Magickal Realism

I scored another treasury - and this is what I did with it this time! Please give these sellers some much deserved exposure by giving the treasury a click and a comment.

Or sometimes, less politely phrased, “So what?”

Here’s what:

This evening, I scored the above treasury- Solstice Stocking Stuffers for the Pagan impared. This makes the third treasury I’ve scored, ever, and since I’m on a “what the hell, I’ll do a mitzvah” streak I’m probably going to make a few more. I have yet to identify a personal benefit in making treasuries¹,  although there’s some benefit to being in one - on Etsy exposure. I’m frankly mystified as to the benefit of “Treasury West” a hidden-link treasury that only die-hard Etsians seem to know about, and less so whom follow it. Typical Etsy shoppers will never, ever see treasury west and why Etsy has continued to run it so long after its testing phase is a mystery to me.

So, if I wait for hours to pounce on a treasury even though it will do little to drive traffic to my shop, why do I do it? Well, here’s a few reasons:

The most important aspect of treasury building? It allows you a positive way to network within Etsy, especially now that the spam rule has been lifted involving telling people they’re in treasuries. So while the benefits of creating a treasury aren’t overt, they do exist.  Goodwill can often go where currency stops.

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1. while it is true that my name and a shop link is at the top of said treasury, few if any treasury visitors will ever actually click that link through to my shop unless they’ve already been. [↩]
2. my chances of my perfumes actually being on the front page ever again are slim, alas. In my quest to make my perfume salable I have also rendered it un-frontpageable under the current regime. [↩]

My Earthbound fragrance was just included in this treasury and in my moving sale.

Today Magickal Realism goodies were included in two treasuries. You can check out the treasuries by clicking on the pics:

One If by Land

SUSPIRIA

So what’s being featured? My Water and Hecate’s Pale Tomb fragrances.