I'm in Frankie!

I've said a few times that the reason I love being on Made It (as well as Aus$ pricing) is that it's a much smaller community and therefore much easier to stand out.

For example, last month one of my W Class Cushions was featured in Made It's 'Homely Handmade Homewares' email roundup.

The editor of Frankie received the email, liked the cushion, and asked me to send one in for a photoshoot and giveaway. And now, because I've got a Made It shop, my cushions are in the March/April issue Frankie (out today)!

I've provided a gorgeous geometric W Class Cushion as a giveaway prize. Check out Frankie to find out how to win! Or read the really tiny print in the scanned page above. Or leave a comment and I'll tell you what to do. ;-) I don't know when it's drawn and assume the winner is selected randomly. If it were up to me I'd make people compose poems about trams and give the prize to the longest poem.

I spent ALL of yesterday taking photos, updating my Made It shop, putting together a more focussed business blog (so that people interested in my cushions won't be reading about my overstretched underpants elastic), registering a Facebook group and creating a 'hub' for my domain name so that when people visit www.mrsbeckinsale.com they'll be able to find my shop, blog and fan page. See, I had provided my domain name as the sales info for Frankie, but this morning I've obtained the mag and found out they only put a link to my Made It shop. All that work for naught! The best I can do to compensate is update my Made It shop header so it clearly lists my URL where people can find the blog and fan page.

Incidentally, I feel very self-conscious creating a 'fan page' for my own business. Surely that implies I'm the leader of my own fan club? I've only done it because I know the majority of people don't read blogs regularly and, let's face it, the majority of people are on Facebook. I figure it's a tool for helping people who are interested in my stuff but don't follow blogs keep up with new things I've added to Made It.

I've never even seen Twitter and don't want to know about it, so that section of the interwebz is as yet untouched by Mrs Beckinsale. I'm technologically up-to-date with 2008 and that's good enough for me.