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Writers Spark: Interview with Brenda Salzano
by Emily Orpin on 7/31/10 | 0 Comment(s)
Love Writer print by dekanimal In the next edition of the Writers Spark series, we meet the multi-talented Brenda Salzano. Brenda works in a dizzying array of mediums – throughout her creative life she has sculpted, painted, made jewellery, spun, weaved (woved? woven? weavened? help!), and taken photographs! She is an …
Just Like Music: Retro Sounds On Etsy
by Emily Orpin on 7/21/10 | 8 Comment(s)
Art Block Set by John W. Golden
Do you have a go-to song for those times when you need to just relax, not think too much? A song that soothes and brings back happy memories? I bet, like me, you have a ton of them. I’ve been listening to one of my …
Writers Spark: Interview With Lisa LeBlanc
by Emily Orpin on 6/25/10 | 5 Comment(s)
Vintage Typewriter card set by The Craft Pantry I have to say I am really loving the interviews I’m doing for the Writers Spark series! It’s fascinating to hear the stories behind the blog writers on Handmade Spark – such a diversity of backgrounds and such a wealth of wit and wisdom. …
Quick Tip: Perfect Etsy Item Tags With Tag Report On Craftopolis
by Emily Orpin on 6/21/10 | 17 Comment(s)
I’m sure we are all familiar with Craftopolis – it’s a great site that supports Etsy sellers and give us some useful (and often addictive!) tools. Anyway, as I was checking in on the site this morning I noticed something rather exciting – the Tag Report! Have you seen it yet? …
Every Cloud… Etsy Cloud Finds
by Emily Orpin on 6/17/10 | 9 Comment(s)
Happy Rainbow vinyl wall art by Graphic Spaces Every cloud has a silver lining, or so they say. Do you think it’s just a throw away line? Or something that’s said because it’s true? Maybe it represents a glass-half-full way of looking at the world and maybe you have to actually …
Writers Spark: Interview With Amber Jordan (aka Mommy The Marketer)
by Emily Orpin on 6/15/10 | 5 Comment(s)
Typewriter necklace by Cute Ability Typewriter Necklace by Cute Ability In this installment of the ongoing Writers Spark series I interview Amber Jordan, aka Mommy The Marketer. A veritable font of marketing knowledge, Amber is a very busy lady! She maintains an Etsy shop (Tate Skye Designs), writes for Handmade Spark and …
Spark For You: Mash-Ups In Art
by Emily Orpin on 6/12/10 | 5 Comment(s)
Quirky Creatures" by Irit Cohen , Los Angeles
We all know about mash-ups in music – where an entirely new song is created from parts of other songs (ps. a big hello to my fellow Gleeks!) – but what about mash-ups in craft? On Etsy, you’ll find a bunch of people who …
International Shipping: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Emily Orpin on 5/29/10 | 20 Comment(s)
Air Mail labels by Squid Ink
I started thinking about writing this post over a month ago, and back then it would have simply been called ‘International Shipping: The Good’. But as I read through various blog posts and forum threads and spoke to other Etsy sellers, I began to realize …
