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Introduction to Pinterest

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 Well I guess I should start with a stern ticking off to myself for not writing on here sooner, this month has just flown by!  So what have I been doing that I was so busy?!   The answer is pretty much - trying to learn (I'd love to say master, but no where near that yet!) social media and promotion of Mystical Rainbow. I have been discovering that you can use Pinterest for something other than losing hours out of your day when you go to look for one thing.  Honestly, I never knew!  I have boards on my personal pinterest that are specifically for crafts I love but will never have time to get around to trying!  Probably because I spend so much time browsing on Pinterest!!! So I have started a business board for Mystical Rainbow and have been learning all about keywords and how search engines function.  It is all so complex and yet so beautifully clever.  Pinterest searches allow small businesses to show up alongside mega companies, so if you s...

Progress on projects

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 Well it is already April and infact it's Easter weekend!  2021 is going by far too fast. I have been busy doing so many different things this week, although as usual, it is lots of starting things and not quite as often finishing things off. A couple of sales (yay!) on the Etsy store (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/mysticalrainbowgifts - just incase you didn't know!) have meant I needed to get on with the final lacquer stage of some more wall plaques.  So a Home Sweet Home plaque and a new design - dur dur duh - shhh its still a secret! - have been being lacquered, as well as a new product of fridge magnets.  The biggest problem I have is that applying lacquer is a weather dependent stage as it really does have to be done outside.  The issue here is I live in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, a lovely coastal town, where it is inevitably always blowing a gale! I promise pictures will come soon, once final lacquer layers have been applied and I get some nice product shots in the light ...