Having found a way of recycling some old cloudy glasses, as mentioned in my last blog, I am quite pleased with the result. I had fun, just going with the flow as the end product is for me. I love experimenting with designs and luckily with Pebeo vitrea glass paints you can wipe away mistakes …
I wasn’t sure I’d write a blog today, having been concentrating on the mundane admin tasks. Didn’t think reading about book-keeping, tax returns and printing business cards would be too exciting! However I’ve just had a lightbulb moment. I have some old drinking glasses that are cloudy and definitely past their best and today bought …
So much for flaming June. I went to Exmouth beach today, a slight detour from delivering a dog portrait, well any excuse! The beach was deserted, the wind blowing a gale, forboding clouds and I’ve seen it busier in winter. I think everyone was hibernating after getting soaked yesterday. On the plus side the water …
Good advice here for all you artistic people.
This weeks theme is sunflowers, inspired by a commission and the fact that I’ve grown some from seed. Last year I had a monster sunflower: As you can imagine this produced a lot of seed. Some went to the birds and I planted a few seeds but to my dismay 3 of the young plants …
Love these BT boxes, such a great idea.
So that I don’t miss my target of 2-3 blogs a week here is a short one. I’ve called this post ‘Crafty ups and downs’ because there are bound to be some! Since my last blog I’ve made new listings on both Folksy (made to order hand painted photo frames) and Etsy (flower champagne glasses), …
This will be my first blog in ‘real time’! I have just set up an Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/arpglassdesigns, which I naively thought wouldn’t take too long as I’d already opened a shop on Folksy. It took most of yesterday and into the evening! First up is entering your profile and policies. I spent quite a …
All the advice is you must have an on-line presence these days. I’m quite good with computers but they do seem to take up so much time without you realising! I had a personal face-book profile, so a face-book business page was the obvious place to start. I had already decided on my business name …
I continued to do two mini markets a month and with the run up to Christmas increased my sales month on month. With this boost in confidence I got into my first shop. It actually happened in a spontaneous, unplanned way. I went into an independent shop that sold handmade glass coasters and enquired if …
