Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Valentine's Day

How are you going to say "I Love You" this Valentine's Day? All prints available in various sizes and in greeting cards as well!

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Also, a big thank you to Katie from Kater's Acres on having me as a guest blogger on their blog today.

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Features

Here are a few of the treasuries I was featured in this week.  There were many lovely collections but I just couldn't get them all in!  Please take the time to click on them and check them out.  Really appreciate all the features! Thank you curators!

Thank you again curators! Wishing all features shops and curators many sales!

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Blizzard

The weekend blizzard brought us some more snow!  I love winter! Here are a few photos from after the storm! 
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It was hard to capture the pure white in all it's beauty!  Maybe next time when there's no wind, I can take my macro lens to capture the detail of the snow crystals!

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

For The Love Of Photography

Wow, this year is a year for new things! I'm participating in my first ever virtual art show!

January 24-26, 2013, a group of female photographers of etsy (fPOE) will come together and not only showcase their work, but also have some great sales!

And, some of these shops are also providing items for the giveaway packages as well! See rafflecopter widget at bottom to enter!

Participating in this event are the following:


Business Name:   Nature’s Images By Design

Owner:   Anita Miller
Discount Offered:  10-50%


Business Name:  ImagesByCW
Owner:   Claudia Willison
Discount Offered:  15-50%


Business Name:   Melissa Lund Photography
Owner:   Melissa Lund
                       http://www.melissalund.etsy.com
Discount Offered:  20-40%


Business Name:   AngsanaSeeds Photography
Owner: Ivy Ho
Shop Album:  http://bit.ly/forLoveIvy
Discount Offered:  20%



Business Name:  Traveling Gal Photography
Owner:  Erika Lafrennie
Discount Offered:  25% off select items


Business Name:  BleuOiseau Photography
Owner: Ashleigh A. Coyner
Discount Offered:  15-50%



Business Name:   Crystal Gayle Photography
Owner: Crystal Zacharias
Discount Offered:  20-50%




 Business Name:  ooh pretty shiny ... / sweet dreams & honey
Owner: Laura Evans
                    http://sweetdreamsandhoney.etsy.com
Discount Offered:  15%



Business Name:  Powder Point Photography
Owner: Katie Griffin
Discount Offered:  NONE


Business Name:  Beneath Northern Skies Photography
Owner: Angie Rea
Discount Offered:  15-40%


Business Name:  Abra Alani Photgraphy
Owner: Abra Alani
Discount Offered:  15%


Business Name:  Erin Johnson Photography
Owner: Erin Johnson
Discount Offered:  20-40%


Business Name:  jude McConkey Photography
Owner: jude McConkey
Discount Offered:  25%


Business Name:  Dull Blue Light Photography
Owner:   Crissy Mitchell
Discount Offered:  TBD


Business Name:   Loud Waterfall Photography
Owner:  Chelsea Sullens
Discount Offered:  TBD


 Business Name:   Karen Webb Photography
Owner: Karen Webb
Discount Offered:  20-40%


Business Name:   Amelia Kay Photography
Owner: Amelia Matarazzo
Discount Offered:  25%

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

2013 Goals

Well, another year has flown by, so time to look at what I achieved from last years goals and what I need to continue on with this year.

So, this year, I hope to achieve the following:

1. As last year, I want to put God and my family before my photography.  These are the most important things in my life, and I believe if I do this, God will bless me if He wants me to prosper with my business.  I tried hard to do this last year, and in the end, my sales paid for my listings, cost of supplies and some profit in the end.  The Lord is good!

2. To help with organizing my time with everything I want to get done both in my home and online, I want to make a schedule of tasks and hope to get more efficient with what needs to be done.  This will include the book work I do for hubby's company, my house chores, my promotion time, etc.

3. Reach 400 sales by December 31, 2013.  With etsy's new way of counting sales, it's harder to get to that number!  For example, a customer bought multiples of a greeting card.  Rather than it being counted as X number of sales, etsy counted it as 1.

4. Listing at least one new print each week.  I have a list of things I want to shoot so hopefully I can stroke off one item per week!  My list contains a generic list of items and if I can shoot one photo per section on my list, I should be good as there are more than 52 things on the list!

5. Give my shop a new appearance by revamping my listing photos and descriptions.  I need to give this more thought, but I'm hoping to do it this year!

Some of these goals are similar to last year.  I need to work harder at them as I did not achieve them last year.

The goals I did achieve last year I was happy with!  My stats were good on etsy but it's good to push harder and always improve what you can!

Thank you to my friends on the promotional frenzy team and promoting creative friends for helping me push my items!  I hope that together we can build each others stats and sales this year!

And here are a few photos from this past weekend! Enjoy and look for them in my etsy shop soon!
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