I am giving away $40 Shop Credit at The Wiegands

Yay! it's giveaway time. This time I am giving away USD 40 shop credit that can be used to buy anything in my shop. For those who don't enter yet, hurry up! Enter here  

Giveaway Feature on Soleil Selene

 I am hosting a USD 25 shop credit giveaway at Soleil Selene's blog.

Enter to win here:
http://www.soleilselene.com/2012/05/oyeta-bags-giveaway/

Follow her blog too, she has a beautiful new blog desing and are hosting some giveaways too this week

Featured in Give Them Color

My Lavender purse was featured in Deborah's blog here; http://givethemcolor.blogspot.com/2012/03/color-of-week-lavender.html   
check it out, she have a beautiful color theme each week.

Lots of order from Heartsy

I have to promote my etsy shop and I needed a kick start to get sales and feedback and also a good exposure to my shop. So I joined on Heartsy.me they actually offered more than 50% discount which is actually not good for me (haha!). yup as the seller it's like giving away my stuff for free, well not exactly free because I still get money from selling heartsy voucher.

After reading lots of advice on the internet about the positif and negatif effect of it. I decide to go on with it. Here is what I did on Heartsy:

• I submit my handmade wristlet
• People start vote for it
• Heartsy staff contacted me
• Heartsy staff asked me to offer more than 50% discount (Oh Gosh!)
• Heartsy staff asked me to get prepared of everything
• I agree
• My shop featured on Heartsy
• Within one day all my voucher is sold out (yay!)
• I received lots of sales
• I was busy answering convos, receiveing sales, verifying voucher, packing and sending orders
• I was busy sewing again because apparently lots of people are actually buying 2 of my wristlet and spend more that the voucher
• I was exhausted
• I need some sleep, so I create I'll be sleeping this September Treasury on Etsy (well I still have time to create treasury
• My shop is running out of products
• I am happy, I withdraw the money from Heartsy (yay!)
• I reward myself an ice cream,Magnum Choco Truffle, 3 days in a row (what a treat!)

 I am a bit overwhelmed and unprepared by the massive sales Heartsy gave me (off course, who desn't want 50+ discount?)

That's it! I'm done and this will be the most expensive promotion I've ever done. What I didn't prepare is that most of the voucher bought by VIP members.

Now, nothing to regret, most of my buyers are happy and so do I. I have to move on and make more bags and wristlet as my shop is almost empty and I have to fill it for the holiday sales. Cheers! *I need one more Magnum Choco Truffle*

I was featured in CuteCoconut.com

My autumn wristlet collection is featured on CuteCoconut.com The Mommagazine for every young mothers in the motherhood world.

I also offered special only 20% discount for their reader. You'll find this discount nowhere as I dont give any discount yet at this moment.

So go check out the review here and grab the discount coupon.

comfort this autumn to winter treasury

This morning I opened my etsy conversation, although I still not making any sales yet, I was happy because the convo from Sarah telling me that she includes my Japanese Cherry Blossom clutch bag in her 'comfort this autumn to winter' treasury on etsy

Well thats a good start, at least somebody put me in the treasury. I think I should start to make myself a to-do-list to boast my viewers and to get more exposure for my shop

Then let me read more of this on etsy.

First time I was featured in other blog

I was so happy when I received an email from Debbie saying that she would like to feature me in her blog.
What can I say, off course I say yes because its just very kind of her featuring a new shop on etsy to help us get our first sales.

Here is her post where my clutch bag was featured
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