Posts filed under “Guest Posts from Creative Professionals”
What’s so special about buying handmade?
Image by Emma Witwiki of Folksy shop Spots and Stripes Why I Think That Handmade is So Special! By Tash Goswami I love handmade, I buy handmade, I make handmade and I sell handmade. Yet often when I am asked why handmade is so special, why each piece costs more than a similar item in [...]
Craft with ice and a slice…
Guest post from E-Magazine – The Craft Tonic New online magazine offers a refreshing and FREE insight into the world of handmade craft. The Craft Tonic is a new E-magazine that celebrates the world of contemporary handmade craft and the indie seller. This brand new publication offers interviews, hot picks, recipes, tips, how to’s …and [...]
Because you’re worth it!
A handful of love – Lolas Room Written by Tash Goswami of Blethering Crafts What’s your most treasured tool in your box? For me it used to be a lovely curved small wooden modelling tool. It was my most important tool and was until 1996 when my hands suddenly became crippled with pain. A few [...]
Mollie Makes – win a years free subscription!
For people who love the crafty life! A guest post from Lyndsey Mayhew of Mollie Makes – Issue 2 is out 9th June – Today! Mollie Makes was born out of a love for living and loving handmade and being proud of it! Like Folksy sellers, to us it’s more than just a hobby, it’s [...]
The Empty Shops Network
Written by Dan Thompson of The Empty Shops Network You’re already your own factory and cleaning lady, marketing department and book-keeper, tea boy and executive director – that’s the joy of being a self-employed maker. How about adding ‘shopkeeper’ to the list? Thanks to the trend for pop-up shops that’s exactly what crafters across the [...]
A request from Kirstie
We were recently contacted by Raise the Roof Productions, owned and run by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer. Kirstie is making a new crafting series for Channel 4 as well as an accompanying book for the series. This will be a crafting book full of projects and makes covering a range of crafting disciplines, sounds [...]
Motif Magazine – fonts, fashion shoots and 4am starts…
We asked Lara Cory of Motif Magazine to tell us a little bit about how Motif magazine came about and just what it takes to launch a great online magazine. When Tegan and Lara started their online endeavour MOTIF Magazine, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. What began as a bit [...]
The Create Place collective
We asked Jill Robertson of The Create Place to tell us about this great collective – Fomerly known as Back to Basics, we operate a non-profit workshop space in Bethnal Green, London. We host craft workshops, offer open studio sessions and run pop-up shops to showcase our work. Our manifesto is to forge and inspire [...]
Making Conversation – Tash Goswami
This Got Me Thinking Written by Tash Goswami of www.bletheringcrafts.co.uk Image by Tideline Designs Last week I contacted a Maker that I discovered on the internet, with a view to her doing an interview for my craft site Blethering Crafts. She replied, thanking me for asking her but declined because she was not formally trained, [...]
Artrise: An art social network to better boost your social media
Written by Erin Everhart There’s no denying the power of Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere. When news breaks or exceptionally juice content leaks, it’s passed around these networks faster than hot glue dries. That’s the crux of social media optimization (SMO), the latest area to make headway in search engine marketing: providing good, quality content [...]