Thanksgiving boutique cancelled

Thanks for coming. We have canceled the Thanksgiving Handmade boutique. We will be hosting the Christmas boutique in December. Please email us at etsyhandmadeboutique@yahoo.com to sign up.

Thank you. I'm sorry for the short notice.

Just a quick reminder

Make sure today you have your drawings for your Halloween Boutique.

It's here!

The Halloween Boutique is here! We are very excited to offer 20% off of the following Etsy stores:

Paradise Sunrise (Founder)
Idelissa
dreamypleasures
nicedreamscandles
Bettilouise
elizabethnormand
Flauxers
swakdesigns
Midnghtdolphin (Founder)
byCarla
MaddEm
Schiersknits (Founder)
Knittopotamus
maineleecrochet
MintDesign
Queen Kat's Crafts (Founder)
AdornShoppe
ajoyfullife
AlieKeegan
Riaann
ThePaperButton
BabiesNtoddlersdress
beccahacom
CrashCanStudio
Lucymoonglow
PhoebeDea
ScrapHappieAZ
Beautiful Additions
glitteringphotos
Kristinamyerscrafts
lilyofthevall77
RomasMasion

When you shop with these lovely sellers, please add the coupon code: halloweenboutique09 to your customer comments so they know to give you your discount. all discounts are on items before shipping and will be refunded through paypal.

Each time you purchase from one of our featured sellers, you'll be entered into a drawing in THEIR store!! That's right, each store you buy from will have a drawing.

There are 31 awesome stores open for business and waiting to hear from you. Happy Shopping!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow's the day. The sale starts tomorrow, October 22, and goes through Sunday, October 25. Make sure you're promoting! Let's all get lots of sales from this. Don't forget the discount code (halloweenboutique2009)! Promote, promote, promote. Ready? Let's go!

Buyers... Welcome!

Hello all you Etsy shoppers out there! We are so happy that you came to the Handmade Boutique blog. We are excited to bring you the first ever Handmade Boutique...

The dates are October 22nd through October 25th!

Where?? Etsy of course! See those shop links >>> Those are the sellers who have signed up for this Boutique.

What?? A bunch of fantastic, excited and fabulous Etsy Sellers have come together to bring you a 3 day 20% off entire shop sale! They are all holding a drawing of some kind if you buy from them.

How to get entered in the drawings?? You have to purchase from the seller(s) of your choice using this code upon check out: halloweenboutique2009 and you will be entered into their drawing and will receive 20% of your sale before shipping refunded through Paypal.

Some stores will be doing other special things or have a larger discount for you so please make sure you shop with everyone and share the Etsy love.

Get ready for the shopping fun! It will all begin on October 22nd! That's Etsy Time! (EST)

Have a great weekend!

Update Email sent...

This is the copy of an email I just sent out to everyone reminding them to start prepping for the boutique. If you did not get this email, please email us at etsyhandmadeboutique@yahoo.com. thanks!!
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I'm just writing today to give you an update and to ask that you all visit the blog and see the updates that have been posted.

If you are participating in the Boutique, please make sure:

1. your link is on the blog on the right hand side.
2. you have the Boutique ad in your shop announcement on Etsy Here's a copy:
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I'm participating in the first ever Halloween Handmade Boutique!
When? October 22-25
What? 20% off of my entire shop -Refunds will be made using paypal
Please visit http://handmadeboutiques.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Remember to use the code: HalloweenBoutique09 in the customer comments during check out so I know to honor the 20% discount.

Tell all your friends!
There will be a drawing for a nice prize on October 26th after the Boutique. So get your order in and you'll be entered in the drawing.
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3. If you Facebook, please post about it at least once a day until the boutique is over. This will remind people that you're having a sale and that we are doing this awesome fun thing!

4. If you Tweet please do the same and tweet us up. We are trying really hard to get the word out about this and in order to keep it a free thing we need all the help from the sellers that we can get. It's all about networking, baby! :)

5. Check the blog regularly. We will open up the sign ups for the November Thanksgiving Boutique to the public on the 22nd of October. If you want to sign up now, just reply to this email. The discount for November will be 10% off. and you'll need to still offer a raffle/drawing.

6. add handmadeboutique to your tags in your items. This will be how the buyers will find you when they search Etsy.
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If you have any questions at all please let us know. We are here to help.
thanks!
Vicki

Just checking in...

Hi everyone! I hope you're all having a great Fall. The first boutique is coming up!! It's approaching fast. Are you ready?

I want to give a special shout out to some of our sellers who have been adding handmadeboutique to their tags in their store. I was just searching on Etsy to see who was getting ready and Etsy pulled up...

dreamypleasures
AlieKeegan
PhoebeDea
NiceDreamsCandles
riaann
ThePaperButton
ByCarla

Thank you so much for putting your tags in and showing love.

If you've signed up for the boutique, you need to add handmadeboutique to your tags in your products. It's how you'll get noticed on Etsy when people search for handmadeboutique.

Also, please make sure you've added the announcement in your shop announcement like the blog post below. If for some reason you are not getting our email updates, please send an email to: etsyhandmadeboutique@yahoo.com and we will re-add you to the list.

Thanks so much and here's to many Etsy sales!