I am in 2 Treasuries

I curated a Treasury and found out that I have been included in another. 

First I say Thank-you to WaterRose for including my Yellow snowflake Earrings in her “Lemon Fresh” Treasury.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=82692 

I curated a treasury “Blue Stand For…”  Please visit my treasury and learn some of the causes represented by the Blue Awareness Ribbon.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=82655

Purple Stands For… Treasury

Purple has always been my favorite color.  I have Epilepsy so I guess it should come as no surprise that the ribbon color for Epilspsy in Lavendar.  The purple color Awareness Ribbons represent the following Awareness Causes:

Epilepsy, Lupus, Alzheimer’s, General Cancer Awareness, Domestic Violence, Pancreatic Cancer, Animal Abuse, Cystic Fibrosis, Fibromyalgia and too many others to list.

Please visit my new Treasury “Purple Stands For” and click on all the pictures and leave your comment. Thank-you

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=105240

Awareness Treasuries

Occasionally in your life you will start doing something for one reason and then that something takes on its own personality and its own life.  It evolves into something different, not what you originally planned.  This new life and personality can be a good thing or a bad thing.

The Awareness Treasuries that I have been creating are a good example of something that takes on a new life, a new purpose. 

I have been trying to find a way to promote Epilepsy Awareness through my Awareness Jewelry.  When I started making Treasuries I included my favorite Epilepsy Awareness pieces from my shop. The Treasury was a way for me to exhibit my creations.  Usually the other items in the Treasury had nothing to do with Epilepsy Awareness, or even Awareness for that matter.

Slowly the nature of my Awareness Treasuries began to change.  At first I was proud of myself for including Awareness pieces from other shops along side mine.  I liked the way my Awareness creations looked in the company of  Awareness creations made by other artists.

My treasuries were even growing in popularity.  That is a good thing.  The purpose of Treasuries is to showcase items from different artists with the objective being to increase the visibility of the items.  As the views of the Treasury increase so does the visibility.

I can’t pinpoint the date that my Treasuries took on a life of their own.  One day I was just trying to showcase my own Awareness Jewelry for the purpose of increased sales and the next day I was on a one woman mission to change the way the world (at least the Etsy world) feels about Awareness.  

It is no longer about showcasing a piece of mine in order to increase my sales.  Now it is about the need to have everyone talking “Awareness”.  Epilepsy Awareness is still my number one because Epilepsy is so much a part of who I am.  But I want everybody to take notice of each and every Awareness Cause.  

When I started making Treasuries I kept viewing the Treasury to see how well everyone liked it.  I checked my Analytics to determine if my shop views had increased.  I still view my Treasuries a few times a day, but I haven’t checked my shop views in a while.  I want to read the comments because so many people share the reason for their interest in Awareness.  Everyone has a family member or a close friend whose life is affected by  an illness, condition or disease.  We all find a way to get through life despite it.  We do NOT give in to  whatever it is that is trying to hold us back.  

If you want to help me promote Awareness please visit my Treasuries.  Clicking on each item in the Treasury and leaving a comment does three very important things.  First it increases the rank of the Treasury, and that is how a Treasury gets noticed.  Second (this is for you), you will see 12 original pieces of art, some functional, some just pretty, but all supporting Awareness.  Third (this is for me), I like to be filled with emotion when I read how you or a someone close to you is overcoming their situation.. 

If you want to be notified when I have a new Treasury all you have to do is follow my blog.  I post each Awareness Treasury here as soon as I can.   

Please remember that Awareness and Awareness Causes are important to each and every one of us. 

Yellow Stands For…Treasury

I curated an Awareness Treasury focused on the Yellow Awareness Ribbon.  The Yellow Ribbon supports causes such as:

 Deployed Soldiers, Military Support, Missing Children, Liver Cancer, EndometriosisSexual Abstinence

Spina Bifida

Hope, Sarcoma, Testicular Cancer, Bladder Cancer, , Equality, , Liver Disease, , Missing Persons, Suicide Prevention, r Adoptive Parents,

Please visit the Treasury, click on each item and leave a comment.  Thanks.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=82398 

Autism Awareness Treasury

This time I curated a Treasury of  Autism Awareness items.  Please visit and give it some click and comment love:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=104602

Interview with The Curious Pug

Yesterday’s blog post was about my experiences trying to add a new landing page to my Facebook Fan Page. I mentioned that The Curious Pug’s blog was the source of my information on how to do that. I had a little difficulty with my ability to follow instructions and I contacted The Pug for assistance. I love meeting people through my business especially when they are as friendly and helpful as The Pug.

Today I have an Interview with The Curious Pug.

Who is “The Curious Pug”?

I have a pug named Cyrus Bean who is always wondering what I’m doing or where I’m going. He is often in the same room as me, and if he’s not napping or snoring away, he will sit and look at me with his big concerned eyes and head tilted wondering what his crazy human is doing. Or perhaps he is wishing for a treat (which I’m pretty sure occupies 99.8% of his brain).

So it only made sense to name my shop The Curious Pug in his honor

How long have you been an Etsy Seller?

I’ve been a seller since November 6, 2009. But I’ve had a buyer account since August 2008. It wasn’t until I went into my 5th month of unemployment due to the economy that I decided, gee, now would be the perfect time to open an Etsy shop!

How long have you had your FB Fan Page?

Also since November 09. I signed up for all my networking sites around the same time once I decided on a shop name.

What gave you the idea to create the “Landing Page” for your FB Fan Page?

I saw another Etsy seller’s fan page with their landing page and I thought it looked really professional and different. I didn’t even know there was a Facebook app that allowed you to do that. So I searched on Google and discovered all the information I needed to know in order to set it up, but it was scattered about and not all in just one place, so that’s why I decided to make the tutorial my own way, step-by-step

I noticed on you blog that you have posted several tutorials. Can you tell us what tutorials are planned for the future?

I just created one today on how to set up a Google Analytics account for your Etsy shop and blog. And I was thinking about maybe doing a tutorial on how to create a slide-show with music for YouTube using Google Picasa. I’m always welcome to new tutorial suggestions and if I feel I can create a good tutorial, I’d be more than happy to make one up.

Please tell us 3 things about you that would surprise us.

- I’m an x-ray tech and I love seeing bone fractures. Nothing shocks me anymore

- I am a huge fan of 80s music. I will usually listen to Pandora Radio when I’m sewing and leave it set on the 80s channel.

- I watch way too many movies and will usually make some sort of quote reference to them when talking to someone and they have no clue what I’m talking about! I find it amusing

I  know that the Curious Pug loves receiving emails and comments from her readers and customers.  

You can find The Curious Pug through these links:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/curiouspug

http://www.facebook.com/thecuriouspug

http://curiouspug.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/thecuriouspug

http://www.youtube.com/user/thecuriouspug

http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouspug

Personalized Facebook Landing Page Courtesy of The Curious Pug

I browse through the Etsy forums from time to time looking for a thread that might interest me.  This title certainly caught my eye: “I made a tutorial on how to make a welcome Tab for your Facebook Fan Page”.  I loved that concept so I checked out the links provided in the thread.

It seems to be a real simple thing to do.  All I really needed to do was design the graphics for my page, then follow a set of directions.  I can do that.  Well  if you read some of my blog entries you know that I like to outsmart myself.  I designed the graphics for my page and followed the directions.  (this is the part where I outsmart myself).

I could get the graphics loaded but the part about embedding a link in the page to take fans to my Etsy shop took them to the picture in my Picassa web album. I beat my head against the wall for about 4 hours. No matter what I did I couldn’t fix it.  I even went back and read the post (instead of just skimming the highlights).   I finally sent The Curious Pug an email.    In the reply she went so far as to type up the exact code so that all I had to do was replace the picture information.  This is where you learn that if you are following a computer code verbatum, it may be a good idea to do just that.

After an hour I had just about decided that my fans would appreciate visiting my web album instead of my store.  The only difference between what I used and What she used was that the Pug used Photobucket,, so I uploaded my Graphics to Photobucket and that fixed it.  I guess it has to do with the way Picassa links back to the picture.  But it works now.  Check it out.  http://www.facebook.com/Cheryls.Purple.Cow?ref=ts

Here is a link to the post in The Curious Pug’s Blog:

http://curiouspug.blogspot.com/2009/12/tutorial-1-how-to-add-welcome-tab-to.html

My next blog post will be an interview with The Curious Pug.   I will have information on upcoming tutorials on her blog.  Look for it within the next couple of days. 

Different Color Different Cause

I curated a Treasury called “Different Color Different Cause”.  It is another Awareness Treasury that features some of the lesser know Awareness causes.  I hope that you will all visit this Treasury. http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=81661 When you do please click on each item  and leave a comment.  Those actions add to the “score” of the Treasury.  I have been told that if a Treasury gets a high enough score, it may be chosen for additional Etsy promotions.  I would love to see Awareness on the front page of Etsy.

Causes that Need Your Awareness Treasury

I just curated a new Treasury on Etsy.  I love to promote Awareness and I love to make Treasuries.  So I have combined the two to bring you items that support Awareness for causes that you may not know about.Please visit the Treasury by following this link:  http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=103669


Click on each item and leave a comment to support Awareness.  Another way to show your support is to support these artists.

the Colors of Awareness Treasury

I curated another Awareness Treasury.  “The Colors of Awareness”

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=102974