Hello again.
I've started a new adventure in my life. An Etsy store!
If you've got any personal contact with me (like my family or my roommate) you've heard nothing but ideas and things to make my Etsy store a success... or new designs... Or checking to see if anyone visited today.
It might be a problem.
Nah.
I'm just so excited that its open! I hadn't really thought about making things to sell when I design cards. Usually it was just for a specific person or, more recently, a friend asked for help making wedding save the dates. She's a little psychotic. And I work with her. Which led to multiple design changes, and practice pieces, and finally a very long time of deciding what else could be made...
I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm talking about a Cameo Silhouette. The machine that uses a razor blade to cut out images that you can design on your computer. Which means I can create things that are pretty cool. And I decided that they were fun to make, and that other people might actually want to buy them. (I have yet to decide if this is true, haha)
But I figured I could tell you, and maybe you would tell your friends, and who knows! Perhaps I'll make a sale one of these days. :)
My shop name is called Wandering White Pines.
I can't take all the credit for it. White pines have been on my mind recently because they are the tree that grows outside the cabin where I spent many weekends growing up. And I have been cultivating an image for my next tattoo that meant something for myself and also for my younger siblings. I don't know what exactly made me thing of trees. But it was one of those nags that I couldn't quite clear and so I've been working on something. ANYWAY.... I digress. The shop name stemmed from my indecision and my roommate remembering my infatuation with the white pine tree and then also my tendency to want to wander. Whether its now the block to see if I can find a new coffee shop or place to sit or the next state over because I heard about a quarry to swim in or Southeast Asia... So I combined these two things and BOOM. Wandering White Pines.
Speaking of my roommate. She also helped me with making my shop cohesive. I wanted to name all of the designs. Like how some places have recipes named after their creators, or there was a dress shop I saw that named the dresses with female names. So, I consult roommate, and roommate is a genius. Brilliant really and says "Why don't you name them after trees, since your shop name is a tree already...?"
I know.
She's brilliant. (I think I mentioned that already)
You'll see the names when you visit ;) And check out the cards I've put up so far.
I've got Save the Dates for weddings or other events possibly. Graduation Announcements, Baby Announcements, and just up last week... Christmas Cards!
Have I got you interested?
Good.
Click here > Wandering White Pines
And as you visit Great Big City Adventure in the future gaze off to the right and you'll see the listings to my shop, so when you're here next finding out about NYC or reading up on Asia, you can peek at new listings.
Thanks in advance for visiting Etsy! (Even if you don't buy anything, look around. There are some great items for sale)
Until next time.
