When my customers buy work from me it generally arrives in a fairly shoddy looking cardboard box which I collected from the supermarket and reused. I am aware that this does not give the feeling of value and quality that I feel for my work. I know how wonderful it feels opening beautiful, well designed packaging, the Apple company has…
Websites are great for craftspeople to sell work if you have repeatable items. They are not so easy for one off pieces as creating a webpage with photos and details takes time this is OK if your pieces are hundreds of pounds but for £20 piece it can take as long to update all the details as it took to…
I am back from a fantastic time in Galicia, Spain. I have lots of pictures and some very interesting things to share which will take several posts so I’ll start with the thing that paid for the trip which was teaching on a short course on internet marketing for craftspeople. This is Cristosend Galicia home of Lluis and Anna who…
These are some new porringers I turned a while ago and are now dry, oiled and ready to go. I photographed them with a new lens I treated myself to out of my Artisan of the year money. It’s a canon 85mm f1.8 for the technically minded but the beauty of it is that it takes great pictures in low…
I am just back from a long weekend selling my bowls. The event was a historical re-enactors market, these are the folk that you may have seen recreating battles from various periods or working in historic houses bringing history to life. That side of the hobby is called living history and particularly folk who specialise in the medieval, dark age…
