Hi, New Here? Welcome! If you're new to my blog welcome! If you have not done so already, check out my previous blog posts on my journey to opening at Etsy Shop. CHAOS It's been busy in my house - and it's caused a bit of disruption to my normal routine of working on designs and getting new products out. I had a water leak and after opening a piece of drywall in every area you can think of in my house to find the leak- turns out its coming from a cracked shower pan. What a mess! We've had to completely replace the shower pan which required demolishing the tile and redoing it. My house is a mess, my mind is going nuts, and I just can't wait for this to be over so I can clean, organize, and get things back to the way they were. Along with the chaos of construction my older kids have been sick all week so they have been alternating going to school as their symptoms improved. Boy oh boy I cannot wait for this week to be over! Especially the construction! DRIVING THE DATA - WEEK 4 / 1 Month It's officially 4 weeks / 1 Month into opening my Etsy shop - lets look at the data: There is something really special behind the numbers you see in the dashboard. Since I've opened my shop I've been able to reconnect with old friends (friends I haven't talked to in years). They reached out and wanted to support me by buying a card. While I would give my friends cards for free any day - they would not take it! THANK YOU to all those who have supported my shop. This Etsy journey has been such a blessing to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. NEW LOOK NEW BRAND These past 1.5 weeks have also been a moment to refocus and rebrand. I wanted to get some expert advice and I reached out to someone who I knew was a master at running a business on Etsy (learnwithpickles). She's been teaching me so much and she also is the one who made me go through this exhausting process of rebranding and renaming my shop, but I feel so accomplished with it. Thanks learnwithpickles for making me go through this! I am in love with the new name "Dumplings and Us" and I'm also in love with my new logo. Now that I've settled on my foundation - I've been focused on design work and getting new products out. I released the Just Because Greeting Card Series. You can read more about what "just because" means in my blog. (BTW: Each image below is a link to the card in my Etsy shop- GO SHOPPING!) WEDDINGS The season for weddings is approaching very shortly and I am honored to be working on some designs for a friend of mine. It has been so much fun that I decided to expand the designs into wedding greeting cards: Wedding Cake with Flowers (now available in my shop). As I continue working on wedding related designs - stay tuned as I'll be releasing some wedding digital downloads soon! All in all I am so grateful to how far this has progressed since I opened about nearly a month ago now. I've truly enjoyed making designs, packaging the cards and sending them off, and just reconnecting with so many people. I can't wait to see where else this will go.
Stay tuned. BTW - I'll likely be switching the cadence of "Opening an Etsy Shop" to monthly now. It will make it more worth while of a read! -K
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