Friday 28 September 2012

Whos say's wedding season is over?


It has been a fantastic first year for us at Alternative Blooms!
The Etsy shop is booming and after some time off during the month of August, September has come in like a lion.
Of course when you take some time away from an online business you really have to ramp up your promoting the minute you get back to work. Aim and I decided to finally join a few Etsy treasury teams .. the serious ones. We are particularly enjoying the TAGT team.
We are obligated to curate and also visit the Etsy treasuries daily, which takes us an hour to properly complete. We are happy to say we have had some great treasury success recently with 300 - 400 views. We took the time last Friday to curate a treasury to honor our Dad - it being World Alzheimer day. It was well received by our TAGT family and we found a lot of great Alzheimer related items which we did not know existed, let alone on ETSY.

We currently have 2 commissioned weddings we are working on. Deanna's will be done by next Wednesday. This wedding features teal, light pink and hot pink anemone and white hydrangea. It is a full paper flower wedding with custom dye colours. It has been fun and challenging to mix the correct teal but we have finished our dye process and will move on to the assembly Monday.

Our second wedding is a fabric and paper mix. Samantha is having a December wedding so red has been incorperated along with an earthy natural feel by adding leaves to the design.
We will be sure to post pictures of both our weddings once they are done.

Our garland has been a staple in the Etsy store. Sold in purple, vintage apricot, white, blue and pink, strung on a vine wire, our brides are falling in love with it.

More orders are waiting in the wings as we try to add Holiday items to our collection.
We are full of table centers!! make sure you take a peek at them :)

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