Pocket Owl Crafts

I finally got around to creating some business cards, so's to make advertising my recycled-jeans laptop bags easier. And of course, if I'm gonna make business cards, then I have to make a website, right? Or at least get my own domain name, and point it to an Etsy account. :) Which is what I've done. Because I'm not nearly dedicated enough (yet) to pay for my very own e-commerce website (which can, apparently, get a little expensive, what with shopping cart software and an SSL license to protect credit card info, and yada yada yada . . .) and really, Etsy is a terribly effective option for selling handmade goods. :) I just had to stick my own domain name on it, so it could look all cute and fancy on the business cards. ;)

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Overall, the whole shebang took rather a lot of planning and effort. Because my first two or three or six website name ideas were taken . . . and not a ONE of them actually being used for anything! Just sitting there, "parked," being blank-ish web pages. Blegh. (I initially wanted to call it "By the Seat of Your Pants," because they're made of jeans . . . hyuk hyuk. ;) But seatofyourpants.com and all its iterations are already taken. Go figure.) Ah well, the one I finally landed on is cute, and very Me.

www.pocketowlcrafts.com

Check it out! I've only got one item listed so far, because I still need to take super-nice picutres of the rest of the stuff I've made. Then it'll be all pretty and enticing.

I've ordered a handful of the business cards, for giggles and kicks (so I can stop just writing my number on napkins for interested passers by, which I've done a couple times, now), as well as just a couple pens, because they looked so dang cute on the website . . . lol. Here's hoping the printing company is as posh as they say they are, so everything comes out looking nice and professional.

Meantime, here are the pics of the cards I designed. I made them up completely from scratch, sketching them out on paper then creating them in the GIMP.

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I created this version first, but decided I liked the second version (which I posted first) better, so that's the one I've ordered prints of, for now. Maybe someday I'll do a batch of these ones, too, because I am terribly proud of them . . . ;) But for now I'll stick with just the one design. After all, I have my doubts that I'll *ever* go through even one good stack of cards. But we'll see. :)