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Turn Your Creative Hobby Into Income

June 1, 2013 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

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You love crafting – we all do – but have you ever thought about selling your handmade goods for a little pocket money? At the very least, you could clear out some clutter and make a little extra cash to spend on more craft supplies!

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Don’t worry if this sounds like something you’d love to do but have no idea how to get started. We here at FaveCrafts have spent a lot of time writing, researching, and collecting tips from people who love to sell their handmade crafts and put it all in one easy place.

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Creative Income Blog is where we post brand new articles weekly for creative business owners and hobbyists. You’ll find tips on selling at craft fairs, selling online, how to price your crafts to you don’t end up loosing money, and even tips on photographing your products and how to start your own blog!

We also have a weekly email newsletter that will show up straight in your inbox with craft business tips and tricks so that you can start making that pocket money to support your craft supply habit (it’s okay, we suffer from that addiction too).

Sign up for Creative Income fromFaveCrafts to start learning how to turn your hobby into income!

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Filed Under: Advice, Tips, & Tricks Tagged With: Craft Fair, selling your crafts

FaveCrafts 365 Know Your Market! Know Your Customer!

May 16, 2011 by Maria 1 Comment

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I’ve been a craft professional for over 25 years and have learned that it is very important to know who you are marketing your goods or services to in order to make an income. While visiting a local art and craft show I was surprised and a little disappointed that many of the artists and crafters just didn’t get it. They were not catering to the local community and lost many potential sales! Watch this video to see a very cool marketing tool I did discover at the show.

Creative Income is a weekly e-newsletter from FaveCrafts.com that focuses on ideas, news, and business articles for those who want to sell their crafts or creative services for income. You can sign up for Creative Income by clicking HERE.

Business articles can be found on FaveCrafts.com under Craft Business in the Categories column or by clicking HERE.

Filed Under: FaveCrafts 365 Tagged With: Craft Shows, creative income, selling your crafts

Guest Blog: If I Sell My Crafts, Am I Selling My Soul??

September 15, 2009 by FaveCrafts Leave a Comment

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By: Patti Ghezzi for DivineCaroline

I’m flattered when friends say I should sell my hand-knitted baby hats and sweaters. It’s the highest compliment I can receive. But selling something I’ve spent hours making-out of sticks and string-is a loaded proposition that puts my inner artist at odds with my practical, bill-paying self.

How much should I charge? A baby sweater takes more than twelve hours to make. If I charge fifty dollars, I’m paying myself an hourly rate about equal to what I made at my first job scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, more than twenty years ago.

And consider: if I knit something as a gift, the recipient will love it just because I made it. But if I sell something I make, I worry that the buyer will inspect my creation for flaws, and find plenty. My hang-ups run even deeper than that. Knitting is my passion, and becoming a knitter-for-hire feels as if I’m corrupting an otherwise untarnished endeavor.

I’ve also had experiences selling my handiwork that didn’t work out so well.

Knitting is my first love, but I’m bi-craftual. I’m also a calligrapher, a practitioner of an ancient craft clinging to the edge of extinction, and curiously refusing to surrender. I studied calligraphy with a teacher whose love of exquisitely drawn letters made me view the alphabet as art. When I look at calligraphy, I don’t just see letters. I also see the spaces between them, and the elegance of language made visible on paper.

At one point in my life, I made the decision to sell my services as a calligrapher. Sure, my skills were shaky, but I thought my italic letters were good enough for an untrained eye.

For professional calligraphers, wedding invitations are THE primary source of income, supplemented with occasional baby announcements, proclamations, and restaurant menus. I designed business cards for myself, calling my micro-enterprise, “Classic Calligraphy.” I wrote up bids for weddings, low-balling my prices to make sure I got jobs.

My friend Kathleen called. She was pregnant and wanted me to create a calligraphic rendition of philosopher Khalil Gibran’s famous work beginning, “Your children are not your children…” The passage was to be a Christmas present for Kathleen’s husband. “Sure,” I said, “No problem!”

Anxiety about how much I should charge welled up in me, but I pushed it back down, reminding myself that this was business.

Like any professional, I procrastinated until the project deadline was upon me.

Read the entire story at DivineCaroline.com

Filed Under: Guest Post Tagged With: calligraphy, DivineCaroline, Knitting, selling your crafts

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