Baby Got Back, and by "Baby" I mean "Business Cards"

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her business cards.
They are so informative.
I like b-cards and I can not lie
You Etsians can't deny...

Business cards got backs.

If you spring for Moo cards, you're probably already using double-sided business cards with pretty pictures of whatever you sell on the back.
Sweet.
But there are so many other options for this second side, whether you use an international printing company, Etsy card maker, or make them yourself.
Business cards are small and easy to lose and throw away. The real trick is to make yours worth keeping around. Is there some piece of useful information a person would want to have that is also related to your shop? I've heard of size charts on the cards of clothing shops, recipes and metric conversions on all shops cooking-related, and rulers, tip charts, and calendars.
What do you have on the back of your business cards? What would you? What can you suggest for others? Please comment!

What I Really Covet Most...

I made my last month's Etsy Covet List from the hospital while being treated for my chronic migraines. My friends and family visited and fussed, but I said my usual "It's not cancer and it can't kill me."

Five days after I was discharged, we found out my mom has breast cancer.
In a matter of weeks my new medication had me retaining water to the tune of a fully increased cup size, and my mom had both of her breasts removed.

Consequently, my escapist Etsy browsing has taken on a different tone. I'm not looking at pretty things and imagining them in a life that takes me away from my own loud, hyper-present pain. Instead my mother's renewed mortality and sudden inabilities are sufficient distraction from my physical issues. Now I search for something less frantic, more numbly, and despite my dreamy glaze I keep coming back to the practical.


We expect the pathology report tomorrow to confirm things, but my mother is expected to make a full recovery.

Nashville Flea Market Find: Pyrex Set

Here's a bit of a teaser for you:

I found this Pyrex turquoise "Autumn Bands" tea cup at the Nashville flea market. Actually I found about 10 of them with matching "stacking" saucers, sauce dishes, and 10 oz rimless bowls. There are more and possibly less of some pieces. Most of it is wrapped up in my car right now, but I was too excited to wait until we got home to research the perfection now in my possession.It's all going to be for sale, but like I named my Flickr album, "At least it was mine for a moment."

Nashville

I am in Nashville. Today we're going to the flea market.

Need anything? Fleas, perhaps?

I had no internet for almost four days and my head exploded.

Two of my prettiest handles in one of the prettiest treasuries (by lostsentiments):

Country Living in Manhattan

The exact opposite of "country living" is Manhattan.

So what better place to stage Country Living Magazine's Home Green Home 2010 House of the Year? New Yorkers feeling a little bit country in addition to a little bit rock and roll can mosey on down to the World Financial Center in Battery Park City (220 Vesey Street) now through June 17th and Country Living will donate $1 per home tourer (up to $5,000) to the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy.

Check Country Living's HGH info page for hours, directions, and other details.

Several of my vintage finds are prettying up that 2010 House of the Year in New York. Very exciting. Country Living came to Etsy. Etsy came to me.
Unfortunately, I am in Chicago. The Home Green Home 2010 House of the Year article is slated for Country Living's November issue. Until then, they are been all kinds of quiet about that house. I'm all kinds of losing it, wanting to see how everything is presented, wanting to play decor "Where's Waldo" with the Etsy items, wanting to make squealy noises like a little kid whose picture is in the paper.

Check it out because it's an anomaly, because it sounds fun, because they're donating money to a good cause, and because I have to experience it vicariously through you.

Find out where they found you

Where did your customers find you?
Or any other single survey question (with very short answers) when your customers check out of PayPal.
Plus gift-wrapping options on the same screen! No more having to create against-the-rules "gift-wrap upgrade" Etsy listings.

It's all right here:
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