Better way to search in the store?

How about synonyms? "Water" for "navy." "Boat" for "ship." Or "coast," "marine," or "service" or "Forces"?

Part of the issue may be what designers have set for their metadata. If they don't have "boat" in their description or metadata, then it isn't going to show up in your results. Another issue may be copyright/trademark. The US Navy has some trademarks and some phrases are actually TM of a watchmaker.

 

What about searching for Maryland or Baltimore? Wait, does @Scrapping with Liz have a Maryland set???
You could at least have a background that focuses on the place, like with this map paper by Paula:

(BTW, I'm now gonna pick these up for myself...so thanks for enabling me rofl!)

 

Ooh, the WA will be great! The cute animals might not work, but the papers and accents (flowers, etc) will. And look at that anchor!

 

Here's another one that might work for you @QuiltyMom


https://the-lilypad.com/store/Coco-Kit.html

 

Good question, I have that 'ship' gives friendship etc problem often, can't think of an example now (of course, great job as always, brain)
-also I don't know what SKU stands for when I do an advanced search, anyone know?

Am on phone & can't really help in this case of Navy, I tried searching for 'nautical ' & got 95 results with lots of layer styles on the front results page so I don't think that would work for you either _I'll have another look when I get back to laptop

 

SKU is usually something like a product code. I'm not sure if it is re-purposed in the Lilypad store or not.

 

SKU stands for stock keeping unit and usually is a machine-readable bar code. You would be more familiar with them on product labels of items you purchase at a store. It also makes it easy to do an inventory on items if the accounting system/or store in the case of TLP is set up for it. Depending on the type of business SKU's can be all numbers, all letters or any combination of numbers/letters.

@QuiltyMom, I feel your pain in searching. I never have any luck finding things either.

 

Not yet, but it could be next on my list.

 

I wish that I could do searches just within a designer. I’ve tried, but even when I’m in a specific designer’s shop and try to search the search goes to the entire TLP store. Very frustrating.

 

Hmm. Do you choose the Advanced Search option?

 

Yes, Sara...same thing in Advance Search ....unless I'm missing something.

 

Even when you select the designer you want from the drop-down menu? That's odd. Like, when you select a designer it doesn't stay selected? Hmm, maybe your browser is the issue? I've never had that problem on TLP running FF, and I love the ability to search by designer. I also love being able to select a specific category.

 

Maybe I am doing wrong. Not at my computer right now so cannot check. I’ll try this afternoon.

 

Well I don't get it. Today my search stayed within the boundary of the designer. Go figure. Happy to see that. Love when things "fix" themselves. LOL

 

Yay! It's great when technology wants to prove us crazy. Glad it seems to have figured itself out. Have fun in the store!