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How other people react when you take up crafty hobbies or start your own creative business can be fascinating - from the well-intentioned questions, to the outright frustrating expectations, your friends and family need time to adapt to your new life choices! My last blog post about 5 ways people react when you start making jewellery got a lot of reactions, with makers and creatives from across different media sharing their own tales of comedy or woe. Some of those situations I've known, some I've never thought about, so I've come back to the topic for a special commenter edition, with 5 (more) ways people react when you make handmade.  1. "Look! You could make this/Could you make me one of these?"It's painful to see your name tagged in a social media post, with someone asking you outright "This is lovely! Could you make me one?". No. Because I have my own ideas, my own styles, and I'm not going to steal the work of another person. Buy it from them!
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Free P&P is a lie might sound like a heck of a statement, but it is true. Regardless of who you are ordering from, all businesses have to pay someone else for the postage/van/bike to get things to you, and for the packaging to keep it safe along the way. Often you are paying when you order something with free P&P, it's just you can't see the cost rolled into the single price you pay. Or the business sucks up a bit of the cost to give you a more appealing offer/free P&P triggers for purchases over a certain amount - designed to entice buyers into spending more. For a while I've been combining rolling in and sucking up the costs, offering you free UK P&P on my Etsy shop. But with the latest increase in postage prices, I've got to stop. The short version - What's changingFrom Monday February 1st, I'll be...
That's sort of all you need to know, but making this big of a change (which still doesn't pass on all the costs to you), it feels fair to explain what's going on behind it. Read on for a look into small biz life! The long version - Peek behind the mathsI'd known for a while that my P&P was out of balance, and I did tweak international prices, but 2020 didn't feel like the year to drop major changes on folks in the UK! Royal Mail's price increases in January 2021 have been the catalyst.  Let's look at what the UK postage and packaging costs to send you a standard item, let's say a £7 Cat pin
You get to see a lot of things from behind a trader’s table at makers’ markets and craft fairs, and meet quite the range of people! I've been selling at a variety of events since I was a teenager, so have decided to share some of my experiences. Some of these tales are cautionary, some simply amusing, but all of them, honestly are true! This particular post was first published in creative-crafting.com online magazine. Planning, Preparation, and Panic.Going to your first event as a stallholder is usually a little nerve wracking. But imagine how much more of an emotional roller coaster it is to arrive, and realise you probably needed to bring more than just stock, a price list and a float! There’s a lot of advice out there for first time stallholders, from Pinterest boards packed with stall layout ideas, to lists handily summarising what you’ll want to take on the day. It can be a bit bewildering… You need to decide to label individually, or have a price list? Display on rustic wooden shelves, or crisp acrylic displays?  |
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