My Project For The Day For A Special Friend

Today is Monday, September 7, 2009. It is still dark out and very quiet in the world. My favorite time of the day. All set for the moment with a hot cup of coffee.

Today my project is to work on a "selling blog" for a wonderful friend. Sharon of SNL Designs. She does the most wonderful templates, banners, avatars and web designs. She sells on the bay and after they make it against the rules to do digital downloads, sales went south. Which I can understand. When I purchased my templates and banners, avatars, I didn't want to wait for a CD to arrive in the mail.

Yesterday I had sent her an e-mail her about a banner for my Etsy shop and within a couple of hours I had it in my in box another thirty seconds to upload it and it was in my shop. If we had done it the bays way it would have been a week before I received it.

She does ALL venue templates, banners and avatars. I truly enjoy working with her, she doesn't collect your money and that is the end. I remember the first template that I bought from her on the bay for my bay store. When I got the e-mail, well needless to say, I thought what have I gotten myself into. After reading her instructions, I did it! She had been checking my store to see if I had an issues, this I didn't know until I received an e-mail from her, telling me why the red x was next to my pictures and how to correct it. She is a sweetheart and today I will set up a blog for her, Branding Your Business.

The picture is of the apple stacker that I did get to make and is now hanging in the window, when the sun is shinning on it, oh it smells just wonderful. Going to bake a few trays of the apples while working on the selling blog. Maybe I will get to use them for the wreath this time.

Time to get to work and another cup of coffee. Hope that everyone had a splendid weekend. Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today. ~Brightest Blessings~

Colors for the week:
Monday White
Tuesday Black
Wednesday Yellow
Thursday Green
Friday Rose
Saturday Blue
Sunday Amber

New Listings

Today is Thursday, July 2, 2009. It is a pretty day, sun is shinning and a gentle breeze. A perfect day. Watching the squirrels playing this morning. They are quick little critters.

I was thrilled a couple of nights ago when Sharon of SNL Designs sent me this background to use on my Twitter page. She is such an awesome person and just so talented. A real sweet heart to work with. If you need templates,banners, or avatars stop by and see Sharon!

I did get me listings done yesterday and started working on the Samhain Altar Cloths. I do believe that I will have them finished up today.

This is "The Now" rag quilt tote that I had finished and listed yesterday. I love the colors! The wooden button cover I had bought a while back, it was a pin. I couldn't believe how well it matched the colors on this tote. So I removed the pin back and replaced it with a button cover clip. It is available in my Bonanzle booth.

Trying to get everything finished up today so that I can enjoy a three day weekend with family. Hubby will be off the next three days and I can't seem to get anything done when he is home. So I need to get busy.

Have a happy, healthy, productive day! Brightest Blessings!

Merry Meet and Welcome To My Bonanzle Booth

Good Afternoon! Today is Thursday, January 8, 2009!
Oh what a chilly day it is here. Wind is blowing but the sun is shinning. Going to have to figure out how to fix this bird feeder so these crazy squirrels stop getting stuck in there.

Talk about customer service, I e-mailed Sharon of SNL Designs, yesterday about my avatar and she has already made and sent the new one with just my selling ID! This lady is just to kewl. As much as I hate to admit it, my son was right. She looks beautiful with just my selling ID.

This morning I woke up to find a new template that she has been working on for my Bonanzle Booth. She thought it was going to be to hard to work with. I did one listing with it, just to try it out and had no issues with using it. Sharon's instructions are really easy to follow, nothing is ever left out. So I am waiting ever so patiently to hear back from her. I am still so excited!

Stop by SNL Designs Bonanzle Booth and check out her already made items or get her to brand your booth for you. She is just super to work with! So many options to chose from. If you are unsure of what you are looking for, send her an e-mail and set up a time to chat with her in her Bonanzle Booth. You will be so glad that you did.

I am really excited about getting this to all come together. This isn't something that you can go into without any thought. Lots of time will go into just changing out your avatar not to mention redoing all of your listings. Getting your bussiness cards and return labels, e-mail business card all will take some time to get it together. It's like redecorating your house. Lots of work, but how exciting to do and then to see the final project finished.

My redirect link will go on all of my business cards and anything that the customer comes into comtact with. Why? Because I want my customer to find me quickly. If for some unknown reason somthing happens at Bonanzle, all I have to do is go in and change where I want my customer to land. This I had to learn the hard way.

Stop by and chat would really like to hear any ideas that you may have.

Brightest Blessings!

"I Know You!" In My Bonanzle Chat Box

When I started making handmade wooden Book of Shadows and other things for friends, I had no intentions of selling on line. However, as time went on I decided to open an e-bay store. I spent hours making it look just right. There was a lady there that sold auction templates and avatars.

I found just the perfect templates and my avatar! They were the ones that made my store, mine! I loved the look of my store when I was finished, my friends and family told me it looks wonderful.

You have to understand I know nothing about HTML coding, nothing. So when the templates arrived in my e-mail, oh my, I was lost. Not sure what I had expected to get, but this is not what I thought it was going to be.

Of course it came with instructions, but the whole thing might as well have been written in Spanish. I had no idea what a "break line" was or photo hosting or anything else these instructions were referring to.

I knew I wanted this template, I also knew I was way in over my head on this one. No, I need to figure this out and I was going to do it. The lady that I had gotten my templates from also sent me a link to "praticewriter", you can go and do your listings and see what they will look like as you are doing them. So I played for hours, trying to figure this out.

I got one done and to be honest it was ok, but there were boxes next to my pictures that had those little red x's , this was not to my liking.

To my surprise, Sharon took the time to go and see how I was doing with my new templates! Not to many sellers give a hoot after they have their money and shipped. For many that is the end of the story as far as they are concerned. Not Sharon!

Sharon took the time to e-mail me with step by step directions, and I do mean step by step directions how to get those boxes out of my pictures. She was wonderful. I had bought several different templates from her, however my favorite was the one that I changed them all to.

With all of the changing rules and the never ending fee increases on e-bay, I decided I had enough. I started selling my things at a price that most people could afford. There was no way I was going to continue selling and adding to the price to cover e-bay and PayPal fees.

I was reading the AuctionBytes and seen where someone had written saying that there was a new and really wonderful selling venue. If you want to know more about it to e-mail her. So I did, that was the most productive e-mail I have ever sent. She sent me an invitation to Bonanzle. Went there and spent some time reading the boards and checking out the place. Fell in love, opened an account and gave myself 30 days to close my store at e-bay. I was moving out, found a new home and was very excited about it!

Well, Bonanzle has an e-bay importer, great this is going to be so easy. Little did I know at the time, you can't have your HTML templates on Bonanzle. Oh my, what a mess I had imported! OK time to get to work and clean this mess up. I still had my avatar and banner! I was ok, with that, well for the most part.

Closing day came for my e-bay store and the only and I do mean the only thing that I missed was my templates! They were beautiful! The script at Bonanzle is different, so off I went to e-bay looking for Sharon! This new search thing going on, nothing ! Every search I did brought up all kinds of things, however not what I was looking for. Sharon still had to be there, surly she would have told her customers if she was leaving. After several attempts to find her, I gave up all hope that I would. My beautiful templates, filed on my computer in code.

To my surprise two days ago and I am soooo excited about this, someone came to my Bonanzle Booth and said, "Hey I know you!" Now this is like a phone call from someone that you have no idea who it is and hope that they just keep talking long enough for you to figure it out. Well, I finally had to fess up that I didn't know who it was. I felt very shallow, what a feeling. She then told me that SHE was the one that made my avatar! OH YES! NO WAY! All of the time that I had been looking for her and she found me! We talked and I now have her bookmarked as a favorite, because she is and don't plan on losing her again!

Sharon has opened a Bonanzle Booth SNL Designs at http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/dacholiday she is going to work on trying to make templates for Bonanzle! I am just so excited that I may get to have my template back to use again! I you are looking for quality work, and a seller that goes above and beyond customer service, Sharon is the one to go see! She is just wonderul and she doesn't treat you like you are bothering her. She is going to be a real asset to the Bonanzle community! Welcome to Bonanzle Sharon! I am so glad that you are here!
Make sure to stop in and say hey to her!

Today is Tickle Me Tuesday and I will be running a 15% off everything in my Bonanzle Booth Brightest Blessings Wiccans http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/BrightestBlessings