New websites!

For several months now, I have been contemplating redoing my website for The Clever Kitty.  I have also been contemplating trying a new host through which I could more easily create and maintain my site.  So I've been playing around with Weebly, and I must say, I'm really liking it.  They have lots of simple templates to choose from, and I love that you can pretty easily customize them to fit your needs and your design sense.  You just need to know a little bit of CSS and/or HTML, which I have kind of picked up over the years just by fiddling around with it.  Obviously I don't know enough to actually code my own site from scratch (otherwise I would!), but I can usually figure out how to tweak little things here and there.

Since Weebly looked like it was going to better fit my needs, I decided to just go for it.  So my website is officially moved!  Of course, it's still kind of  a work in progress, but I'm excited about the change, so I wanted to go ahead and share.  And I was having so much fun redoing my Clever Kitty website, I decided to make one for The Curly Kitty too.  Yay!

Click on the icons below to check out my new sites, then be sure to come back and let me know what you think! 

Lots of new stuff going on around here

So as I had mentioned last week, I've opened a new shop on Etsy, The Curly Kitty. I haven't had much time to start listing my jewelry there yet, as I've been busy with another project (we'll get to that in minute), but I did get everything set up and listed one brooch. I've been working on my photos, and have taken a few, but I want to try out a couple of other things with them as well. I went outside this afternoon to collect some more props for them...you can find lots of interesting things right in your own backyard! Next I just need to set aside time when the lighting is good to take some more shots, and I can list to my hearts content.

So, new shop, new listing...and you may have also noticed a slighlty new look to my blog! I decided to updated the color to fresher springier green. I think it looks quite nice, and am enjoying the change.

Now on to that other project I've been busy with...Modern Handmade Child. We just finished up the spring issue, and I must say, I'm quite proud of it! It's full of wonderfully cheery and springy things, as well as some great ideas for Valentine's Day, and lots of great recipes. So grab a cup of tea, sit back, and enjoy flipping through our spring issue:

We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas on this issue, and welcome your feedback. Drop us a line anytime at editor@modernhandmadechild.com.

Shop Talk Tuesday: and now a surprise for you!

I've done it.  I've been contemplating doing it for awhile now.  It's something I've thought long and hard about, weighing the pros and cons, and recently decided to just go for it.  What have I done, you ask?  I've opened a second Etsy shop, and will be moving all of my swirled wire jewelry there in the coming weeks.  I wanted a name that was similar to the name of my main Etsy shop, The Clever Kitty, but with a twist (pun intended).  So I present, The Curly Kitty:

Before I move all of the swirled wire brooches, rings, and earrings over into the new shop, I've decided to work on my product photography a bit.  Now that they will be in a separate shop, I feel like I have more flexibility in the look of the photos, as I'm not trying to make them fit in with all of my colorful and fun felt stuff.  Here's a couple of sneak peeks at the new look:

Be on the lookout for these and more in the new shop soon!