Oh, the Insanity!

I don't know how and I don't know why, but after almost two months of being an Etsy seller, in the past two weeks I've sold nine books, seven on Etsy, one to Jordan's mom, and one to a classmate. I'm beginning to wonder if someone with a good readership blogged about me or if the new search engine on Etsy is really working in my favor. This morning, I listed a new book before I went to class and it was sold by the time I got back. Crazy!

If I could guarantee that such high interest would keep up, I would be tempted to leave this seminary thing behind and become a small business owner. Unfortunately, I would have to raise my prices pretty dramatically in order to make a living from this hobby. For now, I'm happy to make a little bit of money from each sale. It gives me more money to make books and a little ego boost every time I get to tell my friends that I just sold another book.

It is really tempting to just spend my days making books, but I am not going to screw up this semester.

4 comments:

LittleMary said...

now THAT is the book i want you to make for me. will you make more just like that?

Kate said...

I have more of the same paper. What size and how many pages?

LittleMary said...

oh my, so many questions. let me get back to you on that one. need to look at some other journals and figure out what i like best here. i think i want 3 of them.

Kate said...

When you know what you want, email me at katherinejelliott [at] gmail [dot] com and we can work out a time frame.