♦♦♦♦ Alberta Street Team CHAT THREAD for November 23 - 30, 2015 ♦♦♦♦

[#1]

Hello and welcome to the Alberta Team Chat Thread for November 23 - 30, 2015. Posting here counts towards your team participation and is the main place to get up to date on what we are doing as a team!

Post your New Listings in our promo thread:
www.etsy.com/teams/5084/alberta-street-team/discuss/17008534/

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www.etsy.com/teams/5084/alberta-street-team/discuss/17008566/

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If you have any questions about the team or how to get more involved please contact Ann, the Team Captain, at www.etsy.com/shop/MagpieQuilts.

Previous thread:
https://www.etsy.com/teams/5084/alberta-street-team/discuss/17070196/

[stufd]

Thanks Jillian :) I will check them out

[Former_Member]

Stopped by Make It today to help my MIL takedown her booth. Lots of neat vendors. I had a chat with your hubby Kellie, he's got the sales chat down pat :) happy anniversary! Hope all the other Make It vendors did well. I recognized a few names but didn't have enough time to stop and talk with you all, sorry!

[j2studioscraft]

Make It was amazing!!!! Loved the new venue, the attendance was excellent and I loved being a vendor there! It was also very nice to have Melissa and Kellie on board as vendors too! Jenny, so good to see you again :)
Thanks for visiting Margo, Kristina & Heather!

[minibytes]

Yay! Happy to hear Make it went well :)

I went to MC on Friday evening and it looked like it had a good turnout there as well. Any feedback from Calgary peeps on that one in terms of sales?

Well I've put my shop in vacation mode for the season. I have enough custom orders and Etsy orders to keep me busy up until my shipping deadline, so may as well save myself the stress of people not reading.

Also for the Secret Santa stuff I'll be sending your matches along tomorrow morning :)

[Former_Member]

Good morning! Wow November gone and December ready to start; should I just start saying Happy New Year now? LOL

A final update on Make It...Sunday, the "winds of change" came through, and Ed didn't have a single sale. In fact he lost money--he left his parking pass at home and had to pay for parking again. LOL. Then again, he still handed out lots of brochures and post cards. I have gotten a number of custom request; everyone hoping for Christmas, but all willing to wait for January. I'm trying to look at my schedule and figure it all out. I currently have my shop on vacation; I have very few items left available for Christmas so not sure if I should reopen or just stay closed.

First I need caffeine then I'll figure it all out.

Christina and Larry, have fun heading to Vancouver to do Make It all again. Have fun and be safe! Everyone have s wonderful week!

[Former_Member]

Can someone help me with this? If someone sends a note with their purchase and I reply on the order with the little "send convo" link, is there a history for that? I can't find it back anywhere.

[MagpieQuilts]

Anyone in Calgary looking for a last minute market, Dec. 16 in the evening at the Canada Music Centre. The main theme of the evening is the Christmas concert from a group of musicians, but they are wanting it to be more of a mix & mingle event than a sit down concert & are looking for a few vendors - tables are free. Contact is Holly holly.decaigny@me.com

[MagpieQuilts]

modmooi, is it under the sent messages in your convos.

[Former_Member]

Thanks Ann!

[MDHToy]

Good morning everyone! I have started a new community page on Facebook to help promote the handmade items and goodies of Canadian crafters and would like to invite you all to like the page, share the page and and to share your facebook links on it so that we can shout out our Canadian Handmade pride and rival the pages of British Crafters and American Crafters which have over 10,000 followers each. I will be going through your daily posts and sharing several peoples posts daily. https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Crafters-1700233676879490/

[Former_Member]

Hi all. I enjoyed Make It on Friday. The weekend would have been too busy for me. I did a show on Saturday with Hand 2Hand at the Providence Centre. The organizers did a great job and we had 500+ through the doors.

[cindylouwho2 · Accepted solution]

Etsy shipping labels not being accepted by Canada Post again:
https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/17134594/

Not sure how many are affected. It appears they haven't paid their bill again, even though they said last year this wouldn't happen again

[WireExpressions]

Yikes! thanks for the heads up Cindy!

[cindylouwho2]

You are welcome! Sorry for the post & run (I've been very busy since Friday evening) but I know some of you just drop things in the mailbox & therefore would not have them checked as that seller did, & wouldn't know they were invalid & would possibly be returned to you. And she is right, when Canada Post refuses something, it can take a month to get back to you.

I hope no one here is affected!

[tinydaisiesdesigns]

Thanks for the heads up Cindy. Looks like they've posted an update and we should be good. (Fingers crossed) I sure hope so since I'll be shipping a ton this week.

[Former_Member]

Join us in the new weekly chat thread here:
https://www.etsy.com/teams/5084/alberta-street-team/discuss/17136106/