Clutches in Asia
As promised, below are some snaps of clutches from my travels. The best of the lot is from the shopping mecca of Kuala Lumpur. There was one store devoted entirely to clutches. It was in every conceivable color and style, though leaning toward the evening and special occasion clutches. I managed to snap two pics before being admonished. Almost all stores have a “No Pictures” policy. I don’t know why exactly because I adore their merchandise!
I must apologize for the poor quality of some of these pics. As you might recall, my trusty old camera broke and I was using one of my much older back-ups. It didn’t do well in florescent lighting and I could not get it to stay in focus unless I was absolutely still. Guess a good camera is on my Christmas list! Enjoy and I hope these clutches provide some inspiration!
I LOVED these wallet and coin clutches. The stripes and clear sequins were really cute!
This clutch is a cake! How lovely are these cupcakes? My 6 year old daughter would be thrilled to have these for her birthday party!
Leatherette clutches with embroidered musical motif at a mall kiosk.
Cute hand-embroidered coin clutches at an airport kiosk.
Hand-painted clutches of girls in hanboks at a Seoul, South Korea handbag shop. These were pricey but gorgeous!
Orange is a HOT color in Asia. I’m seeing everywhere, from Tod’s handbags, to Nine West shoulder bags, to this impressive boutique.
A clutch and handbag shop in KL, Malaysia.
I snuck another shot in before getting admonished for taking photos!
Clutches and shoes.
If you have any pics of clutches from your travels, contact me at my online shop or Etsy shop. Would love to see them and I can post them!
Clutches everywhere … ?
Maybe it’s selective perception but I seem to be seeing clutches everywhere. Granted, I am a bit obsessed with clutches. My trusty camera finally died *wah wah* so I just started taking pics with my other not-so-new camera. However, batteries are dead, wouldn’t you know it, so….. I will post pics of the clutches in a future post! Promise!
But check this out ladies. I was just reading an article about how Gwenyth Paltrow is coming out with a Goop collection.
T-shirt for $90. Not in my budget … 😦
It was interesting because I’m always reading many many many things, never knowing where it’ll lead me. On this occasion, it led me to her website goop.com, and I noticed that they recently updated the site. Guess what they have for the shopping or “get” tab? A clutch as the icon!
How awesome is that? It kinda looks like a clutch made using my 4.5×3 inch nickel-free frame, doesn’t it? 🙂
My clutch tutorial was also recently reviewed and featured in another blog. This time it was Jen over at BettyCrockerAss. With that name, you know I’d like her anyway! 🙂 You should check her out. She is a quilter extraordinaire!
You can check out her review of my tutorial. Jen brought up an excellent point: the corners were too pointy making the clutch more of an “A” shape. As you know on pg. 13 of the tutorial, you can make the clutch fuller by cutting more off the ends. You can square it off more to change the silhouette. However, Jen did an ingenious alteration with the use of buttons. I’ve since updated the tutorial with new measurements to make the clutch fuller and the update is up. Go to this post and enter the same password that you received when you bought the PDF in order to get the update. You have 2 options for getting the update this time: just page 13 where the changes were made OR the entire updated tutorial.
Jen reviewed by purse frame clutch tutorial as part of Sara’s Purse Palooza 2012 at Sew Sweetness. I was really honored that Jen reviewed my tutorial and added to it, and that Sara started this whole thing. You should go and check out all the great reviews and free tutorials at Sara’s blog.
I will be back late this week with another quick post about the updated tutorial. But in the meantime, for you early readers, you can grab your update now!
Clutches from HCMC, Viet Nam
Hi everyone! It’s been a month since I’ve blogged, but as you all know too well, life happens. 🙂
It’s been a very, very busy time of the year for me and the family. Two of my kids had their birthdays and that means me making egg-free cakes since my oldest son has an egg allergy. I love many things about Ho Chi Minh City, my temporary home for another 2 years, but the one thing I detest is the shopping. 😦 It’s terribly inconvenient. Just finding vanilla extract took trips to three different stores, and after giving up, my dear friend Dutch friend Zita had some to spare for me! Thank goodness for friends and neighbors in this expat community. Target and Costco would make a killing in this town. 🙂
Hayley turned 6! She wanted a princess castle cake.
I found tips from amazing bloggers on the Internet to make this cake. I could not find any grocery stores that sold ice cream cones here! My husband flagged down a street vendor who was selling ice cream and bought them off of him. I made fondant out of strawberry flavored marshmallows. The best thing? My son could enjoy this cake along with all the kids without fear of an allergic reaction.
Ethan (second from left) turned 10! He had a party at the house and invited 4 of his friends over for a swim party.
He finally outgrew the “theme” cake. Since one of his friends has an allergy to food coloring(?), his egg-free cake was plain with sprinkles to make the number. Simple!
I have also continued to do my weekly visits to my Grandma, who does relatively well for her old age. I am very thankful for the visits and the many talks that I have with her. Nothing brings me more joy than to see her smile, like she is in the pic below. Her eyes absolutely light up when my kids are around. Sometimes I go by myself, and sometimes I’ll bring one or two of the kids with me. The bumpy trip in traffic has made my middle child prone to carsickness. Noah hurled coming home from one trip and when Hayley looked over, she vomited as well. Lucky for Ethan’s quick reaction, he bolted up and managed to avoid the calamity. And he was seated in between them!
Ethan taking a nap at his Great Gram’s. 🙂
My Grandma’s health is off-and-on but not as precarious as she was last October. She has a keen mind and still runs the show. We try to make her comfortable and happy. She only asks for visits and a little money to donate to the local temple. She gives me fruit (mango, pomelo, guava) every time I come and visit. She also tells me to stay out of the sun, which is quite impossible with three active kids. Not to worry, I use SPF 50 on them and myself every day.
I had time to go to a trade show where local artisans showcased their talent. I was most impressed by the emerging rice art displayed there. Below are artwork made by a local firm that employed disabled people. The director was a young lady who just recently graduated from university and started her own company! Her employees use rice that has been roasted to different shades to meticulously create the designs. The rice is adhered by a proprietary eco-friendly glue. It was really striking artwork. I was really impressed with this young visionary who found her passion while at the same create jobs for those who often have a next-to-impossible task of finding suitable employment.
The Mac Daddy – Steve Jobs.
Rice grains close up.
The eternal beauty of Marilyn Monroe.
An aficionado’s item.
Whatever little time I had left, I had to do more errands. On a trip to get my daughter a toy cell phone for her birthday, I saw some cute clutches sold in local accessories shops in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. They do not allow photography but I had to break the rule and whip out my point-and-click and snapped some candid shots!
Coin clutches at a local HCMC shop. The owl is too cute!
Fancier evening clutches at another shop.
The Union Jack one was awesome! Would have been great for the Diamond Jubilee. The pleated navy one was very well made.
Completely adorable! The owl here was a knitted design. Genius!
School is out so I will be busy with the kids every day. My youngest sister is also here visiting for 7 weeks so it’s full at our house. I can only work once the kids are in bed at 8pm. Most of you with young kids may be experiencing the same thing that I am: how to keep the kids busy and how to limit their time on electronics! We have a couple of trips planned: South Korea for 5 days and the US (NJ, IL, IN, and WI) for 2 weeks. I think the travel and jet lag will really age me and test my patience, but traveling is a nice problem to have!
Until next time, I will update the tutorial in some key measurements. You already know how to adjust the measurements and how to make your own pattern from my bonus tutorial, but I will make a permanent change since I like the fuller look of clutches. As always, I will let you all know about it here first. So if you haven’t already done so, subscribe to get the email update when that happens. The update will be free for all of you who bought the clutch tutorial. For your convenience, it’s the same password as was sent to you when you bought the tutorial.
Lastly, I’ve had 5 versions of a clutch for the 12×3.5 frame but I haven’t found a way to make it easy to make, so it might entail a new tutorial for that size bag, altogether. I will give it one more attempt before doing a whole new and different tutorial for that size alone. I have been working on different patterns and sewing steps to simplify it while making the template printable from your desktop printer without any scaling. Just print and go like the other tutorials. I’m not quite there yet.
Until next time, I hope you all are having an enjoyable summer. Remember to wear sunscreen! 🙂 ~Winn
Mother’s Day clutches
Check out my latest album. This one honors the mom on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 13th. Other than this one special day to celebrate mom, we often hear “Hi, MOM!” when TV cameras hone in on someone who’s on TV for the first time. Why is it that our first instinct when caught in the big lights of TV cameras is to wave and scream “Hi, Mom?” I’d like to think that the excitement of the deer-in-the-headlights feeling takes us to our core, to what’s important, and in many cases it’s the mom. 🙂 Why don’t we say “Hi dad?” We do, but just in the minority. The majority amongst us have the most contact with their mothers and feel closest to despite dad’s increased involvement in child rearing.
So you all know I support and honor women. Whether you are a mom yourself, or yet to be, or are perfectly content with being aunty, this album’s for you! I’m sure you’ll find several clutches in here for your shopping list.
Mother’s Day clutches album.
As for me, I’ve got a busy week ahead with my husband on yet another business trip. My oldest is turning 10 (egad!) on Friday and another birthday party to attend… then Mother’s Day. My wish is to wiggle my nose so that all my bills are paid, my piles of papers magically fly into the right folders in the filing cabinet, and I have time to get a leg wax and pedicure. I’m looking kinda like a … sasquatch. TMI? 😉 Well, one of those wishes will come true!
Have a great week and Happy Mother’s Day this weekend to all the moms out there!
~Winn
New URL for the blog.
I’ve gotten a new domain to try to make it short and sweet for my blog. Now, it will be known as clutch-me.com. Not to worry, if you type in the previous URL, it will redirect you to this domain, so it will not impact you negatively. One of the other reasons this one done was so that in the future, I can start running ads on the sidebars of my blog due to the increase in traffic volume. I spend a lot of time on the blog and I love it, but I would like to monetize it and have ads directly related to the content that I am writing about. This had occurred to me as I was reading other blogs and noticed relevant ads that I was interested in and clicked on. So I hope the ads will be of benefit to you as well.
I will also update the Sellers page. If you are an existing Seller and want a new screen snapshot of your shop, please rearrange your shop and convo me. I’ll take a snapshot and update it for you.
If you would like to be listed as a Seller, convo me and let me know. My promotions and marketing centers around the Sellers’ inventory of clutches made using my fine purse frames. I usually pick a theme and go “shopping”. 🙂 I then promote the clutches on Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook. All hyperlinks lead back to main shop page of the respective Etsy shop. I have found that doing in tandem on all social platforms greatly increases the number of redirects to my Sellers’ shops. More eyeballs means more potential sales. All this is free to clutch handbag makers who use my fine frames and honor my trademarks. If you are successful, then I will be successful. Simple as that. 🙂
Lastly, most of you have followed me and my family regarding my grandma’s health. I hadn’t mentioned it in a while because the grave illness had past, life happens, and the next thing you know it’s already March. Thank you keeping her in your thoughts and asking about her. I really believe that prayers and positive thinking pulled her through. We have been very blessed and she is in relatively good health for her old age. She can sit up to eat meals now and her keen mind is back. I still visit her once or twice a week and I bring the kids twice a month to visit her – their Great Gram. (It’s a bumpy hour-long trip and the carsickness has gotten worse for them! Roads are so bad here.) What I am most heartened about is how my kids mention her when they see something they think she would like. The relationship has deepened between my kids and their Great Gram and I am grateful for it.
Spanning the ages: 5, 98, 9, and 7.
With my winter clutch kits, I had been bringing the fabric and fusible fleece to trace the templates and cut while I’m visiting with her. Hey, you’ve got to grab time when you can! Her mattress is on the floor so I just plop right on the tile and cut. She rolls on her side and helps me by holding down the edges of the fabric so that the oscillating fan doesn’t blow it up! 🙂 I finally brought a finished clutch for her to see and she was very happy. She says I got skills! 🙂 I keep her involved on what’s going on so that she feels included, alive, and sharp.
I had also been busy painting her walls. They hadn’t been painted in over 7+ years.
This is the "after" shot of the same walls as shown in the previous photo. I chose a light green called pistachio to usher in spring and brighten up the room that has only one light.
Here in Vietnam, there is no such thing as a Home Depot or Ace Hardware. It is either your profession (painter, carpenter, etc…) or you hire them. So imagine the looks and comments I got when I went to get the painting supplies. (I had left all my brushes, rollers, extenders, etc… in storage in New Jersey. I had started an interior painting business in late 2010 in New Jersey – two weeks before finding we are moving to Viet Nam.) So the condescension was palpable “look, little lady …” LOL.
Sample of my work. I used a 20-ft. metal ladder to paint up high! Don't look down!
She was very happy after my cousins and I finished. She said it was like she got a new house. It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint will do to your moods.
So thank you for your very warm and kind wishes for my grandmother. If I’m not working on the business, I’m usually sitting on my grandma’s mattress talking to her. I don’t know how many days she has left (none of us know how many days we have left ourselves) so I don’t take anything for granted. If anything, my spending time with her only affirms what blessings I have in my life and how I want to spend that time.
Blessings to you and yours!
~Winn
Big changes coming for consumers and retailers…
I swear Jack Dorsey doesn’t need the additional press, but I just love where he and the team at Square are headed. It’s going to revolutionize the transactions between retailers and consumers.
Over a year ago, I blogged about how you can easily and without any upfront costs accept credit cards via SquareUp. Read this post to refresh. I further expanded on that with crucial business tips for you at this post. I then updated you with SquareUp’s changes allowing you to accept more than $500/month. (This was my sticking point.)
So now comes an industry changer. Square is coming to replace registers nationwide. (Click on image to get to full article.)
This will change customer's expectations, and therefore, behaviors.
Why does this matter to you? Because:
1. The majority of merchants in the US will buy and use a tablet or a mobile Point of Service device. This means you, the consumer will start to see this in stores like bookstores, coffee shops, boutiques, bridal salons, nail salons and the like. You, the consumer will become acquainted and trust this new way of paying for your goods and services. The old register will be seen as antiquated because of the ease and flexibility of a mobile point of service device. It’s like that kitchen phone that hung on the wall with the spiral cord that always got twisted and you had to untwist it (that was kinda fun, though). It was the central location to make your calls but you were tethered to it. Even house phones of today are cordless. We wouldn’t even think of buying a phone with a cord. Not sure if they sell them anymore…. If you have been to an Apple(R) store lately, you will see that they use a mobile POS. It’s really amazing how easy and consumer-friendly it is. You no longer feel like cattle at the trough.
2. Because you, the consumer, don’t have to carry that amount of cash (who wants a Constanza wallet? 🙂 ) you can buy more knowing that merchant at the crafts fair will accept your credit card. The average transaction is $75!!! Research has shown that transactions are larger (ie people buy more) when they use a credit card vs. cash. So a mobile POS device can also increase your dollars collected.
So because of Square coming into shops in this year to replace the register, you can expect that the adoption of the SquareUp device will ramp up quickly. If you are showing your clutches at an Arts Fair or Craft Show, I highly recommend getting a SquareUp device. It’s free, it’s easy and you start accepting credit cards with your mobile phone. You will have an advantage over other sellers if you accept credit cards and they don’t. What’s more? You don’t have to shell thousands of dollars for the upkeep of those machines, buy ink, buy paper, etc… You don’t have to spend anything to start accepting credit cards.
Good luck and if you’ve tried it, convo me and let me know how it has worked for you. If you haven’t, then why not?
~Winn
Oscar(R) gowns and clutches
OMG, if you guys could see my site stats during the Academy Awards show! It looks like ALL of you are watching it ‘cuz you can hear a cricket chirp on this blog. 🙂
I was inspired by the colors, textures, cuts and styles of the many beautiful women. So of course, some clutches came to mind while I was watching the show. Yes, they telecast it here live as well. It’s the only awards show that I can watch on TV live in Viet Nam. All other shows like the Golden Globes(R) and Grammys(R) are not televised here so I watch it on my Mac via a live stream that I dig on the net to find. I watch zero sports and ALL awards shows (Country Music, Emmy, People’s Choice… all of it). Eye candy.
As a huge movie fan, the Oscars is the biggest night for me. I love seeing the film clips, hearing the speeches, watching the “In Memoriam” piece (hey, wasn’t Esperanza Spalding great?)… hey pretty much all of it.
So here are a few of my favorite gowns for various reasons along with some clutches that popped into mind. They are not meant to go with these gowns rather I’ve paired them with clutches whose characteristics are evoked by the gowns featured. Check out the gowns and I hope they will inspire you to create some great clutches for the spring and bridal seasons!
Click on the images for a bigger view. Please note that all photos are courtesy of Getty Images.
Best pleating. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/JCarterHandmade.
Louise Roe.
Best contrast (black blunt hair, white dress, red lips). Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/pennyroyalty
Rooney Mara. First movie in ages that I had to fast forward through a scene because I couldn’t stomach it.
Best structure. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/HOLDFASThandbags
Michelle Williams slays me in every film she’s in. Time for a comedy, Michelle!
Best beading. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/ClutchChic
Octavia Spencer looks amazing! Have you seen “The Help”? It’ll stay with you long past the viewing.
Best shine. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/bagsbystacey
Jane Seymour looks amazing at any age!
Best bejeweling (bedazzlin'!) Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/BelleJouJou
I love this woman more than the dress, but the bejeweling brings some sparkle to an odd-colored gown. Miss her as Sookie!
Best spring - green. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/AnOrangeBlossomBag
Viola Davis. Granted I haven’t seen Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady but Viola was incredible in The Help. She is equally stunning in this green color, especially with her au naturel red hair! 🙂
Best simplicity. Clutch by http://www.etsy.com/shop/MadeByPoppet
Gwyneth Paltrow. My favorite look for this body type. Both the cape and floral embellishment enhance the simplicity in the dress and clutch without overpowering either.
The fun is over. Until the next Oscars! 🙂
“Go” – Updated Clutch PDF is up.
Ok, guys. It’s up and running. As per my last post, the updated PDF is up. Again, this is FREE to those of you who’ve bought the clutch PDF tutorial before. Please note that this is NOT free for those who bought different PDFs like the Reversible Patchwork bag or the Snappy Wallet Clutch(TM) as those are entirely different tutorials.
Click here to get to the post. Enter your password and start your download.
Get to the latest PDF version through here! Enter your password.
With this new major update of the main tutorial, you will learn how to make a clutch with a seam (my preferred way that will show your great craftsmanship and will work with any fabric) and without a bottom seam (great for quick easy work or for non-directional fabrics). It also incorporates a short-cut, an entirely different way to finish the clutch so that it will reduce the wrinkling and is a bit quicker to do when you are making a lot of clutches. I also have pictures on how to glue it into the frame.
I spent over a hundred hours re-doing this. This is all free to you as long as you have your password.
What if you don’t have your password? (eg. computer crashed, laptop stolen, forgot to print out the email that was sent to you, emptied the email in your trash…) Please buy the $5 password resend listing at my shop and give me your original purchase date of the PDF and Paypal buyer account so that I know you had bought it back in 2009, 2010, 2011 or earlier this year in 2012. If you cannot retrieve this, then you will need to buy it again.
Please consider this as fair since I’ve explicitly told you to keep your password. I value my customers so much and spend so much time on this $8 tutorial without getting additional pay each time, so please don’t email me and say that it’s unfair that you have to pay $5 to retrieve your password especially when my email’s subject line is “PLEASE KEEP/PRINT! $5 charge to resend it in the future “. I do all this while my kids are at school and after I put them to bed at 8pm. Also, please consider the following:
*All other tutorials show you how to make 1 size clutch – I offer how to make ANY size clutch with 2 distinct tutorials for the same price.
*They only offer 1 pattern and I offer 6 patterns.
*They are priced $8+ and mine is also at $8.
*Other tutorials and kits prohibit you from setting up a shop on Etsy or go into business. Mine do not. In fact, I actively promote and try to find buyers for my clutch makers.
*I could’ve made separate listings and charges for every new template. All other PDFs show you how to make 1 clutch in 1 size only.
*I could’ve made a completely new listing and charge for a new tutorial “Now learn how to make a clutch without a bottom seam” for $8 like other sellers have right now.
Every time I add new templates/updates, over 500 of you get on and download. So there is value to what I provide to you far beyond the initial $8 that you paid for.
I still get customers who bought this $8 tutorial in 2009 when there were 3 templates. They got another 3 templates for free. Could I have charged them by making an entirely new listings for each one? Sure. But I didn’t. They also contacted me with “What’s my password”? I have sold hundreds of these. How do I know who bought and who didn’t? Sometimes, the person contacted me used their spouse’s Paypal account and I have to search for that. Before Etsy co-mingled the accounts, you would have multiple usernames and it was bought under a “purchase” account which was different from their “seller” account. Multiply this by 100+ people. Every time.
This is what I think my value is: it takes time for me to retrieve their records and then email the password. So it’s $5. It’s also a deterrent from all the emails that come because when people know it’s going to cost them $5, they’ll print out a hard copy and keep it. I’ve had people whose computers crashed, laptops stolen, email lost in the the junk mail, accidental deletions, you name it.
So, sorry that I’m on my soapbox. I’m officially off. 🙂 Thank goodness: it gets dizzying from the lack of oxygen standing up high on soapboxes!
I want to encourage you to try the tips and the “Shortcut” option that is in this new tutorial. This is after years of making clutches… Try it with just 1 clutch and see what you think. Ever since I’ve done it this way, my clutches are not wrinkly and the bulkiness from the interface doesn’t affect how I insert it into the frame. It goes in easily. I love it.
I’m working on a template for the 12×3.5 frame that will print out – without scaling- on regular desktop 8.5×11 paper. This will also be free as long as you have your password. This will take a week or so. Why? I make the design, sew it, refine it, make new adjustments, sew that, refine that, and so on … and then rework the template to fit your 8.5×11 papers. Who wants in? 🙂
Cheers and happy sewing!
~Winn
Coming this week: PDF revision for the clutch tutorial – free update with your password
I like to think I’m ahead of the guys over at Rovio who make Angry Birds. Do you know how they give you free updates such as “Ham ‘O Ween” as long as you purchased the original Angry Birds? Except when it’s completely new and different, like Angry Birds Rio, then you have to buy that new game.
So where am I going with this, other than you all now know that I play Angry Birds? Well, I just updated the clutch tutorial and wanted to let you all know first! I’ll be back with a post when it’s updated on this blog, but it’s coming out this week. PLEASE wait until I say “go” to download. It’s not up yet so I don’t want you to waste your time. 🙂
The hard copies will not be available for another week. We have to send it to our guy, a professional printer. He uses 70# ultra-white paper. His ink is incredible. The booklet is so thick that we have to use a commercial stapler to staple it together! Yes, every booklet is cut and assembled by hand. As always, the tutorial and templates are formatted to be printed on regular 8.5×11 without any need for you to rescale. You just click on the links, download and print.
I have been working really hard to incorporate some of the hints that I have blogged about here. I have rewritten almost 80% of the entire tutorial and I have 95% new pictures that are bigger and more detailed. What I’ve written in the new updated tutorial are basically the shortcuts and time-saving tips that I employ in making clutches myself. I think they will help you.
What you will get with this update:
*Tips to improve your craftsmanship and productivity.
*2 options on how to make a clutch: with a bottom seam (my favorite way), and without a bottom seam (makes for quick work and good for smaller clutches)
*A shortcut that will minimize the wrinkling of the fabric and allows for easier insertion into the frame
*Pictures on how to insert the frame
*Tips on what interface to use
Take a peek:
More pics, more tips, and learn how to make a clutch in 2 ways!
The new updated tutorial has also been formatted as a booklet as was before. This was designed so that it will allow you to flip each page per step and not take up a lot of space at your sewing table.
How do you get this update? If you bought the PDF tutorial, you were sent the password with your order. It’s a really detailed (some say long-winded) email saying “Keep your password” as all updates to this tutorial and templates are free as long as you have your password and if you don’t have your password for any reason, it will cost you $5 to resend it. So I hope you heeded it.
If your laptop was stolen (yes, that happened to a customer last week), it crashed and you didn’t back it up (PCs all the time…), you lost it or for any other reason, then order this listing shown here:
This is only for previous buyers who need their password.
These updates, revisions, and new templates are always free to you as long as you keep your password! I am working on a template for the 12×3.5 size frame. It’ll be a big bag – perfect for winter and overnights – and I’m trying to make sure the template can be printed out without any scaling on regular desktop 8.5×11 printer paper. Quite the task since the 10×3 required splitting it into 2! 🙂
So be on the lookout and I’ll be back to give you all the “go”.
Warmly-
Winn
Valentine’s Day and Etsy Treasury Lists
Anyone else notice the home page of Etsy with the top bar for Valentine’s Day suggestions? Have you got your Valentine’s day promotions out? Do you have clutches that can be given as gifts for Valentine’s Day?
Here’s a treasury that recently made it on the front page of Etsy that I really liked.
Blush pink is just beautiful!
There are lots of treasuries being made for Valentine’s Day and I will be making one featuring only clutches. As you know, many items featured in treasuries that make the front get sold! It will feature clutches from some of the clutch makers on the Sellers page. I’ll give instructions and let’s try to get it noticed and in the hands of many!
About
I am the #1 US seller of purse frames and I’ve been incorporated since 2001. This blog is mainly aimed at my audience of clutch handbag makers. I have a very small niche that is comprised of 99.9% women. I am loyal and promote handbag makers who are loyal to me by using my fine purse frames. When they are successful, then I am successful.
The two businesses that I own are:
*purse supplies, Gutermann glue, and DIY clutch kits at whilebabynaps.etsy.com, whilebabynaps.com
*up-cycled purse supplies PurseFramesOutlet.etsy.com
To find clutches made using my fine metal purse frames, LOOK to see “Trademarks of WhileBabyNaps.com and H&D LLC” and you’ll know the clutches are made using the finest metal purse frames that are tested for lead and that have a protective coating to lengthen the life of the clutch. You can go to any of the sellers on the Sellers page.
****NOTE: If you want someone to make a clutch for you, please contact any of my sellers and inquire. They will gladly make custom orders!****
Interested in reaching my audience? Advertise. Contact me here.
Thank you for stopping by for a look.
Warmly,
Thy Khuong
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