Just checking online stuff before heading out for the weekend and found a nice convo in my Etsy inbox. It informed me that I was “top fived” by AllegrasCloset in a street team interview. Pretty cool.

I’m doing what I guess could be called market research. I need help decided what if anything I should start making to add to my etsy shop.

I’m closing the brick & mortar store in April and moving everything online. I’m in the process of uploading everything to a stand alone store that will be linked to this blog and this domain name. I’ve been pretty successful on etsy this past six months as a supply seller so I will probably keep that going for the time being.

I also have a second etsy shop where I used to try to sell my photography. But that never took off and it was too time consuming to promote and keep up to date for very little pay off. I am thinking of turning that shop into a shop for my handmade items. I’ve tried in the past to sell my handbags and a few other things at etsy and had moderate success.

I have a lot of fabric that isn’t really popular and needs to move one way or the other and I was thinking of using it to make stuff to sell. I thought if I focused on one or two things I could streamline production and promote easier. I just need to decide what those things will be. I’ve found that the etsy handbag market is really saturated and competitive so I think I’m not going to go back into that arena again.

I am debating between: aprons, pajama/lounge pants and skirts. What do you all think? The other possibility would be to market to knitters and make sock bags, accessory zip bags, and larger totes.

One of my best etsy customers is threeyellowstarfish. Margaret is in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and makes the cutest baby outfits. I remember making similar bloomers and pinafores for my girls when they were little. So versatile and CUTE! I love how they are all reversible too so you get a lot of bang for your buck. Imagine if you will the ability to reverse the outfit mid-day after an unfortunate strained pea incident. She also mentions that she will be listing reversible overalls soon for little boys. Can’t wait to see those too.

This adorable pinafore was made with Sandy Gervais’ Pumpkins Gone Wild line from Moda.

(Isn’t that model too adorable for words too?)

You can also go to her blog to enter to win a free bloomer and pinafore set!

There just so happens to be a little person of the female type on my shopping list this year. If her Mommy (you know who you are, MYLENE!) happens to read this go to Margaret’s shop and let me know which one you like best!