They work!

Using those online ads have definitely worked. I had more traffic in the last week than I have since I opened the stores in September! Now I just need to save some more money so I can get some more. I also need to make a better GIF image. I didn't really like the one I used, but I did not know the specifications so the cool one I made in Photoshop was too big. Now I know to make it smaller. Thanks to those of you who bought stuff! I greatly appreciate it.

CafePress is fixed

It was them being all glitchy. Thank goodness, I was not looking forward to having to redo everything. I did however change the background. I like the blue better for now.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I have made a resolution to try and blog here more often. I tend to pay more attention to my personal blog and forget about this one sometimes. I have been working on advertising the sites lately. I have paid for a weeks worth of ad space from blogads.com and have 2 ads. One ad is on the gossip site http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/ and the other one is on http://www.rockstarmommy.com . Paying for ad space is kind of expensive, but these two were reasonably priced for me. I paid 41 dollars for both. Some places wanted up to 1, 000. It was crazy. I can see how you can make extra money that way if you have a high traffic site though. Maybe one of these days I can do the same, hahaha. I have also been sending out fliers.

The site over at CafePress is being all wonky. None of my icons are showing up and all my categories are showing up twice. I can't figure it out. I think it is a glitch with the main system because when I checked it a few days ago it was working just fine. I guess if it is still like that in a few days I will have to go through and delete all my icons and find some new ones. That is such a pain in the butt. I am beginning to think that the CafePress site is a waste of time. My Zazzle site is selling more items, I have yet to sell one thing on CafePress. I am going to give it a few more months though, maybe I am just being impatient.

I got my screen printing materials. Now I just need to find someplace who will sell shirts to me in bulk. I also need to buy a few more screens. It will probably be a while before I get it started but at least I have the ball rolling on it.

I will be working on some more Valentine designs, maybe a few birthday cards as well. I need to make some Yard Signs and bumper stickers. I have not made any of those yet. Should do a few before school starts back up next week. I have an art history class to take, yet again, ugh. If i never have to take another art history class it will be too soon. That is about all for now! I will check back in a lot sooner, promise!

Possible new site

I have been thinking that I may get a centralized site where I can keep everything. I am going to start doing screen printing and would like to make shirts and other things that I can not sell at the other stores. I am going to make some one of a kind prints, bead work, hair pieces, coin purses and other things. I can then link up the stores and the blog to that site as well. I may go with Yahoo, they only charge about 7 bucks a month for web space and then I may also get AdWords for a bit and see what kind of traffic I can get with it. I am going to think about it for a while, I may not do it until after the new year. I am not going to do any New Year's designs, I just can't get over how it all looks the same. I am however going to try and make a calendar, if I can think of 12 different illustrations and a decent theme. I also have a few Valentines Day graphics and some for St. Patrick's. Just a bunch of ideas I have running through my head, my insomnia is working over time lately hahaha.

I have new designs!

But goodness, I had not realized it had been so long since I updated things. Life gets busy this time of year, I guess I got caught up in it all. Plus I have schoolwork and kids so I tend to lose track of time. Oh well, I have been working on things and have several new items up in both stores. Business has been picking up on the Zazzle site, I am very grateful for all of you who have found something you liked. I really like the Zazzle site because it is very user friendly and the customer can still customize your design to something they want as well. It is really very cool. I am going to stay with the CafePress site for a while longer to see if I can get any traffic to it. I have yet to sell anything on there. I have some really cute items there that are not available on the Zazzle site, like clocks, teddy bears, messenger bags, pillows, yard signs, pet shirts, and a few other things.

Now on to the new designs! I have one Christmas/Holiday specific but the others are for any time.













Will be doing this more often now that I have the time. See you next post!