New Business Cards!

My new business cards are in – and I LOVE them! PSPrint is the company I used this time. They are

Pretty inexpensive ($38 for 250 with full color both sides including shipping) with no download fees
I chose the slowest shipping option, they upgraded me to a faster one
PSPrint often has sales (one of the [...]

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Business Cards & Banners Ordered!

Well, I had to scurry and take advantage of 60% off business card prices at PSPrint that expires on Monday. A couple of weeks ago I got some EXCELLENT advice from 18 kind readers…thank you all again!
Most of us (me included) like the informality of Saginaw better, so  I decided to go with that. I [...]

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Balancing it all

First of all, thanks for all  the AMAZINGLY positive comments on my photography efforts of the other day. I’m pretty sure I answered each one individually, but please know that I am so happy that the pictures look great to you all, and that the palette idea works the way I want it to! I’ve [...]

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How’s that list coming?

Item
Date Due
% Done

Floral quArt
3/20/2009
100%

30 Tie Dye shirts etc…for Elixer
3/20/2009
100%

Design Clutch – Will Tuba
3/26/09
100%

10 Notelets
4/24/09
20%

5 Warm Colors Grab & Go
4/24/09
0%

5 Warm Colors Clutch
4/24/09
0%

30 Going Green Totes
4/24/09
30%

5 Cool Colors Clutch
4/24/09
0%

Cool Colors quArt
4/24/09
0%

Crazy Colors Bags
4/24/09
0%

5 Cool Colors messengers
4/24/09
15%

Candied Fabrics Quilt
4/25/09
0%

Medium tote for Nicholle’s sister
5/30/09
0%

Laptop bag for Liz
5/31/09
0%

Slowly but surely, but dear Lord, I’ve been sneezing all day and [...]

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Advice to folk on doing a craft fair

I’ve now done ~ 10 local art/craft fairs, some juried, some not. I’ve learned a lot from other folk in the blog-o-sphere (this list of craft fair advice from The Small Object is awesome, also comments on this Pink Chalk Studio post), but I wanted to share some things I’ve learned:

Have a sign or something [...]

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Selling Art

Tonight I sold a piece of art I was still attached to:

Yup, I sold “Home is Where the Art is: #3, Cabot Trail”. A friend of mine is going to give it to some friends of hers for their wedding present. I’m happy that she wanted to buy this, and I’m sure her [...]

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6 weeks and counting

So, I’ve got some shows coming up. The 1st is 6 weeks away, so I need to focus. Part of me is really inspired to make a lot of art right now, the pragmatic part of me knows I’ve got to make things that will sell, so I could possibly be in the black (supply [...]

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Opinions needed

So, I’ve just listed 3 messenger bags in my etsy shop. All my previous listings I’ve had one item/listing. This time I show all 3 messenger bags in one listing, with a front view picture of each individual bag and then using a single collage to illustrate all the details of the bags like this:
Rather [...]

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Something old, something new…

I’ve got one more holiday show to do, this weekend at the local YMCA.
1st, I had to make more Grab n’ Gos – my last one from the previous batch was lonely!

Then, I finally had time to crank out a bunch of lower price point items: different sized shopping bags. I bought the blanks from [...]

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Are People Buying?

Yes, Virginia, they are….but, in my vast experience selling my work (a total of 7 shows now, the 1st one in Spring of 2007), they are buying smaller, less expensive items. The show I did on Sunday was the 2nd I’ve done since the doom & gloom economy forecasts of this Fall. In [...]

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