A fun filled Summer Boutique at Irvine

Hello my readers,

I am a bit late in blogging about this but I wanted to share with you all that, Etsy artisans living in Southern California had a great time at what we called "Summer Boutique" in Irvine.

It was simple, an amazing lady Layna let us use her lovely home in Irvine to be used as a space area for a bunch of Etsians to display their goodies and pretties and have like an event/get together, basically host a "Boutique" !!!

There were different kinds of crafters from clothing artisans to hats, beach bags, jams and jewelry ones. It was a perfect blend so there was no
competition and the whole idea of this boutique apart from selling stuff was to have a good networking with other crafters,
your shop exposure and lots of learnings on how to sell.

I really appreciate Layna for her help and two other great ladies, Brooke and Kyla. Thanks to them for contacting me and letting me display my jewelry.
It was truly truly a fun filled exciting event. I was able to take a picture of me and Layna together and one more with me and my stuff.. check it out!!!

Product Review of Ganesh Emporium by Sarah

Hello Everyone,

Happy weekend to all and hope every one is having fun.

I wanted to share with you all the Product review done by Sarah on some of my Jewelry items. Sarah's blog SaladForBreakfast is a PR friendly site and she and her team does reviews on products and gives genuine feedback on them.

I am so happy to share the review she did for my shop and my designs, here is the link: http://saladforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/05/ganesh-emporium-review-and-giveaway.html

Not only did she blog the feedback with all the kind words but she is also hosting a giveaway for me. It is a very interesting giveaway that is coupled with fun contest, so come and check her link and participate in the giveaway !!!!

The giveaway will run till 13th June 2010 and is applicable worldwide.... Winner is gonna get this really pretty necklace...

Handmade goodness by ByYourSide

Hello Everyone,

Michele at http://michele-byyourside.blogspot.com has this regular "Handmade goodness" feature post on her blog where she picks a theme and displays items from Etsy shops that matches her theme and this time I got picked !!! yay !!!

She also has this lovely facebook page to promote her handmade items and I am her fan ofcourse!!!
I really like the way she does "link love" - a place to share artisan's links and meet more people and one of my favorite link love category is the "Handmade goodness" that she blogs.
I always wanted to get featured in it. Every time I post my Etsy link in her link love discussion tab on facebook I would always think if I will ever get picked
and one day I was so pleasantly surprised to see her email saying that my item was picked !!!

I am soo happy and thanks a lot to Michelle for that. Check out her handmade goodness blog here

Also do drop your Etsy links in her facebook discussion tab, trust me you will like it !!!

Below is a snap shot of this week's Handmade goodness:

First Donation from Ganesh Emporium

Last week, I, on behalf of my friends and family and most importantly my clients without whom my shop would not even exist, made a donation to Red Cross of $100 to help the needy.
It may not be a big amount but I am sure it is sufficient to help at least one person who needs to be helped.



It feels good to do charity and I encourage all my friends to do as well....

I wanted to write about it and personally Thank all my Etsy customers, my Artfire customers and my friend Mai from ShopRuche who helped make this happen.

On another note about donation, I happen to read this quote/fun joke some where online and I thought it was cute.. =))
Thought I'll share with ya'll.

"The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, ''Let's have ham and eggs.'' The pig then replied, ''That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.''"

Raindrops and Roses Treasury

After a long time I logged into the Etsy Treasury to see where the list number was at and GUESS WHAT ??? I was LUCKYYY.. the list had just dropped below 333..

I was listening to the song "Raindrops and Roses..." from Sound of Music then ..
When the spot opened up, I was so excited I couldn't think of any title at that very moment and I had to be quick to lock the slot, so I entered "Raindrops and Roses" as the theme title. =)

But I was fun creating the treasury based on that theme and I even got a bunch of nice comments too..

You can check it out here

Below is a snap shot ........

My new spring collection preview

Hello my blog followers and friends !!!

It is a great Saturday and the weather is just lovely here in California and I am sitting in my living room sipping tea and just relaxing... and also kind of showing off my new designs :))

I had been working on ideas for my spring line and after lots of design and re-design I have finally launched it !!!!
All the items are uploaded to my Etsy Shop if you want to check it out but I am also putting an image here to give you a little preview :)



This collection is special to me because it is my first ever "line or collection" where this is the first time I have designed something specific and it was fun working on. I am quite happy with the end product but I also would love to hear feedback and comments from you, so please keep dropping lines....

And as mentioned before The Mother's day discount of 15% is still on so if you are looking for buying something special for your mom at a great price, you know you could visit Ganesh Emporium too...

:)

Happy blogging and have a great day you guys !!!!

Little Birdie on my backyard, she likes her food...

Me and my hubby went shopping at Home Depot to get some plants for our backyard, after selecting a few, we then strolled in their garden section...
They had all kinds of interesting stuff including some cute bird feeders there... and so we decided to buy one... just for the fun of it, to see if it really does attract birds. We have a small pond in the backyard and we get birdie visitors sometimes who come by for a little drink ... so we thought why not serve food too?? =).

Anyways, we hung the feeder at an elevation and kept looking for birds but none showed up and then my hubby came up with this great idea of keeping the feeder near the pond instead of hanging on a branch and guess what we had our first visitor yesterday and luckily I could capture her on my camera... She is soo pretty, blue with brown lines... she made my day... =))
Of course I wanted to put her picture in my blog immediately and so here she is !!! I named her Birdie Blue... lol...


Hmm.. Yummy food


Thinking if I should eat more.......