tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55721107411932446522012-02-08T11:39:15.349-08:00This blog is about artists and craftsmen/women and how they can sell online, new artists and craftsman online and about artisansmarket.com, an e-commerce website that promotes artists and craftsman/womenMawwerks!http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342715562181681183noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5572110741193244652.post-29452655502464927442008-06-30T08:00:00.000-07:002008-06-30T08:14:54.255-07:00

There is a lot of soap out there on the market. You'll see it everywhere, the traditional locations of course, health food stores, bath and body stores, specialty stores even boutiques are carrying their own personal line of some type of handmade soap. Craft stores sell all the makings and mold so even the most novice can make a bar of soap. BUT nobody makes a bar of soap like Sweet Harvest Homes

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Bob Dickey has done it again. Producing wonderful handcrafted boxes for all to enjoy. the two samples shown are some of his newest work. A Honduran Rosewood box and a Spalted Maple box. Don't know anything about Honduras, its wood or what Spalting is then please go to Bob Dickey's ArtisansMarket.com Gallery and check it out. Each box has a detailed description of the box, what it is made of and

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Rocks, they are everywhere, literally so what makes them so special. Well let us count the ways. For one, each rock is unique with patterns and colors galore. It has only really been in the last 20 years that the general public has really taken an interest in all stones. Traditionally diamonds, ruby's emeralds and other precious stones have always been the focus for the majority of the public.

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Sue Ziegler an ArtisansMarket.com artist has brought an intriguing and unique craft to our marketplace.Sue carves wonderful pictures into the shell of Emu Eggs creating a wonderful work of art that is just incredible.Are you a horse person? love flowers? what about a humming bird in flight all can be seen in the delicate work of Sue Ziegler. Her gallery is features a number of wonderful designs

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Candlelight, it transforms the room, creates the mood and brings literally to light emotional responses that are deep and sincere.I think the two most intense emotions that are brought to my mind are spiritual and romantic in nature.Both enhanced by the created subdued light of a flickering flame.Myrna Johnson an ArtisansMarket.com gives to us the most unique everlasting candle. Her Ikebana lamps

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OK, I have gone on and on about what a woman wants and we all know that jewelry is a big gal pleaser but where does she put all those wonderful treasures that are given with so much love.ArtisansMarket.com has the answer, Bob Dickey! Bob is a wonderful wood box artist, yes that's right wood boxes he creates the most incredible boxes from many different types of exotic wood.Never fear if

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OK so I am headed back down the jewelry road and how important adornment is to women well OK now days its important to all of us. It Does not matter what country your in what group of people might be present adornment is common ground.In America, well lets just say we are definitely “ate up with it” “just cannot get enough of it” and “don’t leave home with out it”.That’s why ArtisansMarket.com

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We all find it hard to come up with that unusual and different gift to give our parents, grandparents, uncles’ aunts etc., the people who raised us and made sure that we grew up to be good people. What do you get for a person who seems content and has everything including shelves of books and every nick-knack you ever gave to them? Well here is an idea that might just solve all your problems.

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Gift Giving Idea’sI am back again today contemplating the holiday season and trying to give you as many gift giving ideas that I can. For all you guys out there that will be buying for mothers, wives, daughter, sisters, friends etc. I have a very good suggestion for you.Jewelry specifically handcrafted beaded jewelry. Beads are in my friends and all girls of all ages love the beads, earrings,

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Christmas is approaching and many of you are scrambling to find the perfect Christmas card / Holiday card to send to your friends and relatives. With a little work and a lot of help from some very innovative websites you can create a very memorable card.Photographers Edge a website that sells card stock with a place to put your favorite photo is one of my favorites. I ordered the card stock and

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In my last posting I talked about inspiration and what inspires different types of artists to create. Nature is a huge inspiration to a lot of photographers and painters. however it also inspires many other types of artists. Mar Barbee a wonderful jewelry artist finds nature to be a huge inspiration for her jewelry "Natural themes run through my work", Mar quiped in describing her creative

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What inspires an artist to create? That question is one that of course has no boundaries, has few common threads and really is as individual as the artist.It is also this way with the person who falls in love with the art piece. Really I think that a person finds more connection with a piece of art after they have read the creative process. What inspired the artist to create the show of emotion

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I really do love using all natural handmade or milled soaps. They really are fragrant and make nice gifts. Last year I made a wonderful coconut oil and oat soap that was a big hit!I also really enjoy glycerin soaps they are gentle on the skin and guys really like them because for some reason they hold scent well and it transfers to the skin giving it a nice clean smell.Bath oils and bath salts

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New to the family of artists in ArtisansMarket.com's Marketplace is Carol Bright a native Floridian that creates unique jewelry scribed in an ancient tongue.Carol creates sterling silver and precious metal clay jewelry set with precious gemstones and scribed in ancient ogham.Ogham is the oldest form of the Gaelic languages known to man, dating back to the 4th century. Intrigued by this ancient

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It is truly amazing what a good photograph will do for a body. Whether it is a picture snapped of nature, a person or some other item that an artist would want us to preserve in our memory. A picture really is worth a thousand words and it can bring forth great upheavals of emotion instantly.I have really come to like some of the digital art that is being produced by many artists. It is amazing

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Yes, already you are probably seeing the tell tale signs of the retail market preparing for another holiday season.As Halloween approaches and the rush of shoppers slows from scarfing up all those wonderful traditional scary props and candy the shelves are not restocked with pumpkins and such but stocked instead with the next holiday items appearing bright and cheery and calling your name.It

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What exactly is contemporary art? According to Websters online dictionary contemporary art is described:"As it has done in the past, today's art both combines different traditional forms, but also pushes the boundaries of people's perception. It includes things that people consider immoral or taboo. More so than many other forms of art, contemporary art is often focused on the abstract".I find

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It has always amazed me how some people can take a simple mound of clay or other compound and create the most perfect objects. I often wonder if they feel what they see as it is created. I recently have had the pleasure of experiencing the bread dough and cold porcelain art of Norma Rudloff Talk about amazing! Norma makes flowers that look so real you can literally imagine the fragrance of the

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Tourmaline is a very unique mineral that has more varied colors than any other gemstone available. The mineral elbaite is a member of the tourmaline group and is responsible for almost all the gem quality varieties.There are three other members to this group Dravite,Schorl, and Liddicoatite. These varieties are seldom used as gems for making jewelry. Dravite is brown and seldom clear, Schorl is

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I think that we all know how life's changes come and go in cycles. It seems like a new discovery is made and the next thing you know with that discovery or method comes a whole new cycle of commerce for us all.In the past 10-15 years it has been the free trade market. Goods from all over the world have made their way to our homes and businesses. Many items made and sold for a fraction of the cost

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What should you do when life gives you lemons? Well, according to Terri Jacoby you make Lemonade!Terri was in a terrible car accident in 1998. Her injuries were severe. Terri was told she would never walk again yet she persevered and slowly she made progress eventually, against all odds walking once more.Although she could walk again Terri never did regain the motor skills in her left hand. Again

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Clowns,They make us laugh, they make us cry and some are just scary. Clowning has been a tradition dating back to the times of Pharaohs in Egypt and possibly before. Many cultures all over the world have history of a village clown or entertainer.A pygmy clown performed as a jester in the court of Pharaoh Dadkeri-Assi during Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty about 2500 B.C. Court jesters have performed in

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Style! Flair! Unique! One - of - a - kind! woman want it all in their jewelry. Especially now as jewelry takes on an even more demanding presence. The traditional jewelry trends such as pure gold jewelry and precious gemstones is alive and well however with the intense interest in beaded jewelry so has the interest in other types of stone and organic materials. In fact so much interest that many

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Collecting masks has been a favorite of collectors for many many years. Victorian masks were always a favorite as were African masks. The more modern art form of masks that collectors have taken to are made of goards adorned with a variety of natural and brightly dyed feathers. Many of the masks are tribal in design and depict a variety of the North American Indian tribes with their symbols and

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I absolutely love art. Ask me I'll tell you; Art makes the world go round. It brightens walls, provokes thought, pronounces decor and really is the window to a persons soul if you view the art they collect whether it be fine paintings or handcrafted art such as sculptures, basketry, pottery etc. One of my favorite art forms is landscape paintings, especially if I am familiar with the location.

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Beaded jewelry has become very popular in America over the past 15 years and beads are being made out of every type of stone, glass, plastic and organic material that can be found. thousands of distributors sell beads of all kinds, precious stones to shells. It is a business that has become very profitable.You would think having a glutton of suppliers would mean good competitive prices and lots

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OMG I love wood and anything handcrafted out of wood. It is difficult today to find really nice wood products. Oh yes you can go out there and see a million and one websites or a million and one items made of wood for sale, however quality is what I want! I want to feel the wood artist love for wood in the created product.Some of my favorite wood is diamond willow,maple, zircot, mohogany oh I

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There are a lot of websites out there that promote selling for artists. Many times these websites take more then they give. I would to share some of our experiences with you.Selling online of course is really a wonderful idea and if an artist or craftsperson can sell online, the ease of selling from the comfort of your workshop or studio is hard to beat. However with that said lets talk about

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