#sell your crafts

[craftdiscoveries]

(via 8 Ways to Add Extra Income to Your Bookbinding Business)

[lostchildofthenewworld]

putting fanfic behind a paywall from ao3…how far fandom has fallen…

[icewindandboringhorror]

If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?

[al-gatone]

Recently picked up an interest in quilting (which I have never done before). Trying to figure out how much fabric I'm gonna need, I can only conclude one thing: crafty old ladies must be bonkers good at algebra and geometry

[valerian-riverheart]

Looking for stuff in the Bazaar nowadays is so funny to me. It used to be where I would buy reagents I need for the crafting quests, but now there's moments where somebody decided to buy the entire inventory of reagents minus five cattails and a single ruby. Why did I have to spend 30 minutes getting 30 mist wood

[jacqcrisis]

Astarion contains multitudes. I love him.

[sweet-rabbit]

maybe it's the heat (so miserable...), but i'm already thinking about xmas specifically if i want to sell any holiday fandom merch stuff. probably GW related and most likely like these:

i'd make for sure our boiz, and maybe either/or relena and/or zechs though the main question would be what color combinations for their itty bitty snow hats~

[flythesail]

I think a lot of what people were saying happened "too early" in s2 of shadow & bone was really the writers saying s3 is unlikely, so this is our chance to give everyone some of what would be to come :(

[nexus-nebulae]

it took. so many weeks but i Finally managed to collect all the major terrain things i wanted for my campsite in pocket camp and im Very happy i love my little garden corner

[set-in-eternity]

please don't start complaining about your books not selling as well as your writing courses when you decide to have people pay you for writing courses because you need to recoup the money your books aren't making for you

ETA: by which i mean: when you're trying to make money as a writer OF BOOKS, you realize you're not making as much as you would if you sold HOW TO courses, so you start selling HOW TO courses while publishing books, and then wonder why your courses are outselling your books and become the thing you're known for

if you want to be known for writing books, focus on the books

talk about the books on your blog, newsletter, website, socials, EVERYWHERE

this is what attracts readers: hearing about what you love about the books, what the books are about, what makes them interesting

all you do when you write about writing is make yourself known to other writers, who are not the audience for your books

as a wiser person than I am once said: PLENTY of people want the tools to build something. not many people want the actual something you are building with those tools.

[feral-radfem]

I have very little respect for women who enter this movement and immediately starts selling the movement back to us. This isn't a fandom, we don't need feminist "community" merch. That's just consumerism and undermines the actual significance of our movement as a social cause.

Also, it is usually ugly.

[craftdiscoveries]

(via (4) How to Price Your Handmade Art or Craft - 4 Step Formula - YouTube)

Ali Manning of Vintage Page Designs, does a remarkable job of speaking on the subject of pricing your handbooks, but this can be applied to other handmade goods as well.

This free advice will give you a starting point if you’re thinking of selling your goods.

[p7agu3]

this is Probably A Tremendous L. however i wasn't gonna use those scrolls anyway and this guy discovered my weakness: tremendous quantities of rocks. how did he get that many??? i had to know

and now i am sprinting around ravenna breaking every rock i see

truly a use of my time

[cellabella-illuminates]

All of the Christmas ornaments!

[redotter]

This is a piping hot take but being an artist/musician/writer/small business owner with no financial backup or alternative income source is a bad career plan, and willingly choosing to do that just to guilt trip people into commissioning you because rent is due or your cat is sick is a shitty move. (this is ofc not including cases where people can't do anything else)

And this is coming from someone who both offers artsy services, and commissions artists on a regular basis - art is wonderful and people should sell and buy it more! I'm not saying that people should just have boring full time office jobs and entirely give up on their dreams, just that "making it" in any artistic field is very unlikely, and it's not like this is a secret, or unexpected, so please plan your career with this information in mind.

[nattosoup]

I apologize that it’s on the bird site, but I made a thread on my experiences selling at craft fairs vs anime conventions that might be helpful/interesting to folks looking to switch over or wanting to add craft fairs to their lineup!  Please feel free to ask me questions on Twitter, I’d love to cover more angles!