A Little Progress Report

 

Hello there!

I've been ignoring this blog as I've been working on assorted things: pre-preparing our taxes (that is, getting my records updated and gathering the info to send to the guy who actually does the proper tax prep work);  thinking about garden plans and seed starting (more on that later); and working on getting my own website up and running, which will eventually replace both this blog and my Etsy shop. 

I'm finding the website-creating to be rather slow going (the tax stuff too), so I thought I'd drop back in over here with an update.

The domain SharonsCompendium.com, which currently redirects here, will lead you there when it's ready. It will include a blog and a store, plus the usual "about" and "contact" pages and that sort of thing. When it's live, I'll write one more post here alerting any visitors to my new web home, and then will let this sit as an archive of my previous postings — going all the way back to 2006! 

Replacing the Etsy shop will take a bit longer. I've come to realize that many things that seemed to make sense for Etsy are really just desperate attempts to get noticed in what has become a very crowded and noisy market place. I don't actually expect to get more buyers once my website is fully stocked, but I do look forward to providing a calm and pleasant experience for both myself and my visitors. 

What that means, as far as progress on the website goes, is that simply importing my product listings from Etsy isn't going to do it, although it does save some time to start there (which I've done). I am rewriting titles and in many cases needing to take new photos or edit existing ones to better fit the requirements of the Squarespace platform. It's all good, though, and I do feel that the product pages will be much nicer and more attractive than on Etsy. 

So when the website goes live, it will have a small number of products, and I will keep the Etsy shop open until the new place is fully stocked.

Meanwhile, I still need to plan this year's garden — and get some seeds started. I did plant some clover at the end of January, which is now sitting pretty in a couple of teacups on the buffet for St. Patrick's Day (today, as it happens), and I'll keep that going through Easter as a kind of pseudo Adonis garden, after which it'll go into the compost. 

Planting seeds — I guess that's a fitting metaphor for my work on my website, too. And so I'm going to get back to it.