An Etsy Adventure
Yesterday I spent several hours setting up an Etsy shop. It really is exciting to see the shop go "live" with my handmade items listed for sale. I am thrilled, and probably would be calling everyone I know to announce my shop, except for one thing ..... I registered with Etsy in January 2012. That would be, oh, 14 months ago. When you look at the details for my shop, it says it opened last year. Unfortunately it sat waiting all that time with no items listed. It's kind of a downer to see that statistic because I wish I'd struggled through the minutiae of details involved a long time ago. I'm not going to let that interfere too much with my excitement though; I need to spend time working on the shop, not regretting my procrastination. Of course, maybe the time just wasn't right back then. What did I do in the past year? First, there was family life. A first grandchild, a son moving to Europe, visiting relatives in the summer ... Indeed, there were