Kit's Glass Etchings

The Black Market is this Saturday, and I'm vending once again this year!  Yes, hello, I know it has been over half a year since I last updated.   Shame on me.  I've been trying to get my new website, www.kitcameo.com, on track, but it appears I have no knowledge of how to actually create an html website! :P  Well, anyways, I at least have a landing page there now, and I've done a quick update tonight on this site just clearing away some old stuff, and editing a few links.  None of the links on the Etsy and ArtFire pages should lead to sold or missing items anymore.  Once Bats Day is over I will update more thoroughly, and I have quite a few new items to show off, too!  I hope to see a lot of people at Bats Day!  Have a great week!

It's been an arse load of time since I updated my website, so I decided to just buckle down and do it today! Part of my hesitance to get it done has to do with the fact that I plan on moving the whole site over to a new domain soon, and lot's of changes are going to be made! So, updating the Kit's Glass... one seems kind of futile! Still, until I actually get off my butt and start the new website I will have to keep the old one going!

 

What did I do today? Well, I completed the ArtFire and Etsy pages on my site so that they include (nearly) all of my listings n those shops. I also messed around a bit with the header on my page. I think the new site is going to have a custom header, because I really don't like the options available in Microsoft Office Live.

 

I have added a lot of items to my shops since I last wrote a blog entry, mostly my smaller bottles and ooak necklaces. The prices of the necklaces are still not where I want them to be, so if you see one you like, I strongly suggest picking it up now before I start reassessing their value! Also, the new Flying Saucer necklace I put in my Etsy shop was an experiment I did just for the hell of it. So, I probably won't be making any more retro spaceship type items, even though I do like the way it came out! It's just not a genre I would generally work in.

 

BTW, ArtFire is my new favorite, in case you couldn't tell by the entry on my other blog here ;) I love the people there, I love the one page listing forms, and I LOVE that my customers don't need to sign up for an account! You can expect to see a slowdown in the items I put in my Etsy shop, and a growth in the ones that go to ArtFire. Also, because I pay monthly, I can list some of my more high end items on ArtFire without worrying about transaction fees! This is a huge plus for me because I truly enjoy the OOAK pieces more than the smaller ones I make over and over.

 

I'm trying to come up with ideas about what to include in my new website, so if you have anything you'd like to see, please let me know! The new site will include paintings, sculptures, and anything else my heart desires as far as art goes, so it won't just be Kit's glass anymore. I'm warning you right now, I looooove dragons!

 

I apologise for the scatter-brained look of this blog post today! It's hot out, and I'm trying to finish so I can head out to my folks and jump in

their pool! Anyways, like I said, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to email me, or write in my comments! Thanks!

 

~Kit

It's Bats Day weekend, and once again I get to be a vendor for the Black Market! I've been scrambling all month; first, with my surgery in late March, and then with relatives visiting, and all the while trying to get everything prepared for this weekend! Well I finally got all of my priority bottles done for the event, and I have a few new things going on this year!

 

First of all, the Bats Day 2009 bottles... I am once again selling numbered Bats Day bottles, but this time I've only made thirteen in all, and two of them won't be for sale! That's right, the numbers 7 and 13 will be in raffles again this year! #13 will be at my table, where I'll be selling tickets for $1 a piece for the chance to win it, and #7 will be in the pre-show raffle. This is going to be the LAST year that I make any Bats Day bottles, so this will be your last chance to get one! I'll also be selling leftover Bats Day 2008 bottles from last years Black Market.

 

Speaking of raffles, I've decided to host a free raffle for a chence to win one of four prize baskets full of Etsy's Dark Side Team goodies! Every person who visits my table gets a free ticket for the raffle of one of these baskets which contain cool gothic pendants, magnets, pins, soap samples, and even a 20% coupon for one of my own items! Personally, I'm drooling over the pendants sent to me to use in the raffle by groovymooncreations, and I've put two of my own mirror pendants into the raffle as well!

I'm making some new style necklaces, and I've started with a few I'd really like to keep for myself! In my new ArtFire shop I put this Neko Kitty necklace! He's really cute, and his tail dangles! Plus, when he reflects sunlight you can see his face in the reflection :3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These necklaces are newly listed in my Etsy shop!

It's been a little bit since I last updated this blog! I haven't gotten any sleep for a few days, so please excuse this entry if it's less than eloquent tonight, lol!

I just got a job at HandmadeNews.org, and I thought I'd share with everyone!! This is my very first article!

http://www.handmadenews.org/article/index.php?id=1076

Whatever I can try to get my artwork out there, I'm going to try it! So when I spoke to John Jacobs, the president and founder of ArtFire, and he let me know about all the tools for artisan sellers on ArtFire, I thought I might try to bring a few of my items over to his site! This is my new ArtFire shop: http://KitCameo.artfire.com And here's what I chose to start off with, opting not to go my usual gothic route with this new site:



According to Mr. Jacobs there are a lot of promotion tools for us sellers; Rapid Cart, Market Hub, Tweet This, VoteHandmade, etc. I haven't had a chance to look very far into any of these yet, but I'm led to believe that Rapid Cart allows you to add a cart to your blog for handmade items listed on ArtFire! Sounds pretty neat to me, so I think I'll check that out first...

Newly Listed on Etsy! I make necklaces now, and I ain’t gonna stop it! SO DON’T TRY TO MAKE ME!!!!

Click!




THANKS FOR LOOKING! :D

First, I just wanna say I had a blast at Black Market and Bats Day! I made a bunch of necklaces specially for the event as a new item, and they were a hit! I have some that I haven't sold yet and I'm going to be trying to list them all this week, starting with these three:

I am DEFINATELY going to be doing Bats Day again next year! What a ROCKIN' crowd of people!!