Nancy Rosetta shared a nice little post about riveting on her blog. It’s an oldie but a goodie. Check it out.
http://nancyrosetta.blogspot.com/2008/01/riveting-tutorial.html
Nancy Rosetta Riveting Tutorial
I’m back. Well, sort of.
My work space is together. Most of the boxes are unpacked. I’m ready to put a bit of flame to metal. Wrap some wire. Set some beads. Just need some time. I wonder if that is packed away in a box somewhere too?
I like my new work area. It has a tile floor and a ceiling fan. I need to have an exhaust fan installed, but I’ll just use the windows and screen door for now.
It’s about time I reopen the shops too. I’ve had a nice, but busy hiatus. I should be ready to unlock the doors and say hello in a week or so.
Hello again everyone. Glad to be back. Nearly.
My pal Brandi has added a great post with her tips and techniques to taking super pictures of her fabulous jewelry. You can check it out at Photo Formula at Brandi Girl
Gorgeous pictures of gorgeous jewelry, huh? Here are some of the images from Brandi’s post.
Check out Brandi’s blog…and tell her I sent you and that you think her stuff is fab too.
New treasury on Etsy, featuring bright spring colored items. You can click on the image to link to leave comments.
Shiny Spotlight Thursday
We’ve purchased a new house and we’ll be moving soon. Well, as long as the inspections are clear. Keep your fingers crossed for us. This week I thought I’d search for house warming items to see what was returned in my results.
Clicking on each image will link you to the seller of each item, if you decide you simply must purchase it.
Enjoy!
Watermelon Brie Baker from Karin Lorenc
Artisan Carob Wood Wine Stopper from Spaeny Wood Studio
Artisan Handmade Organic Cotton Modern Floral Coasters from Rohmer
Artisan Custom Mosaic Address Sign from Pear Tree Mosaics
Artisan Rust Oil Can Pottery Teapot by Alina Hayes
Artist Print Home is where the heart is from Jenn Ski
Happy Shopping everyone!
Look for the Shiny Spotlight every Thursday.
There’s been a thread on the Artfire Maven forum this week about a seller with a less than stellar record on the interwebs. Some of the discussion was about this seller’s behavior, communications with other sellers and buyers, copyright issues and about this seller’s flagrant disregard of it’s prior customers. It’s not one issue with this seller, but several that would directly impact other sellers as well as unsuspecting buyers.
It got me to thinking about what I think responsible venues should do to protect its seller and customer base. Is it the venue’s responsibility to ensure that its potential buyers are protected in some fashion when it has knowledge of a seller’s misdeeds in other venues? Should the venue take a wait and see attitude with respect to its own Terms of Use? Should the venue approach the seller and ask some basic questions about some of the information swirling the interwebs? Should the venue ask the seller directly if the accusations have any truth to them? Should the venue ask the seller directly if their intentions are honest?
My nature is to gather facts before making a decision; talk to people involved, conduct a little research, noodle on a possible solution for a while. Basically gather data from several places as well as the source. THEN make a decision. I don’t generally take a position of wait and see. I think doing so doesn’t generally help anyone involved, and connotes apathy. Plus, if I were a buyer that purchased from this shop, endured a bad experience, and then found out that the venue had prior knowledge about the seller, I’d be more than just a bit annoyed. Wouldn’t you?
Admin’s stated position in this particular situation was not to approach this shop and ask questions; rather to wait and see. The seller has since closed up shop. I don’t know if it was because of Admin’s actions behind the scenes or something else.
This isn’t the first nor the last time a potentially harmful seller will set up shop on Artfire. And while I was disappointed, Artfire’s stated response wasn’t dissimilar to what I’ve witnessed from other venues.
What is your opinion? What are your expectations of a venue’s administrative team? How do you think future situations should be addressed? What is Admin’s responsibility to you as a Seller or a Buyer?
Did you catch this post in the etsy forum from Rob Kalin?
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6459105
Looks like changes are coming……I noticed the header had changed and wondered what was going on.
There are a couple discussion threads about it too. Guess I’d better check out what the fora are saying.
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6459104
A post redux
http://shinyadornments.com/simplyshiny/2009/04/etsy-teams-expectation-vs-reality/
I’ve posted several lists of search terms used to find my etsy shop. They’ve all been slightly odd, sometimes naughty, but none the less entertaining. Here are this month’s winners:
1. backless sweaters
2. andy warhol foundation for the visual arts tote bags
3. buy blue easter eggs
4. chickens in party hats
5. childish thoughts
6. gnome stool
7. illinois flying squirrel (Seems like squirrels are a theme. I swear I had a similar squirrel search term in an earlier list)
8. very thiny metal bag
9. wax orange blossom
10. wedding rubber stamp
It’s weird how people actually find your shop, isn’t it?
Want to share some of yours?
Artbeads is offering a $1000 shopping spree to celebrate their 10th Anniversary.
You can enter at this link: Artbeads Sweepstakes
