on Etsy were 2008 and 2009, and I spent the morning editing old posts in this blog so that it would hopefully remain relevant if anyone wanted to see my earliest beginnings. I stopped focusing on Etsy during mid-2010 when my photography career took off, and I spent the next two years building that. For more information, see my website: http://meganmcgory.com .
I'm up to 332 Etsy sales, 2 artfire sales, and over 100 positive feedback on eBay, and I'm hitting Etsy hard as I come up on a new period of extended-no-day-job-ness.
Not like I'm losing the post office job, I have that as long as I want it. I left it once, I went back. Now I'm preparing for a maternity leave and am using it as a springboard to hopefully build my Etsy store like I never did before.
In the past month, the size of the shop has tripled and I now have more listings than I ever did in 2008/09/10.
What else has changed in the past five years?
Damn near everything.
I have a new camera. My last posts mentioned my learning process with the Canon Rebel XS I had just received the previous January. I have all new lenses, two Canon 7D's and when I look at my product photos from 2008, frankly, I'm embarrassed. lol Go see the part about my photography career taking off. There's an ebb and flow to the working world now. Maybe there always has been.
Oh, and since my blog idolizes Lunatic Sophie Saab, let's update that too.
#operationrescuesaab on Instagram.
My 1984 Saab 900 S served me well until January 2010 when it stalled in the road five times on my way home from the post office, a distance of 1/2 mile, and I pushed it home. I parked it that day. I couldn't afford to keep dumping money into it and mechanics were raking me over the coals. Turns out there was nothing wrong with it but a bad battery (that I had just purchased, but that happens, apparently). And it had been parked for almost three years before I found that out.
My poor 1984 Saab. It sat so long for nothing. Now it has a host of many, many more problems while I was out driving all over kingdom come in my used Subarus, a 2005 Legacy, and a 2010 Forester.
Sally Subaru, which I drove from February 1, 2010-June 30, 2011
Rhonda the Mafia Mobile, which I drove from June 30, 2011-May 2, 2014
Meanwhile, during an ebb in my photography work, when I figured I would eventually have to sell my Forester, my loving fiance (Brent!) found me a 1993 Saab 900 S. So this is the new Saab that will be turning up in obligatory saab shots.
This is Grumpy Sophie Saab II of Buggyshire, purchased February 19, 2013! See this Saab in still-life action on Instagram! #grumpysophiesaab2ofbuggyshire
So as it turns out, the transmission from the 1984 Saab is compatible with the 1993 Saab, so I do still have both, though the original saab is a sad saab sitting over at my future in-laws. Brent is my only trusted mechanic, and his dad owned SEVEN Saab 900's while he was growing up, so guess what he's worked on more than he knows?
And we still go up Lantern Hill every year with my now 83-year-old grandfather.
So what's new in my Etsy shop? I got rid of all the half-assed crap that I thought was so special (Polymer secret beads from Feb. '08? No one cared.) I debuted new magnets, which I made in 2009 but never listed because I wanted to make sure the glue was sturdy enough. I GUESS AFTER 5 YEARS WE KNOW THE ANSWER.
So here they are! Magnets - Neon Jewels Variety Pack
And in case you were wondering, I am in fact still listing hand-made jewelry, and making more! Here are some of my latest creations!
As always, I have a wide variety of crafting supplies (especially buttons!) and vintage clothes! Check out all my links to pinterest and twitter on the side of the page, and check back soon for more regular blog posts (that hopefully won't ramble as badly as the old ones, oh hell, maybe not. haha)
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