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This is my first in a series of little recipe cards for y'all c: It's good and it's easy! You can nix the cocoa powder and make a vanilla version!
Tuesday
First Recipe Card- Swiss Roll
This is my first in a series of little recipe cards for y'all c: It's good and it's easy! You can nix the cocoa powder and make a vanilla version!
Saturday
Christmas Fuckery with my BFF
We tried to make a Gingerbread house from a kit.
We failed.
After carefully icing all the sides, Kate ( <- BFF) stuck the house proudly together and admired her results. Just as she started to say how surprised she was that it worked, the side closest to me fell over, bounced oddly off my lap, and landed on the floor in several pieces. We just stared at each other for a few mortified seconds before collapsing into possibly the most hearty fit of giggles I have ever been a part of.
She broke another wall about 5 minutes later, after we had decided we'd just fake it by only taking a picture from the front to disguise or missing back patio. It wasn't as funny the second time, but making super fucked up iced gingerbread cookies, dicking around with icing and marshmallows, and laughing at our utter and complete ineptitude was way more fun than making a lame ass gingerbread house anyways.
We failed.
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After carefully icing all the sides, Kate ( <- BFF) stuck the house proudly together and admired her results. Just as she started to say how surprised she was that it worked, the side closest to me fell over, bounced oddly off my lap, and landed on the floor in several pieces. We just stared at each other for a few mortified seconds before collapsing into possibly the most hearty fit of giggles I have ever been a part of.
She broke another wall about 5 minutes later, after we had decided we'd just fake it by only taking a picture from the front to disguise or missing back patio. It wasn't as funny the second time, but making super fucked up iced gingerbread cookies, dicking around with icing and marshmallows, and laughing at our utter and complete ineptitude was way more fun than making a lame ass gingerbread house anyways.
Friday
Oh,Home - 7 craft tutorials of cozy,home-y goodness
In a little less than 8 months the Spook family will be moving into our very own first house! I need FURNITURE! I need like.... shit to put on my walls, and shit to sit on...and spice racks and shit!
I've made colour palletes via colourlovers.com to help me plan for the big move!
This first palette is the basic color scheme for my house, with the exclusion of the last wine-red color, which is just a kitchen thing:
Color by COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers
These 2 are the extras,to make the rooms "pop"
Color by COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers
Use your imagination with me, and lets see how The House of Spook is gonna look c:
1.Chair Makeover from Domestic for Dummies
2.Fabric Tapestry by CraftCuban on Craftster
3.Chevron Pattern Fan Blades on DesignSponge
For The House of Spook: Spray the whole fan creamy-white and stencil yellow floral swirls
4.DIY Dessert Tray by Ladypie on Craftster
For The House of Spook: just change the color to a blackish-brownish-red
5.Pompourri Rug on Cut out + Keep
6.Checkered Floor Tutorial from Craftzine
For The House of Spook: Dark Wine + Cream
7.Paint-Dipped Cutlery by Oh!Crafts
For The House of Spook: All my chosen colors, plus maybe a few teal ones....
I've made colour palletes via colourlovers.com to help me plan for the big move!
This first palette is the basic color scheme for my house, with the exclusion of the last wine-red color, which is just a kitchen thing:
Color by COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers
These 2 are the extras,to make the rooms "pop"
Color by COLOURlovers
Color by COLOURlovers
Use your imagination with me, and lets see how The House of Spook is gonna look c:
1.Chair Makeover from Domestic for Dummies
For The House of Spook: Cream+Dark wine upholstery
For The House of Spook: Keep the super sweet Indian/middle eastern imagery but in neutral creams, whites and yellows
3.Chevron Pattern Fan Blades on DesignSponge
For The House of Spook: Spray the whole fan creamy-white and stencil yellow floral swirls
4.DIY Dessert Tray by Ladypie on Craftster
5.Pompourri Rug on Cut out + Keep
For The House of Spook: Peaches+Cream colored!
For The House of Spook: Dark Wine + Cream
7.Paint-Dipped Cutlery by Oh!Crafts
For The House of Spook: All my chosen colors, plus maybe a few teal ones....
Sunday
Saturday
On the house: Free graphics for personal and commercial use!
So I made some fun little handmade badges tonight, now available under my new "On the House" page, wich will feature the graphics that I have made, 100% free for commercial and personal use.
Have fun,y'all!
Wednesday
Reaching International Customers
Second to the U.S., the most hits I get from my etsy shop are from France. Parisians like bug jewelry, who knew? I have other hits from places like Latvia and Romania, which I could honestly not pinpoint on a map for you. (No child left behind in geography class!) All my shitty cartography skills aside, there is a real thrill in knowing that other people in the world are viewing your products. It's so cool to know people who speak a different language and are from a completely different cultural background are interested in your hand-made American goods.
So, how do you get more international views and thus international customers?
Fish where those exotic little fishies are.
I think my biggest draw for international views is DeviantArt. There are many excellent professional and aspiring artists on this site, ready to be supportive of you and your awesomeness! It's not hard to get people to pay attention to you on DevArt, while great artists share a bit of their portfolios, there are *many* heart-wrenchingly awful MSPAINT files uploaded to this site and called art.
How else can you connect with people overseas?
Rape and pillage your analytics. Find where your international customers are and learn more about their locale. It can't hurt.
Online art/craft communities such as Crafster, Cut out + Keep, DeviantArt, ect.
Social networks like Twitter (best bet), Facebook and Myspace (I include myspace because I hear people still use it) - Follow/friend some people from around the world- blogger is also a great place to meet new people from different places.
SEO for overseas- try tagging your items with alternate spellings- jewelry is jewellery in the U.K.
Show some good-old-fashioned Etsy Love to 'foreign' sellers Poland makes pretty much the best goth/metalhead clothing in the world.
Like what they like, make what they're making.- Decoden is JUST NOW getting some kind of popularity here in the states, and even the people wearing it have never heard the term before. Scope out trends in other countries (my favorite is Japan) to see what will be popular in a few years!
Good luck, y'all!
So, how do you get more international views and thus international customers?
Fish where those exotic little fishies are.
I think my biggest draw for international views is DeviantArt. There are many excellent professional and aspiring artists on this site, ready to be supportive of you and your awesomeness! It's not hard to get people to pay attention to you on DevArt, while great artists share a bit of their portfolios, there are *many* heart-wrenchingly awful MSPAINT files uploaded to this site and called art.
How else can you connect with people overseas?
Rape and pillage your analytics. Find where your international customers are and learn more about their locale. It can't hurt.
Online art/craft communities such as Crafster, Cut out + Keep, DeviantArt, ect.
Social networks like Twitter (best bet), Facebook and Myspace (I include myspace because I hear people still use it) - Follow/friend some people from around the world- blogger is also a great place to meet new people from different places.
SEO for overseas- try tagging your items with alternate spellings- jewelry is jewellery in the U.K.
Show some good-old-fashioned Etsy Love to 'foreign' sellers Poland makes pretty much the best goth/metalhead clothing in the world.
Like what they like, make what they're making.- Decoden is JUST NOW getting some kind of popularity here in the states, and even the people wearing it have never heard the term before. Scope out trends in other countries (my favorite is Japan) to see what will be popular in a few years!
Good luck, y'all!
Monday
Sell-able Graphics Ideas
Know photoshop? Maybe you can create these customizable products and sell the files to online customers:
Logos
Business Cards
Banners & Icons for online stores such as the ones on Etsy, Artfire, and Zazzle.
Clip Art
Scrapbook Printables and Paper Sets
Printable Toys and Paper Models
Patterns, like sewing or crochet
Stencil Sets
Recipe cards or Cookbooks
Logos
Business Cards
Banners & Icons for online stores such as the ones on Etsy, Artfire, and Zazzle.
Clip Art
Scrapbook Printables and Paper Sets
Printable Toys and Paper Models
Patterns, like sewing or crochet
Stencil Sets
Recipe cards or Cookbooks
Sunday
I have Chlamydia!
Meet Chlamydia, the life-size art doll love-child of my two homoriffic friends- I tell you they're homoriffic because who else would name a giant creepy cloth mannequin "Chlamydia" ?
Anyways, Chlamydia has been taking a little arty vaycay at my house for the past few months. I originally borrowed her to photograph my jewelry on, but she was a little too eerie for my Etsy shop, which is saying something.
Friday
Custom Order, Da-da-da-dun!
Alyssa, a super-cool lady who owns an Apairy, sent me about 50 of her bees to use my jewelry :)
I've made her 2 pairs of earrings:
2 Necklaces:
AND
A Queen Bee brooch :
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