You got in! You beat the 4 to 1 odds of making it into Crafty Bastards. Whether this is your first or fourth year, you must be saying, “Now what?!”Last year’s show brought in nearly 15,000 shoppers. This is a unique opportunity to reach an amazing number of people. What fresh and brilliant goodies are [...]

My wee microbrand made its 500th sale on Etsy.com last night. While this by no means makes me a top seller on the internet’s best source for handmade goods, I will say that I have some mad skills. And lucky for you, I wanna share. So, let’s go, Etsy 101. In case you don’t know, [...]

I never respected my poor Print Gocco until she was gone. Over the four years that she was the main tool of my craft, I treated her super bad. I stored her in a closet under shoes, dropped her dozens of times, let my twins knock her off of a chair, never cleaned her, never [...]