Huzzah!

I scored another treasury! What is a treasury, you may ask? On Etsy, when you visit their homepage and see the lovely featured items, that is a treasury. Treasuries are collections of favorite things picked by fellow Etsy artists. To score a treasury, one must be in the right place at the right time, and that is actually harder than it sounds. Getting your treasury on the Etsy homepage is even harder. Etsy Admins choose from usually 300-500+ treasuries for truly exceptional ones to grace the front page.

It may sound like perhaps it's not something to be terribly excited about, because it's not for self-promotion. But I like to think of it as self-promotion in a backwards sort of way. First of all, I love to promote Etsy, and I definitely love to promote handmade products, and I DEFINITELY love to promote quality handmade products from sellers I trust or know personally. When I pick you for a treasury, I let you know. In a way, that's promotion, and good for both of us. My name is on the treasury, so my name is at least out there, if not my products. So it is good for me, and good for my friends and fellow respected artists and artisans. I figure that eventually, people will do the same and pick me.

And in fact it already happened once, and that particular treasury featuring one of my bags made it to the front page, which was quite an honor. :) This is the second treasury I have made. :) I'm pretty excited about it! I either know or have purchased from about half of the people I featured this time, and found some new neat stuff from people I haven't.

So if you haven't yet, take a peek!

Treasury!

I love Etsy and that it is such a community. We support each other and buy from each other and promote each other. One of the ways to promote each other that is uniquely built in to Etsy is the Treasury. It's not a place to promote *your* work, but others. And it is darn hard to score a spot. But I managed to score one! Check it out:

Summer's Last Stand...of Lemonade

I love all those items, and have had personal, favorable interactions with jenngee, Tumus, 29 Cherry Blossoms, Naiad Soap Arts, and Washi by Maoiliosa. I have personally been featured once that I know of, and that treasury actually made it to the front page of Etsy which is quite the honor :D.