Monday, October 24, 2011

Works in Progress

I have several projects on the table today. I've recently gotten into the bad habit of starting a new project before I finish an old one, and that has led to quite a few unfinished things cluttering up my space. Today, I am going to be working on a mail sorter that I started several months ago. If nothing else, I want this to get done today. If I have time, I'd like to work some more on my Icon of Shadows-inspired necklace. I do intend to do a little more blogging later, but for now I need to get up and get these things done. Pictures will follow!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Email from Etsy

I just got an email this morning from Etsy concerning some changes they're making in advertising and the like. One of the changes they'll be making is they're giving shop owners the ability to change the name of their shops. I have given it some thought, and I may just be taking advantage of this ability. When I named my shop, I was homesick for South Carolina, and I thought Ashley's Crescent Moon Shop would be a marketable name for me. Later it became Under the Crescent Moon, because I was still working within my AshleysCrescentMoon username, and I thought it felt less "clunky." That's the name I've kept, and it works better than my original name, but I still feel as if it's too obscure. It makes no hints as to what I sell, my personality, or my target market, and I feel that a good business name should point to at least one of those things. I briefly pondered going with "barefoot" something-or-other, because now that I'm back in the South I go barefoot pretty often, but do you know how many shops on Etsy have "barefoot" in the name? There aren't nearly as many shops with "crescent moon" in the name, but there is a shop called Beneath a Crescent Moon, so I'm not original there either. What should my new name be? I'm pretty sure I should change it, but to what?