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I Beat those Handmade Button Blues

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By Beverley Start, March 2012 I’ll be enjoying one of those afternoons where I will be cruising the internet and finding inspiration again and again, meeting new artists, and just loving the access we have these days because we’re all online. I mean, it’s such a wonderful thing that we can interact with artists across [...]

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Article Marketing for your Handmade Business

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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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Count the Cost

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What? Count the cost, what is she talking about? When you create a work of art no matter what form, there is a cost in that creation. Now do you get it? For this blog I want to focus on art jewelry pieces like these. The Eagle Mt piece is available in my shop NancysWildWireArt [...]

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Peridot and Sterling Silver Pendant

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I was thinking and decided to try a twisted wire project.  I took three strands of 18 gauge round soft copper wire and twisted them together into one strand.  Showing this to my wife, she said, why don’t you use silver.  I would like something done with this in silver.  I took three strands of [...]

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Lynn Frederickson, Seams Incredible!

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By Beverley Start Saturday November 19 2011 I would like to introduce you to Lynn Frederickson, a very interesting woman and a wonderful artist. Lynn lives in Orillia Ontario and enjoys many forms of arts and crafts from knitting to gourd-carving. OK, this next part is amazing! So amazing in fact that people don’t get [...]

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This Is Not A Turtle Tutorial.

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A Simple Polymer Cane With Reductions By Beverley Start, Polymer clay artist October 30, 2011 What is a polymer cane? I get that question a lot, so I decided to make a short video demonstrating how a polymer cane is made from beginning to end right before your eyes!. I had to speed it up [...]

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