Tuesday, December 15, 2009

A little bitta etsy

Today I worked for my friend Caitlin. She's Doug's wife from Miss Lonely Hearts and started an etsy shop on a whim. She sells mini terrariums and air plants, plus a number of other magnets and printed cards. She had a backlog of orders and needed some clarity and extra hands.

First off this is the first time I've been to their little cottage in Alameda and it's like a little etsy shop of it's own with a smidgen of Ikea thrown in for a good measure. There's a ton of natural light and just a good feeling in there. Like you want to get your creative juices a-flowin'.

When I sat myself at the kitchen table to get the terrariums ready for shipment, I was writing some little cards to go in the boxes. I had about 30 cards, but was unsure the number to complete. So, I asked how many orders she had. 20? 50?

Um no, she looked on the website and she had 5 PAGES of 30 orders. 5 PAGES!! For those non-math whizzes out there, that's 150 ORDERS!!

So, I was like a little machine and after my 5 hours there we processed about 30 orders. Doug dropped the packages at the post office and tomorrow we will start bright and early on more.

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