Promoting Each Other

Are you looking for ways to get involved with our Cottage Style Street Team?
I have a couple things you could do every day, once a week, once in awhile or whenever the mood suits you!

First, we do a daily promotion thread in Etsy's Forums and you can visit the one for today by clicking HERE
The first page always has an introduction like this:

We have different members running the threads every day. Here's where you come in! It is really easy to come to the daily promotion thread and promote your shop and the shops of other members for a little while. You can donate 2 minutes-5 minutes--10 minutes--whatever!
Posting in this thread helps bump the thread to the first page of the Promotions section. To find the thread each day, go to "Promotions"
and then put "CSSTEAM" or "CSST" in the Forum's search engine and the most current thread with pop up.
It's that simple and like I said, someone is there everyday. The host of the thread tries to keep the thread going all day but lately, the hostess has been doing much of the posting by themselves.
I think if the daily promotions keeps getting any slower, we'll just retire it for the summer. So this is just a friendly reminder to see if we can encourage any helpers!

Another way you can help promote our team is to blog about it once in awhile. Just a small shout out once every so often will generate awareness.

Also, did you all notice that we can use clickable links in our Shop Headers?! Yes! As long as the link goes to another Etsy location, the link will be hot! So you can promote the Cottage Style Street Team by having a hot link to our profile, Flickr Pool or CSST Shop in your Shop Headers!

Thanks for all the hard work many of you do to help spread the word about our humble team!
~Sadie Lou

A Word of Wisdom Concerning Flickr

Hi Ladies!
So as many of you know, we are all blog buddies and Etsy Friends as well as we are Flickr Contacts.
I see many of you on Flickr and it's fun to stay on top of all the lovely creations you photograph and then list on Etsy.
However,
I see some of you in direct conflict with Flickr's community guidelines and Terms of Service.
I want to share this information with you to spare you the heartache of having your account removed from Flickr's website. They have a warning in the guidelines that state very plainly:

Here’s the deal: In most circumstances, we like to give second chances, so we’ll send you a warning if you step across any of the lines listed below. Subsequent violations can result in account termination without warning.

Here are the 2 violations I see most often from The Cottage Style Street Team:

• Don’t use your account to host web graphics like logos and banners.
Your account will be terminated if we find you using it to host graphic elements of web page designs, icons, smilies, buddy icons, forum avatars, badges, and other non-photographic elements on external web sites.
• Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
Flickr is for personal use only. If we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr technologies (including APIs, FlickrMail, etc), or Flickr accounts must be approved by Flickr. For more information on leveraging Flickr APIs, please see our Services page. If you have other open questions about commercial usage of Flickr, please feel free to contact us.

So if you feel you might have violated those two guidelines, then I suggest you go back through all your photographs and make the changes. Many people just link to their shops or blogs in their profiles.
I hope this has been useful info for you!
~Sadie Lou

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~Sadie Lou

Romantic, Elegant Inspiration Treasury

I really love the colors of this treasury--so romantic, soft and elegant. It inspires me to drink a glass of French Chablis in my vintage, silk nightie and put on some gorgeously rich movie like Dangerous Liaisons...

Treasury

Cottage Style Street Team's Christmas in July!

One of our members wrote me an email this morning and it was so funny how we were totally on the same page!
Jenny, otherwise known as Be Cheery aka Lollipop Workshop suggested that the next promotion the CSST does should be a Christmas in July!
It was so weird because I was thinking the same thing!
I have been making Betsy Girls, getting ready for Christmas, and I would love to list some as part of a promotional event!
So there you have it! Now here are the details:

Start making some lovelies for Christmas and then we will all list our goodies on July 25th, 2008!
Tag your Christmas Creations with "CSST" "CSSTeam" and "July Christmas" Then we will be able to find all the wonderful CSST goodies!
I'm so excited!
I will be uploading the picture I used here in this post at the Cottage Style Christmas in July Flickr Pool. Feel free to use it on your blogs!
If you have any questions, contact me directly through Etsy or just ask in the comments.
Have a wonderful week!
~Sadie Lou

Featured Seller: The Pink Tulip

Two words:
Spun Cotton

I never knew I loved spun cotton until I found The Pink Tulip.
This piece is totally amazing:


Maryanne's profile reads:

"I taught myself to knit, crochet, and sew by the time I was eighteen years old. I've been gardening since about eleven years old. Flowers and sewing are my favorite things !!! With sewing I love to mix antique or vintage fabric, buttons, anything old with new. And I enjoy making my own patterns. "

I am so captured by Maryanne's little world; her magical creations. Stop in and see for yourself!
Love,
Sadie Lou

Silver Bella 2008

If you haven't heard of Silver Bella before this year, you will never forget it after this year!
I first discovered Silver Bella last year when all of the sudden, all of my favorite Flickr contacts were talking about this event in November that they were all attending.
Look at pictures from last year's event HERE
So what is it? A Paper Arts Event Hosted by Teresa McFayden

Where is it? Omaha, Nebraska Brrrrrr!

When is it? November 11th-13th, 2008
Just because I am a total cheerleader at heart sometimes, I am going to post last year's who's who list of people that attended, instructed and set up vendor booths:
Here is a Who's Who List of the Vendors and Artisans:

* Hodge Podge by Amanda
* Cheryl Strait
* Tony Pastory
* Poppy Ink
* Beth Quinn
* Manto Fev
* Princess Lazertron/Megan Hunt
* Frost Creek Charms
* Present Past Collection/Heather Bullard
* Candace Carpenter
* Olive Juice
* Tammy Gilley
* My Favorite Things/Melissa Danner
* Doojes/Stephanie Hirschberg
* Inspire Company
* Kathy Jacobsen
* Little Melfie
* Paper Relics
* Raised in Cotton
* The Red Door Studio
* Marilyn Nouvelle
* Stephanie Rojas
* Charm School Jewels
* Speckled Egg
* Debby Schuh
* The Vintage workshop
* Missalayneeah
* Colleen Moody
* Becky Sherwood
* Cari Kraft
* Dede Warren
* Susan Jacoby Designs
* Vintage Diva/Kelly Jacobs
* Lulubellas
* Rebecca Sower
* Charlotte Lyons
* Teresa McFayden
* Carolyn Peeler
* Corrine Ayers
* Pam Garrison
* Sis Boom/Jennifer Paganelli
* Everyday is a Holiday/Jennifer Heid & Aaron Neiradka

Have you noticed that SEVERAL of our fellow team members are on that list?? What a great way to get to meet one another and do what we love--which is oggle each other's creations! I felt so out of the loop last year that I am going to make a serious effort to go this year, if my finances are in order.
Anyhoo, check out some of the links I provided and feast your eyes on the best Paper Event all year!!
Love,
Sadie Lou