New Etsy Business Cards and Snow!

It's always fun to get packages in the mail. Of course I had been anxiously checking my order status since I ordered these new cards from Vistaprint on the 12th. Back when I was making fun new graphics for the blog, shop, etc. I set up a card design too. I wasn't planning on ordering any right away, but after sending out a few orders I realized I was almost out of both the big and little moo cards I had been using. "Yay!" I thought "I get to see how my new design looks printed!"

I'm very happy with how these turned out. The cards stock on these is not as heavy (but still substantial enough to be satisfying) as what you get when you order from moo, but there's also a big price difference. And even though I used the free shipping they got here much faster than I was expecting. I've had fun pairing my moo cards with my packaging, but it will be nice not to have to worry about sending out cards with pictures of items I may not have in stock anymore.

We also got a decent amount of snow today. Well, sort of. It wasn't sticking to the ground much. For a while it was snowing really nicely. (see the image on the left below) Big fat snowing, pretty dense, a perfect winter wonderland. It made me happy and I wanted to go out and frolic in it, but by the time I could get myself wrapped up in coats, etc. the flakes were getting smaller and anything that had managed to stick to the ground was starting to melt. Which in a sense is the ideal snow, pretty when it falls, then it goes away before causing too many problems.

 

Of course it's a different story for those further out from the city, and some businesses did shut down today. Also, if you're ever curious as to whether it is snowing in Portland, this site will keep you updated!

Fun new graphics!

I liked my previous banner, but since I sold 3 out of the five necklaces featured there and had no immediate plans to make more in that style, I was thinking about making myself a new banner.  Then there's the fact that my shop now has knit and paper goods in addition to jewelry, and the old banner didn't reflect either of those types of items. I had been playing around for a little bit with making a knit graphic and finally spent some time playing with it again this weekend and came up with some images I liked. I did a lot of playing around and ended up with a few variations I like and I think will keep. 

For the Etsy shop a string of beads, loops of yarn on a needle and a clear listing of what's in this shop!:

For the Blog, just knits (I do focus on knitting projects here a lot), I thought I'd be a little playful and entwined my name into the pattern:

For my Facebook Fan Page, and perhaps something similar for business cards when I need them again:

For the Website:

I had thrown up a quick little website a few months ago that i'd been meaning to update with something more, well, update-able. I liked what I had going on with these graphics so much I decided to play with it again. There's not a ton there, it was just a fun little project to play with, and I may put up some announcements about the shop every so often in the News section. It's probably something I'll mess with every now and then.