Giveaway Almost Over, New Listing & Italy Photo

Today is the last day for the giveaway. You can still enter until midnight tonight so feel free to enter if you haven't already. Thanks to everyone who's entered sofar, I'm excited this giveaway has had a good turnout and it's been giving me a lot of exposure to my shop. I can't wait to find out the winners!

I listed a photo frame. I actually made this item over a year ago, but never got it up because of some imperfections. I thought I had it listed actually, but noticed I had only two photo frames in my shop so I listed it:

Gold and Green Flocked Photo Frame



I have another one that's imperfect. It's kind of messy and the cuts aren't perfect, but I love the design of. The fabric I used is black and white faces so I thought it was perfect for a photo frame. I was thinking of using it myself, but that got me thinking that if I like it enough to use it, someone else might like it too even with the imperfections. So I'll probably retake photos of that and list it. What do you think of selling imperfect items (at sale price)? Would you still buy it?

I got featured in this July Monthly Challenge on EtsyVeg where the theme was bugs. My Natural History Butterfly Card was featured:



Also, other exciting news... I went to Italy this summer and took a lot of photos (I talked about that on here in earlier entries). Schmap, a company who makes online travel guides, contacted me through flickr and they said they might feature one of my photos in an upcoming guide. I was so excited to find out! I just post my photos online for fun, but it's nice to see them getting attention. I submitted my Italy photos to a lot of related groups that showcase photos from Italy so I was glad sending my photos to groups helped. It will also give me more exposure to my photography/etsy shop (since I post photos of my etsy items on flickr) if it gets chosen to be featured. The photo was a fountain outside the Vatican:



I like this photo a lot and I was glad it was chosen. I actually edited the coloring a little in photoshop (it was originally taken with film offline) and it made the sky in the background a little brighter which makes the photo stand out more. It's still in the final round, so it's not definite it will be in the guide, but I'll keep you updated.