Crystal the Shopaholic

My granddaughter Crystal, 12, is not only beautiful but also a dreaded SHOPAHOLIC. Stores would have been okay financially in 2008 if Crystal had had enough money to support them all. On the bright side, she has great fashion taste.

She asked me to make her two friendship bracelets, one for her and one for her best friend Shyanne. She told me exactly how to make it and this is the result. My only addition was a bead with their initials in case of confusion. I also added the bright red Chile Pepper just for fun. And Shyanne loved her bracelet, too!

Amazonite bracelet

This is something unusual in my three months at Etsy (celebrated yesterday, April 9). This bracelet made with Amazonite, New Jade, and sterling silver had only 43 views late April 8, the day I bought an ad at JLC Designs's blog with a photo of this bracelet. Today it has 84 views. I thought I had been in a treasury and checked both the regular and west treasuries, but it was not in either so the extra views must have come from the the blog ad. That ad was a good buy too, $5 for the month of May and I got the rest of April for free. Jen also charged me $5 for making the ad, which was great since I am a complete tech-challenged person.

I feel ambivalent about views. If they have too few views I worry that no one likes the item, if there are too many views I wonder why all those viewers didn't want to buy it. It's a catch-22 situation.