Owl Spotlight, suenosdejmi

The Once-A-Day Listing Resolution

I make scarves and other crochet accessories, like gloves and bags. Even if I work diligently on an item, it takes several days for me to make a new item and get it listed. Sometimes I get in these crafting frenzies where I make several things within the span of a few days but I might not have time to take pictures and list them, and usually when I do I end up listing them all at once.

Well, this frenzy, I decided to try and pace myself, and list one item once a day, and keep crafting to stay an item ahead, so there will always be something to list the next day. Doing this helps with exposure because every day you get a new item in the huge pile that is the Etsy search engine (which is by default listed by newest items first)

So, I got on a crafting binge and made a purse and two scarves within a few days of each other. I took pictures of two of them and listed the first item on this past Friday, which was this awesome blue and red-orange scarf pictured above! I was so excited to get something listed, AND I still had a purse and another scarf left to list!


Saturday's listing was another scarf, the one pictured on the right, a soft, plushie mix of green and purple with some awesomely thick fringe on the ends. Though definitely not as cool as the first scarf, I still like it.

Saturday I also got some yarn I had purchased in the mail, some soft, white sparkley Wool Ease, and was so excited by it that I whipped up some impromptu fingerless armwarmers! I worked on them all evening Saturday and then Sunday too and managed to get them up just before midnight on Sunday!

I'm so in love with these gloves, and they furthered my quest to keep listing 1 item a day until I fail. :) At this point, since I added an extra item, I still had a purse and a scarf to list.

Today's item was the purse, the really cool retro granny square bag pictured stage right. I still have another scarf to list tomorrow, and am working on another scarf right now that I hope to finish tomorrow evening...but the ultimate question is How long can I keep this up???

Wish me luck!


The voice behind suenosdejmi is Jamie. She's a 20-something who loves yarn and crocheting scarves...tons and tons of scarves. Aside from making scarves, she's also part of dreambirdphotos where she sells her pictures she took in Spain and other photo items and piratesdreamofpearls where she sells destash supplies. She's also one of the admins for Etsy Owls. You can find her on her own blog here or on Twitter at jmilovesowls

Thanks for reading!

The Owls take on CRAFT Magazine!

Etsy gave a special discount advertising special for shop owners, and three of our team members took advantage and purchased ad spots in Craft Magazine

This screenshot is from Craft's Digital Edition and is edited with our three members circled.

Visit their Etsy shops:

CorkysCookies
CagedBirdSings
JBirkemeierphoto

Congrats ladies & Good Luck to you during this ad!

The OWLS take on Valentine's Day

The winner of our previous challenge HollyStott, got to choose the theme for this challenge! Congrats Holly and great job on the last challenge! She decided to do Valentine's Day, but with a twist. The main objective of this challenge was to make an item you would give to your best friend for Valentine's Day, but back in high school! So thse items are all silly and fun (and by the way, would make a perfect gift for that young one in your life *wink, wink*)

The entries are shown below, and each have links to their listings on Etsy. Vote for your favorite in the poll over on the left hand side of the screen. Please note that only votes in the poll will be counted, comments do not count as votes! Thanks for visiting, and Happy Valentine's Day from the Etsy Owls Street Team!

HollyStott's Love Monster

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20452591

LoveAlisa's Conversation Hearts

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20495530

Lalala08's Owl Love Notes

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20514119

Jonikay52's After the Rain 8x10 Photograph

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8741256

WeiOpenSecret's Emergency Valentines

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20515770

RaynaE's Unicorn Rainbow Barf Candy Bag

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20513145

StripeyMonkey's Luv U Ipod Cozy

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20487971

Suenosdejmi's Ribbon Bracelet

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20151151

Also, be sure to visit this gorgeous Valentine themed treasury and also search etsyowlsteam for a bunch of great Etsy Owls items!

Owl Spotlight---Inky Paws

Hi! Inky here. I've just popped in to show you some things I've been making recently. Everyone seems to like them a lot so I'm guessing you guys will too.

So I've been making knitted food. It's pretty fun to do. I just pick something and start knitting. I don't have any patterns or anything - I like to make up my own stuff!

I would say I've been knitting for as long as I can remember, which is true, but not entirely that impressive if you take into account the fact that I'm only 15. (Almost 16!)

I've probably only followed a pattern for something I've knitted about... 4 times? All the other 300 things I've knitted I just made up.

Sometimes, of course, it doesn't work. (Like that fingerless mitt I made up that ended up being plenty big enough for Hagrid from Harry Potter to wear...)

But anyway back to the food. I think the pizza is my favorite. But I also really like the chicken leg and the egg.

I don't have a photo of it, but I'm in the middle of knitting some bacon for that egg!

Well, that's all for now... Hope you enjoyed your visual feast and all that!

Editors Note:

The voice behind Inky Paws is Chloe, one of our newer and younger Owls. In addition to such talents as freehanding these delightful knitted foods, her Etsy shop is full of cute little felted animals, greeting cards, and more. To find out more about Chloe, you can also visit her blog at knitonequilttoo.typepad.com/chloe/ Thanks Chloe for sharing these foods with us and we look forward to seeing what else is coming from your crafting world!

Click on the tags below or search 'Owl Spotlight' to read more inside the lives of our members!

A bit of cross-team promoting...

One thing I would like to be more involved in is sharing with other Etsy teams, so when someone Twittered me the Owls earlier with a link to the Creative Glass Guild of Etsy's Current Creative Challenge, I decided to share it here on our blog too!

Etsy teams are just such a neat idea, and I really like the idea of being able to reach out to other networks. So, something we're going to be doing more this year is promoting other teams as well as our own team members!

So...

GO VOTE in the CGGE team challenge. They have some really awesome entrants and there's still a few days left to vote.

There's still time to vote!!!

There's 23 hours left to vote on the Etsy Owls New Years Challenge---it's not too late to get your vote in! See the post below (or click on the link below if you aren't on our main blog page) for the entrant photos and vote in the poll on your left. A lot can change in 23 hours!

We'd also like to take the time to thank everyone from the Etsy community who has voted for our challenge. We have a record number of votes and it's awesome!

Here's the link for the entrants if you need it:

Click Me for some Awesome Photos

New Year’s Resolutions!

It's Challenge time again! The theme of this challenge was centered around the New Year. Each Owl was asked to create an 8x10 photograph that depicted their New Year’s Resolution. To the left of this post is a poll. Please vote on your favorite Photo!!!!

CagedBirdSings “One of my new years resolutions is to have confidence in myself more.”

HollyStott “My New Year's Resolution is to try to spend even more time promoting the EtsyOwls.”

Jbirkemeierphoto's “I chose to start practicing yoga again so my back doesn't hurt so much.”

Suenosdejmi's “my New Years Resolution is to spend quality time with poetry.”

CorkysCookies “This year, with our impending move to the U.S. fast approaching in April, I wanted to focus on making up the outfits that I've been putting off last year. I'm shutting down my fabric shop in order to devote more time to sewing up the fabrics pictured here.”

Check out each listing, by clicking on each name, for more info about each resolution. And don’t forget to VOTE!