http://rubymole.com My Thoughts - My Disasters - My Triumphs Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:27:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, that didn't take very long.  Put up a couple of my products on Folksy the other day and I had a sale within a couple of days.  Definitely well impressed as it took me nearly a year to get a sale through DaWanda. I guess it's a case of the ... http://rubymole.com/2008/11/21/first-sale-at-folksy/ I've just signed up to 3 new UK based crafter marketplaces.  You can now find me at Folksy, MISI and Coriandr. I've listed only a couple of items for the time being.  I'll add some more over the next few days.  I'm not too sure what sort of response I'll get ... http://rubymole.com/2008/11/12/new-online-craft-marketplaces/ Just added 2 new fragrances for autumn/winter.  They are The Great Pumpkin and Christmas Rumball. I've got a couple of new blends in the pipeline.  Definitely having lots of fun creating my own fragrances.  Some have smelt absolutely revolting, but others aren't too bad and they are slowly being added to ... http://rubymole.com/2008/11/07/new-fragrances-3/ I've just started another blog, only this time it's more of a how-to blog.  As you may have noticed I have a couple of Squidoo lenses, which are basically information lenses about Cosy Candles and about making soy candles. They are there for purely Internet Marketing purposes, trouble is that up ... http://rubymole.com/2008/11/07/new-blog/ Just found out that one of my UK suppliers has now stopped trading.  It's such a shame as we have so few candlemaking suppliers in the UK.  Unfortunately, it isn't the credit crunch that has hit them, but rather, ill health. So sad as they are a nice couple and Keith ... http://rubymole.com/2008/10/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/ I've finally finished my new look website.  It would have been up sooner, but other projects took priority.  Still it's finally done.  I will be adding small bits and bobs to it over the coming couple of weeks.  I'm looking to submit it to various shopping directories hoping that it ... http://rubymole.com/2008/10/17/new-website-live/ I've made the decision to shut my eBay shop down.  Earlier in the month they announced changes in fee structures for shop owners.  Most of us smaller sellers have a basic shop at a cost of £6 per month, however from 25 September it's going to go up to £15 ... http://rubymole.com/2008/09/23/closing-my-ebay-shop/ My new shopping cart is nearly done. Just adding some last final touches here and there. Looks like everything is working fine, however, we'll soon find out once it is live. Here is a little screenshot of what it is looking like, just to whet the appetite. I'm ... http://rubymole.com/2008/09/23/nearly-there/ What gives with some people!!! This morning I logged into my blog and found 45 comments waiting for approval only to find that they are all spam. Does anyone else have this problem with their blog? I'm just thankful that I have a wonderful spam application to take care ... http://rubymole.com/2008/09/05/grrrrrrrrrrrrr/ Yep, just thought I'd let everyone know that I'm still alive. Things have been quite hectic around here the last 6 weeks. For those of you who may not know I help my hubby run his PC repair business and lately it has been manic. The phone ... http://rubymole.com/2008/09/04/im-still-here/