See Our Sale

We have a mega sale on, in our Folksy shop.

Many items are discounted with 50% off due to us moving house again soon.

Find more items here...www.folksy.com/shops/shedraws

Brand new perpetual calendar in the shop now!!

Buy it here.

Delish

These soap cupcake are just so mouthwatering. They are incredibly realistic looking for soaps and I just can't imagine the amount of effort gone into these beauties!

Check out Delish Bath Treat's shop on Folksy, where Debi who is a beauty therapist by day makes these fab treats by night. She has loads more of other goodies, like bubbles bars and lolly soaps.

For the ladies

Finally the shops have some Mr Britain tshirts for the ladies. A much demanded item!

For sale here and here.

Coming sew soon.

Ladies & gents

It's taken a while but I finally have some more ladies & gents tshirts in the shop!

Cut, crop & lighten

The before and afters of my photo's.

This blog post is a sneaky peak, behind the scenes kind of post to show the importance of photo's within an online shop and a little message to all other small business sellers that a little editing can go a long way when it comes to sales.

I love other people to make sales in their online shops, because for me, it's just no fun when people don't feel they can get involved with the community as much and it makes me feel happy to see everyone making their fair share, even in this climate.

Although I am no expert or professional at selling and I still have a lot to learn myself the one thing we can all do easily is review our photographs.

I often feel that the one thing that holds sellers back from making their first, second or third sale is their photographs and effectively under-selling themselves and their products.

We have to remember that the challenge to selling online is making that first impression without actually meeting or greeting the customer. We also need to remember that the photographs are the only way the viewer can see the item they might purchase and this is what will get them to stay in our shops for long enough to potentially buy something.

For me, my photo's are vital in continuing my She Draws brand throughout my shop and making my shop look far more professional than just little old me working from home, but I can tell you it took me a long time to get into the swing of my brand and to make photographs that were suitable and caught the eye.

My photo's are in no way fantastic, but for me they tick the right boxes:

1.Clear

2.Simple

3.Eye catching

4.In keeping with She Draws

I am fortunate enough to have editing software such as photoshop and although I am aware not everyone has this, I hear through the grape vine that there are free editing softwares for you to get going with. All I have done with the "before & after" photo examples above are, crop, brightened and altered the contrast and I hope you can see they make a massive difference!

I hope that this sneak peak has given you some inspiration for your own shops and while the sun is coming out i'd get out there and get snapping!

A dream came true.

As I am an avid wearing and creator of quirky and unusual jewellery i've usually seen everything and takes a lot more to get me excited about new pieces nowadays (plus what kind of jewellery don't I have!). Well this change the day I saw a pair of earrings listed on folksy from Steam Punk Glass and that night I actually had a dream about wearing these earrings with a matching beaded necklace too. Well the next day I went back to the site and they'd be sold, but Glenn was more than happy to whip me up another pair and here they are, my very own world studs.

I just love them and my dream literally came true :)

She's Super!

Please please check out Teasemade's shop.

Sami from Teasemade is a super lovely lady who not only makes the best stuff ever (all tiny and stitched), offers the best advice and goes to all sort of lengths to help you out, she's truly the best.

I first saw Teasemade open up on Folksy just before Christmas and I knew I would love it straightaway, I mean anything with the word "tea" in it must be good for sure!

It's a new year!

So I am wishing you all a very happy New Year and I hope you are enjoying it so far, especially with the snooow!

I have so many new things planned for this year and many of those are going into my shop! To start you all off I have got some new designs ready made as buttons but you'll soon see these over many other items which are still in the making.

My favourite new design is the jellies, which unfortunately haven't photographed very well as button form but I hope I can get some pics to justify their pop party qualities.

I am also going to start yoga next month to bring a bit of peace to my life and some focus perhaps to open my mind and create lots of nice new things, which also brings me to mention I think I have challenged myself to creating an illustration a day to get the ball rolling at least. I'm not sure if i'll be uploading them here, I'm just not sure yet however they are on my flickr at the moment if you'd like to take a peek.

It's a gift.

Christmas is actually on it's way and it is already getting busier for me so to get ahead of the game I decided on making some xmas tags for my gifts to everyone.

I made these cute low cost mini tags using my doily buttons , some recycled gold and metallic red card (actually from easter) and a bit of ribbon. I was so pleased that my doily buttons made the most perfect design for christmas wrapping. They add to the gift so nicely and is an extra little festive gesture to the receiver. The buttons would also work really well sewn on table place names for Christmas dinner!

Me and Mr. Britain.

Here is me and my very own Mr. Britain tshirt. Not sure I do it any justice! But hey, it feels comfortable, nice colour for autumn and is great fun to wear.

I haven't started making ladies tee's yet so as you might have guessed this is a mens, but looks good as an oversized tee.

O yes and either indulge yourself in the christmassy background or ignore it if you're not quite ready for the festive season yet. haha.

DIY Candles

My sister, the owner of Mr. Wick has sources some really fabulous large tins which she currently has for sale in her Folksy shop only these tins are up to you to choose what candle colour and scent you would like from her collection. These DIY candles allow you to create the perfect kitsch candle for gifts or just yourself. She also has many other new candles so pop over to her shop to check them out.

Fab Oxo tin

Large vintage tea tin

This is my fav, a yummy shabby chic sweetie tin.

Mr. Wick

Not sure if my sister wanted me to show this yet, but this is some design I did for her last night. She's opened a shop on Folksy and I won't reveal what she is selling yet but I will let you know as soon as she has listed some things. In the meantime I hope you enjoy Mr. Wick!

Folksy Finds

I love Folksy, but you know i've never blogged about it? Well there is lots of talent on there and these are some of my favs!

From left to right: NelliD - Key to my heart, Midsummer stitches - Scented strawberries, Feltworks - mini black cat, Jude Allman - Raku button.