Tag: vintage

HOW TO SELL YOUR VINTAGE THEMED CRAFTS ONLINE…

how to sell crafts online

Well, if we are all going to start making home made, then maybe a few pence in our pockets for selling them online would no go amiss.

‘How to Sell your Crafts Online’ by Derrick Sutton is a book available from all good book shops.

Not only does it explain where and how to see your home made products but it also teaches you now to make your crafts stand out from the crowd, and then successfully sell online.

You’ll learn how to write fail safe product text, take perfect pictures and how you can make the most of the tools available on the well known Etsy website.

And, while your in the mood for buying a book then you must have also look at ‘Home made, Gorgeous things to Make with love’, by Ros Badger and Elspeth Tompson – it has 101 beautiful and useful craft projects you can make.

Home made

BUTTONS AS A CHANGE OF OUTFIT…

 

You can change an outfit in a second with vintage buttons. They can have just the same effect as a lovely scarf and for half the price.

I’ve changed buttons on jackets, blouses and cardigans for years and have a number of different styles of black cardigans that come out each winter with different buttons on them.

You can purchasee vintage buttons on ebay or my favourite shop is Duttons for Buttons in Harrogate, which has a stock of over 12,000 buttons, they also do a mail order service.

I have also bought a cardigan in a charity shop for the buttons and put some others on it then given it back to the charity shop.

My jackets buttons change every year. This year the skin look was big and I got a number of different styles in it from a company on EBay and Vinted.

Plain coloured blouses, in particular white or black, can look so different with a lovely button on it even if you only change the top button and the sleeve buttons.

I’ve even changed a few buttons on my husbands shirts to give them a new look.

Source: Duttons EBay

HOME MADE CUSHIONS…

Cushion

As you know I bought a large (400g) ball of wool to keep me busy after my foot surgery and the first thing I knitted was a cushion cover (see above).

I’d originally planned to knit a throw but soon realised that I would get bored of knitting all the squares and decided to try a cushion cover instead.

simple knits

I have a lovely book which has some lovely patterns for your home called ‘Simple knits for easy living’, by Erika Knight (see above, available from Amazon) which has superb pictures to inspire you and easy to follow patterns.

Of course cushion covers don’t have to be knitted covers, it’s just quite fashionable at the moment. However, ‘cushions’ especially ‘heart shaped’ are just about everywhere.

I bought the small heart shaped one below that says ‘Thanks’ on it for a friend to give her after a party she held. It’s little ones like that which can come in very handy as gifts to people and could be made up of old bits of fabric or even clothes you no longer wear.

xmas home

There is a brilliant website http://www.cushionsandmore.com/cushion-patterns.html which has patterns and details on every type of cushion you could ever think of, from pin cushions to floor cushions.

I’m definitely going to make some small heart cushions with ‘Thanks’ and ‘Get Well Soon’ and ‘Happy Birthday’ on them as it makes a change from a bunch of flowers and you will always need them.