I’ve been selling my hand knit items at AllUnwound.etsy.com for years. This is the year that I’m going to start selling my knitting patterns. Why did I wait so long to do this? Life got in the way. Check out Tips for Visiting Friends and Family in the Hospital to see where it all started….
Life is simply a series of new beginnings. I am beginning anew with this blog. I haven’t reread any of my previous posts so I don’t know if there will be any continuity between this post and my previous posts. For the lead photo I reposted a pretty spring flowerpot arrangement that has “Finished!” as…
(Photo by Bozer on Flickr titled The Power of Hurricane Sandy) While we crafty bloggers are posting our recipes for holiday ornaments and crock pot meals let’s not forget our fellow citizens in the Northeast that are struggling to heat their homes, find enough power to charge their phones and enough gas to get to…
My Etsy site, AllUnwound has a Banner. Banner’s in Etsy are really just a long rectangle at the top of each shop page that can be filled any way you’d like. Esty has some standard free Banners you can load up for your shop. You can purchase a standard or custom Banner from a graphic…
So you’re a blogger and a member of Pinterest. Congratulations! If you blog and want to link your blog to your Pinterest site there are several ways to do this. Apparently with some blogging platforms it is easy. WordPress.com is my blogging platform. I saw several tutorials online that involved copying and pasting long lines…
Pinterest is similar to an online French Memo Board. I have a set of French Memo Boards in my hallway to corral things that I need to keep track of. On Pinterest Memo Boards each pinned item can be clicked on and it displays the website the image was taken from. Visit me on Pinterest…
Click photo to check out the armor on this bug!
Do you belong to Facebook? If so you are probably both a Fan and a Friend. Over 800 million people are active users of Facebook. according to Pew Research Facebook stats . The average Facebook user has 130 Friends. A Friend has access to all of your wall posts, your Friend list, your profile information,…
Branding and promoting your small business is essential. Even if you are a crafter or artisan. After extensive reading about branding and promoting small businesses I decided to open a Facebook Fan Page. Apparently it is a great way to brand my Etsy shop and promote my blog. 300 million people are on Facebook. Some…
I’ve been cruising the Internet checking out knitting and spinning and fiber blogs. I’ve read that “blog rings” are old-fashioned and the way to find blogs you’d like is google. If you do a google search and then click “more” on the left side of the screen you will be able to click on “blogs.” I’ve found a…
