Three years on

Well folks, it's been a while! Almost three years exactly - and oh, how the time flies. I don't think I've looked at this little collection of posts for about two years...strange to think I've had it turned off longer than I had it turned on.

But I think it's time to change that. I've expanded "A Certain World" beyond this original blog incarnation, into the name of the Etsy shop I opened last October, and the corresponding domain name I've registered for my as-yet-unbuilt website for the same business. I've even got a facebook Page! It was actually through a recent conversation with a fellow Etsy seller that I was inspired to resurrect the ol' blog; I've been Etsy-chatting with Katie of makingthishome about our struggles and trials with shop-promotion and lackluster sales. Just trying to get a shop noticed *anywhere* on the behemoth that is Etsy can seem utterly impossible sometimes, but Katie was sweet enough to give me a shout-out on twitter the other day - which seems to have drawn some extra traffic! - and I wanted to return the favor. It's high time I started giving my shop a voice outside of Etsy, and until I get a website design into photoshop and up on wordpress, this seems the logical place to start. It's also high time I started spreading the joy of all the shops and links and funny little blogs that I've kept locked away in a google doc for months...

So, to start: Making This Home!  Katie, a US expat living in Berlin with her German husband (hmm, sounds like me someday...), has an adorable shop featuring a line of whimsical and refreshing journals, diaries and notebooks made with German and other European papers (what could be better?). I found her shop a couple months ago when I had the idea to make a German-themed treasury for Etsy's Euro Week; I included only black, red, and yellow items and organized them so the page looked like a German flag (black items across the top, red items in the middle, yellow items along the bottom..and then some extras. I'm so clever), and Katie's rhubarb-red writing prompt journal fit in perfectly on the red line:

Unfortunately I didn't screen-shot the treasury while it was still active, but perhaps I'll see about re-creating it now that Treasury East is open and lists don't expire!

More beautiful, handmade things to come in subsequent posts...

Cheers!