Handmade Bridal & Wedding Accessories!

I have been happily married for over 17 Years and I Love Weddings! Believe in marriage 100%. Been a Realtor for many years and when the economy when for the worst, I started looking for new things to do! When I discovered ETSY I thought why not? I am very talented and I should open a store and I did. For the first months I Spun my wheels trying to come up with selling ideas. Right! Wrong! I found my self long hours in creating and taking pictures and posting new listings BUT no sales! Upon looking for companies on the net that carried rhinestone material. I came across a Fine Gorgeous store that sold Wholesale Bridal Accessories! I started to look at some of their items and OMG some of the best selling sellers on ETSY are selling items from this supplier and clamming it theirs! I thought If they are doing it I can too! SO I did I no longer wasted time in creating, I only  concentrated my time in creating new listings with the supplier information and even their pictures. My store went from selling $300 a month to $5,000. I though I am in HEAVEN and I was for a couple of months until ETSY closed down my store. I have since then opened my own online store and even managed to create GREAT Handmade (REAL HANDMADE BY ME) items that are great sellers. Now selling them on my online store. I don't know to this day why my store is the only one closed. ALL the other stores claiming to be handmade and a fraud just like me are still selling! I guess I can not cry over spoiled milk. I am continuing to move forward and after those months of success I created several designs that  are popular among the bridal world. I guess I was not all fraud, because being in the ETSY market showed me to appreciate handmade and I now run a successful online website with REAL handmade items made by me!