My Pretty Pillows
“A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy” – Juan Montoya
About Me
Hi Friends! I'm Christina. I have a throw pillow decorating obsession! It all started when my husband and I bought a cabin on the river. Maintaining another home is one thing, but decorating it too? That sounded expensive! This needed creativity, and thus my throw pillow obsession was born. Ok, to be completely honest, my husband would take one look at our bed at home and probably not agree with me on that and say it started way before our river home.... lol! Every time I make the bed in the morning and top it off with my pretty throw pillows it reminds me of a Lee Brice song ( 'A Woman Like You') as he sings about all the things he would not have without his love, and he sings about how he never would of heard of yoga and "not one throw pillow on the bed!!" Haha! That's right, because us women are amazing at making everything look comfy and cozy! Just think of what all our men would miss out on if we were not thinking 24/7 about all our cute projects we can do to make our house a home. MyPrettyPillows sounded like a fun name for my website, but it is all about our life, not just pillows that I adore, so I hope you stop in often and check out what we are up to here in Michigan. Don't forget check out our cabin adventures and my fish I catch too!
My handsome hubby (Jared) and myself. We just got married in 2021. In Las Vegas! So grateful for this man and our life we are building every day. Although I edit and run this website, my husband is so much apart of everything I write about how can I not introduce him too!
How i Make Money From My Website
It's not a secret, so I am going to tell you all about that too! I appreciate my visitors, and I hope you all enjoy your visit and if it suits you to like something that i am referring and you go through my link to purchase it, i will make a small monetary amount off that (thank you very much!) First thing to making money on your website is doing something that you love. One thing important to me is to support businesses that i personally use, love and would recommend to people. If you just join tons of tons of affiliate programs to splatter all over your site, it will look like 'spam' and not that you are really referring to a company you love, and that you shop with or use personally.
My favorite is being an affiliate with Etsy. I love shopping on Etsy, I love having a store on Etsy and i love referring to their website for people to find unique gifts and just a ton of products that are available. So for my site, Etsy is perfect in terms that i personally buy stuff from there, i personally own an Etsy shop I run, and I just simply love supporting all the crafty individuals on that platform.
When people click my link to refer to a product, it will be something i love, something i bought, something i am writing about, etc. It will all make sense on why it belongs on my website. For instance, if i am writing about 'lavender' then it will make sense to refer to some of my favorite lavender items on Etsy that I like. If i am writing about lavender and splatter ads for 'wool coats' all over that page, then i am not offering a friendly referral to my visitors. And i appreciate when my visitors click on a link throughout my website and make a purchase. This helps me keep my website going, and might help out with some coffee monies. Do i think i can quit my day job and just run a website with affiliate marketing on it, no. Can some, maybe. But with my day job, our cabin we have to maintain and keeping up with my hubby I do not have time for all that. So I appreciate the 'coffee' monies when i get it, and just sharing with you how i run my website with some affiliate links in a way i feel i am doing so farely and in a respectful manner and not making my website look like 'spamville'. lol.
So with that said....
Etsy does their affiliate program through a company called AWIN, once you join AWIN you can become an Etsy affiliate along with other top companies that you may want to join if they fit your website better. If you are thinking of adding Etsy affiliate program to your own website or online marketing business, I would love if you join AWIN through my link, and welcome aboard! It's a really easy to use platform to get started. You will get to use banners in all different sizes (like this one below) to display on your site and you can also direct link to certain pages you want on Etsy as well!