With about 3 weeks left in prepping for holiday sales on and offline, streamlining my work and staying on track is quite important. Hence, I have broken down my day into 4 main categories of work:
Designing:
I designed several different types of ornaments. Snowflakes, baby onesies, pet ornaments & heart-shaped ornaments.

Baby's 1st Christmas Ornament Personalized with Name

Doggie Paw Ornament

Heart Shape Ornament

Love Snowflake
Once I’m done with designing, I can then take it to the epilog laser.
Making:
I used two different types of materials to make the ornaments. A clear see through acrylic and a mirror acrylic. The laser engraves and cuts the design out. Depending on how intricate the design, cutting a sheet may take over an hour for the entire process.

Engraving!

Cutting
I captured a video but it’s too large to post here. But you can watch the video on Youtube here. It’s of a trophy I was making for halloween so it was less intricate than the snowflakes and took a lot less time.
Wrapping:
I have a poly-tubing heat sealer so I’ve been using that to package my ornaments. Since removing the protective layer takes a long time and once it’s done, I don’t want to get more fingerprints on them, I opt-in to wrap them up nicely.

Peeling off the protective layer

Individually packaged ornaments
Shooting my products:
Last but not least.. this is one of the more important final touches to product placement. Taking great photos! I’m going to say that I definitely have a lot of room for improvement because neither am I a photographer, have a great lit place to showcase my products and I lack consistent backgrounds when I take photos.
So, I hope to improve in my photography skills next year… but until then, PHOTOS!
I show case my photos on my Facebook page here.
My Flickr page here.
My Etsy pages & Twitter account also showcase my photos. Homepage and side bar will take you there.
I’ll be in Squamish selling my crafts on December 3rd, 2011 between 11am-4pm as well. If you’re in the area, please come by and visit me. Let me know my website sent you here and I’ll get you a free gift!!!
http://www.christmasinsquamish.com/www.christmasinsquamish.com/Location.html
Win these! You have till Wednesday to comment, ‘like’ and share.
I’m giving away 3 Christmas 2011 Snowflake ornaments and some of my custom made holiday paper crafts and cards to 3 lucky winners. You’ll have till Wednesday to enter.
1) Go to my facebook page and click “like”.
2) Comment either on my facebook page or in the comments section below.
3) Share with others for additional chance to win.
Christmas 2011 Snowflake Ornament
Up Cycled Gift Card Holders
Embossed Reindeer Card Set
*Offer open to US and Canada only.
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