Wednesday 11 March 2009

Lots to learn about this blogging lark

Well, I have always thought of myself as fairly good with computers, but this blogging lark is confusing. Jargon and terms I don't understand....I have already managed to start typing this blog in Hindi because I had enabled the wrong option!!!!

I never thought I would have a blog, but the online community at www.folksy.com have persuaded me I should give it a go.

You see I have recently started making and selling jewellery, under the name Pretty Peyote. A hobby to stop my brain turning to mush now that I am a stay at home mum, after previously having a challenging job. But I only got as far really of setting up my online shop, www.prettypeyote.folksy.com, without really thinking of promotion.

A facebook page followed (become friends with Pretty Peyote), which has helped generate a few sales and some traffic to the Folksy site, but I really needed to do my bit to get more people to see everyone's great work at the site (as well as my own).

Don't worry I won't constantly bombard you with adverts for my new stock, although I might sometimes! MOTHERS DAY...hint, hint. But I'd like to let you know what I am up to craft wise, tell you what is inspiring me this week, and generally let you into a bit of the madness of my hectic life.

Hopefully as time goes on I might get a bit more technical with the old blog as I understand what I'm doing, but in the meantime bear with me, and keep blogging on.

By the way, my real identity is Dawn. Nice to meet you.

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7 comments:

  1. hi dawn and nice to meet you in the blogosphere!

    (i'm fatcat felt from the folksy forum)

    your new blog looks great - you'll soon get into the swing of things and wonder how you managed before you had one!

    happy blogging
    tracy :)

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  2. Hi Dawn, what a friendly blog! Nice work and well done you for making a start! See you on Folksy..
    Another Tracy (!)

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  3. A blog! well done, it looks great and its addictive lol!

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  4. Good to see your blog up and running. Look forward to more posts.

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  5. I'm new to this blogging too but getting in the swing of it now! Glad to see your doing it too, that summer pudding bracelet is pretty tasty.

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  6. Welcome to the blogging world!
    Looking forward to seeing more.
    Emx

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  7. great start! I htink you're wise to say you're not just going to run adverts, I stop following those blogs pretty quickly :-) Good luck - it's yet another addiction!

    http://niftyknits-somuchyarnsolittletime.blogspot.com/

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