Hi Lauren
I'm a new fan of yours and am so inspired by you! I've always been a crafter and loved being creative since I was little and I still love it. I love sculpting, and drawing, but mostly sewing things like plushies. I've even decided to take it to the next level and want to start selling my crafts! The only problem is I have no idea how to start. Do you have any tips on starting selling your products and finding the time and patience to produce so many crafts? Thanks so much!
-Jessie
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To start, I'd say that you should think about concepts for your shop. What kinds of products do you want to sell? What ties them together? What will you call it? Once you have a name, you can sign up for a site like Etsy, get social media, etc so nobody takes it. It's definitely good to start your shop with at least a few finished products, so once you've thought out your concept, work on designs and make things until you're happy enough with them that you'd like to sell them. If you need help coming up with ideas for product photography, listing descriptions, policies, and your shop bio, look around at other stores you admire to see how they do it and apply your unique concept to those starting points.
As far as finding the time and patience to produce your crafts, that's totally up to you. You decide how much of a time commitment you are able and eager to put into it. If you just want to work occasionally when you feel like it, do that. If you want to set a schedule, go for it!
Hey Lauren! I am AK from India! I am 13 years old and I really like your music! I wanted some advice on starting a wrock band. I can't attend any shows (I live pretty far off you see) so that's why I thought of it! I do sing and I do write music! I just don't know what to do? How do you start a band? It is an impossible task to find any members!
Lauren Fairweather responded on 12/26/2014 Next questionHi Lauren!
I would like to start making plusies like you (but for myself, not for selling) and I would like to know where are you buying your fabric? If you buy it online, can you give me the site? And I wanted to know how do you sew eyes on your plushies? Are they embroidered? Or if you do that by hand, can you show how you do this in a video? Thanks for answering and I hope you'll understand because english isn't my first language :p
Ps: I loooooove what you do.
-Audrey