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Author :: Laura Kay  |
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| Article Title :: Tips For Selling at Craft Shows |
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About the only thing I enjoy more than creating my bead jewelry
at home is selling my bead jewelry at local craft shows and
fairs! I've attended hundreds of craft shows and partipated in
fair number myself. I am always dismayed, however, to see
beautiful jewelry and pieces that don't sell at shows simply
because the artisan forgot some very basic rules of working at
craft shows.
Here are some of the helpful pieces of advice and tips I can
offer to the beginner bead jewelry artist and anyone else who is
just starting out selling to craft shows:
1. Know Your Audience: Try to get a sense of what sort of crowd
you are going to encounter at your upcoming craft show and cater
your inventory to (read full article) |
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Author :: Bill Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Give Your Customers More Than Promises |
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Almost all customers love free stuff. This is a lesson that I
learned many years ago. I always try to offer a customer
something that is free. Customers remember the free item more
than items that they buy. Of all the different types of adds
that I have run over the years, its the free offers that people
cut out and save. After all think about ccoupons that people
save. They don't collect product adds they will collect coupons.
That is why I like to always advertise my free items. I even
plan days around free give aways. When customers are at nursery
I will even make up a free offer on the spot many times such as
when I ask the customer, " Do you know what day it is? Do you
know its free LI (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Bill Hirst |
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| Article Title :: A New E-Commerce.com- Hunting Site For Meteorites |
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Our family has just started a new web site to promote our
Ranches for meteorite hunting. In the next year we will open
app. 50,000 acres of private lands to meteorite hunters. We
beleive that this hunt is a great way to explore the universe.
Find rocks from far away places.
Each year ten of thousands of meteorites hit the earth. They
are worth big dollars to the finders. In fact they are worth
more than gold. You might say they are black gold. This is your
chance to find one. You also will be able to say that you have
entered the Twilight Zone.
Did you ever go on a strange vacation? Well this one is out of
this world. When you come to Truth or Consequences to see the
new space station th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Andrea Stephenson |
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| Article Title :: Things To Do With Newspaper |
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Back in my teaching days we were always looking for ways to make
education entertaining on a low budget. However, the idea that
follows is not just useful for educators but also anybody who is
looking for something to pass a rainy day indoors without having
your children glued to the television.
You will need:
As much newspaper as possible Tape Some picture books /
magazines showing clothing
The first step is to be realistic. Choose a picture of a costume
that will present a challenge but is within the abilities of the
age range carrying out the project. It may be a supermodel's
latest fantastic showpiece from Milan or a historical outfit: a
Samurai, a Geisha and a Victorian lady's crino (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Todd Harris |
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| Article Title :: Hatching and Cross-Hatching |
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Hatching and Cross-hatching
Hatching is a shading method where lines are in a series of
either parallel or radiating. Hatching is making a set of close
parallel lines. When hatching, an artist's pencil moves in a
rhythmic manner to get the lines evenly spaced, gradually making
the lines longer and then shorter in length. Hatching is a skill
that requires a lot of practice and still can be difficult in
certain situations, even for the skilled artist.
Hatching is a little different for right- handed artists, than
left- handed ones. For the right- handed artist, hatching is
done the easiest by the diagonal running from the lower left to
the upper right. Left- handed artists usually the opp (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Todd Harris |
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| Article Title :: Shading Made Simple! |
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Shading
Shading is an important skill for every artist to develop.
Shading requires certain tools and steps to be developed in
order to master.
The ability to shade is determined on how well you can see value
relationships, along with a basic understanding of how light
works. Value, or how light or dark something is, is relative.
Like many things artists experience, no single value can exist
by itself. Our eye will automatically lighten or darken. A
medium grey will look almost white next to black and very dark
next to white. When determining value, it is important to squint
or open your eyes very wide. This keeps you from focusing in on
a single value and look at all of the value rel (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Todd Harris |
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| Article Title :: How to Contour Draw and the Benefits |
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How to Contour Draw and the Benefits...
Making a contour drawing may seem a little overwhelming or
pointless to you. Let me say there are a great many advantages
and lessons learned through doing these drawings.
First, let's discuss what a contour drawing is. Before you can
draw the human form, or anything else for that matter, you must
be able to see it accurately. Contour drawing is a tool that
helps artists develop this skill through the sense of sight and
sense of touch.
The contour is the edge of the model in space, or in more simple
terms, it is the outline or horizon of the form. Contour is more
than the outline; it shows forms within overlapping other forms
and so on. It create (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Robbie Darmona |
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| Article Title :: Different Embroidery Frames |
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There are different types of embroidery frames. Sometimes, the
mere choosing of the most proper embroidery frame for your
canvas can be as exasperating as the stitching itself. That is
why you should be presented with the various opportunities that
different embroidery frames offer. The first opportunity is not
to pick up any embroidery frame. In some cases frames are not
necessary, as in canvas work, like painted canvas kits, tassels
and Hapsberg lace samples.
Another thing to have in mind is that embroidery frames differ
in their price. The inexpensive frames are suitable in some
cases, but can be inappropriate in more sophisticated embroidery
projects. The inexpensive frames are Ring (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Carmel Baird |
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| Article Title :: The More You Sew The More You Collect. |
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The More You Sew The More You Collect.
Don't we collect a lot? The more you sew, the more you collect.
There are the threads, before we go any further, while we are on
about threads, don't be tempted to buy up cheap threads when
they are on special. No use sewing with good fabric and using
cheap sewing thread, it has a habit of fuzzing and breaking when
you don't want it to.
For storing anything to do with your sewing, you need to be able
to see what you are looking for. So containers that are clear
and zip lock plastic lunch bags can get you organised very
quickly.
The zip lock bags come in various sizes and you can also get the
'throwaway' storage containers in various sizes too. Chec (read full article) |
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| Category :: Hobbies Articles |
Author :: Felix Zhucha |
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| Article Title :: What is Macro Photography? |
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One of the most satisfying forms of photography, and one of the
easiest to master is macro photography.
A practical way for defining macro photography is by the
strength of the lens, or how nearby it can focus. For true macro
photography, you'll want to have a lens that focuses down to a
1:1 range. For example,for 35mm film,your camera has to have the
ability to focus on an area at least as small as 24×36mm
,because this is the size of the image on the film.After having
the film developed,the picture of the subject on the negative or
slide will be exactly the same size as the subject photographed.
What makes macro photography seductive is the level of detail
that you see, sometimes for t (read full article) |
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