Etsy love!

Two of my most favorite shops on Etsy are Mamadelic and Tinymeat (perhaps you remember my earlier post about how "Sorry, no pie here" was the inspiration for my own slogan contest). I have just learned that they met on Etsy and now are trying to sell lots of stuff so that they'll have enough money to be together.

Read about their story on Mona's blog. I'm a little teary eyed. Give me a second.

I can't buy anything until the next payday but perhaps you can.
Mamadelic is giving away free Tinymeat card cases with any purchase over 10$!

This checkbook cover was on my Christmas list:
You can buy cool passport cases here too.

And I really need this necklace:
Don't buy this one. Buy something else, like this.

It's true love, just like on The Princess Bride.

One more to go!

When I first started selling on Etsy, I never expected it to take off. Secretly I hoped... Silently I fantasized about millions of fans... Subtley I hinted to Katie Holmes...

But now I have 199 hearts. Wow.

Package off to Etsy Labs

So I filled one of the big flat-rate priority mail boxes with all kinds of craft supplies and sent it off to Etsy Labs this morning.

It was a lot of beads, some containers for organizing, local wool yarn, embroidery floss, needles, weird thrift store finds -- you name it. Now I'm feeling a little stupid. What if they think the stuff I sent was crap?

Christopher (above) doesn't, but sometimes I worry about what other people think.

Gifts for Boys on the Etsy Showcase

So I went ahead and decided to buy a spot on the Valentine's Day showcase, "Gifts for Boys." It's linked from Etsy's homepage.

When you click on shuffle, all these little hearts come out and start dancing around. There's some good stuff up there.

A pillow for Patty...

Personalized Minky Pillow
Originally uploaded by southernsassypants.

Is this pillow in honor of Patty Hearst?

I have no idea.

Is Southern Sassy Pants an ironist like myself or did she just make a pillow for someone lucky enough to have these radical initials?

Perhaps I should order one just like this to match my Urban Guerrilla stickers...

Showcase Showdown

I have another spot on the Etsy showcase today. There's a really nice mix of stuff up there. It's always different. Sometimes it looks like a well-chosen treasury list.

Check it out. Shuffle the items, toss them around. It can be a lot of fun.

Farewell to farewells...

I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I thought it would be really nice to say goodbye to all the little Etsy guys when they went to their new homes. Do I really have this kind of time? No.

So, farewell to Keaton the ladybug, Little Frog (who underwent sexual reassignment surgery and is now a lady, no longer Frederick), and Gretchen the bunny.

And last, but not least, a fond farewell to farewells.