Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has an enjoyable holiday! 

Merry Christmas!

SALE Christmas Decoration MERRY CHRISTMAS Double Banner Garland Sign

Inverntory Sale will End!

Even though I still have more inventory to get rid of I will be ending my inventory reduction sale will end this month! So please take a look at the site while the savings last!

A Nieman Crochet

Remember I am having free shipping on Everything in my shop until the end of February!

Inventory Reduction Sale!

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon reducing every single item in my Etsy Shop. In order to start producing new items, my current inventory needs to go. Prices are dropped 30 to 70%. If you think you have a better price convo me via my shop and offer me a price. I am looking to clear out inventory. 

This sale does not apply to custom orders only current inventory.

A Nieman Crochet

Happy Shopping!

All Ornaments Must Go!

Christmas is over and it is now time for the Christmas decorations to go on sale. I will be renewing my ornaments on last time this week and after that they will be gone for the year. During this time they have Free Shipping! There are no regulations on where they are shipped.

Here are some of the Ornaments that are on sale!

SALE ENDS TONIGHT!

Free shipping on all items in my Etsy Shop ends Tonight!

ANiemanCrochet

PRESEASON SCARF SALE!

I am introducing my first annual pre-season scarf sale.

It starts today and goes till August 22nd.

All scarves and winter fashion items have FREE shipping!

http://aniemancrochet.etsy.com

Last Day of Sale!

Please take a look at my Etsy Shop!

Today is the Last day of my Shop Local Sale!

Please read the blog post below for more details!

Eco-Frienldy Sale!

This weekend I will be having an Eco-Friendly Sale in my Etsy shop.

Free Shipping to Ohio and States that Border it.
The sale starts Friday July 18th and ends Sunday July 20th.

Why is this sale Eco-Friendly?

I am offering free shipping to anyone who lives within the bordering states of Ohio. Shopping local is a great green way to decrease the amount of fuel and shipping cost in money terms and in terms of expenditure on the environment.

Shipping cost in general have a huge toll on our environment from the carbon emissions to the packaging used. Buying from people in your community and surrounding areas can cut shipping's cost on the environment.

Shopping from a seller who is only a state away is going to have less of an impact that buying something from a chain store that is down the street. Many large chain stores often import there items from countries that are hundreds and thousands of miles away. Buying from a small business, like those on Etsy, you can cut your impact on the environment by a large chunk.

What States are Involved?
I am located in Ohio and the most Eco-friendly shipping would involve Ohio the states that neighbor Ohio. This includes: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Michigan. If you live outside of these states (e.i. Canada) and can prove that your location is a shorter distance than any of the furthermost distances in the states mentioned, I will give you free shipping as well.

How do I get my Free Shipping?
I will check each order received this weekend and send a revised invoice to those who qualify. DO Not pay until you have received your revised invoice.

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!

One WHOLE Day Spent on Etsy

Due to my spend to pay the bills, I have to work somewhere other than Etsy. I wish I could spend all my time and efforts on my crocheting and photography but many factors are preventing me from doing so.

So I finally had a full day to do nothing but Etsy. As I have said before in previous blog posts, I pulled out of the gift shop that I had been selling in and as a result have a large amount of inventory that I needed to post on my shop. Yesterday I finally went through a great deal of it.

Here is a list of the links to the items that I added yesterday:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11928423
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11918736
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11917830
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11905465
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11904629
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11903682
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11902586
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11887029
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11886873

I think this is the most items I have posted in one day!

I also worked on my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aniemancrochet/. I haven't really done much with this site since starting but I figured out how to do certain things like add my photo's to group pages.

Also I put some more bids on ad space with Project Wonderful. I have definitely noticed my views increasing since I started using Project Wonderful. This is a site that if you put more money into your going to see more results. I will say though with my less than $5 a week budget I have been putting into it I think I have been getting my money's worth. I would definitely suggest this site to other Etsians.

As you can see I had a very productive day. OH! and almost forgot! I had my 1st international sale! The sale was to Japan. Despite the distance and not having a scale at home I did not under estimate my shipping. Having a good experience with selling international makes me more confident about doing it again.

The only thing I did not do yesterday was blog! Ha!
Thanks for reading!
Have a Nice Day!

Lost of new stuff!

The past couple of days I have been vigorously adding my craft shop items to my etsy shop. I am up to 33 items in my shop and have quite a few more to add. It is a slow process because I only have a couple of hours a day after I get home from work.

Today though, I was off and was able to post more. Here are their links:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11833516
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11832354
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11831593
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11822877
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11759877

I would love to get some feedback. I took some more up-close shots and put some of my items on a grey background.

Have a Nice Day!!!

ANiemanPhtotgraphy

I'd like to take a post and promote my other Etsy shop. ANiemanPhotography

Here I sell my photographs as image files. They are priced by file size. ( 1 mb = $1). I also sell prints in various sizes.

I have not had any sales in this shop so I wanted to post a blog and share the thumbnails I use to hopefully increase business.

I am selling the files to be used as either desktop wallpapers, screen savers, or stock photos. They can be used in the ever popular digital photo-frames. All I ask is that you are ethical with their use. You can even get have the images printed yourself.

The file that you buy will not have my copyright on it and it will be much larger in size. This means that it will have better quality for large screens or printing.

I am not very greedy with my photography. I love it and wish to do more of it one day. I think art should be affordable and easily obtained by all.

Please enjoy and have a nice day!

Buying Local is very Green!

If you want to try and reduce CO2 emissions and cut down on waste, try buying local. This means buying things that are produced withing your state, city, town or local community. Many of our favorite shopping places ship large quantities of products across the country and world with no thought of the impact that the fuel it takes to make these long journeys has on our environment.

Not only are there problems with upholding US product codes producing items in other countries but it takes a huge amount of fuel to get these products to our stores. The cost on the Earth as well as the finacial cost of this use of fuel is stagering.

Buying local can cut those costs and enrich your own community. It also envokes pride in ones own state, city or town. Pride is something our country is lacking right now. We need to spread our pride in our hometowns like wildfire.

Etsy has a great tool thaht I urge all to use. It is the "shop local." http://www.etsy.com/shop_local.php

All you need to do is enter your city and state and it will show you an abundance of sellers in your area! Go ahead and try it! Its fun to see how many creative people live around you!

The River City Gift Shoppe!

This is the website of the gift shoppe that I sell my crochet items.

It is an adorable shop located in Copley Ohio a township of Akron. There are directions on the site so if you are ever in the area please stop by!

http://rivercitygiftshoppe.net/default.aspx

Also they are accepting crafters to sell at the shoppes.

Getting rid of inventory

Today I am going through all the itrems I have in my inventory and repricing and reposting them on Etsy. I was actually surprised by how much stuff I had on hand that was not listed. So over the next couple days I will be listing like crazy until everything is up and running.

I will be lowering all prices as I relist. So you will be getting some great deals.

Please check out the site: http://www.aniemancrochet.etsy.com/ !

Also I would love to get feed back, good and bad! I would love to know what i should make more of or stop making all together.

Thanks for your help, in advance!

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!

Inventory Reduction Sale

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to let you in on my father's inventory reduction sale. He recently went out of business and has to clear out his inventory as soon as possible. He has a number of art pieces left for sale.

Please check out his site! Hopefully you will find something you love and I know you will get a great deal on it!

http://www.hjnieman/niemangal.htm

There is a wide seclection from animal pieces to classic coca-cola prints to a variety of posters!