I have spent the better part of today working on my etsy store (www.BlackHorseEmbroidery.etsy.com) to add my embroidered items to my listings. I hope to make the store a success-so far I have had one sale, my favorite dressage quilt.
It was made from 3 colors of microsuede (black, brown and silver) with horse outlines and dressage terms. It took me several weeks to embroider the horse blocks then another week or so to put them together. I had the quilt on my etsy site for weeks with no interest. I also took it to a craft fair. While I got a lot of positive comments about it, no one was willing to come up with the asking price. I did get a commission from it-2 pillows made in the same way, using the same fabrics. I re-listed the quilt on etsy while I was making the pillows and what do you know! It sold the day before I was due to ship the pillows. Thus they both shipped the same day.
Now that I have one sale under my belt I am working to expand the shop and list more items. I hope to get more exposure and make this hobby a success.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
A perfect moment and exploring creativity
I believe that a blogger is a frustrated novelist at heart-at least that seems to fit me. Creativity is a skill that must be practiced to be developed so this will be a forum to help me expand and explore my creative soul.
My brother plays sax in a dance band in California called Clean State. I hung with him earlier this year at an Autumn Festival to listen to him play. They usually play uptempo songs to get people dancing and I enjoyed watching the crazy ladies dressed in colorful costumes dancing to the band.
Clean Slate switched to a few slow sets-they played a TOP song "You're Still a Young Man". I was kicked back on a hay bale, bathed in sunshine. Next to me was a guy in his folding lounge chair-he looked to be camped out for the day, quite comfy with his feet propped on a bale. Two puppies wrestled in the straw a few bales away. Dads danced with their young costumed daughters in their arms.
For 2 songs I felt a deep inner peace envelop me-it was both renewing and sad to think that the simple pleasures still existed, yet it also seemed so fragile and fleeting. This was a feeling that you can't actively search out-it comes when you aren't expecting it. I will try to to keep myself open to it again as I explore the things that I love in life-my family, my pets and gardens, my friends and the crafts that keep my mind and hands busy.
My brother plays sax in a dance band in California called Clean State. I hung with him earlier this year at an Autumn Festival to listen to him play. They usually play uptempo songs to get people dancing and I enjoyed watching the crazy ladies dressed in colorful costumes dancing to the band.
Clean Slate switched to a few slow sets-they played a TOP song "You're Still a Young Man". I was kicked back on a hay bale, bathed in sunshine. Next to me was a guy in his folding lounge chair-he looked to be camped out for the day, quite comfy with his feet propped on a bale. Two puppies wrestled in the straw a few bales away. Dads danced with their young costumed daughters in their arms.
For 2 songs I felt a deep inner peace envelop me-it was both renewing and sad to think that the simple pleasures still existed, yet it also seemed so fragile and fleeting. This was a feeling that you can't actively search out-it comes when you aren't expecting it. I will try to to keep myself open to it again as I explore the things that I love in life-my family, my pets and gardens, my friends and the crafts that keep my mind and hands busy.
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