With my new direction of applying to “better” shows came new challenges and learning opportunities. I recently completed my application to the St. George Art Festival. It included the typical personal information (name, address, medium, etc.) and pictures of my work and booth. Additionally, it required that I submit an Artist Statement and a CV/Resumé. […]
This question arose for me when I looked at some of the handmade websites around the internet and was surprised what I found. Does it have to be at least 60%, 80% or 100% handmade to be called that? So the outcome would be that of a “handmade item of superior quality?” Hanging a purchased […]
It’s October 30th; time to think of pumpkins, trick or treaters, and that oh so lovely fall nip to the air. The summer is barely two weeks behind us, the winter still weeks away. So why, then, has my local dollar store started putting up Christmas displays? Actually the displays started going up here in […]
The very idea is delicious! You are going to make a living creating art and beauty from the comfort of your home. You are going to put your treasures up on the internet while still in your jammies and sipping your coffee and have all the free time in the world to take care of […]
A whole lot of handmade artisans decide to do a show – some form of arts and crafts festival. Everyone tends to judge the success – or failure – of such events in dollars and cents alone. But sales alone do not determine whether a show is a good show or a bad show. The […]
Clothespins or Clothes Pegs, you wont find many on handmadeartists.com yet, but that might be changing. Not to be confused with the one-piece wooden clothes-peg for hanging up coats that was invented by the Shaker community in the 1700’s. During the 1700’s laundry was hung on bushes, limbs or lines to dry but no clothespins […]
September 19th is “Talk like a Pirate Day.” Just for the entire silliness of this day, Avast, me hearties! (pay attention!) Why do we need an International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Make no mistake. We do. But it’s a little hard to articulate why, especially when you’ve made the mistake of referring to your […]
I know, it is not the fourth of July, but there is still a reason to celebrate the National Anthem of the United States! This is the 200th anniversary of the writing of this national symbol and the city of Baltimore, where the anthem was written, is doing it up big! Francis Scott Key wrote […]
Hippie Beads When I was a child during the sixties, everyone was into love beads. The ‘hippies’ wore strings of them around their necks, woven through their hair, sewn onto their clothes. They were tiny little seed beads that came in a riot of colors and I adored them. Back then they came in these […]
Christmas 1948, the “Candy Bomber” I was 2 years old lil girl and remember it well. How happy we were, all of us, who had nothing and were hungry. That is why I still today love candy, maybe even to much. And handmadeartist.com has plenty of it…. Christmas from Heaven is a true story of […]
