Twilight, the underground straight-to-cult vampire flick, has had its celebrity premiere - but the “twilight” fashions have been all over the independent fashion world for a while - (super) naturally. Will the look go on?

Or with such limited runs and already a large percentage of “reserved” items - has the style, or at least the tag, met its hey”night”?

I’ve removed the Etsy minis for promoting indie products off the site for the time being. The reasons are threefold…

1. I had learned that accounts not being used for buying or currently selling are at least frowned upon by Etsy admin. I had created usernames solely for placing Etsy minis of favorites across different sites. I have stopped this just to be safe, but also…
2. The need for such accounts, etc., will soon end with the coming of the Etsy Super Mini, a farther more controllable tool. Read more below.
3. It’s really unfair to promote Etsy so much when there are other marketplaces and “personal” stores, however I’m not sure how to more equally promote those - ideas??

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We put the site on pause because I had wanted to do too much with it at once (or so much was the reason to start, really). So much so that I couldn’t keep up with it all. I wanted (want) this site to eventually be a community of indie and handmade folks, plus more. So right now we just will have a blog and so far, 1 tool that is an indie/handmade product search across many shops.

What I tend to fail to do is to make one thing successful and working before moving on, but that is what I’m now doing … mostly. But never you mind my unrelated projects.

Welcome to the blog if you’re new or not, probably new.

See you!

Welcome to my new concept, everlasting, EASY to get, “treasuries” here at Indsday.com. These must be Etsy items. Just send your item #s through Etsy convo to “Indsday” or by our social network, Etsetera, http://etsetera.ning.com, in the Diamond Treasury forum here. Rules: You can only include one of your own items. 3 Alternates in case one sells before it goes live.

The best main thumbnail photos I’ve seen in a while on Etsy are by the seller Above All Fabric. They sell, well, fabric of course. So the owner could easily show us squares of the goods, but for the main photo, they cropped out a circle “mask” (photo editing term). It’s so alluring, I marked the shop a favorite and had to write about it!

This technique may not work for most other sellers, but it’s an example that helps urge all of us to think of creative ways to display our items. What could you do with yours that would work for everything you make and/or sell?

And I do have a tip for this seller. Add more photos to the item pages, and leave them square or rectangle. I think we all like to see as much as possible, and this includes every bit of the fabric until it repeats.

Vogue Knitting declares winter 2008 is all about bright, bold and contrasting colors in knits (pictured above).

There are other trends I noticed in the mag, also with knits, and I promise much more than knits next week, if any!

• Tweed - in different forms from blazers, on different people than librarians, and in various fun colors!

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This is a recap of this afternoon’s photography lab on color theory at Etsy’s Virtual Labs.

First of all, whether you visited the lab or not, we all need to review (and probably save to our hard drives for the future) a color wheel image..

There are six major ways to use this color wheel when taking photographs of your items for selling…

1. Monochromatic or Tone-on-Tone

You could take a bright blue item, and place it atop a dark or muted blue item, like so:

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More from Etsy, with their growing database of content and activity areas, there’s so much to learn all the time. Did you know there’s a fashion trend report every month?

After this article, we’ll scout our own INs, but this morning is about giving a nod to writer, daniellexo, as we just start out on our own.

This month, as Etsy reports, it’s the capelets and extra-long knit scarves. Personally I’m already looking ahead to Spring, but this is based on what’s saturating (and possibly selling) on Etsy right now.

Here are my picks from those two styles…

There aren’t too many crafts that are worthy of being “dugg” to the front page of Digg.com, but funky to say the least, Jennifer Maestre, selling on etsy.com, and her pointy sculptures made from colored pencils sure did the 99% implausible trick!

A blogger on TypePad, Reuben Miller, did a feature and interview on the indie artisan, which was then voted for by Digg members. Those people are of the pickiest on web 2.0, and have opinions largely skewed to the male and techie, so of course this feat is made even greater by someone who not only isn’t a part of that world (when asked if Jen knew what Digg was, she replied “Who knows?” casually) but she doesn’t even run her own blog aimed toward the lofty goal.

Below are photos of the Digg feature photo, then one of my favorite items from JenMaestro’s shop, a melty/flattish colored pencil accessory.

P.S. Readers, don’t let me forget to buy one of those pendants when I make a little more income! Well worth true spending cash, if you have any, ha ha.

They’ve stolen my thunder! LOL…

Etsy.com just rearranged their many “community” sections into one intro page under the same title. Gone is the link to “Forums” in the top menu (which had me and surely many other Etsians worried!), and once clicked one sees another menu to reach many a user’s fave hangout.

What catches my eye as never seen before is the Virtual Labs section with online classes! That really sounds rockin’. There’s lots there, and maybe lots you’ve never noticed before (I wish they’d introduce their “ways to shop” better, too), so go on and check it out!