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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Happy 500!

Hold on to your hats, ladies and gents! SF Etsy has hit 500 blog posts!
Hip hip hooray!  Bring on the confetti, please!
HAPPY 500th Post, SF Etsy!

Your hard-working SF Etsy Blog Team along with our fearless SF Etsy Team Co-Captains would like to thank you for the amazing memories and the many more to come! You've helped this team grow exponentially giving us non-stop excitement and wonderfully interesting content. 

"Hey Guys! I'm SO excited and proud that we've come this far on the blog.
Our team is stronger and more connected because of our blog – it's the hot glue gun that connects all of us online! That sounds cheesy, but it's true! Think of all the creative projects you've been inspired to make from the blog, or the countless craft shows you've been notified about...or gotten to see behind the scenes of. This blog is a wonderful example of how truly creative, inspiring, intelligent and RAD we are! This year, you'll expect to see even more great things from us as we strengthen our online presence even more on the blog, Facebook and Twitter as well as start to bond outside of Etsy and the web through workshops, Meet-Ups and Etsy events."
- Katy Atchison, Co-Captain of SF Etsy Team

"Being part of a community is always a good way to make sure you succeed and grow. Being part of THIS community of creative entrepreneurs has made the journey to success & the process of growth all the more interesting and inspiring. 
Thank you for sharing your thoughts at local shows, for contributing to our discussions and for enriching our collective bank of knowledge, SF Etsy. Your consistent willingness to be awesome has helped WAY MORE humans than you may have realized. So let's celebrate US!"
- Steph Cortes of nerd JERK, Co-Captain of SF Etsy Team

To show our gratitude, we've put together some super-fun FREE printables inspired by your creativity and geared toward what you've been asking us for! 

 Remember these from when you were a kid? Predict your creative future with this fun SF Etsy Inspiration Fortune Teller!  Designed by SF Etsy leader Ash of Kelly Drive.
Print this and bring it to the Opening Reception of our Team Art Show on May 12th for a fun icebreaker!



Want to show your team spirit at your next craft fair?
Identify yourself as a proud SF ETSIAN with this tabletop tent sign!

Need a Artist Trading Card envelope template? Katy built out two templates for you to download, print and fold. The perfect size to house your works of art during our ATC Event on May 24th!
a cute little owl ATC envelope featuring SF Etsy by Katy Atchison

Print this ATC Envelope template to house your Artists Trading Cards during our Team Meet-Up on May 24th.
We're a busy bunch! I dunno about you, but I can't hardly keep up with my own life, let alone our Etsy lives! I make lists to keep track of everything...hope this helps you keep track of everything, too!
Keep up with your busy schedule by using this handy to-do list!

To print any of the free graphics in this post, simply left click on the printable. When the shadow box pops open, right click on the image and select "open image in new tab". When the new tab opens, magnify the image to its largest, actual size, then right click on the image and choose "save image as...". Save to your desktop and print, print, print! (Make sure to turn off your margins so your printer doesn't cut off any of the good stuff!) 



If you're an Etsy seller in the San Francisco Bay Area, contact Katy or Steph about joining SFEtsy!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Gathering Inspiration: From Yourself!

Need Inspiration?! Dig a little into your past and find some wonderful nuggets of awesome!

In November I decided that I'd pull together a calendar for 2012. And I started sketching out ideas for every month.... school bus, rain, flowers, Santa Claus and so on... until I had an idea for every month. Then I spend a good couple of hours starting my project before my project became too much for me to handle. Who starts a project for January at the end of November?! Especially as a craftswoman. I just didn't have time to really find that extra inspiration and time to complete the task at hand.

So I got this idea...dig through my favorites from the previous year!
I mean... hellooooo...duh.
I already had all of the months gathered up and scanned, I just had to curate the project and add in the months.

Plus! The project was almost all digital so I was able to offer it for FREE to my followers. I got so many happy comments about my calendar because people also loved my favorites as much as I did. Gathering the inspiration AND the materials from my year before helped me also to keep the project really cost affective, time affective AND also matchy-matchy.

FREE CALENDAR DOWNLOAD: GO GET IT HERE

Here is Feb... just in case you want to download it to your desktop.



I want to encourage all of us to really think about the work we already do... how can we mold what we do into another project... take a piece of something, reuse it... push it into something new and exciting for yourself and see your inspiration come from within.

Since I posted my calendar online...I have had more than 130 views of the calendar, many people printed it AND I even sold 10 of them that I had professionally printed. I see a 2013 calendar in my future.



If you're an Etsy seller in the San Francisco Bay Area, contact Jen from Mama's Magic Studio about joining SFEtsy!
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