pssst, com'ere!

Lisa of Blossoming Tree is on a roll ya'll! Check out the latest Team Treasury! Please give it lots of clicks and comments. It's another front page worthy treasury:)

There's No "I" In Team

(Image courtesy of Daisie Carmen)

Happy New Year EAOC! As you know, the team forums have been buzzing with talk of disbanding. Do you really want to know why? You probably already do, but I'll say it anyway: Lack of member participation. It really does take a village. A handful of members cannot do it alone. We need everyone's input and enthusiasm to make EAOC-Etsy Artists of Color successful!

Are you willing to help? Here's what you can do:

1. Keep your shop fresh, updated, and complete. That means stating your location, tagging your items with "eaoc" so that we can find you. Complete your payment, shipping, and return policies. Treat your Etsy shop as if it were a real storefront.
2. Make team treasuries. Treasuries do work. They give our team recognition and legitimacy, and it shows that we are a solid front.
3. Check in monthly on the team thread in the Etsy forums.
   
4. Share your successes with the team so that we can broadcast it here on the team blog! Your success is our success!
5. Post on our Facebook fan page. Let the world know who you are!
   

These are but a few things you can do to help strengthen our team. There will be many changes coming in the next few weeks, so be sure to check the team ning forum as well as this blog for important updates.

August Theme!

Photo credit: Norahz

Can you believe it's the middle of August already? It seems like it was just the 4th of July and I was barbecuing with the fam! Be that as it may, it is August, and Bklyn MoMo has issued a challenge! The challenge, more like a theme, shall we say, is to create and/or showcase all of our animal-inspired designs. Here are the rules:

1. Whatever you create must be new. Not an already listed piece.
2. You must list it in your shop and tag it with EAOC AugustTHEME.
3. Post a link to your item here so we can all ooh and aah at your creativity.

By the way, doesn't that pic of Norahz look hot? C'mon! Submit those entries. We need at least 12 to make a Treasury!

Change Is A Comin'!

Hey Fellow Etsians and EAOCers,

My name is Patrice, and I'm one of the newly appointed admins for our blog. I run The Soap Seduction (shameless plug) on Etsy, and Lisa, our fabulous team leader, has been gracious enough to let me assist with keeping our blog fresh and updated with news and events. I have many ideas for our team, and this blog will be the main meeting place for sharing them with you.

First Up: Welcome New Team Members! As they say, there's strength in numbers and teamwork makes the dream work!

Secondly: I'd like to get a blog roll started, so if you have a blog, please comment on this post with your link! How can we discover your talents if we don't know how and where to find you? I love to read blogs, and we are now 300+ strong! Let's get those links up!

Lastly (for now): If you're not a follower of this blog, please consider following. In order to make our team strong, we need all the support we can get, and that starts within. Many announcements will be made here in addition to our ning group, and you don't want to miss out!

My goal is to make 1-2 new postings a week to include artist features and to share general team news. Let's make EAOC the street team on Etsy!

Photo cred: accuracyandaesthetics.com