All of the hard work by me and my elves the last few weeks has paid off, and we have scored a Christmas #1 on Amazon!
At the moment when you see the wooden letter baubles on Amazon, they have a little orange flag with them that says “#1 Best Seller”:
I’m really happy about that! But of course, it’s only a Christmas #1 in a sub-sub-sub category of Amazon (i.e. “Handmade Ornaments”), and at the moment it’s still #9 in the “Handmade Products” category:
One day I’d like to get to number 1 in that Handmade Products category. Especially because at the moment #5 in the chart is a joke “million piece jigsaw puzzle”:
I suspect that people buy those as Secret Santa gifts for colleagues, and I have a strong suspicion that their colleagues would prefer to receive a nice wooden bauble rather than a plastic bag full of sawdust 🙂
(Feel free to skip reading this post if you aren’t interested in my laser-cut products and services, because that’s basically what this post is about. The basic suggestion is that the perfect Christmas family gift is one that I’ve made with my laser cutter…)
Apparently the December 2020 issue of Family Tree Magazine should be available for uploading and reading today. I already have a subscription to it via my local library, but I’ll be interested in this particular issue because it contains my first-ever advert in a magazine.
The issue includes a picture of what could be the perfect Christmas family gift…a personalised bauble:
OK – I probably should have put one of my family tree artworks in the ad instead of the bauble design (what with it being the “Family Tree” magazine), but
I wanted to be friendly and wish the magazine a merry Christmas, seeing as it’s their December issue, and
My family trees are bigger and more expensive than the baubles, so maybe fewer people would be interested in them.
So if you’re reading this post because you saw my ad in Family Tree Magazine, then welcome! Here is a picture of a Christmas tree ornament that could (literally) have your name on it:
This is one of my family tree artworks in comparison:
My Etsy shops:
I’m currently in the process of moving from my old ‘PolymerKay’ Etsy shop to my new ‘LaserSister’ Etsy shop. However, the personalised baubles should hopefully be available from both shops by the time you read this.
The shops contain a range of baubles; from pre-made letters to completely personalised messages.
…so in answer to the question of how to make a perfect Christmas gift for the family? Basically just visit one of the shops above, make an order including the family name, and I do the rest. Easy!
Do you have an idea for a personalised artwork that is a bit more ambitious? If so, please feel free to contact me, and I’ll be happy to discuss it with you.
