In Like a Lion

January turned out to be an exceptional month for my Etsy shop.  It started out with one of my curated treasuries getting picked for the front page.  (If you have never made a treasury, you should give it a try.  It is a great way to discover unique things for sale on Etsy.)

Getting picked for the front page is a really big deal to us sellers on Etsy.  It brings in a ton of views to your shop.  I average about 6 shop hearts a day and 3500 page views, and on the day I made it to the front page I ended up with 6000 page views and 24 hearts.  That is a crazy amount of shop hearts, at least to me.  This is what the front page of Etsy looked like on January 3rd.

So I am pretty pumped, for some this is a once in a lifetime kind of thing.  I am working a couple of days later and notice that I am getting a ton of hearts again.  Then I get a message from a fellow etsian,

 "Thanks for getting me to the FP."

I assume they are talking about the 3rd.  I go to Etsy.com and lo and behold, there I am again.  On the FP with this beauty!

Another 6000 views and 18 shop hearts.  WOW!

So the very next Monday I am again in my shop, answering conversations and I get a message:

"Congrats on the FP."

I think, there is no way.  I go to the front page.  Even better than one of my treasuries being picked, someone else made a treasury and featured one of my wedding trees.  Fantastic!

That's me down in the bottom left hand corner.  This baby earned me, get ready for it, over 10,000 page views and 31 shop hearts.  Crazy!  I know I will never see numbers like that again, but it was sure nice to see the one time.  My tree got 41 hearts on it's own.

January has been an amazing month for the shop.  It was like winning the lottery being on the FP not once, not twice but THREE times.

And it did not go out like a lamb.  On the 30th, I noticed a spike in hearts on an item that barely gets noticed this time of year since it is not wedding related.  I do a little investigating.  One of my art prints was hand picked by etsy for their Valentine's Day newsletter. 

See the silhouette art print under personalized?  Oh yeah, that is mine.  Not only is is my item but it is actually a silhouette of kids, Bryan and I.  So we are Etsy famous :)  This is even better than being on the Uncle Al show when I was a little kid.

Aren't we cute?