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How to Paint a Design on Leather Goods - dwain
How to Paint a Design on Leather Goods Sometimes your leather goods need a little help and you've got the urge to dye or paint it. With dye it's pretty straight forward, but if you want to paint it there's a little more involved to make it look good. Whenever you are attempting a project like... Submitted 6 years 165 days ago.

Leather Work Tips - dwain
Leather Work Tips For leather work, consider the basics: an awl and spare point, a retractable X-acto knife and spare blades, a retractable knife with a break-off blade and a rotary punch. In addition, you’ll need needles, a lump of beeswax and some waxed linen thread. As well, a pair of... Submitted 6 years 185 days ago.

7 Steps to Selling Artwork - Steve Popkin
Selling arwork is easy when you follow a road map. In this article you learn the step by step guide to marketing art for profits. Now onto the plan! 1. Decide that you want to sell your artwork! Now, I know this sounds ridiculous on the surface but look at it a little deeper. Many... Submitted 6 years 186 days ago.

How to make a hemp necklace - dorirose
Have you ever thought about making your own hemp necklace but thought it would probably just be too difficult or take too much time? Well have no fear! I am Doris Rose and I am here to guide you step by step through the process of making a beautiful hemp necklace. You will need the following... Submitted 6 years 189 days ago.

Don't let them see you sweat! The art of Performing Magic! - dsemeniuk
The Art of Performing Magic We’ve all been there. Our hands are sweaty, your heart is racing and your hands are shaking like a leaf. Yes, I am talking about trying to pull off your first magic trick that you just learned. You are excited to show your friends and family your amazing trick... Submitted 6 years 192 days ago.

Insider Tips to Quadruple Your Art Show Sales - Steve Popkin
At a recent art show, I could not help but notice that not everyone's day was going as well as mine! As I experienced a constant stream of people flooding into my booth and buying my artwork, my neighbors were sitting idle and waiting. Not only did I have people buzzing in and around my booth... Submitted 6 years 193 days ago.

How to set up for an Art/Craft Show- Checklist - Victoria Case
There's nothing worse than setting up a great booth, and right before show time, realize there's something you have forgotten. So, I created a checklist for myself which I recommend for anyone planning to attend an event. Of course, depending upon what you sell, yours will have other items to... Submitted 6 years 203 days ago.

How To Create A Successful Craft Show Display - Victoria Case
A great display is everything for success at an Art/Craft show. I recommend that you set-up a practice display at least two weeks prior to the show. Most shows offer an 8x10 or 10x10 space. A great place to re-create your display is in a garage. Mask off the dimensions with duct tape on the... Submitted 6 years 203 days ago.

Re-cycled Denim for Crafts - - Jessie Eldora
Sewing A Blue Jeans Diary Cover . Here are the supplies and instructions needed to create a Blue Jeans Diary Cover. Supplies: Adult pant leg from old blue jeans About 3" of the waist band from jeans, including the button and button hole area Blue jean pocket... Submitted 223 days ago.

The human body is like a walking temple. Shape, Form, Rhythm and Colour. - - Donna Calitz
That well known impressionistic sculptor, August Rodin, said: “The human body is like a walking temple, and like a temple it has a central point around which the volumes place and spread themselves." I like to think about the body as “Poetry in Motion." There are four values of good posture... Submitted 1 year 68 days ago.

“The Art of Letting Your Creative Juices Flow”© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
This week a question came via the telephone and the caller asked, "What exactly is the "Friday Night Club" and could anyone attend? There are lots of "Friday Night Clubs" all over the world. However, at Avalon Stained Glass School & Creativity Center it is a place where people can come with... Submitted 1 year 90 days ago.

“The Art of Watercolor Journaling”© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I write a weekly column called, "Art Only Spoken Here" for our local newspaper and I get a lot of questions emailed to me. This week's email question asked me "What is watercolor journaling"? Watercolor journaling is nothing more than keeping a daily journal with sketches or drawings, or... Submitted 1 year 99 days ago.

5 Expert Tips for Drawing Your Own Graffiti - - MsJughead
Creating graffiti is a fun and worthwhile activity that everyone can do. It is an art of expressing oneself through creative writing or drawing on a wall or surface. The uniqueness of graffiti art is brought about its urban and funky theme. For starters, it would be very frustrating to create... Submitted 1 year 127 days ago.

Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas: How to Wrap Presents With Style - - MsJughead
Holidays are fast approaching. In preparation with these upcoming festive events or any other special occasions such as birthdays, christening, showers and weddings, a neat, presentable and fancy wrapped presents will surely give an extra "oomph" to any simple gift. Gift wrapping is an applied... Submitted 1 year 127 days ago.

The Bookbinders Finishing Press - Richard Norman
Traditional wooden bookbinding equipment, such as the sewing frame, finishing press and lying press have traditionally been made from seasoned beech, nowadays kiln dried beech is used and is a fine wood provided it has been dried properly. Off all the items of equipment the finishing press is... Submitted 1 year 169 days ago.

Quilt Making - Pinning & Pressing for Perfect Points - Pauline Rogers
Once you've cut your pieces you're ready to move on to constructing your patchwork blocks. A " seam allowance is used in piecing. Before you start to stitch check that the " foot of your sewing machine matches the " on your ruler. To do so put one of your rulers under the sewing machine's foot... Submitted 1 year 172 days ago.

Quilt Making - Hints for Accurate Machine Piecing - Pauline Rogers
1. One trick to achieve accurate piecing is to only use one brand of ruler on your project. Different brands will have slight variations (sometimes more than slight in inferior products) resulting in a different measurement. 2. Chain piecing turns your sewing machine into an amazing assembly... Submitted 1 year 172 days ago.

Making Jewelry For Fun and Profit - m5940
The Job market is very challenging with millions of jobs lost since the start of the recession. There are so many families struggling to make ends meet. Homes have been foreclosed at record rates and delinquency is still an alarming problem. Many Retirements saving have been almost or totally... Submitted 1 year 172 days ago.

I Never Think of Death© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I never think of death, but I am profoundly aware, at the age of 75, that the greater part of my life is behind me. At this time of the year there is virtually no window in my home that I can look out of that does not reflect the efforts of my gardening with brilliant colors. From the first... Submitted 1 year 271 days ago.

Review: How to Sell Your Art without Selling Out created by Steve Popkin - - Kylie Guthrie
Steve Popkin's How to Sell Your Art without Selling Out' e-course has been implemented by a multitude of artists located all over the globe. The course consists of 27 presentations, each presentation centred on a unique and incredibly valuable topic for the developing artist. The entire course is... Submitted 1 year 285 days ago.

Connecting Your Art Business and the Internet - - Kylie Guthrie
So, you're an artist who's passionate about your work too? Unfortunately, as artists we need to be able to not only make art that inspires us, but also art that sells so we can continue doing what we love. But how can we do this? Well, there is a very powerful marketing tool for all artists... Submitted 1 year 285 days ago.

5 Simple Steps to Sell Your Art! - - Kylie Guthrie
Whether you've been creating art for years, or if you've finally given in to the artist inside, here's a simple and easy-to-implement guideline to help you sell your art. Step 1: Before you go about figuring out how to sell your art, decide whether you do want to sell your art. ... Submitted 1 year 286 days ago.

How to Price Your Art to Sell - - Kylie Guthrie
As artists we like to focus on the making of art, not so much the selling of it, right? But in order to continue making our art and doing what we love, we need to be able to sell it. So the number one question artists will always ask is... "How do I price my art?" Well, that is a very... Submitted 1 year 291 days ago.

The Horseman Doll The Early Years: Circa 1870-1925 - Lawanna Beam
This is the first of a series on Vintage and Antique Dolls The Early Dolls Years: Circa 1870-1918 Horseman Dolls, Inc., formerly the E.I. Horseman Doll c Company, Inc., is one of the oldest doll manufacturers. It was founded in New York during the Mid-Nineteenth century, circa 1865 by... Submitted 1 year 307 days ago.

Model Steam Trains - A Classic that Never Grows Old - Jimmy Hardwick
If you have the money to invest, model steam trains are a great addition to your train collection. They have long been the fascination of people of means, but you may find some bargains on some smaller versions. If you thought that live steam trains were only available in the larger scales, you... Submitted 2 years 53 days ago.