{"id":1059,"date":"2009-04-14T21:39:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2009-04-14T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T02:41:06","slug":"tiny-bits-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"tiny bits of spring&#8230; and my new obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"spring1\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SeSLDUFOqtI\/AAAAAAAAK-Q\/eLgkxTPO0qM\/s800\/IMGP0784.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i mailed off my first etsy sale today (thanks, rebekah!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"spring2\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SeSLBhU9-nI\/AAAAAAAAK94\/vUcY6eZVD18\/s800\/IMGP0771.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>one of my photos was featured in another treasury!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"spring3\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SeSLEbZybNI\/AAAAAAAAK-g\/8_Mq8Z_X-QE\/s800\/IMGP0798.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m afraid etsy&#8217;s become a bit of an obsession for me&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"spring4\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/SeSLE1ROPgI\/AAAAAAAAK-o\/QYWn3AFrzCg\/s800\/IMGP0811.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sure the excitement will die down eventually, but i&#8217;m really looking forward to the day when i can post some of my more recent creations in my shop.\u00c2\u00a0 what do you all think&#8211;is packaging important for etsy items?\u00c2\u00a0 when i sold stuff in stores i made sure everything was labeled and bundled and all, but it takes so much extra time and since people generally throw the packaging away, it seems like a big waste all the way around.\u00c2\u00a0 not that i woudn&#8217;t put labels on my items, but &#8230;. let&#8217;s say a set of pillowcases.\u00c2\u00a0 do they need a strip of paper with my logo to wrap around the set?\u00c2\u00a0 or how about tea towels?\u00c2\u00a0 do they need a strip of paper?\u00c2\u00a0 or a ribbon tied around a set of two?\u00c2\u00a0 or can i just package these things with a little tissue paper, a business card and call it good?<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=1042\">giveaway<\/a> is still open until midnight this thursday, april 16, so there&#8217;s still time to enter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i mailed off my first etsy sale today (thanks, rebekah!). one of my photos was featured in another treasury! i&#8217;m afraid etsy&#8217;s become a bit of an obsession for me&#8230;. i&#8217;m sure the excitement will die down eventually, but i&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1059\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}