The missing man- from a seattle newsstory.

An etisian's husband has gone missing. If you live in the Seattle area, keep your eyes peeled for her husband

I am amused at how many people on stupidfree are praising rivka's stuff and buying it. Really, I don't think it's right to wholesale copy her stuff. Now, I'm not the sort of person who goes into copying witchhunts- I'm not going to start suing everyone who makes pink earrings, but I can understand why rikva is so upset. So all of you, support rikva as she is original and awesome, not sucky like that copier.

finally..

finally..
Originally uploaded by cassowaryjewelry

I have been planning to make a necklace for black history month for half the month, but only made one today.

an email sent to me:

Seller Update: New Media Pricing Effective February 20

animeg3282,

By now, we hope you've had the chance to watch the Keynote and Executive Q&A webcasts from our annual eCommerce Forum held recently in Washington D.C. We heard your comments about the need for media and category-specific pricing and are accelerating our plan to phase it in. This fee cut will coincide with the site-wide pricing changes previously announced (see Basic Fees and Feature Fees) and will take effect on February 20.

In the Books, Music, Movies and Video Game software categories, we will be offering even lower insertion fees for the first three insertion tiers as follows:
Starting Price Current Fee New Lower Fee
$0.01 - 0.99 (auction-style only) $.20 $.10
$1.00 - 9.99 (auction-style & fixed price) $.40 $.25
$10.00 - 24.99 (auction-style & fixed price) $.60 $.35

For more information on these changes, please see the latest announcement for details. By rewarding and differentiating our best sellers, we will together deliver more of the great shopping experiences found nowhere else but on eBay.

I mostly sell media items on ebay so I am feeling pretty good there. Combined with free gallery, I think that this will be a good change.

I'm not the type to turn my nose up at a venue that I can get sales in. Personally, I have to admit that I don't put much credence into strikes as many people would rather get sales and make money than have their merchandise sit for free.

I made a new squidoo lens demystifying the costs of jewelry. I'll be adding new pieces every few days.

I'm picking at making a new squidoo lens while wacthing chick flicks..

Heartomatic is back! See your hearts, buy more candy! From etsy hopefully.

mother of pearl again!
Originally uploaded by cassowaryjewelry

Shell jewelry gets more exposure in the jewelry category pages on etsy. Amusingly, the earrings pictured are on mintd.

My plan is to make a lot of key chains and cell charms to round out my line. I also need to buy more bobby pin blanks, as those also make my line look broader. I have several items designed but not made[mostly earrings, but one necklace]

I need to edit pictures for my website.

BUST ads sell out in 30 seconds. I felt some stirrings of creative inspiration, but I slept instead.

I decided

stick pearls
Originally uploaded by cassowaryjewelry

to take photos of older designs instead. I guess I could remake these in several colors since I like the idea of them

I'm promoting, promoting, promoting lately. I have put ads on backpage.com, added myself to several link directories, and had my etsy store linked on a blog. Soon I'll use banner ads for project wonderful. My only regret is that I am unable to use this lovely sunlight because I didn't make anything.

It seems that hankies are back. Everything old is new again to save the environment- cloth pads and grocery totes are another example of how crafters are going green to reduce consumption and waste.

I wonder how this went from a hundred views to 500 in a day. It's a mystery.

Mardi Gras is big fun for clothing designers.

The etsy artists of color have started a blog. I need to start tagging! Go to the yahoo group to join.

The heart hunt starts at 10 am eastern time! Is it in my shop?

I made 3 rings, but I won't be able to photo them, because the glue must set well on metal to metal bonds. But at least I have plenty of supplies to photo.

If the pain stops, I can take pictures. My head hurt so bad I couldn't make any jewelry, but I still have supplies..

Etsy's seach will change near the end of the month. I'm editing images to use as project wonderful ads. I
m having two campaigns for main site and etsy.