In case you missed it, this last Monday was the "Opening" of a new online "Marketplace", over here at Common Ground. Usually an idea starts as a seed, and then has to germinate for awhile, but honestly last weekend a phrase started taking shape in my head, and before I knew it I had hit the publish button on a post for a new weekly venue for selling online.
It will be three years in June when I first started with this blog, and in those three years, I've gotten to know so many talented and creative women (and men). I had been making jewelry for a couple of years before I started blogging, and was selling in the store where I had a space. When I started blogging so many friends were opening Etsy Shops, and so I jumped on board. Guess what...selling on Etsy isn't a piece of cake. There are so many sellers and shops and products; it's a given that you can get lost in the crowd.
True to the name, Common Ground, God has evolved this blog, and me, over these last few years. I'm finding that as I've learned "who I am" in the blogging world, I enjoy the ability to "shine a light" on others. There's so much talent out here in blogland, I'm hoping that
Monday Marketplace will give us one more place to come for inspiration and just plain shopping fun.
So, if you're an Etsy seller, have an Online Store, or just love to shop, I hope you'll come by and link up some items that you'd love to share. For more info on this online selling and shopping link up party,
Monday Marketplace, just
click here and
here.
So now, a few highlights from last week
Judy, from
French Laundry makes organization true Vintage Inspiration!
with a wonderful tablescape inspired by nature.
shares a tutorial on painting a wonderful old frame
out some vintage bird graphics.
and come on... look at this amazing outdoors chandy
so so wonderful!!
yay, come on Spring!
If you haven't entered Nancy's Give Away
for a $50 Gift Certificate in her Etsy Transferware Shop
Give Away closes Saturday at midnight.
I'm joining in on these great parties:
What Have You Redone at
Redoux
Hope you'll join in with
"anything vintage or vintage inspired"
Please have a visible link within your post
so others will know where to come and party.
love ya bunches,