Handmadeology

  Here is a post o get you thinking about warmer days! The summer craft show season is fast approaching and for many of you that means replenishing inventory. Here are a few tips for streamlining your production that you can use this summer and all the way through the busy holiday season. Spring is [...]

No matter what you sell, whether it be paintings, soap, or jewelry, it is important to describe the benefit of your product along with the features of that product.

When shopping online, your customers don’t have the luxury of trying on your products, touching them, feeling them or asking you questions about them. This can leave them unsure if they should purchase from your site. To make sure that your customers click the ADD TO CART or BUY NOW button, here are 10 things you must have on your product page:

You never get to a point where you have to stop marketing and promoting, it is a constant thing that must be done or you will fade away.

A ‘niche’ doesn’t have to be a single, specific product. It does, however, need to be a unified idea or story. A niche is not a cage for your creative mind.

This week, you are going to map your “I Want” list from the very first assignment. By simply mapping this long list of wants, you begin to organize your plan for success.

Some handmade artisans are afraid of people copying their work and stealing their ideas, but I prefer to thank imitators in appreciation for the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.

Creative Block can be nasty. You’re sitting in front of a blank page/blank canvas/blank beading board with a blank look on your face. Then begins a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach accompanied by self-doubt, then the “I-feel-a-headache-coming-on” feeling followed by a mad dash for potato chips or ice cream or Twitter.

This week, I’m going to help you start consciously identifying those threads that have been running through your creative pursuits, but you didn’t even know where there. All jazzed up and ready to go? Me, too!! Let’s connect the dots!!

Stop letting people convince you that you’re unworthy, invaluable, and have nothing to offer. These feelings of incompetence are learned feelings. We were not born feeling inadequate or unskillful. We are taught to feel inferior.

The benefits of an artist’s residency are many. Residencies can provide you with extra space or a special facility for a large scale project. They also give you a focused period to achieve your goals and experiment.

I really would like to see artists succeed and if I’m one who has helped along the way, then maybe good karma for me!

When you share, you open up your world as well as others’.

You must begin to pay attention to where you apply your attention.

Just like time, you can’t waste attention and use it productively at once. If you remember, I’m a clickaholic, therefore, I can’t obsessively click my 6 favorite websites waiting for something to happen and make something happen at the same time. I have to choose one or the other.

We’re all busy, too busy. With jobs, family, and households to tend. Finding a little time to be creative can sometimes seem almost impossible. Following is a short list of tips to help you find the time to be creative.

You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

I believe that everyone is an Artist. Maybe not by popular definition, but all people have tapped or untapped creativity.

Even though spring is here, sometimes we get into an artistic slump. Here are seven projects to challenge you and work your way out of the slump. I chose seven because you could do one thing each day for a week.

Are you an artist? Guest post by: Stephey Baker Before you say no, consider that Artist here is being defined archetypally, as either a fine art Artist, who creates pieces of visual works such as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and jewelry designs. Or perhaps you’re the literary Artist who, creates because of harnessing inspirational messages by [...]