What? You think 1000 visitors is a crazy goal? Well, I didn’t say how long it would take… Beginning Stats: http://www.Facebook.com/twocraftchicks Goal Start Date: April 19th, 2010 Total Fans: 93 Today’s Date: April 20th, 2010 Total Fans: 99 Increase: 6 fans (and it’s only noon!) UPDATE! It’s July 4th and we have 324 fans. I’ve been working on some other things and haven’t been actively promoting the Facebook... 

BEGINNING STATS: Date Joined: Jan 1st, 2010 Current Date: April 14th, 2010 Total Items in Shop: 30 Total Sales: 8 Ok, here’s the deal… Val and I have a small handmade goods business we call TWO CRAFTY CHICKS. We’ve had some local success, we are in a few local stores, and we are signed up for a few awesome craft fairs… BUT our Etsy shop is a little slower than I’d like it to be. Ok Ok, a LOT slower. Since we joined... 

The Two Crafty Chicks (aka, me and Val!) have been accepted to the Make It craft fair. This super fun event is taking place May 1st and 2nd at the Croatian Cultural center at 3250 Commercial Drive in Vancouver. This only happens once a year so please come out and show your support! There will be over 100 Canadian artisans (this is the biggest event of this kind in western Canada) and DJs and BOOZE! It should be tons of fun. You can save 2$ off the... 

Free Printable Srapbooking Paper! Lady Bones Online I just added a bunch of new FREE printable patterned papers to my site. This is my new obsession! I love making these cute patterned papers and hope to have hundreds available to download for free over the next few months. Let me know what you think, and what kind of designs you’d like to see me add – you’ll notice I’m kind of into polka dots right now All images are 300... 

On February 21st, we had our second craft fair – Blim Market on Main Street. It took place in the gorgeous Heritage Hall. At $50 per table, we were definitely hoping for more traffic than there was, but it was a huge improvement over our first craft show experience at Magee High School. In all fairness, it was a beautiful day in Vancouver, mid Olympics, so I think most people were enjoying the events at the Olympic venues. I will say that we... 

Two Crafty Chicks first craft fair was February 5th, from 5-9pm. We were very excited, and were pretty let down by the few sales we made. All in all I think we learned a lot though, some things from the experience itself and many other things by chatting with other vendors. The biggest reason that we didn’t sell very much (and neither did the other vendors) is because this fair was held in a high school, and was held in conjunction with other... 

When I first decided to build my own website (shameless promotions alert!) nopurchasenecessarycontests.com, I knew that I wanted a blog to be a part of it. Why? I have no idea. It seems a little egotistical to want to ramble on about oneself and think that anyone else might be interested in reading it. Nevertheless, here we are. So then I debated babbling on about whatever happened to be in my head at that moment but I doubt anyone wants to hear that....