Did I Forget To Mention?

So it occurred to me that I didn't mention my weekend at all yesterday. Of course this was because I had already become determined to show off those customer appreciation photos. Since nothing of consequence happened yesterday, I think I shall go back a bit and share my whirlwind weekend.

On Saturday, I went out with my husband to go look at homes and though we found a couple we liked, we were more often bombarded with what I'm beginning to assume is the standard result of a bank repossession of ones home. Horrifying smells, ridiculously bad painting jobs, mystery stains, gutted kitchens and neighborhood that reminded us far too much of the apartment complex we escaped three years ago. When we returned we embarked on what would turn out to be a failed bid, though we eventually became relieved for it. While we waited for our real estate agent to return I checked in on my etsy shop.

I was surprised to receive a couple of new sales on my ankle corsets as well as a few other sales throughout the weekend. On Sunday the reason was revealed to me by one of the ankle corset customers. The ankle corsets, due to their popularity this past week were sent in the weekly email to stylehive members. This sent a few new people over and revived them as the top bookmark once again over the weekend. Again, I am amazed that my little idea has garnered so much attention.

By Monday they had disappeared again and everything was seemingly back to normal. I spent the day tatting at full speed to complete the custom orders I had received and aside from a little housework, did nothing else. It was ridiculously hot here as well, so I'm sure I had the desire to do anything else. Today will probably be more of the same as I'm still working on a mask and I want to get another pair of the ankle corsets made so they are not listed as a custom piece. So, yeah, it was an interesting weekend

Down Off That Cloud

At my husbands seemingly constant request, I have calmed the hell down. I did take quite a few opportunities to check on my ankle corsets on StyleHive and even through this morning, they are holding on strong as the top save. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't truly shocked by this development. Sure they look cool and I've been told by many that they love them, but to see them sitting next to very commercial products, well it's weird.

What knocked my off that cloud though was their sale in the middle of the night...without payment. I haven't lost hope that it might still come through today as it was a new buyer from out of the country, but I'm not holding my breath either. Now all those views and hearts are gone and when people click through from StyleHive, they will see that they are 'Sold Out' and will probably simply move on rather than look for the new custom listing I put up. So, here I sit floating down from the cloud as was the inevitable outcome of a soar so high.

In more personal news, I took a big grown up step with my husband yesterday. We went to get pre-approved for a home loan. We've been renting for over a decade and it's finally time to move on. Everything went well, now the search begins and then the worst part, actually moving. I hate moving...so very much. I guess it's a small price to pay for our very own space. Obviously, all this will keep us quite preoccupied over the next few months.

One last thing, I think I've come up with a new barefoot sandal design. While remaking the Queen's Feet ones yesterday, I thought that I needed to make something a little simpler and consequently cheaper before the warmer weather is upon us. Quite frankly, I just don't want to have to keep remaking the same large pieces over and over. I'll share the design just as soon as I come up with it. I've got a pretty good idea of how I want it to look, but my imagination and my ability to tat are not always on the same page, so we'll see how it turns out.

Holy Crap People

I was walking along, minding my business when out of the clear blue sky...okay I'm getting ahead of myself. This weekend I noticed a lot of traffic coming from StyleHive. If you don't know what that is, it is a social shopping site. People see something they like and bookmark for others to see, they in turn can save the bookmark as well. I've been lucky to have several of my pieces bookmarked there, but nothing like this. My In Bloom Ankle Corsets got so many saves over the weekend that they are currently not only featured on the front page of the site, but the top save.

As you might imagine this kept me feeling pretty good all weekend long. Let's face it, we all love attention from out crafting peers, but to be noticed by the fashion community is an extreme step forward. It's much harder to impress people who have no idea how much hard work goes into a piece.

Then this morning I received a message over at etsy from someone who saw my stuff of twitter. I thought, that's nice, I have quite a few great friends over there so I assumed they had tweeted something, but no. This was much bigger. Someone had tweeted the link from StyleHive to MrsKutcher, otherwise known as Demi Moore, who then retweeted it to her followers. This is awsome not only because Demi Moore was looking at my feet, but because the woman has almost 500,000 followers.Did my weekend StyleHive fame result in tons of sales? Nope. Did Demi Moore's tweet make me the next big thing? I doubt it. I am however sitting here verbally vomitting all over my computer screen with excitement.