The Etsy Ireland had a meeting in Dublin on Saturday just gone and here are a few things that were discussed:
*Most importantly
Tanya and
Sarah decided it was time that there a shake up in who was co-ordinating the team. They both need time for themselves and their own work. I'm sure I speak for all members when I heartily thank both of them for the mammoth amount of time and work they have put into the team. They brought amazing energy and ideas to Etsy Ireland, and they joined us all together....thank you xx.
*So
Alex and
Ruth(me) will be taking on the joint role of team co-ordinators for the next 6 months or so. We decided that I would handle the blog side of things, with schedualling, new contributors, and keeping things fresh and interesting. Alex will be running admin, recruiting new etsy Ireland members, and also doing some PR for the team. There are only two of us so volunteers are always welcome! Just convo either of us if you have new ideas for the team, or you would like to contribute articles to the blog.
*We also thought
Balanced's idea of having themed projects was great so we thought we would start off easy and see if you guys had and projects made for Valentines Day. If you could send links to your Valentines items to
Ruth, then I'll make a collage of them for the blog, and we may vote for a winner too! It would be preferable if your item was listed on Etsy, because then you might sell it. If all entires could be in by Feb 1st, that gives people some shipping time if they wanted to purchase your items.
*We were also wondering if we could get all them Etsy Ireland members emails address please. These will not be made public in any way, but now that the group has grown so much it's very time consuming to be sending individual convos. If you could send a convo to
Alex with an email address that you check regularly then she can put together a mailing list. We will use this to tell you about meetings, projects, and any other essential information.
*We also talked about starting the crafty digest again. This is a blog post that has bite-size info about members ie. craft fairs, blog giveaways etc. This only works though if you send us your news, we don't want to be hounding people about it. So if you are selling at a show, or have some news about your shop/crafts that you think would be of interest to the readers forward your info to
Ruth**Or if it's easier, email Alex directly with your email address for the mailing list (rather than going through a laborious convo) alex[at]propellerprints[dot]com.
Thanks! :o)
Tirabaralla is an Italian woman living in Ireland between Dublin and Co. Wicklow. She lived her first 31 years in her home country, Italy, more precisely Florence, in Tuscany and then moved to Ireland following her passion for this country.
