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Pricing Your Work Part 1: the nitty gritty of running the numbers
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...
Creative Ways for Working with Handmade Yarn
Working with hand dyed and handspun yarn can be a pain in the ass. I get it! When I was selling handed yarn it was the one question I was asked the most often...What can I make with this. It is one thing to fall in love with an interesting yarn, an another thing...
Am I good enough to be a fiber artist?
Yes. Last month I saw an exhibit of painted and stitched tissue paper hanging from the ceiling. It was fiber art exhibited in a gallery. My lizard brain stood in front of this work gobsmacked, all it saw was colorful tissue paper. My creative brain saw movement color...
Making bad art on purpose
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...
Using Mercury Retrograde to Make Better Art
Mercury Retrograde is real y'all. And it went into effect Sunday. I am not gonna lie...I actually LOVE Mercury Retrograde these days. But that was not always the case. What the retrograde is, as Mercury is winding its way around the sun the view of this on earth puts...
