Thursday, June 4, 2009

Work is play and play is work....

Hello friends!

I don't remember where I found this. I remember saving it to my computer and thinking to myself that this, in my mind, is how I want to live. This is so inspiring to me that it has motivated me to get organized (somewhat) and start selling my creations. I hope it inspires you in some way!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The way it is when your work is your play and your play is your work. Your life is all yours and you have no one to answer to or hide behind but yourself and you are free to go just as far and just as fast as your native talents and energies and desires will allow. Which is a whole lot more satisfying than having your existence busted up by the "experts" into little chunks, neatly packaged in airtight boxes labeled "work" and "play" and then fed back to you piecemeal at some federally mandated pace.

And that most of us now sit around vacantly watching garbage on the boob tube each evening, instead of laughing and talking to each other while we knit our own sweaters and whittle our own art objects...and that very few of us now make our work our play and our play our work...and that only a handful of us even understand the inner workings of a car or tractor (let alone are capable of building one that is better than any you can buy, using only simple hand tools)...and that most of us now spend our days doing what we are told, instead of what our souls cry out for us to do...

Author Unknown


<3 EMarie

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Soon to come....

Hello my friends!

I have been busy this week researching packaging and labeling for all my goodies before I actually put everything out on the web for sale. I am going to be uploading some wares to my Artfire store front by the weekend. I will not have the packaging sorted out by then, so why make you, the greatest customers, wait to be able to wear some of my lovely things?

My Artfire store front web address is:
http://EMarie.artfire.com

I have 3 items up right now and will be uploading more items this weekend. Oh, I can't wait! Hope you can get a chance to drop in sometime this weekend!

<3
EMarie

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Handmade Is Awesome!





www.handmadenews.org

I found this site about a week ago and it's a great place to see other crafty people being successful in their business. It's a great place to find sources for handmade goodies! The site also has articles on Craft Trends, Marketing, Craft Techniques, Crafty Kids and stuff Just For Fun!

<3
EMarie