Hustle and Bustle and Blog What?

So... it's the lovely hustle and bustle of the holiday season.  It seems like just yesterday was Thanksgiving... and here I am 5 shopping days from Christmas and I got nuthin.  I took a pledge to buy handmade and local... guess what... not gonna happen.  I am sure that somewhere it was handmade, but it prolly wasn't local at all!  I have been working on a few things lately, but not alot new in my shop.  I have been playing around with the idea of having a clearance section on my website www.ellajoecouture.com, where when I make one offs that maybe I don't like or something you can get them for a steal if you do like them and need them in the size that they are being offered.  So, keep that in mind and I will be sure to post when I get the page created and items listed.

Sorry it's been so long since I have actually blogged!  I am making a bit of headway in the boutique in New York, however I believe that my sales have been slacking in Texas due to my inability to keep up with everything.  Yes, I am still working on the Spina Bifida onesies.  After how long now?  They have almost all gone out, but not quite.  I still have a whole work area full of them, but I have some packages made and lots are ready to go out, but some of the orders are missing like 1 or 2 shirts due to sizes that aren't available.  Which is becoming a huge pain, because I can't send the order out if it isn't complete.  I don't know who is snatchin up all the sizes I need before I get to the store, but I do know that it needs to stop!!!

I have some more information on techniques that I have used with the Yudu... but I am sure that there will be more on that later... Maybe even later this evening.

New Website! Yee!

Okay... So, a while ago I put up an Alchemy request on Etsy for someone to help me revamp my website.  After lots of offers from free (they even provided me free instructions and their own hand made templates to do it) and other offers into the $$$$ (thousands of dollars) I just kind of let it sit there.  I knew that I needed to spruce it up a bit, but I didn't really know what I was going to do with it.  I mean, the whole point of me even starting a website was so that if someone wanted to know anything about my brand at least I didn't have to worry about a porn site buying my domain name and my customers weren't going to get more than they bargained for.  Someone was gracious enough to give me a copy of FrontPage 2000, which if you didn't know is about the most not nice software to use to create a website!  It is all HTML and guess how much training I had in that?  None.  It was a long and tedious process, but I was at least able to fix my website just to include a link to my etsy shop and then a link to this here lacking blog.

Then my computer went on the fritz.  Actually it just stopped doing anything.  The motherboard... fried.  For whatever reason.... so I had to buy a new one :(  I like it don't get me wrong, but do you know how much energy it takes to get everything on a new computer back to the way you were use to it after you had been adding things to make your computing experience more enjoyable over a 2 year period?  Well, it definitely takes much longer than I wanted to spend.

And then with the loss of my computer, also came the loss of my software to update my website... UGH!  So, I did some research... watched a random marketing video that told me about Weebly.  I already have my domain through GoDaddy.  Well, about 24 hours later, I am soooo excited to tell everyone about my new website www.ellajoecouture.com.  Please feel free to check it out.  It was sooo eaasy to do once I got the hang of things.  Maybe eventually I will even get some of my items up there for sale, but I think at this point having a consolidated place where I sell my wares is going to work out easiest for me.

My new website (www.ellajoecouture.com) (incase you haven't gone there yet, please do and give me your feedback!) even features a place where you can tell me what you want, where as my other one... didn't.  It told you to e-mail me at my yahoo address which, after I got my gmail address, just kind of fell by the wayside :(  Sorry Yahoo but sometimes you don't work so well with my Google Android phone. :(

So, it was easy!  I don't know how hard it is for other people to figure out all of this stuff on their own but for me I know that all of this sort of stuff isn't really my forte.  But anyhoo... please feel free to tell me your thoughts and let me know if you have any ideas or if I missed something on my site!