#etsy shop is doing good

[ithinkitsdashingshop]

Alright! Shop is up and running at Ko-fi. The page is not much to look at yet, but the shop works.

[circuitreats]

Please look at my spooky plague doctor OC mans. I love himbs so much,,, <3

[shenzi-hemlock]

Something that I hate about AI is that now there are shops on Etsy that are basically putting in info like “take this photo and make it an embroidery project” or “make an embroidery pattern from this/these photo(s)”. And I’ve confirmed with the shop owners! I ask them if they’ve used AI images for their projects and they say yes! So not only are they using other people’s work and selling it as their own but they are making patterns that at best are difficult to complete and at worst are unusable because the finished product literally doesn’t exist and the instructions for it are nonexistent.

I hate AI because now I have to scrutinize every shop owner on Etsy that is selling patterns just to make sure it can actually be completed. Stars above, this makes me irate.

[tapiocats]

I made Hawaiian shirts inspired by Tumblr's latest favorite shows!

Aka : Superwholock 2.0

Our Flag Means Death, What We Do In The Shadows, or Good Omens fans, you can now proudly wear your fandom with a nice Hawaiian shirt designed by yours truly ✨

Buttons made of coconut shells 🥥

Sizes range from S to 5-XL ❤

-> Get them here on my Etsy shop ! <-

[touteytout]

the fact that you cant sort etsy by handmade objects anymore drives me crazy like i dont want some drop shipped bullshit i dont want some old stuff someone found in their basement i want handmade object. handmade. something someone made with their hand. handmade pottery. not a cup that looks like its from ikea. handmade. HANDMADE!!!!!!!

[cozylittleartblog]

∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ya boi made washi tapes, please consider Purchasing them. at cozylittleartshoppe on etsy. good print, good sticc, i am obsessed

[coriander-candlesticks]

I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate religious practice into my life & trying to get over the fear of being...annoying? If that's the right word? It feels a little like tugging on the gods' sleeves when I make more than one offering a day to them even though I know I'm not, like, being rude by *checks notes* giving them things or dedicating time/activities to them. Today I made a dessert in preparation for tomorrow's Pathfinder game and dedicated that time spent baking to Hestia and Aphrodite, and it was really nice! I feel like I'm starting to find my footing despite my worries. I'm also trying to make sure I take time where I'm not thinking about religion at all so that I don't start to ruminate/spiral. It's happened a few times already to varying degrees and it's! Not fun!

It's possible it's hindsight/confirmation bias, but I do think the vibes of my tarot deck changed when I started reaching out to the Greek deities. It makes sense: I was using my deck to reach out to a completely different deity/deities before I started exploring Hellenic polytheism. And it's definitely not in a bad way, just more energetic and...light? When before it was heavier (in a comforting way). I've gotten consistently coherent pulls, too, which is nice.

I've been trying to remember to pour a libation to Hermes at certain street corners when I'm out & about, but I have to make a game plan for when other people are also in the area, even if it's just psyching myself up so I don't look awkward while I do it. I have a pendant that I keep in front of his altar/shrine jar that I try to remember to take with me when I travel, and it's been cool having something in my pocket that's consistently reminding me of him because I check so often to make sure it's still there. There were some...issues with my commute on Monday (a true comedy of errors on the city's part) but the change in routine was a *lot* easier to handle in the morning. Of course, the unusually cool temperature helped, but I do accredit the smooth transition to Hermes because I wasn't stressed at *all* for the vast majority of my commute when I usually would have been wiped from the mental/sensory strain of having to pivot & kinda just hope I guessed right on what to do next. The commute home was a nightmare but I didn't have a whole-ass work day ahead of me after that so the stress didn't matter as much (and I was able to get through the last bus ride & walk from the stop which I wasn't sure I'd have the mental fortitude for).

I'm almost done with the statue of Hermes I've been working on, and I finished a set of alphabet oracle "stones" (squares made from air dry clay...would that technically be closer to potsherds?) tonight. I'll share a picture of them once I finish their bag- I have some leftover green cotton yarn from a recent project that I think will go well with them. We'll see how well they hold up, though I'm not planning on doing the "shake them until one falls out" method so hopefully they'll last a while. I worked on them in the living room this evening, instead of in my room. I'm getting more comfortable showing little elements of what I've been exploring to my housemates; it was nice to be able to sit & paint & listen to the iliad while my friend did his own thing next to me on the couch.

I'm still trying to figure out how to gauge each housemates' potential reactions. It'll probably be fine: friend 1 actively has an altar-esque space and uses tarot cards and a pendulum and friend 2 is friend 1's wife. I'm a bit worried about friend 3 being weird about it, at least at first, but considering he was experimenting with witchcraft-esque things a few years ago (I distinctly remember charms & him discussing which of the wheel of the year days he wanted to observe) I think I'm overthinking things. He's an atheist & his view of witchcraft was, at the very least, *similar* to the psych model, which I think is where the hesitation has been coming from on my end. I have therapy this weekend so I think I'll start bringing things up then. The office my therapist is in openly advertises all sorts of alt/witchcraft things so I think I'll be safe there lol

[bigshort2015]

if theres one thing this move has done to me it has made me addicted to throwing shit out

[dunadaan]

I was so incredibly blown away by the order I received from @die-rosastrasse!! The package was so beautifully put together and smelled like roses, and so much love and care and thought went into it- I was so touched by all the extra things she added to my order as well! 🥺 And the order came very quickly- the same day I was about to mail out my letters to my Jane Austen group penpals, and I gleefully decorated and packed their envelopes with what I just received (and added a few of my own stickers). I hope they love them as much as I do, and I can't recommend Olga's Esty shop enough!

Thank you Olga!! 🌻💖 Next time you list these I'm definitely buying them again!

[raspberryconverse]

WTAF, Etsy?!

So a few weeks ago, I sold a cross stitch pattern on my Etsy shop and realized it'd been so long since I sold anything, my bank has actually been closed for over a year. I never had checks for this bank and I didn't have the routing/account number written down anywhere because it was in the app. I went into my seller account and apparently in order to change your deposit account, you need to enter the old account number.

I went back and forth with customer service, even showing them the letter saying the bank was closing. They still stood firmly and said that if I can't enter the old account number, I can't change my deposit account. They even tried to send it to the closed account and it obviously got returned, just like I said it would. The only thing they said I could do was open a new store. They'd help me transfer everything to a new store and refund any listing fees that were leftover from the old store.

Obviously, this was a ridiculous thing to have to do. Especially since I have a listing in my drafts for the absurd amount of metal circular needles I'm getting rid of (they hurt my hands).

Today at work, I was cleaning off my computer desktop and realized I have a few tax returns and W2s saved on there. It occurred to me that if I could find my taxes from a year when I still had that account, I could finally enter it in and change my account.

I went upstairs to our file box and found a tax return with the account number. Then, I opened my Etsy finances and clicked "edit" next to the old deposit account number. Instead of asking me for the old account number, it directs me to Plaid, where I can login to my current bank account. Within a few clicks, I was able to switch to my current bank account.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I spent several days going back and forth, pleading with Etsy to let me change my deposit account because the bank was closed and I had plenty of proof to show them that was the case, just not an account number and no one to call to get it. Then, I dig out a tax return that has the account number I must enter to change my account and all I had to do was login via Plaid and it changed it without a problem.

Fuck you, Etsy. All this for $1.86.

[stupidlytiredstudent]

Like ten years ago I was REALLY into Supernatural. I even went as a hunter for Halloween one year.

So, at one point, I was on Etsy and holy canoli, what do I see? Dean's Apple Pie lip balm. Immediately added to cart and purchased. It tasted SO GOOD, y'all. Literally like licking apple pie. And it was so moisturizing, too? 10/10 lip balm. On top of that, it had a really neat purple Impala label on it.

Anyway, recently I remembered how great that balm was. I wanted to buy more, but, as is the natural order of these things, that Etsy shop is gone, and so is the lip balm.

I'm not mad, but I sure as hell am really, really disappointed. I'm not as into Supernatural as I used to be, but damn, that was some good lip balm.

[somelazyassartist]

I need to make plushies of my little guys so badly. What I wouldn't give for a little Harmony or Hallows to hold

[spark-circuit]

My Library of Ruina merch arrived from ChikosWorkshop on Etsy! :)

[onbearfeet]

Tonight's bear is Captain Cartbear!

[flufflecat]

Making more prototypes of my palisman (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠)

[fairydustskies]

i want a shirt so bad but it’s $50 ugh what the fuck whyyyyy