Category: What Were Working On

new products that we are working on that may become available for sale on the online store

Fun For Crafters

Summertime Fun and Crafts To Share Your Skills With Future Generations

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Summertime Fun and Crafts To Share Your Skills With Future Generations. Summer is the perfect time to slow down, soak in the sunshine, and get back to our roots with a little creativity.

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Starting From Zero in My Handcraft Business

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I am Starting From Zero in My Handcraft Business digital marketing journey. My ultimate goal is to increase my newsletter subscriptions to at least 500 true followers in the next 4 weeks. In order to achieve that I had to choose a decent free newsletter plugin that will collect the…

Craft Shows and Festivals

Remember Our Own Handcraft Artist

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Remember Our Own Handcraft Artist. This month is the one year anniversary of my mother’s, Sandra MacFadden, passing. She was our main crochet artist. She taught one of her children, a couple of grandchildren and one great grandchild how to crochet. Sadly, she ran out of generations who wanted to…

Our Craft Projects

Making Beaded Dragonflies

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Several months ago my granddaughter was watching some movies on my computer and came across a beaded dragonfly tutorial I had downloaded from You-Tube. She created a couple and insisted that I do it with her. Well, ever since I have been making them into earrings, put them on bottle caps, broach/pins, barrettes and I even may make them into key chain charms.

Crafting Hints and Helps

Stabilizing Crocheted Totes

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Stabilizing crocheted tote bags of any size can be a challenge. After researching online we found a couple of solutions including creating and sewing in a liner into the bag, crocheting actual crochet thread with the yarn when creating the strap and crocheting around a double length of cotton clothes line.

New Products

Crafting as a Business-Weird Things Happen

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Crafting as a business is hard and sometimes weird things do happen. With the advent of more online businesses and services using artificial intelligence software for data verification we will have to put up with more misinterpretations of our descriptions, titles and our videos. An AI cannot possibly interpret our…

Fun For Crafters

Spring is Here Get Creative

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Now that Spring is officially here it is time to get creative. Producing new handcrafted items to add to your, hopefully, dwindling inventory is always a good idea. It helps you get enthused about your crafting art whatever it may be. It also gives your customers something new to get…

Handmade Crafters Shop Ideas

Our Own Promo Video for Holidays

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Welcome and hope everyone is doing well. We have finally gotten around to creating our own promo video for the holidays. In the future, we hope to do more and more. This will include instructional videos, crafting business ideas, and more. We have been working with our social media coordinator…

Dragon Scales Gloves

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Being as we don’t have any postal deliveries today we thought we might post an article about one of the hand crocheted items that seems to be very popular this time of year and that is our dragon scales fingerless gloves. We started making them about 3 years ago when…

Your Own Online Shop Lesson 2

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When you are considering selling your items online the most tried and true method has always been to sign-up with Etsy, HandmadeArtists, Amazon Handmade, eBay or some other kind of big named online store that charges fees to list your items (perhaps), monthly fees and/or commissions on any sales you…

Your Own Online Shop Lesson 1

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Prior to starting your very own online store, you will have to do a couple of things. First of all, you may want to organize all the pictures of your items you want to list in folders by groups/types of products. For instance, I have my sorted into folders called earrings, gloves, necklaces, scrunchies, etc. That way when I begin inputting my items into the store software I can put in all of my earrings at the same time and not have to be looking all over my computer for the pictures I want to include with the listings.

North Florida Crafters Opportunity

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North Florida Crafters in and around the Columbia County Florida area may want to get in touch with a new business called ThingsCrafty! We made an appointment with them through a posting on the Lake City Buy/Sell Facebook group page. It seems they are opening up a Sticks-n-Bricks store on…

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