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Seller Tips

Time management tips to help you combat overwhelm

Learning to manage our time well can keep feelings of overwhelm and anxiety at bay. Helen Duncan from Silver Nutmeg shares her tips.

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Interviews

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Meet Bee Brown, an illustrator with a passion for folk art who creates beautiful, sustainably made stationery and prints from her home studio on the Warwickshire border.

by Camilla March 1, 2021

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Craft Fair Secrets

Craft Fair Secrets – How to choose the right craft fair

Not sure which craft fair will work for your products and worried about paying for a stall if the audience is wrong? Nicky Capewell, founder of Pedddle, shares her 10-step plan for choosing the right craft fair.

by Guest Blogger

How to get noticed at craft fairs – five tips to help you stand out

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Product Photography Tips

You can now add 10 photos to every listing – here’s how to make the most of your extra pictures

Folksy Plus sellers can now add 10 photographs to each listing. Here we show you how to use those extra five photo slots to encourage customers to buy your products.

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A step-by-step guide to photographing and styling more traditional products

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Product photography basics – Quick & Easy Ways to get better product shots

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How to take product shots on your phone

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Product Listing Tips

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In this third Folksy Listing Review, we look at a beautiful Oval Ceramic Pot made by Lorna from The Potting Studio, and consider how her listing could be improved.

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Tutorials

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Learn how to make a cute polymer clay tag to personalise your Christmas stockings with Handmade Retro Jewellery

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Stay home & craft! Workshops and craft-alongs to keep you creative and connected during Coronavirus

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    Time management tips to help you combat overwhelm

    by Helen Duncan

    Learning to manage our time well can keep feelings of overwhelm and anxiety at bay. Helen Duncan from Silver Nutmeg shares her tips.

    Read more
  • InterviewsMeet the Maker

    Bee Brown – Meet the Maker

    by Camilla March 1, 2021
    March 1, 2021

    Meet Bee Brown, an illustrator with a passion for folk art who creates beautiful, sustainably made stationery and prints from her home studio on the Warwickshire border.

    Read more
  • AnnouncementsEventsNewsUpdates

    Watch and shop LIVE at our Mother’s Day Shopping Events

    by Camilla February 20, 2021
    February 20, 2021

    Find out when our Folksy Mother’s Day Live Shopping Events are happening, who’s taking part and where, when and how you can watch and shop!

    Read more
  • InterviewsMeet the Maker

    Eynonymous Designs – Meet the Maker

    by Camilla February 15, 2021
    February 15, 2021

    Meet Eddie Eynon from Eynonymous Designs, a designer-maker creating rich, sumptuous patterned textiles and prints inspired by the flora and fauna of mid Wales.

    Read more
  • Packaging TipsSeller Tips

    Creative ways to package your products by recycling and reusing

    by Ethan Carney

    As far as packaging goes, eco-credentials are now more important than good looks. But there are ways you can do both by reusing, recycling and adding a little creative thought and imagination to your parcels. Here are some ideas.

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