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Pricing Your Work Part 2: Getting Paid

The Business of being an artist | 1 Comment

Alright Fiberista's so, last week I shared with you the basic formula for finding the number that will support your work. And I spent a lot of time making the case for why you should charge according to that number even if you do not think you need the money or are...

Pricing Your Work Part 1: the nitty gritty of running the numbers

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It is a question I get asked a lot: How do I price my work? I get it it is so very hard to know how to place value on art work in general. But as far as pricing hand knits and crochet, hand made yarns and fibers it can seem so much more confusing. I mean heck, you can...

Making bad art on purpose

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I am in a place of making a lot of mistakes with my ceramics. I joke that I am actually making a bunch of very large test tiles that holds large quantities of coffee. One of the teachers in the studio suggested I make actual tiles to test techniques and glazes. And...

Studio day

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Big Little Lies

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I am a big fan of most of HBOs series. This one was really quite good. Great soundtrack, beautiful location(ahhhh.. Monterey, CA in those gorgeous big houses along the coast. Great casting. But I have to tell ya' the ending was a bit confusing like some details...

Today’s art meditation

Art Journaling for fiber artists., Creative woo, everyday life | 0 Comments

Usually I sit down to journal with nothing more than some washi tape and maybe a good thin sharpie pen. Today I am adding some props and a little soul work. I didn't realize I was feeling so anxious, but today found myself officially on anxiety meds. So working some...

Today’s page

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I am all about using my every day ephemera. No combing the antique stores for vintage photo to add butterfly wings and dunce caps to. No weird vintage medical or botanical illos. That is not a record or influence of observing my day. And for fuck sake it has all been...

Friday 5: Five random pix from my week

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I am writing this from my phone. How awesome is it that I can blog from my phone anywhere, like in the car, or on the John. I swear I am not blogging this from the John. I am however hanging out in the living room, don't want to go downstairs to the studio computer...

I am having one of those days

Essential Oils, everyday life | 4 Comments

I am having one of those days... Paying the bills makes me grumpy... I have a feeling I am missing something major. I got turned around 3 times today running errands. And here in Cary that means driving in circles within circles. I ended up going to 3 different...

Making Fiber Art: It is all in the details

dyeing fiber and yarn, How to think like an artist, What I am working on, yarn spinning | 7 Comments

Check this out. This is my most recent yarn... It was made from this fiber I dyed a couple of weeks ago. The first in the new dye space. So this fiber was a miss mash of mill ends, farm wool, angora from my late great bunnies, and sole roving ends. I could not tell...

100 day project

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I know this is totally last minute, but do I dare to make the blog my 100 day project? It certainly would stretch my comfort zone. But then again it would totally fullfill one of my big fat business goals-- blog more. I mean a part of me wanted to fold the...

The 5 Keys to Making Art You Love

How to think like an artist, The Business of being an artist | 2 Comments

For the longest time, the idea of making a body of work and really embracing the idea of being an artist was just overwhelming for me. I have always done creative stuff. Not just little crafts. I would take art classes and learn some intensive techniques like...