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Custom Tufted Bed Frame

Invitations Done!

Thanks to our wonderful Bridal Party, we stuffed and addressed our invitations this past Saturday. They are now ready to be mailed out by this coming friday. As we were needing to save some money we went with something very simple in design, but it also matches the simplicity in our wedding.

We ordered out invitations from Michael's online design service MiDesign@MIchaels. It was very simple to use, very customizable and inexpensive. Of course you could get really creative and go with a more expensive design if you wanted. We would have liked to use a handmade artist for out invitations but the expensive was too much for our budget. If you have the room in your budget Go Handmade!

We also went inexpensive by not using a calligrapher for the addressing of our envelopes. We simply used the clear address labels available from Office Max. Very easy to use and we now have address labels we can use again in the future.

Along with printing out our own address labels, a couple months ago we ordered new return address labels from VistaPrint. Planning ahead (a very important thing to do!) we ordered them in our wedding colors, so that not only would we be able to use them on our current mail but we wouldn't have to order new ones for the wedding. It also saved us on the invitations since addressing the envelops on MiDesign cost a little bit extra.

I also learned today that we did not need to add extra postage to our envelopes because we took out the second envelop that usually is adding into the wedding invitations. Always check the weight of your invitations because anything that you add to your envelop adds weight and you don't want them to not get mailed!

Tiny Cakes for My Sisiter's Bridal Shower

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Three Pages

In one of the helpful forum post I read that three pages is the magic number for jewelry shops. I figured if it helps them it could help me. So I have been trying to add all my inventory to my shop and fill three pages worth.

It is a lot harder than I expected. I guess I did not realize that there were soooo many item that could fit onto one page. Yesterday I finally listed enough to start the third page. Amazingly enough I had enough merchandise already made from when I sold at the gift shop.

I still have a few more items to add, including some purses. By the time I get those items listed I should be sufficiently set for a while. That will leave me time to make more merchandise and do more marketing.( Which I really need to do!)

Have a Wonderful Day!

Re-Listed Items

Hello everyone,

A bunch of my listings are expiring left and right. I have been trying to pick and choose which items to re-list and which to save to send to a craft fair. Slowly I am relisting them. I invite you to take a look at my items in my etsy shop and give me some feed back or buy something!

Also ALL of my items can be custom ordered! Just email me or convo me via etsy and I will work with you through the whole process. Also if you find an item in a magazine and would love to see if I can make it, I would be happy to takle a look! I invite you to send pictures and patterns for me to make.

Thank you so much for reading my blog. I really appreciate your time!