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DAY 6 of the EtsyNL September Seller Challenge: #goingdutch I know going dutch usually means splitting a bill. But for this prompt I wanted to share my favourite dutch foods! I am a huge food lover and some dutch things are true gems. I have to warn you though, most of the food shown here is really bad for you XD 1: Bitterballen Small fried balls with (beef)ragout. So yummm, usually eaten at a terrace with a cold beer 🍺 2: Kaassoufle and Frikandel The kaassoufle is fried cheese in a bread-crumb jacket. A frikandel.. well, its just good, no need to tell you whats in there 😅 3: Cheeeeeese We love our cheese! But thats pretty well known 😍 4: Poffertjes These are like small pancakes but puffier, usually served with butter and powdered sugar. 5: Stroopwafel A waffle filled with caramel, it’s structure comes from a special waffleiron 🤤 6: Hagelslag Candy on bread 🍫 little chocolate flakes. 7: Tompouce This is a well known pastry over here. A glazed pastry with a cream stuffing. Bit difficult to eat, but there are a lot of people who can explain you the right way to eat a Tompouce. Just look it up on the internet 😂 Even Google has an explanation on top of their search results haha! #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYTWO #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop #tompouce #bitterballen #dutchfood #goingdutch #frikandel #kaassoufle #poffertjes #stroopwafel #hagelslag #cheese #kaas https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ExxfiDBuX/?igshid=1wwvxvnljhfu

DAY 4 of the EtsyNL September Seller Challenge: #behindthescenes Having a small business For this prompt I want to explain a few things on what it means to have a small business. Being a fulltime artist can be quite challenging. By deciding on the pricing of your products, you have to take several things into account. The most important two: 1. You have to pay your rent and food from this! So, with every product, you have to decide wether it is worth it to put all your time and effort in it. If it does not sell, you have just wasted a good amount of materials and effort. 2. Pay Taxes! Yes, this is the most difficult and frustrating part of having a business. This is what differentiates you from hobby artists. With the pricing of your items, you have to take into account that you will lose 9% to 21% (Dutch rates) of your asking price to taxes, depending on the category of your products. The hardest part is to understand everything. Most businessowners, like me, have to hire an accountant to make sense of it all. This costs a lot of money as well, and is another thing to take into account with pricing. After every year you have to pay taxes over your full income as well, so you lose more money. The amount of it depends on the amount of money you’ve made over the year. One more thing with taxes. IN THE NETHERLANDS WE PAY TAXES OVER SHIPPING AS WELL. Therefore shipping is so expensive most of the time. Most businessowners offer cheap rates for shipping, which always means they will lose money on it. You can be sure that some part of these costs will be calculated in a product price as well. Big companies like Amazon have agreements with shipping companies which allows them to offer free shipping. For a small business it is just not possible, so please do not expect us to offer free shipping as well. So you see, having a business (in art) is different than selling your creations as a hobby, which is why prices are so different with each artist. The things I explained here are just the tip of an iceberg, but I hope you can make sense of it all. #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYTWO #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CfRkNj7mQ/?igshid=1truuqhebcmeo

DAY 4: #workspacewednesday Fun fact: We live in a small appartment of 74m2, with only one bedroom. This means I do not really have one workspace, but use the whole appartment. Which most of the time is a mess haha! I have claimed the dinner table in our livingroom, on which my very very old iMac is standing. It leaves me approxomately 90x90cm to work on. I draw, paint and craft everything here. When I’m prepping for a convention in the final weeks, everything is everywhere. I have a large foldable table in our livingroom on which my dioramas rest and on the ground are all the boxes, which usually stand stacked in our hallway. In our kitchen I have an heavenly Ikea drawer cabinet (it houses so many stuff!), which I use as a photobooth as well. I just mount a white foamboard or coloured paper on top and I’m ready to go! My paints are stored in the rolling table (as Ikea calls it) called RASKOG. It is amazing, though I think the middle level is stacked a little too heavy since it started coming down a bit ^^; Then in our second hallway (yes we have one bedroom, but two hallways, how convenient…) There is a large cabinet in which I store all my different kind of paper and other artstuff, and ofcourse the businessstuff in folders. So you see, we have a whole appartment dedicated to my business, and less to us actually living there ^^; We really want to move to a bigger appartment or house, but we unfortunately cannot afford it at the moment. It would be refreshing to have one space in which I can work with everything and ACTUALLY living in the rest of the appartment, without all the mess. What about you? Do you have a seperate room to work in, or do you make messes in your livingroom spaces like we do? #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYTWO #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop #bookmark #niffler #diorama #werkplek #artistsworkspace https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_6Yt3jA8Q/?igshid=1dynr9qqqgxii

DAY 3 Etsy NL September Seller Challenge: #Tools The tools I use vary a lot! For sculpting I use a set of wooden sculpting tools, usually used for clay. I use a heatgun from FERM for modelling with Thibra so I can get the sculpts I like (more about Thibra on day 26!). For working with Thibra I bought a sillicone working mat from @minquecosplaywebshop. Heat resistant and this way I do not have to use baking paper all the time, which is good for the environment 🌱 My dad made me a spraypaint booth which is on our balcony. I have a rotating table from IKEA inside, works like a charm! With the weather in the Netherlands it is sometimes a bit tricky to plan painting outside, if it rains or the wind blows to hard, it is just not possible. Luckily I only use it for basecoats and varnishing 😬 For painting I use various brushes, some are meant for miniature model painting, others are for watercolours, and some are multitaskers. I love my #sostrenegrene brushes. They are affordable and perfect in use. I drybrush a lot, so I waste a lot of brushes. Don’t need no fancy expensive ones for that! #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYTWO #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop #bookmark #niffler #diorama #gereedschap https://www.instagram.com/p/B19f1qij6uM/?igshid=vyuzl76wqiy7

DAY 2 of the Etsy NL September Seller Challenge: #Bestseller Weirdly enough I do not really have best sellers, apart from the Niffler bookmark. Everything sells equally, although you guys really seem to love my dioramas lately. Since those are one of a kind, I do not think they count. I really try to keep everything affordable and have something for every budget. Now I am curious: what is your favourite item I have made? #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYTWO #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop #bookmark #niffler #diorama https://www.instagram.com/p/B16zfBPDlbT/?igshid=1eqo8ozluu5r9

DAY 1 of the Etsy NL September Challenge: #itsme Hi! I am Danielle and the artist behind Abiyx Creations. On August 2nd I had my 30th birthday and my roots sprouted in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I currently live in a small flat with my boyfriend in Groningen which absolutely is an underrated city in the Netherlands. We have a lot of green and with the canals running through the city, it’s a bit like Amsterdam, but cleaner and less crowded. I love food (You can wake me up for donuts), Harry Potter (WHO KNEW?), other fantasy franchises, dogs, collecting art and creating things. I like to convert my love for something into art. My taste in music varies from Rammstein to Taylor Swift. I love anti-heroes and everything beasts. With Elzo I attend a lot of conventions through the Netherlands, Belgium and soon Germany. We went to London as well for the first time this year. I am a bit of an introvert and crowded spaces drain me of energy pretty quick. On conventions this can be a bit hard, and this is why sometimes I need some space and go wander around, which is when you will see Elzo with his pretty smile behind our booth. He is not that into pictures (neither am I, theyre pretty rare nowadays). BUT I might have sneaked a picture of him into my stories… I am incredibly proud to be with him and consider myself very lucky. He always comes with me to conventions and makes sure I can keep on creating. So, instead we call this day #itsme, I must say it is more #itsus 😊 If you have any more personal questions I have not answered, I might do a Q&A in my stories if you’re interested, just let me know 😊 Thank you so much for following my page! #ETSYNL #SELLERCHALLENGE #DAYONE #abiyx #abiyxcreations #meetthemaker #artist #Etsy #etsyshop #Webshop https://www.instagram.com/p/B130gLBDusp/?igshid=5bs77xigssxm

Hello “ber” months!😉 Today starts the @etsynl september seller challenge. I’ll do my best to post everyday! Day1: SHOP- I launched my etsy shop November last year and since then, I continued creating and crafting the things I love. I sell handmade items. I make felt keychains, felt toys, crocheted items, wood burned items and many more. I love what I do, my etsy shop brings out the best in me and I’m glad that I started this journey. • • • • • #etsynl #sellerchallenge #etsy #etsysellerchallenge #cute #etsyshop #handmade #instagram #instagood #handcrafted #etsyseller #instadaily #holland #netherlands #nl https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMelC-nX7h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vmy8iryagwng