October 2008
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Landshare.
“River Cottage” fans may have seen this already. If not please take a look. Would you like to start growing your own food? No space? Well look no further, check out http://www.landshare.net/ a great site solving a common problem. Who would have thought that 3,000 years of ‘civilisation’ would have bought us to this- but alas it has, and for all those who have the...
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Featured Halloween Queen Bee :: Goblin City
“I’ve been making jewelery for a few months now, my jewellery is influenced by gothic and horror themes, and by mythical and fantasy creatures. I am honoured to have been the featured designer for october 2008 on http://www.beadaholics.co.uk In the future I hope to have a lot more doll themed work on offer”. Goblin City are based in Merseyside, which is where Louise founder fo...
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Featured Seller: Saga Arpino
Saga Arpino is a light loving, vibrant living, city dweller. She’s a Royal College of Art trained designer and maker of glass. She’s grown up enjoying fabrics and making clothes. For this winter she’s gathered a selection of beautiful photographically printed silks and is coupling them with soft wools, velvets and cottons to make sumptuous scarves that can be worn by both...
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MyEhive is looking fabulous today.
We have had some great complements over on the Twitter boards. Thanks to all our new members. Nicky, Mia, Kate, Saga, Fiona, Christine, Jane and many more welcome! London, Hampshire, E. Sussex. All counties filling up slowly but surely. Forum boards very active. We are going through requests one by one. Leyla our developer is working hard to get everything done :) Also fixing the links on the...
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Thanks Beth @ 'Felting in Fibrespace'
Apart from the very cool name and gorgeous felted accessories Beth from ‘Felting in FibreSpace’ based in Leeds gave us a grand mention in her blog, thanks Beth and welcome to MyEhive.com. Beth studied Textile design at Leeds University, and gained a teaching qualification in design and technology. She also runs very popular felting workshops in Calcutt Village Hall (Knaresborough,...
"Product Views" Feature
Thanks for this suggestion. This has been programmed and ready to roll, it should be active within your shop within a few days. Any other ideas and suggestions, keep em coming…
WatchDesign some website badges & widgets competition! We are asking MyEhive members to design some funky badges for MyEhive, which sellers and bloggers can use to link to their beautiful MyEhive shops from their own websites! The ones chosen will receive a selection of fabulous goodies, see below. You have until next Thursday to submit your ideas!! Send them to in jpeg or gif format to (They can...
Introducing The Make Lounge
We met Jennifer from The Make Lounge on Twitter. What a great site *The Make Lounge* is too. If you live in London you’ll find The Make Lounge at: 49-51 Barnsbury Street, London N1 1TP T: 020 7609 0275 head down there, tell them we sent you if you saw it here first. They are ‘contemporary craft workshops with stylish social twist’, and about time too. Hoping to see...
Featured Seller: Susan Luff - Nature's Threads
“I am inspired by textiles and nature not necessarily in that order. I once started and ran a cottage industry designing and making childrens clothes, both knitted and sewn garments. I made many babies layettes in both cotton and wool. I then became interested in the production of wool and cloth and learnt to spin and dye wools so I could make ‘home spun and home-dyed’ 100%...
WatchRemember we were giving away this luscious handbag to one lucky winner if you were one of the first 100 shops on MyEhive.com? Well using www.random.org we chose this luck lady. Carolyn Sadler of E. Sussex congratulations!
A big warm MyEhive welcome all our new members....
We have had some great blog posts over the weekend. Thanks girls for mentioning us and helping to spread the word. East London Craft Guerrilla. Crafteroo.co.uk Cutedesigns.blogspot.com. Even those snarky girls over at etsybitch (not for the handmade faint hearted) gave us mention. Thanks girls :) If you blog, and mention MyEhive we’ll post it here too! We want to say a big hi to Barbara...
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How to make your life easier - batch optimize your...
Save time increase out put spend more time with your family, kids, BF, pets, social networking… etc. Get yourself Photoshop not even the £500 version but just a basic Photoshop Elements will do. You can buy CD or download straight to your desktop it’s about £67 it really helps if you want to edit photos at the touch of a button. IMAGES FOR MYEHIVE: MIN 500 Pixels wide. 72dpi, RGB.
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“I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them....”
– Cindy Sherman - Famous US Artist
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WatchPurple or blue you decide…
Goddie of the day. Somodo CD.
Love this. Ordered it and arrived yesterday. Unbelievable 20 tracks! Great songs, very funny and very thoughtful, highly recommended and only £4. We met Lee (Somodo) at the Thames Festival. Multi talented musician artist and writer. Where are my sockkies is a personal favourite. Get your copy now! Here is a taster… have a listen before you buy. http://www.myspace.com/somodo
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“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?”
– Frida Kahlo
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How to set your postage
Click on the image above to take you to your login page. Login > MyEhive (black link in top right of screen in blue header bar “MyEhive” > MyShop > Shipping. Remember you must set the UK as a destination or you will note be able to ship within the UK.
Set the countries you would like to ship to ie. The main countries could be UK, USA, Ireland, Germany. > set price >...
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*Free* social networking tools to help build your...
Twitter is an excellent tool to help you build your buyers network and increase your online profile. Every time you “tweet” (like instant messaging or texting, on a platform from you desktop or mobile phone) it shows up in google search engines. Good for business! It increases your online profile and increases the chance of buyers finding you. Set up a Twitter account using your...
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Less is more...
A4 Black & White print of Anglesey Island, Wales. £10. By Rona Campbell (larger sizes available on request).
How like Etsy are you? Is a question we are frequently asked mostly by people who know Etsy (understandably) as a big US site, but have never actually used it to it’s full capacity (labs, chat, group creation, alchemy etc). Most artisans I speak to in the UK and Ireland have...
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New shipping system ...
This will be active from Friday. Shipping will be calculated at the end of listing a product, due to popular demand. Tomorrow we’ll be putting up more picture of the gang here so stay posted!
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"How will buyers know we are here..."
Prints by Verity
Thanks Sharon for the great question.
1. Please activate your URL in MyEhive.com shop console ie. “www.myshop.myehive.com” you can use your personal URL to let potential buyers know you they can buy from you online. By using your MyEhive URL through your blogs, online social networks, email signatures, friends and family, on business cards and on your marketing...
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Just a quick note re: Postage & Paypal Settings...
Postage & Paypal (or “other”) must be activated in your MyEhive shop console otherwise buyers will not be able to purchase from your shop. Postage is set as a blanket price for items sent from your MyEhive shop, plus additional items sent. Definable by country. In My Shop> Shipping You can define which countries you would like to sell to and the amount it costs to send your item...
MyEhive educational how to's....
Stunning Blue Raku Bowls handmade by ‘Made in Hackney’ MyEhive was set up to help you make a living doing what you love the most. We want you to tell us what you would like us to help you with the most? It could start of something like this…Dear MyEhive, I would like help with how to photography my products, and also help with setting up MyEhive shop. When we have 10 comments...
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We are live.
Horray!! Phew…thanks to everyone at www.simplicityit.co.uk especially Leyla who has been working on MyEhive.com for four months to get it looking tip-top. Tonight she is going to go home drink some whisky and S L E E P! Still some tidying up to do so over the weekend if you experience any problems leave a note in the forums and we’ll put it on our priority list. We especilly need to...
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Update...
We hope to be all fully functional and open to buyers by the weekend. Please keep posting in the forums - your feed back is always welcome. We have filled 72 shop places in two weeks, which means we are on target to fill our first 100. Please spread the MyEhive word over the next few days and grab yourself the chance of winning fabulous prize below (I know guys not a very ‘blokey’...