Month: May 2021

handmade baskets

New Items added

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I’m working hard to make this my only website to purchase my products and learn more about me. I need to find out some additional means for shipping, since it seems you can only set up one shipping cost. I might have to eliminate the shipping part and just put the price of the shipping in the product and advertise as free shipping. I will keep you updated as to the path I take. My son is a computer wiz so he will likely be able to figure it out for me. There has to be a way to add shipping if 2 or more items are purchased.

Happy Wednesday and we are definitely looking forward to a long weekend.

Here are some of the recent additions to my website……

A Lovely Waste Paper Basket with cute pine legs that we make here in our workshop

A very Country Style Wall Basket with a Rusty Tin Star

A Pouch Basket with a long leather hanger painted with a popular White-wash Finish

Happy Memorial Day

handmade baskets

It’s All In The Details…..

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Every morning before I start weaving baskets, I trim and sign all the finished baskets that are shipping that day.

So let’s go back a few days. Before the baskets are stained, my partner in crime, ie. my husband, uses a small torch on them to remove all of the “hairs” from the reed. Then we stain them. After they dry for a few days, I do the final trim and initial and date the bottom.

I’m sure I notice the little “hairs” on the baskets more than my customers would but I wouldn’t let them ship without this final step. I sign with my initials JB, and the date.

And on an unrelated note, we have bluebirds nesting in one of our birdhouses along our garden. They are absolutely gorgeous.

Hope you are having a great week.

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Now or never

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So I finally did it. I changed my website to a business page so that I can sell multiple baskets to one customer and I can break away from my Etsy Store. The fees and the policies they are promoting are becoming very crippling to a small business such as myself. I have set up this website through Woo Commerce. It is free with the Business upgrade to the website. I don’t think I can afford a website designer so I am attempting to do it myself. They have many tutorials and articles on how to set up a commerce website so I am referring to them. So far I have products added, payment set up, and a cart system. I’m trying to figure out the shipping without getting too complicated but so far can only figure out a flat rate for everything. Any help out there would be greatly appreciated.

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