many times when people buy girlscantell goodies, they tell me about who they're buying for - it's almost always a gift. which makes me unbelievably happy - my screenprinted housewares and useful items make super great gifts and it usually sounds like the lucky recipient will be pleased with what they're getting.
last night i was thinking about the lovely people who tell me they like the things i make and how they could go about letting people know that they'd love to receive girlscantell goodies on their next birthday, housewarming, etc. and so it's for you, nice people, that i thought i'd jot down some simple, great ways to let people know you want diagrammy housewares (and no substitutes will do).
here are a couple ways you can go about publicly declaring your love and want of items that aren't from big box stores:
- we all know etsy has some of the most covetable items ever made. you can also mark items as a favorite on etsy (the button's in the lower right-hand corner).
- if you find your normal etsy account just has too much stuff marked as a favorite and no matter how much you wish for it, they haven't made a way for you to organize favorites yet, then consider opening another account just for the purpose of making the best wish list ever.
- you can use these etsy wish lists of favorites to post the items on your blog, facebook page or other websites. the more places you post it, the more likely you are to receive all that amazing stuff, right? (are you a typepad user? here's a tutorial i wrote for typepad about posting an etsy mini to a typepad blog.)
- at supermarkethq, if the item is on supermarkethq, you can mark it a favorite. these become a publicly viewable list of awesome - you can see mine here.
- whether you're making the wishlist for a specific event or occasion, or you just want to have one handy in case someone offers to buy you a gift, you'll probably think a social shopping site like wists.com is pretty fun. you can aggregate all your favorite items from all over the web into one easy list here. browsing through, you'll see lots of other people have probably already bookmarked some of your favorite designers' things there.
- if you're looking for something a little more official, myregistry.com totally lets you put the requisite target / pottery barn / macys registry stuff on your list, but you can also make your list so much radder by including unique handmade items.
- since you probably already have an amazon account (and therefore, if you're like me, a hefty amazon wishlist), you may want to investigate the amazon universal wishlist. you simply install a widget into your browser, and you can add items from any corner of the internet (including, ahem, girlscantell) to your amazon wishlist, which you can then email to anyone or link from anywhere. amazing!
