ah, it seems that of us have secret math spreadsheet geeks living inside of us ;)

in case you want to make your own etsy spreadsheet down the road, etsy does have ones you can download for free but I found that the one I made on my own better suited my needs. I have a column for (1) item, (2) date listed, (3)price, (4) date sold, (5) expenses (and I list it all out in paragraph form with the numbers & text in the cell wrapping to keep the entire spreadsheet on one page, there are too many expenses to have a column for each and thus i also do the math by hand rather than letting excel do the formulas), (6) est s/h, (7) actual s/h, and (8) profit.

If I start a shop, I know I’ll be doing the same thing, calculating costs and all. When I made all those Christmas gifts last year I kept a running tally of what each gift cost me to make. I didn’t need to, but I couldn’t help myself. LOL

the right combo of words is hard to come by, i was in an etsy discussion forum and someone had the user name ‘talkstounicorns’ and i thought it was fantastic and i immeadiately clicked her avatar to go to her shop to see what kind of stuff she sold. you totally need to come up with some kind of “clickable” name ;)

maybe you can try to match you etsy name to the things you may want to sell? it’s kind of exciting to do all that planning, even though i dont’ have tons of etsy sales i really enjoy making my etsy spreadsheets to keep track of my supply inventory and my etsy inventory— i’ve even dorky enough that i calculate the “cost” of each item like for my fabric, i know how many 6×8 cuts (that’s the size I cut for my zippies) I can get from each half yard or yard of fabric so knowing that helps me calculate the supply costs of items I am making….. hhmmm, i’m rambling too much! hope it makes sense!

and sometimes i find it odd that i’m bookwormbethie everywhere (flickr, etsy, blog, craftster). when i first started being active online i was blogging first and then (probably 2 years ago) i was more bookish than stitchy so i chose my name that way.

i know my name might not indicate what i do, but i’ve been using it for a year or so now (longer if you count my blog) so i’m just sticking with it. i suppose for me the name recognition is more important cuz i have an etsy store….

Also, you’re right that a name change would mean a different name from my current “identities” elsewhere, but those identities could change too. I’m not completely sure yet what I want to do, but I’m not in love with the current name and have some other ideas that will sort of give me a fresh start now that I’m beginning to get a sense of who I want to “be” as a crafter, if that makes sense. We’ll see what happens.

i’m interested to see how your blog will evolve, you should keep the same blog address though since that’s your user name on flickr and crafster right?