Hello everyone
I have recently opened my shop and have added some of my beadwoven bracelets, with the view of adding other items soon, including bead weaving kits.
My problem is I have another obsession which I am trying to make something of, and that is digital art. Being totally different to my beading, I have set up a shop on Etsy for that, but I would rather do everything through Folksy.
So here’s my dilemma, and I hope someone can advise on this.
Do I list both my beadweaving and my digital art in the same shop, or do I open two seperate shops? If that is even possible!
Thanks in advance for any advice 
Hi and welcome to Folksy! I’m fairly new here and only have one sort of thing in my shop, but on E–y I’ve had a shop for 15 years and when I started doing different stuff I just put it all in the one shop. In fact my shop there still has a few of my very old beading tutorials in it as they do still occasionally sell. Most traffic on E comes through the search to an individual item and not many people view the whole shop, so if the tags and titles have good SEO it’s not a problem having different sorts of things in the same shop. I don’t know whether that’s quite the same on Folksy though, maybe some of our more experienced sellers can chime in here - all I can see from the stats is that even on Folksy I’m getting twice as many views on individual items compared with visits to my shop, so I guess the majority of people are still finding an individual listing and so it would be perfectly OK to mix up your beading and your digital art in the same shop. However, if you were marketing the two sorts of item very differently it might be better to have separate shops with different branding, so I don’t really know!
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There are shops on here that sell quite different items within one shop, particularly as there are some shops that are run by couples making different things, and it seems to work for them,
If you had a Plus account it would also be an advantage to have it all in one shop, but it won’t make really make a difference to fees if you’re on a basic account.
The other consideration is if you have cheaper/free postage for additional items, for a buyers that could be an advantage to have it all in one shop, as they’re not just restricted to buying items of one type to take advantage of the cheaper postage, but as your current shop has free postage on items anyway, again it wouldn’t make a difference.
Like @LooneySpoons mentioned, if you have very strong and different branding for the two, you might prefer different shops, you just need a different email address to set up the second shop.
But it means you have to promote each shop separately and it becomes twice as much work.
I don’t think there’s a problem with having different kinds of item in a shop, just as long as you make good use of the shop collections so it’s easy to separate out the two.
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I sell jewelry and watercolours and will be adding paper weights and painted stones or anything else for that matter, just get the collections and categories right. If you have plus you may as well use it. Just look at my shop name, says it all.
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We are a husband and wife team and sell woodturning (soon to be disappearing as Alan is retiring from that), basketry and now photography too through the same shop. We don’t find it a problem - just use the collections to keep things listed separately and maybe change your shop name t9 reflect what you sell. When I do the social media I quite like having different things to showcase - and it attracts people with different interests to your shop so you never know - they might buy something they hadn’t intended. As Kim said - having two shops would be two lots of social media and promotion to do
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Oh yes, good point about the combined postage!
Thanks peeps. 
I will add my digital art to my shop. It certainly makes more sense to have it all in one place! I have enough problems with the social media and promotion side already lol
I have all my different items in one shop, when I browse Folksy, and something catches my eye, I click on the item , then I click on ‘View Shop’ so I can see what else the maker/artisan has on offer