I’m on maternity leave – but before I left, I spent some time surfing the web for some great art and craft entertainment – so here are some links I enjoyed, hope you’ll like them too!
Mixed media and paper craft tutorials:
Make an inspiration book from a paper bag
(and from the same blog, make paper bag [...]

What is your favorite online resource for craft/art business owners? I personally read etsy’s blog, The Storque, pretty regularly, but it’s always fun to hear about other blogs and sites people find useful.
Drop a link to your go-to craft biz site in the comments! I’ll be updating this post with links periodically & hope to [...]

The most complete list of etsy tools I’ve ever seen – if you sell on etsy, you should definitely check it out. A few sites on the list I use all the time: etsyhacks, craftopolis, and craftcult.
Etsyhacks has a bunch of tools you can use in your etsy shop. My favorite is the one for [...]

I just read a fantastic blog post from RikrakStudio about packaging and shipping holiday orders. If you have an etsy shop or other online business, I highly recommend reading it! Lots of good information and tips. It’s a long read, but well worth it.

Yeah, I know, Halloween is Saturday, so why am I talking about The Holidays already? Well, if you are an artist or crafter, it’s time to start marketing your work in hopes of getting lots of holiday sales!
A few tips:
Bookmark this link, which takes you to a bunch of craft business articles on Paper N [...]

I can’t tell you how many journals, list pads, and other attempts at organization I’ve tried since starting my business. I think I’ve finally hit on a system that might work – I made a workbook in Excel (any similar spreadsheet program would probably work) and created list worksheets for each of several topics: blogs, [...]

Was reading Modish BizTips and ran across a list of popular blogs related to indie crafts. This got me thinking, although I hate asking for press (so much so that I don’t really do it), I love getting comments on my own blog posts, so…why not check out all the blogs on that list and [...]

Are you an indie business owner, or someone considering starting your own art or craft business? Surfing the net recently, I found a couple of blogs with great information and tips for running and marketing a successful small business.
Piddix is the blog of the successful etsy seller with the same name. She sells primarily [...]

Quick post for other etsy sellers – if you have a hard time coming up with good relevant tags, check out this tag tool from Craftweasel. It suggest tags that might be relevant to the terms you type in the search tool, and then gives you information about how many people search for them and [...]

…to Nikid on etsy for purchasing the 100th item from my shop!
Niki has a fabulous shop of her own – actually two, but I’ve personally experienced a couple of things from her chocolate shop, and it could easily become an addition – especially in my pregnant state.
I am thrilled to finally reach 100 sales, as [...]