a mad couple of days

OMG Just as I was seeing a gap in my schedule to create something new, or to have a long afternoon nap, (the gap was for this Saturday afternoon) Etsy surprised me with their storque article containing the oatmeal cape. the sales seemed to start slow, so I thought I was still in for a nice rest this weekend, Well didn't I think wrong,

The convo's from customers rolled thick and fast, and the sales which by the end of the day yesterday, reached no less than 30 in just 48 hours, the treasury at the top was the icing on the cake providing the last four sales,

So at present, my next scheduled gap is looking like next thursday, and that's if I don't sell anything between now and then.

Roll on my trip to Paris. ;-)

retail therapy

My treat, I've had this in my favourites for AGES, but kept putting off clicking that 'buy it now' button, this morning, I felt a treat was needed, so now it's MINE, All Mine, ;-)
checkout L'ape Zoppa's store here, http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6900361 if you're liking this too.

ETSY FINDS

So Etsy produce an email, almost daily that gets circulated to all their subcribers, this must reach tens of thousands of people, yesterday they featured my oatmeal cape, under the heading of 'for the professional' -don't you know it. he he. The article is behind this link if you fancy a look. http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-the-wardrobe-equation-5472/

this has obviously generated a huge number of views and hearts to my store. and so far about 5 sales. Although to be honest I'm feeling a little over exposed, I'm currently in 4 etsy storque articles, and 5 gift guides, don't get me wrong, I really appreciate it, but I do have concerns about over exposure. and this week, I'm feeling those concerns a tad more than normal. but as they say don't look a gift horse in the mouth. so I'll shut right up. and enjoy.
oh and go shopping, I'll show you what I've bought in my next post.

HAPPY 2nd ETSY Versary to me / iLE AiYE

This is just a quickie, I'm far to busy, for anything today.

but I have to mark the day somehow, 4th October 2007 I joined Etsy, having looked at some of the other knitwear designers, I was thinking wow it'd be great if I could make 40 sales,

2 years later, and I've made 906 recorded sales, i reckon the actual number is above 1,000. with many custom orders containing more than one item.

Thank you to my etsy customers, and friends for giving me the opportunity to knit like a mad women, to give up my day job, and do what I love doing most.

big kisses. XXXX

SEPTEMBER flipping heck

So as we step into October, I'm wondering how I've coped with my recorded breaking month with 148 sales 'plus', throughout september, I'm almost exhausted, but totally amazed that my August record sales were smashed to pieces.

It's funny when I first started selling on etsy almost two years ago, my first batch of sales where for 12 hats to a lady in the US, as I came to the end of my 2nd year, I rounded this off with a sale of 12 hats, to a lady who owns a boutique in the US, how funny.

4th October may see me offering a special 2nd anniversay discount on my hats, so check out http://www.ileaiye.etsy.com/ if you need to warm up your barnet this fall.

Lookin Gooooood

Queen michele has been posting on her blog http://kingdomofstyle.typepad.co.uk/ about a project she's involved with, to make a DIY Lanvin neckpiece. There's a tutorial for those interested, but how chuffed am I that one of the outfits she chose to show off her finished piece, included an iLE AiYE hat.

I sent her this hat a month or so ago, as a thank you for featuring the grey hat which she already owns, even though I say so myself I think I choose a great colour for her, the aubergine tone sits perfectly with her jet black hair.

~Most amazing FP results

~On saturday evening 6pm UK time, this treasury made it to the etsy FP, curated by the lovely Karena who makes silver/bronze jewellery this is her store http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7037961

This was the most successful FP I've had to date (sales wise) total orders being 20, 12 of them are for hats. I was inundated with convo's, for custom /reserved orders, and my store views exceeded 5,000 in an hour.

As a thank you for putting me in her lovely treasury which generated so much business, I'm sending the lovely karena, a hat of her choice, she's picked a purple one.