I opened an Etsy shop!

O.M.G. I opened an Etsy shop!

I’m so f*ing scared right now. It’s such a big step. This isn’t playing with dolls anymore. I actually have a little shop online where people can buy stuff made by me. I can sell to anyone all over the world. I. Am. Terrified.

I can’t believe this day actually came. Since I discovered Etsy it was always in the back of my mind trying out to open a little shop there, although I never knew what to sell. But that thought was always just that, a thought. Last year, I graduated from Uni and took a gap year to focus on the blog and see if it was something that I would like to invest for real. And having a blog as the only source of income is almost impossible, so I started thinking, what could I do to generate more income? I’ve seen a lot of times online people saying that I could sell my own DIYs, and it got me thinking. On a moment of confidence, I decided that I was going to open my own Etsy shop.

However, I got caught up in the moment and started to plan and design things that weren’t a priority like business cards and thank you notes, and I know those things are also important, but they can’t be made before the actual products to be created. Soon, I realised I was stuck inside my perfectionism aka procrastination, instead of actually doing something to sell in the shop. And now here we are, a year later, with my shop open only because I actually set a deadline to make the products, and once they were done, I quickly set up the shop.

Right now, I only have a few tassel keychain to sell and the shop is pretty much a work in progress. I could have everything ready until the last detail to lunch, but I tried to do that last time, and you already know how that turned out. I still have a lot of details to get right, things to write, discover exactly what I want to sell, and learn this whole new world of selling on Etsy.

Although not everything is a piece of cake. I know the path will be rough – after all, I am a blogger I already know how hard it is – and it will take a lot of work to take this little shop somewhere. I don’t have any goals for it other than creating more stuff to sell. I’m planning on stock up the shop with more bits and bobs overtime, maybe with a couple of DIYs from the blog. I don’t have everything worked out yet, but slowly I’ll make my way through.

Even though, I’m freaking out a little about actually pressing that “open shop” button on the bottom of the page, I’m also excited for getting into this new project. I want to take advantage of this good mood and invests a lot in this little shop and avoid overthinking about everything, about what can go wrong and what can’t. I’m sure the day I get the first sale I will be freaking out even more than I am right now, but that’s a story for another time.