Tuesday Tip of the Day -- Five Rules for Effective Time Management
I will admit it, time has gotten away from me in the past. That's the exact reason I started to develop my Five Rules for Effective Time Management and I'd love to share them with you!I run a company...
View ArticleHow to Set Up A Payvment Shop on Facebook and Use Etsy CSV File to Populate...
A friend of mine in the EcoEtsy team, Herban | Luxe, was kind enough to put together a great tutorial series of how to create a shop on Payvment (new eCommerce site on Facebook), use your Etsy shop's...
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Craft Felts are Eco Friendly and Easy to Work With
Happy Monday to everyone out there in creative crafty land! Coming to you from the sunny studios in Phoenix where the temperatures are starting to go back up again! With the fall actually here though...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day - A Short and Sweet Suggestion
I love fortune cookies. Not just the cookie itself which has the perfect level of sweet citrusy goodness but also the hidden surprise inside - the fortune! For years I've been collecting these little...
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Reclaimed Supplies from The Wooden Bee Make Beautiful Faux Granite Coasters
Recently I started doing research into reclaimed building supply houses for lumber or other products that would inspire me to create interesting home decor goodies while working with my faux granite...
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Paper Covers Rock Treasury Featured on Etsy Treasury Hunter!
Just found out this morning that a collection I curated a few days ago has been featured over on the blog Etsy Treasury Hunter. Wowza! I am beaming with excitement right now seriously! Have you...
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Friday Feature Finish Painted Wood Floors
Been working on items for the shop like mad and have some last minute weekend wrap-up to do so today's Friday Feature Finish will be short and sweet. Today's finish is Painted wood floors!The plumbing...
View ArticleNew Poll at the Top of the Post Please Read this and Click Quick!
Good morning my friends and clients! It has been a crazy whirlwind over the past week or so and my head is swimming and spinning with all of the ideas and business related goals I have set out for...
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The Results of the Social Media Poll are in!
And the winner by an ever so very slight margin was:Having a blog / website!So I started thinking about the result over coffee this morning. I have been kicking around integrating my blog and website...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day -- Stay Focused and Stay Fresh
Post is going up quite late today as I am finally about caught up after being out of town last week. Sorry for that but I won't make you wait another second for the Tuesday Tip of the Day. Today's is...
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DIY Tutorial Series Making Cellophane Packaging
Today’s tutorial comes from Martina at Nature's Art Melbourne and in it she shares how to take those scraps from cellophane that we all come across and turn them into beautiful, custom packaging for...
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Herban Luxe Giveaway Winner was Yours Truly!
What words come together to encompass the following responses – holy crap, OMG, gratitude, surprise, excitement and oh heck yeah! Thank you hardly seems like enough but that’s exactly what I’m saying...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day - Never Stop Learning
Most of you know that I'm an English student and getting my degree at an online University. When I first signed up I was told the minimum requirements for hardware and software and I either met or...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day Make a List
I'm getting ready to go on a two plus week trip back to Massachusetts to visit family and go to my twenty year high school reunion. Yikes. I know that people older than me will laugh at me for saying...
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DIY Tutorial Series Creating a Lightbox Part I of III
Our latest DIY Tutorial is the first of a trilogy on the beauty, benefit and creation of your very own light box for product photography. The series is coming to you direct from Judi FitzPatrick...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day Protect Yourself Online
Over the past few weeks I’ve been taking a class in school called Computer Literacy. At first I thought the class was going to be all about how to turn on my computer, as it was a 100 course, but I’m...
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DIY Tutorial Series Creating a Lightbox Part II of III
Morning readers! This morning marks Part II of the DIY Tutorial Series on the beauty and benefits of creating and using a lightbox for product photography. Once again my mom came through with a...
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Friday Feature Finish Mountain and Cactus Mural
Last summer, before moving to the southwest, I felt inspired by a photo I saw that my mom took of some small hilly mountains in Arizona. The photo was primarily interesting because of the shading and...
View ArticleTuesday Tip of the Day Travel Safely
The busiest travel day of the year will be upon those of us in the United States tomorrow as we dash to and from the homes of loved ones to spend some quality time together on Thanksgiving. All that...
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DIY Tutorial Series Creating a Lightbox Part III of III
Sadly we have come to the final part in the amazing tutorial series by my mom, and fearless photog, Judi from Judi FitzPatrick Studio. I hope you've all enjoyed this series as much as I have! I...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
For those who celebrate I would just like to extend my biggest hug to you all. I hope that you are able to spend this day with the ones you love, doing what you enjoy, eating what you like and most of...
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Cyber Monday, EcoEtsy Gift Guide and A Coupon Code for 12% Off
Happy Cyber Monday to all the shoppers out there! For those of us who are looking for something unique, one of a kind, handmade or from an independent artist running a smaller business who puts time...
View ArticleExtended Hiatus for Great Reasons
Good morning friends and fans! Wow, what a few weeks it has truly been, I've been basically MIA so I figured an explanation was in order. Welcome to my life where a very close friend once told me I'm...
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Month Long Challenge to De-Clutter
The Captain of our EcoEtsy team has posed a challenge for anyone willing to take it on - one month of decluttering and tracking what leaves your house. I am taking the challenge to de-clutter which...
View ArticleIs It Different for Writers?
For the past four and a half years I’ve owned and operated an Etsy shop called Chucka Stone Designs. The shop was, using television lingo, a spinoff of my larger company of the same name. In the parent...
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