Another BookWorm Giveaway, and a great review to boot!

As you know, I looooooove to read! So I've been subscribing to a few blogs that feature book reviews - one of which is Musings of a Bookish Kitty (how cool is that name??). I've been really enjoying reading her reviews - so check her out if you're looking for a good blog. Bookish Kitty also was kind enough to purchase one of my BookWormz for herself! She had this to say: "I received the BookWorm in the mail yesterday. It's perfect, and I know I'm going to get a lot of good use out of it. Thank you so much!" which was a really great way to start my day! :)

So since she was sooo kind and has such an awesome website, I also offered to give away one of my BookWormz as a thank you to her readers! Click HERE to enter! :) Good luck!

Also, please check out the latest review for my BookWormz at one of my favorite blogs: Polka Dot Candle

Cute new package!

I had the honor of being the very first customer of Etsy seller Happy Place Design last week! Wanna see what I got? :) So cute - and already being put to very good use!

OOOPS BookWorm Winner!

Is AmandaSue! Congrats! I'll mail your BookWorm out tomorrow! :) Hope you enjoy!

My heart is much more full this morning!

Sooo, last night kind of sucked. I was summarily rejected from 1000 Markets, which left me looking around, bewildered and hurt. You know what's funny? I actually never even considered the posibility that I might be rejected! My fellow etsiers had left me such positive feedback on my shop and my creativity that I was pretty much walking around with my head in the clouds! :)

Well, following my deep and painful depression last night, I went on to the Etsy chatrooms and posted about my experience. My goal was to understand why I might have been rejected, but instead there was an outpouring of praise, love and strength from my fellow Etsiers! I even got 35 new hearts!!! (I hope those weren't just sympathy hearts!) ;) Thanks to that post, I was able to go to bed with a smile on my face instead of that rather sick feeling in my tummy that I had earlier that night.

That's why Etsy is such a great website. It's inclusive, it's original, and it's up to you to get noticed. Everyone is given an equal opportunity to succeed. I hope that all of my readers get that opportunity this week, and I hope that you are all given the opportunity to feel the kind of support that I felt last night! If you're interested in checking out the thread, here it is!

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6026834

BookWormz now on ArtFire!

Please check out my shop! Does anyone use ArtFire now? Any luck? Thanks! http://bookwormz.artfire.com/

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

I have no idea what that means, but my husband says it all the time. :) I think it has something to do with Poker?

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I chose a logo! The winner is the first logo pictured below! By way of explaination - I did not choose the winner of the popular vote for two reasons:

1. I originally said that #4 was my favorite, so I may have skewed the vote unfairly towards #4. Which really ticked numbers 1, 2 and 3 off.

2. After getting some opinions from marketing friends of mine, #1 is the better choice because it is cleaner and more pleasing to the eye.

What do you think?

1000 Markets

Just opened my 1000 Markets shop! It is currently in line for approval - so I should know within a day or so if I've been approved to sell. Wish me luck! Anyone have a 1000Markets shop? How has your success been? Any words of wisdom? Thanks!