Tuesday Treasury: Royal Blue & Pumpkin Pie

These gorgeous Denim Mushrooms from BrisStyler Denim Days inspired this 'Royal Blue & Pumpkin Pie' Etsy treasury.....

Click here to view the full size treasury!

Happy Tuesday!

Inspiration Monday

With what seems like weeks of rain here in Brisbane I think we may all be in need of a bit of a crafty pick me up. Here are a few images to inspire you and brighten up your day!

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Facebook Tips & Tricks - Recommendations

Recommendations: Why some pages have them and why others don’t.

Page recommendations are a feature for business pages on fb which has been recently upgraded. If a business has a physical address, when you like the page a pop up window will ask you to write a recommendation. This feature is to share new and exciting places with your friends as part of fb working to connect users with local businesses. You also have the option to share your recommendation amongst friends or make it public. Page Admins have the option to show or hide particular recommendations.

 
More info on page recommendations here and here.

Let's Go Shopping

Happy Australia Day for Thursday!! What did you get up to? Maybe you were baking lamingtons. Or frying some snags on the BBQ.  Perhaps even a bit of backyard cricket.

Here's a few Aussie items handmade by our BrisStylers -  ready to call your house their home.

Seagulls photo print

Hey Harriet

Vintage fabric card

Gilded Goldfish

Bower of Beauty screen printed linen tea towel

Paluma Print

Dingo puppy

Manx Minx

Sydney tea towel throw pillow

Collecting Feathers

Need more Aussie fix?  Check out the Happy Australia Day Etsy Treasury here!!

You too can take part in our weekly Let's Go Shopping meme! Post your Etsy finds on your blog then pop back here and add the blog post link below. Don't forget to link back to this post so everyone can check out all your fabulous Etsy finds. Anyone can play along so come join in the fun

Crafty D.I.Y

Hello,

With the holidays over (or nearly for some), you may have a little collection of beautiful pictures...and not sure the best way to display them?

What about trying some transfer experiment with those amazing projects  on Better homes and gardens blog...

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Or this way?

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A little buzz of ideas now?

Before going and looking for those cute pics to transfer, lets mark our "Australia Day" (of yesterday) 

with this super cute Softie D.I.Y found on womansday.com!

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Happy Friday everyone!

Your Creative Business: Getting Organised

Pink To-Do List by Flight Studios

With all that life throws at you it can sometimes be hard to maintain a sense of organisation within your crafty business.  This week we've round up some great articles to help you 'get organised' and 'get on with it'.

• Top 4 Tech Tools to Give Your Productivity a Boost on Etsy
• How Do You Keep Your Crafty Biz Organised? with Jessica Van Den
• More Organising Ideas For Your Craft Room with Studio 11
• How to Organise Invoices for a Craft Business with wikiHow

Feel free to share your organisational tips with us by leaving a comment below!

Crafty & Connected

Do you have an indie biz that you want the world to know about?

When you start out with your own business, one of the biggest challenges is finding customers, and getting your work ‘out there’. If you’re like most, you don’t have much money to spend on expensive advertising campaigns – but you do have TIME. And using social media effectively can take a lot less time than you think – if you’re smart about it.

Perhaps you want to get involved in social media – things like facebook, twitter, and blogging – but don’t quite know how to go about it. Or, maybe you have given it a go in the past… but given up in confusion or frustration. You struggled to build a community and get quality interaction.

If this sounds like you then the 'Crafty & Connected: a Social Media Bootcamp for Indie Biz' e-course may be just what you are looking for. Jess Van Den is passionate about the power of social media - it's what took her from having a hobby to having a thriving full-time creative business.

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The 'Crafty & Connected' e-course will teach you how to spend your precious time wisely, harnessing the power of social media to get your business out there, and help it to thrive and grow!

'Crafty & Connected' is a 6-week live e-course, run by full-time crafty entrepreneur Jess Van Den. The course material will include blog posts, videos/video tutorials and worksheets. There will be 3-5 lessons per week, covering all the major social media - twitter, facebook, pinterest, flickr, stumbleupon, blogging and more!

There will also be 3 Q&A sessions where you can throw your social media questions at Jess, as well as a course forum for you to connect with fellow course participants.

The course will remain live for a total of 6 months, so you’ll have plenty of time to work through the content at your own pace!

The Details:

• The first class starts Monday January 30th so get in quick to book your place!
• Registrations close Friday February 3rd.
• View the course info on the 'Crafty & Connected' website.
• View some FAQ's here!

WIN! WIN! WIN! Pop over to the Epheriell Designs blog to see how you could win yourself a FREE spot in the 'Crafty & Connected: a Social Media Bootcamp for Indie Biz' e-course!