1000 Customers on Etsy And Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to my awesome customers on etsy.
I looked at my etsy stats last fall and was quietly surprised that I was so close to 1000 sales since I  opened the sh0p in 2009. I put a concerted effort into realizing my #1000 goal and reached it January 20th.

My customer was ecstatic that I had the vintage pattern she had been searching for and replied, "OMG! Jupiter luck again! That's amazing and I'm so glad I am your 1000th order! Thank you for making this order free! And, thanks to you having this pattern, I can unleash my creative potential. May you have many more thousands of sales! :)"

Jupiter Luck!

Jupiter Luck received everything here FREE for being my 1000th customer.

Missy Jupiter Luck ordered a pattern bundle and I enclosed some sewing goodies as well as some Hawaiian zipper pulls & notepad. I made the zippy bag on right a couple months ago with some japanese silk kimono scraps and put everything inside. On the left-hand side of the photo below a pattern,  I made a quick pocket tissue cover with some fabric I bought in Oahu at Fabricmart.

I was thinking about stopping at the dollar store to see if they had any bells and whistles to put inside the package, but I'm afraid I am still on Hawaiian time and it's all buttoned up and sent now.


I have some of the best customers on Etsy. I've sold online for many years - since before ebay started. Etsy customers truly appreciate hand made and love vintage.
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While in Hawaii, I did a giveaway. "How much is a simple 5" x 7" zippy pouch?

It was lined, it did have a strap. Whoever guessed closest to how much that puppy was going for would win something.

I had guesses of $22.00, $19.95, $28, $35 & $39.95.



A no-special-fabric zippy pouch with strap
is $45.00
in Haleiwa, Oahu.



**** And our winner is  ****

$39.95 - I'll take the Macadamia nuts! LOL! You lucky person! ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

I'll be sending Teresa some Macadamia Nuts tomorrow.

Thank you for playing my pricing game!

Haleiwa

Haleiwa reminds me of Paia on Maui.

Handcrafted, artsy.

We enjoyed watching an entrepreneur hack open a coconut for us for $6. When you're done drinking the coconut water, you return to the booth and he will cut the coconut meat into small pieces for further enjoyment.



Lots of blooming flowers (winter).





T-shirts.



Boutiques.


Red Dirt t-shirts.



Locally made (somewhere in HI).I liked the leather trim next to the zipper.



These little 5 x 7" zippy pouches on the table were $$ - can you guess? Leave me a guess in the comments. Closest person gets? Tell me what you'd like to win? Kona coffee? Macadamia nuts? Zippy bag?

The slightly bigger, but still simple zipper pouches were even more. The smaller wallets were about the same price as the zippy bags.


Nice patchwork utilization of doilies and fabric to make a bag.



Squint? Can you see the price on this coffee? 12 oz.



Mahalo.


sunrise sunday

Waimea Bay Surfing

We drove up to Haleiwa today so DD could do some shopping.

Big surf and lots of traffic.

Partly due to continuing rescue efforts for the two military choppers that crashed Thursday night but mostly for big surfing waves.

We finally found a parking spot and walked back down the hill above Waimea Bay.

There was a photographer right in front of us which helped lend scale.

Most of the beaches were closed because of the big surf. Waimea was open because of a surfing competition. Big, giant, powerful waves were all over the beach.

Lots of people, lifeguards, helicoptors from both the military and the Honolulu news.

We're going to get up early tomorrow to see another surfing competition a little north of Waimea.



There was about 40 surfers way out there. My camera can barely get to where the pod of surfers waited.

There were news reporters on jetskis also waiting.

All of the photographers on shore had bazoonga long lens on their cameras.

It is awesome to see the scramble of surfboards, trying to catch the wave for as long as they could.

It was even more awesome to view these giant pipeline waves that look like they could carry houses away.


The next photos are from a little bay where they teach surfing near Haleiwa.




Yes, that's a blue surfboard popping up into the air.





The locals would get past the first breakers on their long boards, then stand up and paddle out to where the bigger second breakers were.

They would use the paddle like a rudder or oar when they caught a wave and were able to ride it all the way back in.

With this phone app, I can't adjust the size of the photos. I think you can tap or click on them to make them bigger.





DS is trying to figure out how to strap the long board from the condo onto the Nissan Yaris - which the rental company calls a compact -similar to a Ford Focus.