It's almost time!

Tuesday, November 1st, this little bird will officially be born!  On that day my business will be a legal entity in the state of California and my Etsy shop will be open for business!  I suppose I could make some references to an egg hatching or bird spreading it's wings, but I think everyone gets the gist. 

This week I got my Federal ID number so I can open a business bank account, which I'm doing later today.  I also went to the paper and published my fictitious business name.  I started adding data to my Etsy shop, but nothing is yet listed for sale.  The biggest to-do was reorganizing and cleaning my "shop", aka - my craft room.  I found things I didn't know I had and put like with like.  Now I just have to figure out the best form of fabric storage.  Sadly I have had to impart my own rule on myself - no more fabric in the house if there is no room to store it.  (Mr. Bird lives by this rule in his man cave, I guess I should too.)

This weekend I have a whole host of things to do focused mainly on preparing listings for my shop.  I have to figure out how to take good pictures of my listings so I'm sure I'll be busy reading the camera manual.  I need to set up a Pay Pal account and Quick Books subscription, and figure out my shipping policies, but mainly I need to CRAFT! 

Not only is my shop opening, I have a craft fair on the 12th and I need enough items to sell on both.  Recently I've been making some gifts for a special someone, but I'm almost done so I can work on other things.  I've been able to consistently spend an hour a night during the week to crafting, or cleaning the shop.  I hope that will be enough time on a regular basis to satisfy customer demands (if I have any) because it works really nice in our evening routine.  Weekends are a whole other animal.  I lose time in that room on the weekends.  It just slips away!

Well, that's all for now.  I hope to post some photos this weekend when I figure out the tricks to the camera.

Cheers,
this little bird

Big news today!

I opened an email from Etsy today, saying that starting yesterday, people could change their shop names.  In the past your shop name was your Etsy user name.  This is great for the sellers, but, it made me worry instantly that my shop name would be gone if I waited to create my shop until 11/1/11.

So I did it! I went and registered thislittlebirdshop.etsy.com!

Of course there is nothing for sale yet because I can't legally sell until November 1st.  But I will rest easier knowing my shop is just waiting for me!

I also confirmed my participation at my first craft fair, the Oceano Elks Bazaar on Saturday November 12th. 

Too exciting!

Cheers,
this little bird