Sunday, August 15, 2010

and another thing...

So, last week my blue shoes were chosen to feature in this Pounce! Treasury on Etsy which promotes great shops before their first sale. Thanks, fellow Etsyers!

Also, this week I have set up a Facebook page for the other half of the three bees business, where I make cakes and desserts and such. It's all quite pretty and I'm a bit proud of it. Go! Look! Like!


(summer berry cheesecake)


(chocolate orange tarts)


(persian spice cupcakes, ready for delivery)




It feels good to be getting busy with these things again, channeling my creativity into something I can use. I still think I'll need someone outside to work through the marketing and promotion side of things as I find that stuff really difficult (as this link-heavy post will attest!), but it's all a work in process. And the family don't seem to mind being guineapigs for new flavours....

So get on board. You can say you were there when the three bees empire all began.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

will I ever learn?

It's come around again - in the everlasting hope that I might possibly be able turn a profit from this w.a.h.m. thing, or at least make it into something other than a money-haemorrhaging exercise, I have reopened my Etsy shop.

I'm making wee slippers in a kimono style, in lovely fabrics like velvet, georgette, and brocade. Here are some of the pretties:







I'd really love for you to take a look on www.etsy.com/shop/threebeescakes and tell me what you think (and eagle-eyed followers can see what I did with some of that robot fabric, at last!).

Sunday, August 1, 2010

doin' it for the kids

I went to my local craft shop.

I bought buttons, paint, and 5"x5" stretched canvases.

I made these for my niece and nephews:



Jasmine,



Finnegan, and



Huon.