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Having a color crisis? These blogs might help
by Emily Orpin on 4/26/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Rainbow wool by Tiny Dino Studios
Have you been following Viviana Izzo’s fabulously useful ‘Marketing through colors‘ series here on Handmade Spark? Viviana has been taking us through the rainbow, discussing the myth and meaning of each color and then (my favorite bit) providing us all with a long list of …
Spark Tweets: Who is Your Craft Icon?
by Emily Orpin on 4/04/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Night Sky Pendant by Stuff By Xtine
In March, @handmadespark and me (@ejorpin) asked all the crafty and arty tweeters to tell us who their craft icon is – who they admire, who they turn to for inspiration and motivation. Some familiar names cropped up and I was also introduced to some new …
An Artist’s Guide to Pricing: An ebook by Brandi Hussey
by Emily Orpin on 3/25/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Do you ever come across a resource that is so helpful that you just have to tweet it and blog it and Facebook it to the world? Well, that’s exactly how I feel about this guide to pricing, which I stumbled upon thanks to @danniellecresp). It’s put together by the …
Crafting Your Business Abroad: Interview with Etsy Expat Victoria Elson
by Emily Orpin on 3/19/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
These days I’m a stranger in a strange land after following my hardworking husband to Asia. For me, being an expat is what has allowed me to pursue my creative dreams, more so than if I had of stayed at home, in Australia. I adore living in such a vibrant …
Definitions of Creativity: An Occasional Series…
by Emily Orpin on 3/04/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
How do you define creativity? How would you describe the creative process? This is something I struggle with so I’m always excited when I stumble across a definition of the creative process that makes me think ‘yes! that’s it!’.
Recently I’ve been re-reading Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, which is basically …
Spark Tweets: What Inspires You?
by Emily Orpin on 2/23/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Expand into Dreams | $60 | Stephey Baker
For February’s Spark Tweets, @handmadespark and me (@ejorpin) asked all you lovely people who follow us on Twitter to tell us a bit about the things that inspire you, the things that drive your creative spark. And wow, what a fabulous response – thank …
Handmade Love: A Collection of Crafty How-To’s
by Emily Orpin on 2/13/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Three heart dish | $22 | dkpottery
Let’s say that you started off on the anti-Valentine’s path but you’ve kind of succumbed to the pressure to do something at least mildly romantic on February 14th. Or perhaps you always liked the idea of Valentine’s Day but just lost track of what …
An Unhappy Valentine’s
by Emily Orpin on 2/10/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Screw You necklace | $59.99 | ecoblingcouture
It’s positively inescapable that we are coming up to that rosy red, sugary pink time of year that some of us loathe. That time of year when retailers convince us that we don’t really love our loved one unless we shower them with flowers and …
