Yay selling things online! The Etsy shop KJ is Crafty has been “opened.” It’s pretty bare-bones, but it’s there. I have to say, not sure I’m super in love with Etsy – there is a lot of information out there to help sellers, but at the same time no actual website building guidance – I don’t want to blah blah blah this sucks or anything, it’s all good, and I’ll continue to learn – there’s just a lot of things you have to figure out or know beforehand about basically running a full site and how to price and how to this-that-and-the-other-thing – I guess this is what it means to be an “entrepreneur.”
I am glad a place like Etsy exists, don’t get me wrong. I researched all the different ways to sell online and let me tell ya, it’s tough if you want to feel legitimate in what you’re doing. So, yay Etsy!
Alright, so, rundown: I have an Etsy shop: KJ is Crafty, a Facebook Page: KJ is Crafty, and this blog. I also have Pinterest, which you can find on the sidebar, and I’ll be posting things there, too. I’m really excited about this guys, super-duper excited, but I’m trying not to get too caught up in all of it. This is just a side hobby that I really enjoy doing and I have to keep my head there, and work on improving the things that I do have and, hopefully, I’ll get to sell some items that people really love.
In somewhat-other news: This weekend was wonderful – I felt like it was both intellectually stimulating as well as humdrum and fun and relaxing and boring and wonderful again. And by boring and humdrum I mean it’s not something to write a memoir about but MAN I LOVE DOING ORDINARY THINGS! I think it’s having Matt with me for a lot of it. For anyone who doesn’t know, Matt (my boyfriend/partner of 5+years) just finished his Masters in Architecture (of Architecture?) and has basically been the guy who brings me places and leaves after dinner for two years. Before that we were long distance for a year, really a year and a half, so we haven’t gotten to really DO THINGS together. It was me, or him, or me and him when I was about to have a break down over all the dishes in the sink that I couldn’t possibly wash.
So doing laundry, washing dishes, grocery shopping => lame BUT! Now kind of awesome because I don’t have to do them by myself unless I want to. We plan meals, we’re in a concert band together – this weekend we subbed on the kickball team I’m on (it’s too cold to commit for the next few weeks, I’ll wait ’til spring, thanks!) together! We also went on a tour of the SLPL Central Library in Downtown StL which was super awesome and both of us have decided we MUST pay off our late fees so we can get at all the new cool stuff there like: DID YOU KNOW THEY HAVE CROCHET BOOKS? At the LIBRARY?! Yeah, I didn’t. We also attended an open house for the WashU art studio which showcased the Masters of Art Program students => some weird, one anti-Christian piece (ooh, shocker! not), and some really neat ideas. Matt and I also did a “photo shoot” for the items I’ll be selling online. I had previous clients bring me their scarves in different colors and they turned out really well! Matt used photo-shop for touch-ups but it was mostly so the backdrop looked clean and the items looked sharp – yay boyfriend with photo-shop!
The only thing that isn’t great about having Matt around is that going to work is that much harder, but, bonus – I don’t feel like I work for the weekends quite as much since I know I’ll see him tonight for more than an hour. Ah, domestic bliss 🙂
KJ is Crafty 