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Posts Tagged ‘Florida Craft Shows’
Useful Crafting Tips For Everyone
Written by Alix Montoya
Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:29
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by Alix Montoya

For all you hobby enthusiasts out there, here a few tips to get out of the little troubles in your work:

Ever get tired of your brushes always getting hard and stiff after you use them for paint or glue? Acrylic paint is the worst for this kind of thing because it crusts so easily. What you can do is wash your brushes after every use with a little bit of soap and warm water. In case they’ve already hardened, don’t fret. You can leave them on a cup of fabric softener and they’ll be as soft as new.

Do you paint a lot in your hobby? If so, you better place some newspaper on your work table to keep the paint from getting to places. It helps prevent the paint from staining your work table too. If you are working with really thick paints that bleed a lot, try doubling the layers to keep them from bleeding through. You can even try tripling it just to be sure.

You can take away glue stains from cloth, or from any other surface with just a bit of rubbing alcohol. The alcohol is a really good solvent for glue and easily removes it. If the glue hardened, rubbing alcohol can still remove it. So keep a bottle handy, just in case.

If you want your bottles to unscrew easily, you can try covering them up with some plastic wrap first before screwing the lid in. You’ll soon discover that this prevents your previously opened paint or glue bottles from crusting up and it will also make opening the bottles a lot less harder.

If you’re painting really small objects, try making a masking tape loop and putting it on the small eraser on a pencil. You can use the sticky tape to hold on to the small object you’re painting on and then you can use the pencil as a handle for it. If you want to dry it, just put the pencil in a pencil holder or a cup.

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Florida Arts and Crafts: Start Your Business Right
Written by Chris Blackerby
Thursday, 11 December 2008 02:52
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by Chris Blackerby

So you’ve finally decided it’s about time your arts and crafts hobby begins to rake you in some profits. You’ve attended several crafting Florida fairs and festivals and thought there is a feasible market for your products. If you don’t know what to do, starting out can be traumatic especially for arts and crafts businesses. So here are some pointers to get you started the right way.

The arts and crafts fairs and festivals in Florida, which gave you the idea in the first place, is a good place to actually build a simple market base. You need to start small first. Try renting out booths at small shows or bazaars your local community or church holds every once in a while. This will give a good idea on the general flow of things for your business. It lets you probe your customers and your competition, and from there you should be able to tell whether this idea has some potential or you’re just wasting time.

If you think you did quite well on the local art and crafts fairs, you can try and walk in on some local specialty gift shops and try to see if they would be willing to carry your products.

You should also try giving out samples to your friends and relatives and tell them to tell their friends. You should also give out some samples to your coworkers and neighbors. This is a good way of even spreading the word out about yourself and your business. If your quality is good, it won’t be uncommon to find yourself flooded with orders overnight.

If you have enough money, you can try to get yourself advertised in local newspapers or magazines. Leave your contact number, the kinds of gift items you make, and the specialty gift shops which carry them.

If magazines aren’t your thing, you can try opening a website for yourself. Your website is your shop on the internet so you have to leave enough information there for prospective customers. Be sure to leave your contact numbers or e-mail, and other information about your product that answers what you think you’re customer might ask.

Another great way is to join online mailing lists, like Yahoo! Groups, which distribute e-mails, announcements and advertisements about almost everything under the sun.

I can’t stress enough that in these kinds of business, you need to start out small. Investing a big amount of money early on can bite you on your back. The most important thing you need to remember is to gather all information you can first about the market and the competition because this could save you a lot of time, effort and money.

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