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Front Page on ETSY

As most etsy sellers know it's very hard to get noticed on etsy because of the vast amount of sellers on there. So being featured on the front page is a most covetable spot to many people because it gives you a spotlight to potential buyers. After a year of selling on Etsy, PoisonAppleNYC finally made it to the front page on June 8th!!! And i missed it but luckily a fellow etsy seller sent me the screen shot. Thanks to CheapBoutique for that!

Poison Apple in viva la moda issue #3

I was pleased to have one of my pieces featured in an article for fairly new on-line magazine VivaLaModa recently. It's issue #3 pages 38- 39. (click the picture to view larger and read the article.)

if i was gonna blow $500...

my wishlist

This is my if i ever have an extra $500 bucks to blow wishlist. The perfect studded bag with just the right amount of an edge. the hottest wedge shoes i've found yet, the sweetest gold heart cluster ring, floaty, feminine tops and some dark jean leggings and capelet jacket to anchor the white girly tops.

1. Bronx Women's Shani Wedge: Shoes $148.95 - amazon.com
2. Gold Black Bead Bib Necklace 15.00 GBP - missselfridge.com
3. Jersey cape jacket 5.00 GBP - osoyou.com
4. 5 Pocket Legging Denim $29.50 - wetseal.com
5. remaining items from eruca.jp (everything is in japanese and i wish i could translate it to see if they ship to the states, but i'm not having any luck with website translaters.) I love that gold ring especially!

im in love....with shoes

Everything about these shoes is perfect. The fact that they are wedges, and have a rubbery easy non-slip sole that's good for walking. I love wedge shoes and if i had it my way every pair of shoes would be wedges, they give you height without sacrificing your ability to walk comfortably.
Ahhhh, but these babies, they are so fierce and i am in love with them and i think i need them. Yup, i think my life will be incomplete without them. They are the type of shoes that will make a woman feel like she just stepped off the catwalk and looks like a million bucks. I'm soooo not the pamper myself type of girl, but every once in a while i feel like i deserve to treat myself nice, because god knows if I wait around for somebody else to pamper me I might be old and gray before it happens. So, i guess "Carpe diem" i need to look hot while i still can, these babies are mine.

thinking of mothers day...

I was a brand new mom last year for mother's day and this year my baby is actually old enough to call me mommy and appreciate me a little bit. i look forward to the day when she can make me homeade cards drawn in pre-school or wherever or paint a rock and give it to me. It's those little things that mean so much...

i'm a bit crazy

I tend to overthink everything in my life...

With that said, I don't know what i've been thinking with deciding to sell all my one of a kind pieces on Etsy only. After thinking about it more, I realized that it's not a very good idea. Not when I already have my own site that I pay a monthly hosting fee and shopping cart fee. Why would I want to send my business over there where I have to pay listing fees and a percentage of my sales in addition to my paypal fees when on my website I can list and sell all I want and only pay paypal fees? Plus I then have to promote both shops and that is harder than just promoting one all of the time. So I dedided that I will now be treating my etsy shop as a sample sale for poisonapplenyc.com. I still have a lot of my recent pieces listed on etsy but i'm going to let them expire if they don't sell on there and I spent some time putting them on my website where they will stay for good. From now on as I retire older designs and mark down pieces that have been on poisonapplenyc.com for a while without selling, I will add them to my sample sale with prices way below retail.

So there you have it, my etsy shop will now be an on-going sample sale of mostly one of a kind pieces.
Everytime I add a bunch of marked down items, I'll send out an e-mail blast to my mailing list. My mailing list recipients will be the first ones notified of the newly marked down prices and hopefully this new way of doing things will help me keep my website more organized and it will keep my design ideas flowing forward in new directions by clearing out older designs and uncluttering my head. That probably only makes sense to me, but that's fne.

so,

1. join my mailing list here if you want to be notified each time I update the etsy with new samples.
2. Go check out the sample sale right now because it's just been updated for the first time with these new sale prices.

curbside rescue and inspiration

During the summer, Juan (my boyfriend) found a round wooden childs size table and two chairs thrown out on somebody's curb. It was a nice little score, the chairs were a bit beat up and needed to be re-glued in a couple spots but my mom's boyfriend took care of that. He enjoys restoring furniture and he's quite handy. Anyway my daughter is almost 11 months already and pretty soon I'd like to start painting this little set and getting it ready to put into her room. Right now it's a light wood color and I want to turn in into something bright and funky to go with her room. So i'm trying to decide what kind of motif to paint onto the top of the table. First here are a few detail photos of her room. I don't have one of the whole room and she's napping in there right now so i'm not gonna wake her up to get one.

So her room is an odd combination of modern/baroque/deco/gothic/grandma style all rolled into one. One of the walls is painted "cosmic pink" by valspar and we painted the other 3 bright white. My mom's boyfriend refinished that vintage dresser for me and painted it white and I picked out the lucite hardware. I got the deco chandelier on sale at urbanoutfitters a couple years ago. I think I paid around $5 for it. Actually I bought two of them, the other one is in my kitchen. But I digress, so I have a few ideas of what to paint on it, first i was thinking i'd like to recreate this image onto the top of the table.
my other ideas include taking an old piece of lace or a doiley and spraypainting over it so the pattern ends up on top of the table. i'd spray white on top of the hot pink i think. the effect would look something like this.
and my third idea would be to paint some kind of really bold orla kiely type pattern onto the table always in a monochromatic hot pink/white combination. I'm not sure which idea to go for, what do you think I should do? I like all three and I can only do one of them. Help me choose.

busy little bee

I've been looking into all the new handmade selling venues that have popped up recently. There's artfire, 1000markets, supermarket, shophandmade, trunkt etc. It's not good to keep all your eggs in one basket, so i'm looking to sell my products on as many sites as I can. Etsy will always be the only place to find my one of a kind pieces though.

Last night I applied to 1000markets and it is a juried site which I love. I just got approved and my shop is now live over there. The positive aspects of this site to me are that it's required that you have excellent photos so it appears more high end from a buyers perspective and right now it's quite new so there is not as much competition on there as on other sites.

And I just opened a shop on artfire as well. Here is my shop link. This place looks promising as well, it's free for a basic shop which I like and they let you link to your etsy shop in your info.

back to the future

So I discovered this link that is quite posibly one of the coolest tools i've ever discovered on the internet. You can take any photo and this handy little tool makes it look like a timeworn photograph from 100 years ago. I had a bit of fun with some pictures of me and Mia and 5 minutes later they looked like this. that's me and Mia back in the day, all of 3 months ago...

me wearing a vintage hat found in my closet

me pre-pregnancy with my skininess...

A really eerie picture of me standing on my spanish harlem fire escape in the dead of winter.

modeling one of my Poison Apple locket necklaces

Another eerie photo in my spanish harlem apartment.

I just love how creepy these pictures look, this little tool seems to work the best on photos that are not high contrast. But imagine the photo editing possibilities this tool gives you.

more ooak necklaces at Etsy

I've been busy adding more one of a kind pieces to my Etsy store this past week. Check them out, add them to your favorites, buy them, blog about them, etc. Click on the pictures to be taken to that item in the shop.

The sterling silver and pearl royal crown and sword necklace

The robot love necklace

The Royal key rosary necklace

The regal key and horn rosary necklace

The jet teardrop necklace

The forever and a day ring necklace

and finally The Sunken Treasure Sailor Locket Necklace

new items up at Etsy

I just added 2 new one of a kind items to my Etsy shop.

The Double Strand Eazy E necklace

and the Hojack Trail Necklace

Stay tuned for more items that will be added shortly.

over the years...

Over the past couple of days i've managed to hunt down every photo of my Poison Apple NYC jewelry that I had lurking in random folders on my computer. I uploaded all of them to my Flickr account and organized them into 3 sets. The first set is "Poison Apple the early years - from 2003 - 2005" and it ranges from the first pair of earrings I ever made to sell on Poison Apple NYC (pictured above left) to my former penchant for graffiti and more. Some of it embarrases me now, but having it all grouped together like this helps me see how i've progressed over the years. It's also fun to see how much better my photography skills have gotten. At first I had the worlds crappiest vivitar digital camera that took horrible photos which you can see in this album.

The next set is "Poison Apple the middle years - from 2006 - 2008" in which my photography greatly improved and so did the quality of my jewelry. I stopped using my crappy vivitar. and Eventually at the beginning of 2008 I finally invested in my own Nikon D40 with 18 - 55mm lens, a photo light tent, and a set of "cool" lights which help me tremendously.

The 3rd set is "Poison Apple 2009 and Beyond" and it will be updated as I add each new product to the Website or Etsy throughout the year. It's been a long, strange journey and these are not all of the pieces i've made, just the ones that I could find photos of. I hope you enjoy looking at them and Comments are welcome!

4 new items added to the Poison Apple shop

Today I added 4 new products to the Poison Apple website. They are part of my new collection of items that will be carried for wholesale as well. Click the picture to get more info on each product.

He who holds the keyring - $20

Tiny Sparrows - $20

The Wise Ones - $20

Retro Owls - $20

I'll be trying to add a few new items to the website every week instead of adding everything at once. It's a work in progress, so as each design is created and photographed, they will be added one by one. For anybody who checked out my table at the Bust Craftacular in Manhattan, you've already seen these because I unveiled them and sold them there first.

Current Etsy Wishlist

Just a few handmade things from Etsy that I've been lusting after.

CUPCAKES MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY mini letterpress calendar 2009 - $13 for one from Yee-Haw Industries

Kachina feather headband - $35 from PreenYourself

Crochet Goldie Locs Rasta Tam Hat - $28 from LSKcrochet

white ceramic owl planter for $32 from fruitflypie (who i've featured before )

Pink cupcake cookie jar for $49.99 from fruitflypie. There seems to be a recurring cupcake theme in my life lately, i'm strangely drawn to them. They remind me of being young and innocent and girly but these cupcakes are for grownups.

Hot pink deer print in vintage frame -$20 from magicalponyfarm for my daughter's hot pink nursury.

let them eat cake print for $12 from BluLima

i miss you deer frame purse - $54.90 from emedamarta