We are a Featured Artisan on Handmade News!

Felix and Paco are thrilled to announce that we are now in the Featured Artisan section of HandmadeNews.org. Many thanks go to Angelica Schaaf for discovering and featuring our store!

Read the interview here.

Now a member of Indiepublic!

Indiepublic is a social networking site for designers and artists and people who like that sort of thing. We are happy to announce that our application for membership was recently accepted. Please take a minute to check out our page!

Now featured on ByHand.me!

Our découpaged apothecary jar was featured on the "All About Handmade" blog at ByHand.me. How exciting! Thanks, Rebecca.

Still no response from Etsy, so...

We've officially flown the coop

The administration over at Etsy still hasn't responded to the revelation that they virtually destroyed seller traffic by tinkering with SEO settings, and have possibly jeopardized their current and future relationship with Google, among other search engines. It appears they attempted to drive more traffic to Etsy.com at the expense of individual sellers. There is also the disturbing implication that Etsy is sneakily attempting to rebrand individual artists' work as "Etsy product", which is simply unacceptable.

I opened an Etsy shop to sell things easily and quickly on a site with a very pretty GUI. As an Etsy newbie, I won't lose much by walking away. Since Etsy seems to have no intention of even responding to their rightfully angry customers (the sellers), let alone placating them, I see no need to stick around. Yes, the GUI is beautiful and fun to use--but the GUI wasn't making me any money. The GUI wasn't moving product.

So off to ArtFire we go, likely forever. I do hope you'll follow us there.

We're now on Artfire!

A few weeks ago, I noticed via Google Analytics that traffic to my store had suddenly dropped precipitously. I thought maybe I wasn't promoting enough, or maybe no one wants my products. Or maybe there was so much new competition on Etsy that my store was simply getting lost in the fog. It happens.

Then I found this thread and lo and behold--it appears that Etsy has inexplicably messed with seller SEO. Thanks to their latest "enhancement", search engines can't find Etsy stores. Not even if you search for those stores' items by name. And not even if you search for the very stores by name!

Needless to say, this explains why traffic ground to a halt. And it's made a lot of people very unhappy, and a few of those people have recommended Artfire.com as an alternative place to showcase our wares. So as of today, we have an Artfire store.

I have no idea if this will be more effective than Etsy, but since listings are free, I don't see the harm in giving it a shot. No matter what, I won't be listing any new items on Etsy until they get this straightened out. Why would I pay them to advertise their site? No thanks.

I hope Etsy realizes what a terrible decision this was and hastens to make things right. Their projected "one or two weeks" timeframe is not exactly encouraging. What a pity.

Oh well. In the meantime, check out our new Artfire store!

We're now on Myspace!

We now have our very own Myspace account. We'll still continue to post most of our info on this blog, but Myspace will allow us to do a bit more networking.

Check us out and add us as a friend here!

Now featured on SARAHSPY!

SARAHSPY, a pop culture and fashion blog, has featured our glossy silk headband in green paisley in a post about Brooklyn fashion. Hooray!

Check it out!

Follow us on Twitter!

Felix and Paco have a Twitter profile. Find out what we're doing when we do it. It's like Facebook updates without the Facebooking part.

Check us out here.