Etsy Heart Validation

Giggle - some fantastic person has seen the Red and Gold Claddagh Ring card and Hearted it!!! It's the nicest thing in the world EVER...bar if she'd also bought it! I was looking through the forums etc last night, in desperation really because it was literally as if my little shop had fallen off the face of the Internet, and it was a cold lonely feeling! Anyway I know people keep saying you should comment on forums etc to get attention, but that feels kind of a little itty bit like oh-um-ah prostitution?! Well, I did it last night!!!!!! Actually it was a relevent post - the forum was about people underselling, and technically I'm as guilty as sin (remember my free-giveaways-in-exchange-for-feedback scheme?!), and so I owned up...Got a couple of views out of it though so I still feel a little dirty. Happy, but dirty. Confusing!

Here's a little filler: silver thank you card.

Etsy FREE FOR ALL!!!!!!!

Yes, Congratulations indeed! 'Cos I got such a buzz from my Etsy shop being VIEWED, WOOP!!!, I was desperate to actually sell something...and since I have neither time or patience to wait until I produce something worth buying I have announced on my Etsy shop Banner that all day tomorrow I will be willing to 'sell' anything I have listed in exchange for nothing but a little constructive criticism and feedback!!!
We'll see if I'm still congratulating myself if it turns out I quite literally can't give them away, but it's all about the education, I'm sure...
Also interesting though, the distribution of the views: could it be that the newer cards - my decided 'design', having dumped the woven-paper idea - all look similar and PALE when viewed side by side in the list, whereas the older ones, the woven-paper prototypes, look bright red in contrast (the colour of the card) and though the most amateurish of them all in my opinion are therefore getting more views than some of the others. Hm - food for thought.