There have been a few reviews gathered in my shops lately, and I’d like to share them with you.
Two opinions are from CrochetCabinetCrafts.
The following reviews are from StitchersLand.
One review is from LaceCrochetFinds.
I am very thankful for all my customers who support my small business.
It seems writing on the blog once a week is a bad idea. Visits declined dramatically. My experiment wasn’t successful. So I decided to post news about my shops frequently, maybe not every day but sometimes a week.
I was crocheting hard all last week to complete my longest poppies garland, and I sent it to the USA, KS, on the 1st of December. The bunting is 180 inches or 4,5 metres long. I hope it is delivered to the customer before Christmas. However, shipping in December is a lottery. Cross my fingers!
At the beginning of the year, there were a lot of orders in my shops. Sometimes I had 10 -12 opened orders at the same time. I worked hard and was even able to defend Star seller status. Then, the number of orders started to decrease. Customers bought 1 – 2 things a week from me. That was ok. Unfortunately, now I have no purchases at all. I understand that buyers are waiting for a Black Friday sale. Sure, I settled it on November 18. The problem is that I send orders from Europe and can’t guarantee that the USA will get their orders before Christmas. Besides, my Earlyholiday sale is 20%, and the Black Friday sale will be 10%. So visit my shops now, order something you want, and I’ll send it to you in some days.
Monday is a shipping time. Yesterday I completed two orders – flowers bookmarks set and a black lace choker necklace with satin ribbon. Unfortunately, only the choker left home to New York City. Today I packed both orders carefully and noticed that the customer chose the yellow colour for the bookmarks. Thank God I noticed that at all! I asked the customer what shade of yellow she would prefer, and now I have finished and even packed two bookmarks – lilac and dusty pink. If you like them, you are welcome, and I’ll send them to you tomorrow. As you can see in the photos, the packaging is always different for different products – with flowers for bookmarks and with lace for the choker.
I’ve just put a new set of small crochet flowers and leaves in the shop. All flowers are made around one new colour of thread – raspberry, which officially is called red medium. And as always, I struggled with photos, trying to convey this beautiful colour.
A new Autumn colours garland appears at my shop on Etsy on the 1st of October. Crochet of yellow, orange, first grass green and dark green 100% mercerized cotton yarn. I like these soft colours so much that I decided to add the bunting to my wall decoration. It doesn’t matter that stitched egg relates to Easter. However, it matches all the decor by its colour, in my opinion.
I have so many orders, that’s why there is no way to create something new for the shop. Still, I am trying very hard and here is the result of my trials – I will be knitting a modern dahlia garland. Different variations in the shape of the petals are possible – some will be round, others slightly oblong; some will have the middle filled in, others will be empty. And, of course, the colours will be different, based on the threads I have available. It’s all thanks to Tatiana Litke, whose video tutorial I used to make my dahlias.
I am trying to be as eco friendly as possible. Two of my garlands – sunflowers and poppies from CrochetCabinetcrafts – were dispatched today morning to The Netherlands. I hope the seller will be happy with them and can decorate her retro vans into Bohemian style as she wrote me. It’s time to start the summer holiday!
My new Pumpkin garland is growing up slowly. Firstly I was planning to make the bunting only from plane pumpkins, but it seems that something is missing here. So I added a simple crochet leaf but that wasn’t enough, so I made up a leaf with a tendril and now I am satisfied with it. It’s bright and funny and is the best creation for Thanksgiving Day home decoration.
It’s hard to describe the feeling of joy that comes over you when you receive a new review of your product. You are happy because someone loves what you have created and made with your hands. In this case, the feedback was accompanied by a text message stating that the garland is now decorating the entrance to your customer’s house. And you sit there all happy, looking at a map of the world and imagining this house in Smyrna, Georgia in America and the people who live in it and watch your work every day. And you are convinced once again that you are doing everything right! Lori, thank you for these kind words and Sunday magic mood!
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