Etsy Featured Seller!

I am so excited to announce that I'm an Etsy Featured Seller! Click HERE.

photo credits: Lisa Warninger

I started selling in my Etsy shop back in January of 2008 and was able to create a full fledged business shortly after. At that time, I was working a full-time job for the government and after 2-3 months of selling on Etsy, was able to put my notice in with my employer, left my job and started selling my handmade pieces full-time by May of 2008. I had often hoped (daydreamed?) to be a Featured Seller and was absolutely thrilled when I was contacted by the Etsy team.

Etsy has been an amazing venue for launching small handmade businesses. It's wonderful and inspiring to watch new businesses quickly take off and grow. I even encouraged my big sis to start an etsy shop of her own, and now that is basically what she's doing everyday. :)

After a short time, I launched my own off etsy online store and started getting a flood of wholesale requests. I curate my wholesalers to a manageable select list currently, until I have a few more workers, but it's been very exciting to build up a business from literally zero.

I currently have two contract workers (including my own mom!) and I think I've wrangled help from just about every relative I have at one point or another, but I have the most thanks going to my husband who has helped and supported me on my crazy venture these past few years.

I'm very excited for the future of Twigs & Honey as we've got lots in store for the future! I have so many secret projects that I promise to share once I can. Thank you so much to all the supporters and friends of Twigs & Honey AND thank you, Etsy!

View the whole Etsy Featured Seller on Twigs & Honey HERE.

Four corners of the Twigs & Honey studio

It's a modest little space...
I guess I never really blogged my studio in its entirety, huh? It's about time. :) I am constantly reorganizing, rearranging, and de-cluttering it. It's a perpetual work in progress. Since it isn't huge, I really have to maximize the space. See more in my Flickr folder.

My raised table for building pieces. I like to stand more than sit. It's better for your b-u-t-t. Hey... I'm not getting any younger.

Little Ann Wood Handmade birds poking around like Where's Waldo.

Oh, glorious fabric... I like pinks and all shades of white. Can you tell?

Sometimes... I stray from whites and pinks...

Wedding photo... Flufflife art.... Ann Wood bird.

My hubby painted this vanity table the shabby chic pink for me. Craftpaca birds making an appearance.

I hope you had fun touring the Twigs & Honey space. See more HERE.

Lovely wedding featured in Unveiled Weddings

Elizabeth Messina has really blown me away with these beautiful photos from her brother's wedding to the prettiest bride, Lauren. I got a sneak peak last month and have been dying to see more photos. I made Lauren a dramatic bridal hat with handmade, oversized silk white flowers and a double feather flower with detachable birdcage veil. Lauren wore them beautifully! See more photos HERE and at Unveiled Weddings Magazine.

Photography credits: Elizabeth Messina