"How to Approach stores to sell your handmade items" by Enthral

Luckily all my wholesale orders have all been from people approaching me. I have yet to actually approach any store owners or buyers on my own. However I have experience a decline with in the last 6 months and have thought about entertaining the idea. Which brings me to today’s “Tuesdays How To” I am so excited to share this one with you! I found a great one at http://www.enthral-enthral.blogspot.com/ Enthral has 10 great steps for “How to Approach stores to sell your handmade items” I found them to be very helpful and plan on trying the steps out for myself.
For those of you who don’t know Enthral, she is a very talented jewelry artist who sells both on Etsy as well as Artfire, she does some amazing work. I really enjoy her style not to mention she has really great prices! What I love about her style is that she tries to focuses on pairing vintage pieces with new ones to make a one of a kind jewelry piece. Like this Rose and Heart Necklace the heart is new but the rose is Vintage, I think they are so pretty paired togeather. I love anything recycled especially when they end up looking this beautiful!

How to make Valentines Boxes!

So I was thinking how can I make “How to Tuesday” fit in with my valentines theme and then it hit me everyone needs to know how to make a box for all those valentines gifts! So off I went in search for a good how to. I didn’t think it was going to be so hard! I finally found one worthy to share with all of you. It has great step by step directions and even better, great photos! For people like me who just need to see the next step to understand the first. lol Anyways Poetic Purl blog is where I found it she even has two. one for a tall box and the other for a short box! Hope you enjoy this Tuesday How to brought to you by Poetic Purl, by all means if you know of a great tutorial for Valentines feel free to share it with all of us in the comment, all urls are more then welcome to be posted!

Bottle Cap How To Tuesday!

Have you ever wondered how they make those adorable bottle caps on Etsy? Well I stumbled upon a great “Bottle Cap How To” that will tell you! Bottle Caps Galore was kind enough to allow me to share it with you all, she has a great tutorial on her blog, which gives you step by step directions along with pictures, which shows her viewers how she makes such adorable bottle caps! She also has a list of all the supplies you will need for creating your bottle cap. But then again if your “craft challenged” like me, you could always purchase your bottle cap’s already made from her Etsy store Bottle Caps Galore. She has a ton of designs to choose from!

How To Tuesdays!

So starting today every Tuesday will be “How To Tuesday” I will be keeping my eye’s out for “how to tutorials” to share with all of you. I will also be sharing some of the best supplies shops online were you can find everything you need. I hope everyone enjoys Tuesdays from now on and are inspired to get crafty!

Today’s How to is brought you by FerragamoStudio.blogspot.com There you will find a great tutorial on “How to sew a groovy Fish soft toy” she has a list of all the materials you need and great step by step directions. However if you are like me and are “sewing machine challenge” and prefer to leave it up to the experts you can find some already sewn toys in your Etsy shop http://www.ferragamostudio.etsy.com

So the list of materials needed,

Materials :
Cotton fabric, I would recommend Material Girl Shoppe
Wool blend felt, I would recommend Stray Notions
Batting also found at your local craft store
Embroidery floss, I would recommend A Tiny Sweatshop (The Etsy store not an actual Sweatshop! lol )
Polyfil found at your local craft store
And lastly matching Thread