thanks! and i've never seen bugmenot.com, that's a great site to bookmark!

they're cute. i worked for a costume jewelry company that made pins identical to this for anthropologie or urban back in january. they were really fun to make!

Hi there. I have been making some jewelry either from vintage pieces or vintage inspired pieces and want to try and post them on a website (i have done some web design in the past, so it would be all on me). I have been tossing around the name "found*melie" because i literally use so many found vintage beads/parts, but also in expressing my craftiness i feel like a different part of me is coming out. I worked for a jewelry designer who said that her reps wanted a woman's name, that it was more marketable. so i thought that i would morph my name, melissa, a bit.

what do you think? is it too hokey? i came up with some other names (not related to my name, totally different) but all the url's are claimed.

thanks for any and all input!

ok, first i have to say that i stumbled across your advise on another thread and your advise jsut blew me away. i honestly never thought i'd get this kind of advise on a craft website.

i'm really trying to wrap my head around this (so excuse me for being totally thick here) BUT i really don't understand these articles. for example, this link that you gave: http://www.collargirl.com/chiwawa_collars.html
who links to that page? or who ever sees that page? just the search spiders? or if i poked around your website on my own would i naturally find this page?

i know you have been so helpful and informative in your answers, like i said, i'm just missing something here.

btw, all of your links for optimizing was sooo good i am posting the link here for everyone else to go to:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=15211.0

they are really great! i paint a lot of metal things i make, so i'm all for the metal paint. maybe look for another set on ebay? all the new ones that you buy in kits look too generic

chester springs.... Chester County lonely craftster....

hairpin legs would look cool on the bookcase if it isn't too bulky looking, otherwise i'd go with a "sturdier" looking leg. i love the idea of dressing up ikea furniture!

I have to agree with everyone else: they are all so great, but i LUV the dragonfly/fish one the most!

where do you find silver chain? i only find it in huge rolls online.....