Hi everyone! I’ve had a lot of things happening outside of books. For awhile my Etsy shop has been slow – it’s been slow since the pandemic began but that’s okay. When I started my Etsy shop 9 years ago I started with selling macrame bracelets and then I got into hand stamping metal. The five years I did hand stamping metal was really good to me and it really became a busy part-time job for me. Then I had my second child and I decided hammering metal was not the best idea with a newborn around. So I closed my shop for 2 1/2 years and only came back last year because I started doing resin.

Resin is so much fun but wow…it really can depend on weather since you are relying on a chemical to create your products. I live in Hawaii and I need to work outside because the fumes from the resin. I did it indoor, in my laundry room for like 2 months but honestly…the smell of fumes lingered. So, back outside I went – but if the weather is too hot, my resin hardened too fast. If I didn’t cover things well, bugs got stuck in the resin and lint. A lot of my items selling on Etsy are B grades because of all the ways it didn’t turn out good. But it’s so pretty when the final product is cured…you get to play with color and glitter and I just love it. I wish I had the space to do it indoors. 😔

Right now a hand-stamping customer of mine, bless her heart, just ordered 265 keychains from me. So I have ordered the material and will be doing that in the next 2 weeks. With the holidays coming, I’ll be adding more hand-stamped items to my shop, including ornaments. And with that said, I have a Labor Day sale happening this weekend at my Etsy shop! 😬

Here are some things I still have in my shop:

There are a few bigger pieces too but these are some of the cute keychains that I have in my shop right now. I’m going to do some resin next week, as long as the weather cooperates with me and try to add more phone grips.

I’ll be adding more hand stamped keychains as well and hopefully bookmarks soon!

Thanks for reading and let me know what you like to do outside of reading and obsessing over books. 😀 ~ Yolanda