Summer hope. . .

My first vaccination appointment is next week (finally) I have been waiting nearly a month.  I don't know if I am more nervous or excited, but for me excited and nervous often go together.  😏  I am nervous because I hate needles and I'm concerned about reactions, but I am excited because the last year of _______ has _____, insert your own words I'm pretty sure we all feel the same no matter what words we use. 😉  It has been boring, depressing, frustrating, in stay at home, lockdown, limited access. . .

So my first shot next week will then schedule the second shot and then a couple weeks after that I should be "protected" and safe-er to be in public. 😎  In anticipation of my liberation I have been spending hours looking for and assessing events.  

First, I am glad to see that there are some events being held but past the initial ~yay~ there is so much to consider.  While ideally larger well attended events offer better odds of sales/profits, I am still concerned about larger events especially indoors without mask requirements. 😕 Right now I am mostly considering smaller local farmers market type events, because even if they are not great sales wise at least they are outside/open air.  😎   

Nice timing. . .

Well, having shut down my online shops for a bit I stopped logging in every day, because there really was no reason to look every single day.  So I guess should have predicted that Etsy would make some kind of major changes while I wasn't looking, really they do it about every year.  ~LOL~  I was a touch annoyed but not at all surprised, when I logged in to find that . . . yeah major changes.  Etsy has re-designed our payment account page, again. 

I think this is the 4th time in 6 years that etsy has changed the payment account page.  😕  The sad thing is no one is ever happy about it and most of the previous changes were not helpful for sellers.  The last version was particularly lame with it's little colored circle graphs for dummies that did not accurately reflect transactions, so this change to remove the lame graphs is not actually bad.  However, the whole page looks weird now with it's different layout and it only shows 1 month statement at a time unless you can find the "see all monthly statements" at the very bottom of the page.  I will get used to the new look, probably just in time for next year's re-do.  😏

Goimagine is also continuing to update and upgrade itself and I am admittedly behind on those changes too.  I have been keeping tabs on the facebook group and they send out emails when they update the site so I know what has changed but I haven't made many changes to my shop, yet.  I was thrilled to hear about the "custom shop categories" and being able to sort our products into our own named sections, I wanted that, but with nothing currently listed I'll have to wait to set that up.