Cupcakes, Tea and Domesticity

Teapot Chipboard Album by Papercut Kitchen

A look back at last week since I dropped the ball on posting the latest additions to my shop! It seems dropping the ball is a regular occurrence for me. I suppose it comes with the full-time mamma territory, especially when my honey has spent most of the summer away at youth camps. A week with two little boys, two dogs, and a frazzled Mamma for the 3rd time in a few short months can get pretty sticky pretty fast! In spite of it all the kids were kept clean, more or less, the house was kept clean, more or less, and I was very pleased that I was able to stick to my modest goal of listing new goodies daily! I have to cling to the little victories.

Cupcake Chipboard Album by Papercut Kitchen

Large Flower Magnets by Papercut Kitchen

I added a bunch of different designs on these magnets throughout the week. You can check them all out at the Papercut Kitchen!

Sneak Peak Sunday

I've been photographing like crazy today so I can add a bunch of new items to my neglected lil' Kitchen. I love making, I just don't always love the process it takes to get my goodies online! So here's a sneak peak to tide you over and hopefully I will have them all ready to start going into my shop tomorrow!

Etsy Team Love

After our guests left and I started catching up on my internet rounds I had a wonderful surprise waiting for me, I was in two treasuries and both of them were created by my fellow etsy team members! I'm now part of two fantastic teams, AREtsy: Arkansas Artists on Etsy and Etsy Twitter. Here are the treasuries, be sure to check them out before they expire and visit the curator's shops to show some love! Want to see what people in these teams create for their etsy shops? Just go to etsy.com and search "AREtsy team" or "Etsy Twitter team".

NOTE: My shop The Beehive is now Papercut Kitchen! Please visit my shop Papercut Kitchen by clicking here.

ARETsy Team Rocks! curated by the mistress of treasuries, Miss Oakleaf Hollow.

My You Rock My Socks Off appreciation box is top left. See the listing here.


Etsy Twitter Team love curated by Jenco13

You can see my Grandma's Attic flower and button magnets bottom row center. See my etsy listing here.

Thanks for the team love guys!

AREtsy Team Seein' Red in '09

A big thank you to Katzetsy for including my Rockabilly glass chip magnets (top row right) in her all red ARETsy team treasury titled AREtsy Team Seein' Red in '09!

NOTE: My shop The Beehive is now Papercut Kitchen! Please visit my shop Papercut Kitchen by clicking here.

Busy Bee

NOTE: My shop The Beehive is now Papercut Kitchen! Please visit my shop Papercut Kitchen by clicking here.

It has been feeling good to be as productive as I've been since this past weekend. I haven't been feeling inspired to create in a long long time and I finally decided it was time to get off my duff and work in spite of that. I was determined to just dig into the supplies that have been sitting around and see what I could come up with. Once I started working inspiration came and I completed: my AREtsy swap gift, a Memory Catcher, 5 bookmarks (thanks Sally for that inspiration!), and about 10 sets of various magnets. Many of these items will become Christmas gifts to family but about 6 of these are going into my shop, thebeehive.etsy.com. I'm hoping that a bunch of new items will give the beehive the boost it needs to start making some sales, it's been pretty dismal over there lately. All my poor little orphans are crying for a home of their own!

Update: before I could publish this post I made 2 sales, yippee! Let's hope they keep coming! You can click the photos below to go to the shop listing.

Hurrah!

I had an awesome surprise awaiting me when I checked in with my shop last night, I've made my first sale since reopening! Yippee! It gave me just the boost I need to keep on with my self critiquing and improvements. It's also the first set of my glass chip magnets that I've sold! Back when I made all my cute promos I decided to make some glass chip magnets to sell in my etsy shop. I really like them, maybe someday I'll set aside some time to make things to keep for myself.

NOTE: My shop The Beehive is now Papercut Kitchen! Please visit my shop Papercut Kitchen by clicking here.