Two exciting new shops!!

It's not very often that I blog about online shops, after permenantly putting my Etsy shop on hold, I haven't had the enthusiasm for Etsy that I used too. However, yesterday I got very excited about online shopping indeed as two of my lovely UK blog friends Elizabeth and Zoe opened their shops and now I am very excited to share them with you!

First up is Elizabeth's new shop Three Jelly Moulds and a Wardrobe...

 

If you follow Elizabeth's blog or Twitter then you know that she has been putting her shop together for a while hunting out the perfect pieces for it and I must say, her finds really are lovely. 

With a combination of vintage and retro pieces and categories such as Kitchen, Fashion, Photography and also a great £10 and under section, this vintage shop has a huge selection of delightful pieces at great prices.


Next is Zoe's new shop, Ladybird Likes...

You may recognise this shop from my last Christmas giveaway. I was very excited about Zoe's shop then and now that it's open, I am just as excited about it now.

Like Elizabeth's shop, Zoe's shop combines a lot of my favourite things - cameras, brooches, birds, dogs(!!) and photography. With beautiful necklaces, stationary, photos and postcards and a huge variety of brooches, Ladybird Likes is a fun little shop, perfect for gifts, either for your friends or just for yourself.


Having had a shop once myself, I completely understand the time and effort it takes to put one together and to show your work well. Both Elizabeth and Zoe's shops look wonderful, have amazing pieces and they are both a true testiment to their hard work and skills and
 both are definitely worth a look around, enjoy!

On the third week of Christmas... Closed!

Can you believe we're already at week three of my christmas giveaways? I'm amazed myself, this month is flying by!! I hope you love this weeks etsy shop and giveaway as much as I do, in fact I'm envious of the winner already. 

 

This week's giveaway is from the amazing UK based Rebekah Leigh who has a beautiful shop of illustrated prints and cards featuring some of my favourite things, cameras, teacups, birds and my new favourite, sewing machines... they are most definitely 'happy artwork to brighten your day' as Rebekah's suggests!

 

Are you excited? I am!!

:You can win: An art print of your choice from Rebekah's shop.

The winner for this giveaway has been announced, thank you to everyone who took part.

p.s. the winner of the Much Love Illy giveaway is Wendy from Red Boots!

p.p.s. Ilene is still offering an amazing 15% off her shop with the code RHIANNEROCKS,

just in time for Christmas :)

2012 Calendars ...

I've been planning these for a while but I'll be honest, my blog/selling photos confidence is pretty low at the moment, I sold one calender last year, but you never know right... someone might want one again and making them has kept me busy and out of trouble which is good.

I've put together one Paris b&w diana mini calender but I'm planning other Paris options, holga favourites, diana mini favourites - in fact you could always make requests if you want - I'm happy with anything and I have lots of photos... and I'm thinking I'll make them available for PDF download and printed this year too - as I always worry the post will suck. (It took a month for my last parcel to get to the US, not cool)

I've also decided to make these by request this year as I hate listing items on Etsy and then they just sit there and expire - it wastes my money and time. So if you're interested in one then please let me know either in a comment here or my email is rhiannelouise@gmail.com and I'll let you know the options that are available.

The calenders will be 5x7 size - 12 pages available in matt or glossy prints and cost £12 (about $20) plus postage. Or the PDF option, which I can email to you, will be £9 (about $15).

I hope that at least one person is as excited about these as I am and hopefully I might even hear from someone :)

Oh my...

A while ago, Alyssa sent me an email with a link to this amazing print by African Grey Designs

And then I looked at the rest of the shop...

{How freaking cute is this one?!}

Oh my! I want everything!

All images from African Grey Designs

Click on each image to see each item individually.

My photos are in a book...

I'm so excited!

When I joined Etsy, I also joined the Female Photographers of Etsy Team and Flickr Group and now the amazing fPOE design team have compiled the second fPOE team book as a celebration of 500 members titled Still: The Art of Living including two of my favourite photos I've taken - Across the Dunes, Rhosneigr and Winter Moon - both still available in my shop.

If you're interested you can preview and buy the book here...
I'll be saving up for my copy.

Once they're gone... they're gone.

Last month I mentioned that I was winding down my Etsy shop... and this week a few of my prints are expiring, I would love for them to go to a loving home as I won't be renewing them after they have expired.


Horses, Whitby Abbey.


Human Head Sculpture, Krakow

Rhosneigr Sunset


Don't forget everything in my shop is £5 and when it's gone, it's gone!

Oh my...

I've been smitten with Just Noey's polaroid coasters for a while now (I love coasters!) and just this week 8 more designs have been added to the collection.

I want them all!

{all photos by Just Noey}

Everything must go SALE!

*** EVERYTHING MUST GO £5 SALE ***

As much as I love having my Etsy shop as an outlet for selling my photos, this year has become a little overwhelming for me - so I am going to be putting my shop in Vacation mode for a while until I know exactly where I want to go with it and what I want to do with my photos.

I never started using my cameras with the intention to sell photos and I'm still blown away that people want to buy any of them... and for that I would like to thank the blogging and etsy communities especially, you have been so supportive of my shop and blog and for that I am incredibly grateful.

It seems a waste to just shut my shop with things still in it, so if you have thought about buying a print, or maybe even some postcards from it, then now may be your last chance (I'm not saying it is, but it might be... I don't know yet)

EVERYTHING IS REDUCED TO £5
(which is around $8 I believe)

I was planning to do a fair at some point this year but that is now on hold as well, however, I was too eager with ordering my postcards so I have also added a Set of 4 Mystery Postcards listing where I will mix up 4 of the postcards that I have had printed for a lucky buyer.

This will be the only item that I will relist... I ordered quite a few, oops.

Thank you so much for your support again and thank you also if you buy something :)


p.s. If you could blog, tweet, RT this, that would be great, I really want everything to go.

p.p.s. You can still use the coupon "IAMEASILYDISTRACTED" if you are a reader of this blog.

p.p.p.s To all of you who run a sucessful etsy shop whilst working, you amaze me, it's a lot of hard work and your dedication is an inspiration!

Oh my...

Dane from Tornadoes and Tigers posted about these amazing little paper camera templates from Mel Stringer's Lil' shop...

and all I can think is that they would make the most amazing wedding favour boxes! Cute!!

{All photos from Mel Stringer's shop}

Oh my...

Sugar & Hatter is the combined talents of two young(ish!) ladies from Norfolk - one of which I have the pleasure of knowing. Both have been making vintage inspired accessories since they were able to pick up a needle and thread and together they have opened a new shop of lovely hair accessories.

I was incredibly fortunate to get to wear a lovely felt creation by one of the ladies for one of my best friends wedding (over a year ago now?!) and I'm definitely buying something else for an up and coming wedding this month too.

As well as having a lovely shop, Sugar and Hatter also have a great new blog so check them out!

Black and white horses...

My favourite part of the redscale photos is really, the contrast between the bright areas and the dark areas - and after I agonising over desaturating this photo, I ended up messing around/editing with them all... and I think I love the results just as much as the redscale photos!

I've been slowly adding some of the redscale and the black and white photos to my shop, so go check them out!!

p.s. I love taking photos of horses! Who knew...

For Thomas...

As I mentioned before, Thomas and I don't really do anything for valentines day... so this is my little gift for him - he doesnt really look on my blog or ever at Etsy, so he probably won't see it but I think it's a pretty perfect selection for him :)

I was inspired by Diana's treasury For Him... and it was probably the fastest treasury that I've put together yet. Maybe Thomas isn't so difficult to buy for...

Can you guess some of his favourite things from this? I tried to include lots...though I'm pretty sure he'd prefer a real cat to a print.

Happy Valentines weekend lovelies, I hope you all do something amazing with someone (anyone) that you love, even if it is just making homemade pizza!!

p.s. you've seen the giveaway right? It ends soon!

Something a bit different for valentines...

I'll admit, Thomas and I have never really been into Valentines day...

We're too forgetful and we'd rather stay in and make pizza than go out anywhere or buy presents... pizza's a present right?

So I decided to put together a treasury a bit different along the valentines theme, something fun and refreshing... no surprises that its yellow :)

I'm kind of obsessed with the 'I love you like a fat pug likes cake' poster. hehe!

p.s. thank you everyone for your wonderful comments this week, I feel much much better today - my ankle is less sore and my heart is a lot happier realising I made so many new friends in two years, yeay!

Too much fun on Etsy...

Having joined some teams and started to really apply myself to Etsy (see previous post) I seem to have become rather addicted to making treasuries...

I've made 3 already this week...

{black, white and yellow}

{blue birds...}

{retro orange}

They are pretty though aren't they...

I think I have a problem.

p.s. My lovely friend Megan featured Me as her Artistic blogger on her blog Studio MME today! How great is that? I'd head over just to see her new work, it's rather amazing.

p.p.s. it's a two posts in one day kind of day :)

A massive etsy shop update!

I've been a really busy bee in my shop lately...

(It now has 65 items in it, woo!)

Inspired by Diana Mini week, I added some more photos to my diana mini section

(you can click on each image to get to the item listing)

And today I'm adding some more photos from my yashica samurai that I had completely forgotten I had... oops!

And a brand new print of Leeds from our photography date, taken with my superheads yellow peace (that camera seriously love the light!) hurray!!

Feel free to have a good look around!

p.s. If you love my prints (and made it to the end of this post) but aren't quite will to commit to buying (yet... lol, I'll take a photo you can't resist eventually :D) - you'll be delighted to hear that the lovely Meghan is having a giveaway of them over on

The Perfect Compilation Tape

Diana Love on Etsy...

As with my holga love post - it was easy to find some great diana related products and this time I've made a treasury so I can share even more with you!

Click on the image, or here

to go to the treasury and check out these amazing items properly, I can't even choose a favourite!

Yeay for Etsy, Diana and Diana Mini's, treasuries and celebrations!

Today...

I'm feeling like I'd rather be at any of these places...

(the beach, the pier, walking a dog, riding a bike)

A treasury I made featuring Female Photographers of Etsy from the UK

combining two teams that I am in - FPoE and British Sellers on Etsy!

New year... new shop adventures!

Over the past year I've taken a rather laid back approach to my etsy shop, however, this year I'm determined to get some sales and really start to develop it further!

So I decided to add some brand new things that I've never sold before.... postcards!!

{Click on a set to go to the etsy page}

4 new sets of postcards including, diana and holga prints, double exposures (my current fave!) and a Krakow set!

I also added this British Beach Hut photo from my Superheadz Yellow Peace film - doesn't it look great framed? Yeay!

Don't forget, as loyal, amazing readers of my blog - you get a special treat if you put the code IAMEASILYDISTRACTED into the voucher code box when making a purchase.

Oh my...

These are possibly some of the most beautiful illustrations I've seen on Etsy...

All illustrations by Jessica Durrant Illustration


Oh gosh....
I want them all!

All I want for christmas...

is a snowflake christmas sweater...

...or any of these pretties in my latest treasury too.

p.s. seriously, I've never had an amazing christmas cardi/jumper - have you?