Gift Shop

I haven't listed anything in my Etsy store recently, which is nothing new, but is usually just because I was too lazy to make anything new. This time, I had a legitimate excuse; I was making things for somewhere else, the Gift Shop of the Noyes Museum of Art, to be exact.

In April, someone from the Museum's gift shop contacted me, saying that they were looking for new inventory for their gift shop, and they wanted to feature items made in New Jersey (the museum is located just outside of Atlantic City). I did a little research since I had never heard of them before, and found out that they are affiliated with the Richard Stockton College. Richard Stockton was one of the representatives from New Jersey that signed the Declaration of Independence. (Which had absolutely no bearing on whether or not I would consign with them, it just added to my stock of useless information.)

I contacted one of the other sellers on Etsy who sells their products there, made a few new books, and shipped them out. Now, it's a very small Museum as far as I can tell, and I'm not expecting a monstrous rise in sales, but it is a venue to get my name out, and it sounds good to say that you have your items in a gift shop, particularly in a Museum!

So, that is my exciting news I've been keeping to myself for the past month!

And speaking of sounding good, I have determined I no longer sell doll clothes. When ever you tell someone you sell doll clothes, they give you a little sympathetic smile and say, 'oh, isn't that nice'. So now I 'design and sell historically inspired miniature wardrobes'. And if you want to see pictures, I started a page over on the left that has pictures of all the dresses I have sold in the past year, and will be updated every time I make a sale. Looking at those pictures, I'm amazed I sold some of them. Some of my pictures are horrible! I wish I was a photographer!