Hurray for the New Year

We made it through another year! well, almost,...as the countdown is on.
I love this time of year, especially since my company gives me two days off with pay and that ends up making me have 5 wonderful days in a row of being OFF!
I had plans of using this weekend to create art or little clay people. Something I could put in my Etsy and ArtFire shops, but I really have a lot of research I need to do about the upcoming art retreat. And to make matters worse, or more delightful, however you choose to look at it...my girlfriend pointed out today that this is CANTON weekend! The largest outdoor shopping extravaganza in all of Texas and maybe the whole United States!
She may have to come down and spend the weekend so we can go browse through all the acres and acres of goodies, if for nothing else but inspiration!

I DID do a lot of interesting things tonite for my mother's Etsy shop. I have been studying up on what makes a successful shop and one of the articles told me about how to get your items listed on Google. The article was about a website that practically does all the work for you and will update your items you have to sell at different intervals you set up yourself. You can go see it for yourself at http://www.letsets.com/

Then I also found a really neat site that will let you see how many people "heart" or love your shop and also how many people have looked at your items for sale and who loves what items. What a great marketing tool to have! You can see the "Heartomatic" at http://www.craftcult.com/heartomatic.php?userid=

There is so much great information out there to learn about how to get your sales up, that I could spend the entire weekend just studying on all of that!
But for now...I'm going to definately do my art retreat research and I will be calling my girlfriend tomorrow so we can decide what time we want to get down to Canton! She better wear comfortable shoes or she is going to have a hard time keeping up with "superwoman" with the hormone implants!
Until later....I hope you have a wonderful and safe new year.