Gone fishin'

Posted on | Sunday, July 31, 2011 | 3 Comments

New line acting fussy.

It's been a very busy and productive summer this year. The one crummy bit has been the lousy Oregon weather. We have had a few nice days here and there, but this weekend, we finally had some real summer weather. I decided that Matt and I had to go do something that would maximize the weather so we went fishing. We went to the St. Louis Ponds, actually not too far from where we got married in '07. Perfect weather. Do you think we caught anything?

Peaceful. I saw two big fish heads pop out of the water and I swore, a little turtle's head. :)

Matt's the fishing expert.

Well... we didn't catch anything, but we sure had a great time and it was a good break from plugging and chugging away. By the way, 2012 is shaping up to be an amazing year. We have so much that we are working on but I can't tell you yet what it is, so I hope you can be patient and be sure to keep checking back throughout this next year!

Busy summer!

Posted on | Saturday, July 23, 2011 | 2 Comments

This summer has been amazingly busy and I'm so sorry that I haven't been able to blog more frequently. I promise I have lots of exciting things in the works and sometime, when I have more time, I'll blog all about it. Although, some of the "things" are very top secret projects so those might be blogged about later. I hope everything is having a wonderful summer! -Myra

Etsy Featured Seller!

Posted on | Monday, July 4, 2011 | 13 Comments

I am so excited to announce that I'm an Etsy Featured Seller! Click HERE.

photo credits: Lisa Warninger

I started selling in my Etsy shop back in January of 2008 and was able to create a full fledged business shortly after. At that time, I was working a full-time job for the government and after 2-3 months of selling on Etsy, was able to put my notice in with my employer, left my job and started selling my handmade pieces full-time by May of 2008. I had often hoped (daydreamed?) to be a Featured Seller and was absolutely thrilled when I was contacted by the Etsy team.

Etsy has been an amazing venue for launching small handmade businesses. It's wonderful and inspiring to watch new businesses quickly take off and grow. I even encouraged my big sis to start an etsy shop of her own, and now that is basically what she's doing everyday. :)

After a short time, I launched my own off etsy online store and started getting a flood of wholesale requests. I curate my wholesalers to a manageable select list currently, until I have a few more workers, but it's been very exciting to build up a business from literally zero.

I currently have two contract workers (including my own mom!) and I think I've wrangled help from just about every relative I have at one point or another, but I have the most thanks going to my husband who has helped and supported me on my crazy venture these past few years.

I'm very excited for the future of Twigs & Honey as we've got lots in store for the future! I have so many secret projects that I promise to share once I can. Thank you so much to all the supporters and friends of Twigs & Honey AND thank you, Etsy!

View the whole Etsy Featured Seller on Twigs & Honey HERE.