Journals and Photo Albums Now Available on Etsy
February 18th, 2008 | Link
I’ve been toying with the idea of posting some books on Etsy for a while now, but I never got around to it. There is actually a fair bit of work involved in photographing the items and writing up the descriptions and figuring out shipping charges and setting up Paypal with a bank account.
Lucky for me I’ve just become unemployed, and I now have time (for the time being) to do all this stuff. So, you can now visit the Bathtub Dreamer store at Etsy and purchase the Bunnies and Moiré photo album shown above, or one of my other photo albums or Coptic- or hard-bound journals, like this Spot Journal.
so much to say!
1. super excited! finally, you can profit off of the fact that you are your own cottage industry.
2. beautiful! those monkeys can’t last long.
3. think you are undervaluing yourself! others seem to be twice as much.
4. might want to mention that they are handbound. I guess it is implied, but someone else that I looked at had it listed.
5. I favourited your shop! w00t! Think I was the first.
Well, I don’t know about profit, but if I can cover some of my expensive paper-buying habit then I’ll be happy.
Pricing is difficult. I looked for comparable pieces for the photo albums and found them priced between $19 and $56. Then I looked at what had actually sold from the same sellers. Mine may be priced a little low, but I’m hoping they’ll sell and I can clear out my studio and start working on new things. This is really all just part of my consume less/create more plan: move old stuff out of my studio so I have somewhere to put the new stuff I’ll create!
Notice how my lighting has improved? I haven’t quite built that light box you pointed me to, but I bought the foam core and I tape it together in various configurations to bounce the light coming through the window. It works well as long as I get up early enough to use the diffuse light that we get before the fog burns off in the morning. But I’m going to make a trip to the hardware store sometime this week to pick up clamp-on lights and finish it.