September 4th, 2010 
Kelly As you may have seen in my post yesterday, you can now add Etsy Treasuries to your blog without the hassle. Before, the best way to show an entire treasury was to take a screen shot, crop it in PhotoShop and add it as a picture to your blog. Not anymore, because Whale Shark has developed a new cool tool for us to use.
Tim over at Handmadeology gives the very easy to follow instructions for how to create the html code for the treasury you wish to share, and as you could see from my post yesterday, the treasury is completely click-able, which is very cool. Now we can all create beautiful treasuries and share! Tim also tells you how to add the treasuries to your Facebook Fan Page, which is a bit more complicated, but still pretty cool. Check out the details for the Facebook piece here.
Simple install instructions:
1. First find a treasury you want to feature.
2. Locate the Etsy Treasury ID
3. Head over to Etsy treasury HTML code generator
4. Copy and paste the Etsy Treasury id number in the box.
5. Pick what you want the layout of the treasury you want. You can pick different number of columns and the size of the pictures.
6. Hit the generate code button and your preview and code will show below.
7. Here is what the Treasury html will look like. Click in the box and hit “control a” to ensure you copy all the code.
8. Head over to your blog and paste the code where you want the treasury to show up. Make sure you are in the html tab before you paste your code.
Blogger will look like this:
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After months of work and a lot of sleepless nights this week, I finally have items for sale in my etsy store! I don’t know if anything will sell, if my prices are too high or too low. I still have to create some finishing shipping items for when I sell an item. I still have some blogging to do. There are forums I want to participate in. I have new flower ideas in mind. New color combinations. New arrangement ideas. The wheels are turning on what to do next and I want to continue to add more and more to my shop. I also want to expand to scrapbook style greeting cards soon which would be perfect for the holiday season. The list goes on and on, but for now…a little sigh of relief that I have my etsy shop set up. WOO HOO!!
As I sit here late at night, trying to get everything ready to launch my etsy store in the morning, I’m plagued with the issue of shipping. While writing product descriptions and preparing for what info I need to list an item, I’m researching fellow etsians and their shipping methods/prices. Most of the people who ship some similar items charge very low ($1-$10) shipping rates. While my items are made from paper and therefore very light, they are also very long.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy! I now have all of the tissue paper examples I wanted completed. I’ve also finished all of my rose examples, I now have about 10 colors, examples of bouquets and the other items I want to sell.
After my epiphany of opening an etsy store, I decided to get started. All I’d need would be a few supplies, some tissue paper and I’d be set! I’d do a few bouquets of tissue paper flowers, take some pictures, upload to etsy and I’d be done by the end of the weekend. Or so I thought.
My husband and I both work in the health care industry. I’m a financial analyst (sort of), doing analysis of the prescription costs for clients….ohhhhhh I do math. Lots of math. I enjoy my job (I do love my math!) and I’ve been doing this for a few years now, but it isn’t my passion. My husband’s passion in writing. He’s always been a writer, dreaming of one day being a successful writer for a TV show or movie. He dreams of going to the Emmy Awards or the Oscars. I haven’t had something like that. No hobby or interest that I’m good at. I’m not a sports person, I don’t aspire to be a writer or an actor.
