Red is the color of love and passion.

Hey I just put together a wonderful collection over at Etsy. It is a treasury for my TT Team members and features some wonderful things you can buy for Valentines Day. From earrings to cards to buntings to art it is all there.

Check it out...

A few Etsy Treasuries I am in.

I have been featured in a few new treasuries over at Etsy.com. Would love for you to visit. These are a collection of other artist wares along with my own for you to peruse.




Hope you enjoyed.

Etsy Shop owners and online shops how are you shipping?

My online shop is with Etsy and I think they offer the best services. It is a nice community of creative and vintage sellers. If you haven't heard of Etsy please go and check out the site at etsy.com but that is not why I bring etsy up. My question is to online shops owners about their shipping policies. Do you offer free shipping or do you charge a set price for an each item?

Colored Pencil Drawing 

Yesterday I was searching for some supplies I needed but when I got to their checkout the shipping charge was really high. Since I ship I had a good idea what the weight of my order would ship for and was very shocked at the price. I cancelled my items and decided to keep looking. I thought about my shop realizing anyone who stops in will not have any shipping charges if they live in the USA. I charge the actual shipping charge for everywhere else plus any other fees associated with the shipment. No surprises and the customer knows this right up front. So is this a good thing or does it not matter?

I think it does matter if you charge shipping. It did for me. According to many of the business online blogs I read the average online consumer will search for things online and then go and buy in a store. Online shoppers are on the rise. What if the item is handmade or a high-end boutique gift only found online? There are many boutique specialty shops sprouting up only selling online. The savvy design conscious trend setting unique shopper knows this. Now photos have to be of top quality and items have to be unique special one of a kind, the IT thing to buy. You can not talk a customer into why they need your item. All you have is the written words pictures and emotional attachment or impulse to grab your customer. Everything falls into place and they click the button BUY. Things are looking good until they see the total of their purchase with the shipping charges glaring at them. The impulse is gone and the thrill of the buy along with it. The special unique piece of fabulous is deleted removed from the cart, sale lost.

Now play the same scenario but when they hit BUY the price is the same as when they first fell in love with the item. They are thrilled because they are getting it and it did not cost them a penny more. Of course we all know somewhere the cost of shipping is absorbed in the pricing. It doesn't matter to the customer hitting the BUY button because they have already accepted the price logically, it is the heart wanting the item now. In my shop I absorb some of the shipping and I use recycled boxes. Most of my things can also fit in USPS boxes that I can get free which helps keep the cost down.

Think of shipping your things at no charge as offering something nice. A service that is unique. Next thought how do you package your items? Stay tuned...

Earthy colors of the Woodlands an Etsy Treasury.

Treasuries are ways Etsy allows shop owners to interact with other shop owners and artists by creating some of their favorite things into, you got it, treasuries. I put this treasury together featuring the wonderful earthy tones of nature and the woodlands. Do enjoy.

Wedding Gift Idea from BetweenTheWeeds

Are you looking for that just right wedding gift? Have you seen my beautifully crafted hand painted large Keepsake Boxes? I will customize the flowers to fit whatever season the wedding is being held in and at no extra charge.

Maybe it is a woodland themed wedding, I can paint birds, nests, vines of berries, ferns and ivy with flowers found in the woodlands or it is a beautiful English garden themed with peonies roses larkspur ivy and ranunculas. Can you just imagine how thrilling it would be to see the bride unwrap such a beautiful thoughtful gift? These boxes are wonderful to stash the memento, the whispers from a magical day.

This is just one of many I have available in my online shop at Between The Weeds. Interested in something custom just ask me. I create Keepsake Boxes so you can store your memories of special days.

Garden Themed Keepsake Painted Box by BetweenTheWeeds at Etsy

Handcrafted painted keepsake box to add to your Contemporary Farmhouse Furniture Collection beautifully painted with detailed illustration of garden flowers. A functional piece of art can easily fit any contemporary decor. The flowers are fresh and bright on a soft creamy white background. I chose a collection of garden and wild flowers with a few blades of grass and added a few bees buzzing about.

The design is sketched on my own hand crafted wood keepsake box. I hand paint and add my signature line work. Each box is a one of a kind work. I do not use stencils transfers or prints and they are always my original work.
Every piece is signed and dated.
Ready to ship.

Box measures: 12" x 9.25" x 7.33"
Box is hinged.
Box is sealed with lacquer and waxed.

Please be kind and do not copy. My designs are copyrighted.

A Merry Christmas Blessing to All.

In a time when it has become politically incorrect to even utter these words which I can not fathom even why, Merry Christmas. I wish the world joy and friendship and understanding and forgiveness and above all wisdom to find the answers that serve the greater good. Maybe if we try to stop proving how right we are and start to live life according to the laws of our God, the Creator of all there is including the different religions we can finally see how ridiculous we really are. Find a common ground. Believe all our thoughts and energy make up our world good and bad.

Thoughts are energy so make them good ones.

Blessing and peace from Between The Weeds.
Laurie

Custom hand painted wood trays you can order today.

Why not have a beautiful painted functional work of art custom-made for you today? Maybe there is a wedding in the future and you want something that commemorates the day. Why not have a tray painted with the brides flowers strewn across the surface. These trays are sturdy and durable. Whether you buy a tray already available in the shop or custom design your own the cost is the same. These trays are unique one of a kind custom-built exclusively for you in mind. If you like bees and flowers I am offering a slightly different version of these wooden painted trays in my Etsy Shop Between The Weeds

Custom wildflowers and garden themed wood trays

Painted Wood Trays custom and hand painted.

Above are garden flowers and wildflowers with bees buzzing about. You can tie a bouquet up with a cord or an elegant bow as seen below. Custom painted wood trays are painted creamy white or soft white with wildflowers bees and raspberries.

Custom garden and wildflower bouquet themed trays.

Each wood tray is painted with different flowers and are slightly different in sizes lending them to have a hand crafted one of a kind uniqueness which is what Between The Weeds is all about. If you would like a tray with a design you see below or certain flowers I can custom build your own tray or maybe you would like a nicely sized Keepsake Box instead. I can even paint something of yours just ship it to me and I will ship it back painted with your own pretty design.