Sunday, May 31, 2009

EtsyBABY Customer Appreciation Days!!

Good Morning! It is a beautiful day today- Sunday morning!
Etsy BABY's 2nd Annual Customer Appreciation Days are here!
From June 1-June 15, all WeeWubby sets ordered will receive FREE SHIPPING! That is at least a $5 savings for the next 2 weeks!

Have a baby shower to go to? Buy a set or 2!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Treasury accomplished!

So, today, I was able to create a treasury! What a feat! Doing this was quite a challenge. I was actually having palpitations while trying to get in, knowing that there were >250 others worldwide trying to do the same thing. And since I never did it before, I had know clue as to what was to happen next.
Phew!! Did it! Titled it "Views from the Hudson Valley" to honor the talent in my own backyard. Here is the link
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=61618
Enjoy it, enjoy your day!

Friday, May 29, 2009

New "kid" on the blog!

So- I finally did it! Put myself on a blog (as if anyone really needed this!) I will be stumbling for some time as I won't know exactly how things will appear until I look for myself and hope that I can figure out how to edit!

So, who am I??

My name is Janis and I am blogging as a business strategy!
I am married for 36 years to my husband, Ed. We have 2 grown children, Kristen and Brian. I have a son-in-law, Jay and a lovely 2 year old granddaughter, Kate, who happens to be taking a nap at the moment. (while under my "every Friday" care). I work 4 days a week (m-f). I have been a Registered Nurse for 35 years. I love being a nurse, always loved the caretaking thing. I love motherhood, and love grandmotherhood.
Kristen and her family lives nearby, so we see her very often. Brian left for North Carolina 5 1/2 years ago and hasn't seemed to look back. We don't see him nearly often enough, but we did see him 2 weeks ago.

So, we have an empty nest and even though we love our children immensely, Ed and have been enjoying each other since our "birds" left the nest almost 6 years ago.

We love gardening, although our garden season in the northeast isn't nearly long enough to enjoy like we wished. We like to travel, although lately we haven't traveled too much. Ed loves to cook, (more than I do), so I am extremely lucky in that regard. He does more cooking than I do! I like to read, but have not had the time recently. (I fall asleep if I try to read in bed!) We love several TV shows: Survivor, Amazing Race, Lost, 24 and the original CSI!

And what brings me to blog is that I have embarked on a "more than casual" endeavor sewing and such. I have always loved sewing and crafting and have recently joined the thousands of Etsians in selling handmade products of all sorts on www.etsy.com. GO HANDMADE!

My site is www.sweetpeafabrications.etsy.com About 1/2 of my products are baby items.

My Wee Wubbys are what got me started. See one here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25395527

I have branched out, making other things as well. My Photo Envelopes have been selling well and make a great gift! (empty or with something inside) See one of them here! ( you can see a couple of family photos here as well!)
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25335087

Anyway- that's part of me in nutshell. I am loving all of this... Just wish there was more time in a day!