The truth is I have tried and tried to take decent shots of my products outside inside with a lightbox all over the place!  I am not able for it thats it clear and simple I am fine taking random pics, 'the filler' say but nice clear shots where you can see my prints its been a epic saga really. 

I was ranting about this with my friend Sinead and she suggested a Galway based photographer, Mark Conlon, he has been great and has helped me to completely overhaul my website and etsy shop.

Last Friday we took pictures of my cushions, (small plug here guys sorry) which are so gorgeous and full of color, Irish Linen, and made here in Galway. Plus they are only €25 and limited edition perfect pressies for people who are into color, interiors, modernism maximalism everything anything!!

Anyways, I tried for the life of me to take decent pics of them it was a disaster and I gave up. Due to my friend google analytics I have discovered that my home interiors page on my site has been the page where most browsers seem to jump ship offsite and go look somewhere else. Oh why oh why are you guys so fickle? Just buy something for fecks sake!! So now my plan for world domination has focused on this inept area of my image. 


My conclusion (sorry about the rambling) go to the professionals and save yourself a whole lot of time, heartache and have lovely clear images. I want people to stay on my site and possibly spend some money. This week we will be shooting my scarves I cant wait to show you them!

Reindeer Reindeer Reindeer

Yes I know! Its sick, its wrong, and so commercial to be spouting about the dreaded C-word (Christmas not the other one!!). But I am now self employed and how else am I going to spread the word about the deadly Christmas products I have then to start spouting on about them!!

So now that I have attempted to absolve myself from promoting Christmas in September here we go!!

My fabrics which feature reindeer wandering about are perfect for any Christmas crafts you may be working on.

Or how about this amazing op art green and red light bulb window print so Christmas-tastic

I have available my own design Christmas cards which are available in packs of 6, 8, 10 whatever suits!

So now that I have shared I can go and hand my head in shame, as I have always abhorred seeing holiday decor before thanksgiving! its not even Halloween the shame!

Original Designer Scarves Here At Last!

Mariposa Textiles Designer Scarves!

Finally! At last some of my scarves are finished! They are beautiful! I have 5 more prints that need to be sewn but they are on the way!
  In the meantime these will do for a sneak peek. All are for sale in my etsy shop or you can message me through the facebook (give us a like will ya?) https://www.facebook.com/MariposaTextiles

 My new prints have arrived as well and I now stock cotton velvet! The most amazing fabric ever! its soft and luxe like velvet but strong and sturdy like cotton omg!

Using Facebook as Mariposa Textiles

When you watch the news or a hip program or even like loose women they are always on about facebook. I made a facebook group last year and hassled everyone I know (all 106) to join it. That was grand and loads of people joined it but it wasn't that great. I didn't put a lot of effort in and there was something quite unappealing about the groups appearance. I was then advised that a page was more accessible, so I created a page, but found I could not transfer over the people from my group to the page! Which is well, just really annoying. Anyways, I formed a page and I have been waiting to promote it till I had really flash pictures and good content to show people. Since Christmas I have been working and working trying to get this business started and had basically nothing happen so I thought maybe I would give the facebook a try. I mean why not use it to promote your brand there is almost a billion people using it now!

So I have been promoting and putting up new pics and talking to people about it and tweeting and blah blah blah and i only have 83 likes its quite depressing! I am not going to get down about it because I think with the introduction of the timeline design the page looks great. Plus I finally had professional product pictures taken. Next step is to do a fashion photo shoot which is in the works but in limbo while I wait for my silk scarves to arrive. So things are looking up! I also made a payvment shop which looks great and its free!
So, so far so good but will I manage to get more likes my god something has to give right? If your reading this you better give me a like or else! http://www.facebook.com/MariposaTextiles  http://www.facebook.com/MariposaTextiles

the payvment shop looks amazing I think its nicer then etsy and its free! so hopefully some of these billion users of facebook will start to come my way I think they have dramatically improved how it looks visually and made it easier to display work so I am optimistic!