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Article Marketing for your Handmade Business

article marketing for handmade business

Article marketing for your handmade business can be a low cost and effective way to bring traffic to your shop and/or blog. Just like guest blogging offers back-links to your website , article marketing gives you the opportunity to include a link back to your shop or blog in the biography box. What is Article [...]

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What’s In a Name – or a Label?

Knit Label

If you work in fiber for any age group or gender, there are regulations on what needs to be affixed to your finished product. This is especially true if your target market is children. The US Government doesn’t see that stuffed animal, that dress, that blanket/quilt, that hat as ‘art.’ They see it as a [...]

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New Two-holed seed bead – Twin

Two Hole Seed Beed

Preciosa Ornela is presenting new seed bead called TWIN. The main difference is that TWIN has two holes which is unique and original on the market. There are more than 80 color finishes for infinite color combinations. Preciosa Ornela is part of the Preciosa Group, which is one of the worldp’s most significant producer of [...]

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Hold On, Don’t Scrap It Yet!

Scraps

Hold On, Don’t Scrap It Yet! By Beverley Start, Polymer Clay Artist October 5 2011   Sometimes I’ll be in the middle of a project and look up to see that my usable clay pile has been gobbled up by my scrap clay pile. With a little creativity and a lot of nece$$ity I found [...]

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Can you call your work Gold?

Handmade Ring

Jewelry Making Federal Regulations Code of Federal Regulations Title 16: Commercial Practices, Part 23 – Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals and Pewter Industries This discussion will briefly discuss part of the above regulations, the entire Part 23 can be found online as the e-CFR™. This will not be the entire regulations, but a summary [...]

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Cabochons and Ring

MapRing3

On a visit last week at my local little rock shop, I was given an offer that I could not refuse.  They would give me a slab of Larimar and I could keep the rest after I cut them 3 oval cabochons.  I cut five cabochons, two of which fell into multiple pieces.  I salvaged [...]

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