4 posts tagged “etsy”

I listed some soap today on Etsy finally.  I have a ton of other stuff to get done but I’m so tired that I thought I’d go home, have a nice lunch and see if I could get some work done while lounging on the sofa.  Not bad work if you can stay awake… which I have managed to do so far.  Anyway back to the soap… I don’t have all the other kinds photographed yet, so some will have to wait until another day.  I’m happy with how it looks for now though.  I hope it’s all sold by morning!  LOL! 

Yeah, I spent most of the day uploading a bunch of new stuff to Etsy.com for sale.  Yeah baby, surf on over and check out the goods.  Especially if you enjoy beading like I do.  Today I posted beads I've made from polymer clay.  And I realized a little bit ago that there are tons more of these beads and such that I didn't find when I did the first batch!  Oy!  I've got more work to do! 

Well, the Hack is back.  She came in as I was winding up work today.  And we ignored each other as scripted.  But I was standing beside Boss Lady when she came over and complimented me on how the cakes in the case looked.  Wow!  Could have knocked me right on over.  I was so used to her being grumpy that I wasn’t quite sure how to react to her being nice.  I’m trying really hard not to think evil thoughts about it only being about being nice to me in front of Boss Lady, but I’m choosing to take it at face value.  My instinct is that seeing my work is helping her to let go some.  I’m not sure.  I guess we’ll take it as it comes.  Very nice though, I hope I was suitably gracious and that my surprise didn’t show too terribly much.

I’m working on getting some stuff listed in my Etsy store.  It was disheartening that it took me most of the day to get so few items listed on my one day off.  I don’t know how quickly things will start to move on there, or if they ever will.  I’ve got so much inventory from the shop just sitting here.  My money is tied up and I feel like I can’t move on to the next thing because I don’t have the money.  Yet, liquidating what I have at it’s value is going to take some serious work.  I’ve tried Ebay in the past and pretty well got soaked.  In a few cases I basically paid people for the opportunity to ship my stuff to them.  Expensive mistakes.  I hope this Etsy.com thing works a lot better.  And now that I’m working for someone else, well, time is the one thing I don’t have.  I’m not sure how to promote the blasted thing or if this is an exercise in futility.  I don’t know.  This work did so well in my gallery but I’m sick of looking back on the good old days when the money was easy and the work was a delight.  I can’t just put it out on the table and sell it tomorrow like I usta.  Because I don’t have a shop anymore, selling stuff is much more work.  I don’t like it.  I need another shop!

Which brings up another point.  I asked to get paid today.  And either she forgot on accident or on purpose.  Not sure which.  And they have done payroll but somehow they do this thing where they stagger the release of the checks so that everyone doesn’t cash their paycheck at the same time.  Ok, that’s the kind of thing that businesses do when they are almost down for the count.  Um…  It’s just such an inefficient and disorganized business, and when I see things like this it concerns me.  I have to keep telling myself that this is not my business.  Not my problem.  Let it go.  I’ve been the small business owner, I want to help because I know it’s stressful to run a company like this.  Still not my problem.  Let it go.

I’m so frustrated.  I overdrew my bank account this week and didn’t even know it.  We bought paint for the roof and a few other things.  I was thinking things were fine but didn’t have a balance in my head.  Turns out I was off – not by much – but enough.  And our bank will cover the checks and then charge me $30 for the privilege.  So in between the first overdraft and now – I’ve been charged the $30 nsf fee FOUR TIMES!  Nothing bounced, no checks were returned or anything.  I stopped and picked up Benadryl for the dog’s allergies and paid less than $4 for it.  Well, now with that overdraft charge it was actually $34 for Benadryl!  I want to hurl!  I get so frustrated over stuff like this.  None of those purchases were big but when you throw in $120 in fees, suddenly it looks so much uglier on paper.  I can cover it if Boss Lady will ever remember to pay me, but I hate wasting money and when I saw how much the fees were I about had a cow.

I need to replace my computer.  It’s so slow it isn’t even funny.  And I’m constantly generating information for it to store.  I photographed ten Etsy.com items Monday, four or five photographs for each item.  They are great big files.  And by the time I was done with those, my computer was really acting bogged down.  I need to either invest in some more memory or storage or something, but with an old slow processor, I’m not sure if there is any point.  How many hours at the cake place is that going to take me?  Oy!

I’m giving some consideration to talking to the Pizza place people about working some evenings for a while.  I think I can do both the cake thing and the pizza thing for a while at least.  And maybe I could earn enough to buy a new computer or something.  Or else beads.  LOL!  There are always good causes for good money.

I opened an Etsy shop and started stocking the shelves, baby!  Yeah, I’m tickled pink!  Now if I can get a few more days off here and there to really plug in the inventory I have sitting around here…  Surf over, look around, buy something, tell your friends!!!  LOL! 

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