Thursday's Treasure

It's our lucky week!  We have yet another customer's wonderful work to drool over.  Nicole from Auli'i Baby has created baby dresses with the vintage fabric she purchased from sosovintage!

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This sweet pink one is size 18 months.

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And the blue one is 12 months.  Where were these cuties when my girl was a little peanut?!

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Nicole is from Waimea, Hawaii, and the word "auli'i" in her shop name is Hawaiian for cute, dainty, and exquisite.  One step into her shop, and you'll see creations that make you think exactly those things!  Best of all, Nicole offers ready made AND custom baby dresses that are super affordable.   Happy shopping!

Wednesday's Works

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My GIANT string bowl is finally finished!  It measures 50 cm. wide and 20 cm. high, and is destined for a final home in South Korea.

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I love the lines of the stitches.  Would you believe almost 3500 feet of string went into this?

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I couldn't resist having Sophie climb in to help show the scale of this basket!   While I was at it, I had her model the other thing I've been working on: this adorable hat!  This is my first effort at the new pattern I purchased on Etsy.  More details and a final version of the hat will come in another post.

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Gotta love my goofy girl!  She makes taking product photos so much fun. 

Makeover Monday: 1/28

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The makeover this week is courtesy of another talented sosovintage customer!  This House N' Home fabric was purchased earlier this month by a California shopper.

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A few days later, I received this photo!  The fabric has been given new life as a kitchen valance.  The swiss cheese and mushrooms never looked so good!  Thanks so much for sharing your work with us :)

A Girl and Her Cat

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Enjoying a lazy Sunday :)

More About Shipping

There was a comment on yesterday's post about hoping that Etsy would assist with the shipping issue affecting so many of their sellers.  Unfortunately, there isn't anything Etsy as a whole can do about this.  Each shop owner, while "governed" under Etsy's Terms of Use, maintains their own shop policies and prices.  There is no global way to change everyone's prices, nor would we want this. 

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What Etsy has done is allow sellers to create and save shipping profiles- templates for prices to certain countries based on the size and weight of the item.   And, we can "bulk edit" to apply these templates a page at a time.  If your shop carries the same sort of item, with maybe a couple of different sizes or weights, changing your templates and applying them isn't too labor intensive.  I have already been able to finish changes in sosorosey for this reason. 

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But when you have a vintage shop, with almost 600 items for sale, ranging widely in size and shape and weight, each listing must be carefully considered.   So far in sosovintage I have changed all of the fabric listings, and created about 5 shipping profiles identified by weight.  At this time, I am not including international shipping estimates on items weighing over 4 pounds. 

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 A HUGE lifesaver for me in creating my profiles has been the shipping calculator created by an Etsy seller and shared on her blog.  If you need to do what I am doing this weekend, you'll want to visit and bookmark this page right now: http://brittanysbest.com/2013/01/usps-shipping-calculator-for-2013/

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I am often touched by the kindness and generosity of the Etsy community as a whole.  There are so many talented and kind people, and it's wonderful to be a part of that.  We will get through this "Giant Shipping Price Increase Crisis of 2013" together!!

Friday's Favorite Fabric Finds

Happy Friday!  It's been one crazy week, and it will be followed by another.  It seems the school schedule is changing by the minute due to weather and teacher workdays at the end of the quarter.  Just trying to go with the flow over here, and keep up with my crochet orders. 

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The major USPS 2013 price hike goes into effect 1/27, and it is throwing a monkey wrench into my plans for the weekend.  I need to find the best way to update over 800 listings with accurate shipping prices- and fast.  International shipping is going up over 100% to many countries!  Arghh.

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Let's have some sweet cottage goodness to calm things down, shall we?

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I can't pick a favorite this week!  The rose one is made all the sweeter with the dots, isn't it?  I've had the pink, yellow and aqua colorways of the middle sheet, but this pretty green is new to me.  And the elephants?  Who can pass up pink elephants?

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 If you're looking for me this weekend, I'll be chained to my computer.  How about you?

Thursday's Treasure

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Snow day!!  A teeny tiny dusting- maybe an inch- and school was closed for the day.  Sophie and I enjoyed sleeping in, though, and she got to take a walk in the woods with her dad.

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I love the light when all is white outside.  Most of it is gone now, but *they* say more is on the way tomorrow evening.  We shall see!!  How has your winter been so far?