Etsy

So I finally made the jump and opened CleverleyCrafts on Etsy.

CleverleyCrafts sells unique and one-off handmade jewellery and home decor items, all handmade by myself.

I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to open my store and upload each of my items for sale. The longest bit of the process was taking all the photos; turns out taking photos of small shiny objects is much harder than taking landscape shots and pictures of friends and family. Hopefully my next set of items (I have lots of new creations waiting to go into my store) that I put up for sale will be easier to photograph as I've pushed the boat out and bought myself a pop-up light box (waiting for it to arrive in the post, come on Mr Postman!).

So far my shop has had a decent amount of views in the month or so that its been open, and I've even managed to get a sale. I've started to realise that I'm not likely to get a torrent of sales straight off, and my aim now is to get a decent amount of followers who can help spread the word about my store and items. To help with this I'm building up my followers on Pinterest, and I have opened a Facebook page for CleverleyCrafts.

I'd love to hear what people think about my items, and I will always try to cater for custom or personalised orders.