PHOTO UPDATE Kawaii Cute Bunny Rabbit Stickers for Calico Critter Themed Birthday Party: The Destiny of Things, Story 603
Using these bunny stickers turned out so wonderful! Cuteness overload! BEFORE:
Here is the note I received:
My daughter had a Calico Critters themed birthday party and I thought the stickers looked adorable on her packages. Thanks for the great idea!! Btw, my girls had so much fun with the Fortune Teller Fish. I think I will order some to slip in Valentine's day cards. Again, thank you for everything!
I wrote back:
What beautiful Calico Critter birthday decor! And love how all
your cute bunny packaging turned out! With your permission, I will add
your packaging gift photo on the listing here and use the other two on
my blog to inspire others and myself!
Also the fortune fish make a great alternative to Halloween candy!
Thank you so much for your email and photos, it's made my Saturday so
much brighter! Kennedy
AFTER PHOTOS: Look how cute the her wrapping turned out!
Photo via Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerAndMore
These look so cute I want to run out and buy some pink wrapping paper for spring gifts! And wait til you see the Calico Critter birthday themed decorations!
Saying Goodbye: I have loved stickers since I was a kid and collected them before Mrs Grossman's stickers came out. When her stickers became available, it was sticker madness for me! I had to visit every stationery store around town collecting them! Anyways, I'm sure glad her stickers are still around, but I think the bunnies are of either Japanese or Chinese origin and of course when I saw them I had to have a hoard of them!
I use them all the time as card inserts for happy snail mail, gift wrapping and envelope closures, as gift wrapping embellishments and everywhere else that needs some kawaii cute happiness! I even like to add wiggle eyes on mine and make them kawaii cute silly!
What I Learned:
1. I bought these years ago and I don't remember where, so when we run out of stock that will most likely be it. Plus with all the unpleasant Etsy drama going on, I'm doing my best to quit Etsy soon, but that means I have to stop buying stuff! And that's not easy for a recovering hoarder when items become popular to Etsy buyers!
2. Quitting Etsy soon means 1-2 years for me because my little recovering hoarder mind works very differently than most normal minds. For instance, it just dawned on me while talking to a friend that quitting Etsy actually means I have to stop buying things for the shops! The concept is quite simple to most, but my recovering hoarder mind it is quite the epiphany! It was like this huge light bulb exploded and lit up my world so bright I could see empty rooms!
3. So despite this new epiphany, I'm still buying stuff! It's toned down, but it hasn't come to a halt yet. I think it will eventually, if not soon, lol. Actually I've started to hoard something new! Organic seeds! This week it was snapdragon and lobelia seeds, which I will be planting this weekend and I'm so excited about it! So excited I dream about it in my sleep!
4. Since all the Etsy drama, I think in my last two posts I wrote about being locked out of Etsy business for over 10 days due to an Etsy glitch and receiving little to no help from Etsy support to get new passwords to get back into our shops and now the new Etsy fees will kick in some time this month or maybe they have kicked in already. Very disappointing and disheartening.
Anyways, my only hope is that all the new Etsy fees goes to improving Etsy support because if you get locked out of your shops from an Etsy glitch, the only thing that might work is phoning their out of country support with at least a 5 hour wait time to hear a "real" voice or playing email roullette and emailing any and every email hoping one gets passed on to tech support!
Okay, returning to my Etsy past is such a downer! Let me cheer up with more silly rabbit stickers!
12 or 24+ stickers cute pink bunny rabbit face kawaii sticker 3 colors gift wrapping packaging, available here. There is an option if you wish to buy them with the tiny wiggle eyes too! Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore.Thank you kind Etsy buyer for sending your super cute Calico Critter party behind your purchase story! Wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see your daughter's party with everyone opening gifts! Every story seems to come at a time when I need to hear some happy news or revisit happy past Etsy events! Gotta keep focusing on the small happy Etsy stuff to keep moving forward!
Okay, so there is a silver lining to all this Etsy drama! Ever since I lost heart in Etsy due to our Etsy business lock out mid January and now with Etsy fees rising, I've been spending less and less time with Etsy and more time healing the soil in our front and backyard! Yes, it was basically dead soil, like during the dust bowl days, it only produced dust and could not sustain very many living plants! Not even very many weeds!
I only do Etsy on Tues, Th and Sun. now, mainly packaging up orders for the next shipping day and if I feel like it and have the time, I relist and new list. On Mon, Wed and Fridays, which I now call Free Day Mon, etc, I am healing the soil in, what I call our backyard front yard organic farm, "Live and Let Live!" (The name of it keeps changing, I used to call it "Our Garden of WeEden") With many setbacks, t's taken about 10 years to heal the soil with only free resources, but it's basically now a small wild organic veggie and flower garden, which started when some Milkweed and Swiss chard seeds blew in and started growing attracting lots of Monarch butterflies!
Did you know that one of the only things Monarch butterflies eat are Milkweed leaves? That's the long story short of it! Back to Etsy talk!
Since Etsy raised prices, I'm in the process of raising prices too, which has really slowed down business, but we make about the same amount, so luckily I guess that works out! Not sure how, but fine with me!
Also USPS has been raising their fees twice a year, instead of once of year, or so I've finally noticed, so I'm in the process of raising shipping fees too! Plus Etsy takes the same item transaction fees out of shipping fees, so there is that to calculate. Oh and top of all of that, our suppliers have raised their prices too! I hope inflation is just a temporary situation!
Time for some more cheerfulness!
