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Discover and share new ideas for selling your handmade jewelry. This friendly, creative website has over a thousand pages of articles, tips, and ideas for starting and growing your own successful handmade jewelry business. Learn how to sell your jewelry in all sorts of venues - including the Internet, shops and galleries, craft shows, home parties, etc. Also discover how to photograph your jewelry, write product descriptions, create your own jewelry business cards and jewelry tags, and more.
http://www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com
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Crafty Tip
If you're having trouble getting good photos of your jewelry, try using your computer's scanner instead of a digital camera. For small, fairly flat items like jewelry, you can often get really great shots simply by arranging your item on the scanner's glass, closing the lid, draping a dark cloth over the scanner to prevent any extra light from getting in - and scanning it! If you want to add a different background, you can carefully place a piece of fabric, scrapbooking paper, etc. on top of the jewelry you've arranged on the scanner glass.
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Discover and share clever new ways to display your handmade jewelry, plus creative ways to package it. Includes hundreds of crafty, DIY jewelry display projects you can make very cheaply or even free. Here jewelry artists share ideas, tips, and projects for making your own portable jewelry displays, earring displays, necklace racks, jewelry gift boxes, and more. Get inspired to set up your own creative jewelry booth, jewelry party display, or trunk show setup.
http://www.jewelry-display-ideas.com
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Crafty Tip
Setting up your jewelry booth before a show can take forever unless you arrive with your displays already loaded up with your jewelry. It's so much easier to pre-load your jewelry onto your displays at home a few days before the show, when you have the time to organize them nicely. Once your displays are loaded with jewelry, simply wrap a sheet of bubble wrap around each loaded jewelry display to protect everything and hold the jewelry in place. Then place the bubble-wrapped display in a trash bag, and set it inside a box or plastic tub for transporting to the show. At the show, you just unwrap your loaded jewelry displays and set them on the table. You've just shaved at least an hour off your setup time at the show!
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Creative Paper Mache truly is the art of recycling. It's not just about paper. It can be combined with all kinds of junk you would normally throw away. Turn your trash to treasure.
http://www.creative-paper-mache.com
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Crafty Tip
When crafting with kids it's always best to use child friendly pastes. We use plain old flour and water paste with a few drops of oil of cloves. It's non-toxic and the oil of cloves deters the little ones from tasting the paste and also prevents mould from forming on your work as it dries out.
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The Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild is a non-profit organization, dedicated to promote rug hooking as a fiber art form. It is located in Beaconsfield, 20 minutes from downtown Montreal, Canada. The web site provides information about this rug hooking guide, a gallery of members' rugs, tips on rugmaking, events calendar and a photo album.
http://www.beaconsfieldrughooking.com
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Crafty Tip
When hooking in a small area with a limited amount of space or when shading in a small area, remember this: if you zig-zag your loops, it will appear to have more colour and the next colours will fit between the previous loops and you will not get a striped look.
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Beautiful contemporary handmade jewelry created with high quality materials by artisan Simone Walsh. Made in Australia, delivery all over the world.
http://www.simonewalsh.com
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Crafty Tip
Make sure you have and always promote your own domain name when selling online, whether you use it for you own independent shop or have it redirect to an Etsy or Dawanda shop. This will protect your business and give you the ability to keep the same URL if you wish to set up an independent shop later.
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As professional bonsai dealers, we only sell the highest quality of trees and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
http://www.hbonsai.com
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Crafty Tip
Watering your bonsai after letting the soil get somewhat dry will allow air to circulate around the roots. Watering you bonsai while the soil is still moist can lead to root rot and the death of your tree.
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Tutorials and information on all jewelry making techniques, including polymer clay, chain mail, bead weaving and wire work. Read about what you need of tools and equipment and get detailed information on beads, gemstones and other types beads used for jewelry making.
http://www.jewelry-and-polymerclay-tutorial-heaven.com
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Crafty Tip
Did you know that you could glaze polymer clay beads with liquid polymer clay. You don't even have to sand them first.
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A place where you can find recent updates on my little collection of handmade friendship bracelets. These friendship bracelets are knotted by hand using embroidery threads, there are a variety of colors and designs!
http://www.thecolorfulcollection.blogspot.com
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Crafty Tip
If you friendship bracelet starts to twist, iron it flat!
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This is your one stop shop for handmade bath and body products that are affordable and full of skin-loving ingredients. You'll find handmade soaps, whipped body foams, bath bombs, lotions, and so much more in so many delicious scents! It's important to make time for yourself once in a while, and what better way to spend quality time alone than with luxurious products that are fit for a queen? Once you get a whiff of these dessert-like scents, you'll be forever hooked!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeasonsComeAndGlow
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Crafty Tip
When it comes to bath and body products, one must remember to use only the best, all-natural ingredients that can be found. It is no game when it comes to giving people products that can potentially be harmful to someone's well-being. Always list the ingredients and make sure you let others know that no matter how natural a product may be, it is best to use with caution by doing a spot test first. Quality comes not only from the ingredients that are chosen, but also from the great care and service that comes along with the products.
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Beads, gemstones, crystals, pearls, findings and beading supplies. Price breaks for wholesale customers.
http://www.beadonbeads.com
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Crafty Tip
When presenting your craft on internet, the color of picture is critical to the success of the website. Without hiring an expensive photo professional, You can achieve a desired effect by using white balance feature of most DSLR camera with a cheap bright white bulb.
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