Articles on: craft & maker

With monthly sales averaging about $150 million and monthly pageviews above two billion at last count, it's an understatement to call Etsy an important part of the craft community. Each year, over a million Etsy sellers supplement their income (or straight-up work for themselves) using the platform -- and some even become newsworthy for their impressive profits.

A few months ago, Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter split up after thirteen years of marriage. While I don’t know either of them personally, they happened to be a couple I had assumed would stay together until they both perished, simultaneously, in a beautiful, strange, and inexplicable manner.

You’re in love! And getting married!

[caption id="attachment_12268" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Namphuong Van[/caption] Starting from a young age, author Kim Werker had a story that she told herself, about herself. It all started with a cardboard robot she was making in elementary school that, as she explained in her Creative Mornings Vancouver talk, just wasn't looking the way she wanted it to look.

Whether you dismiss Valentine’s Day as a made-up greeting card holiday or fundamentally believe that February 14th is the day to pull out all the stops and shower your special someone with gifts and romance, St. Valentine’s Day IS approaching.

Being a creative entrepreneur In a study released by Adobe in 2014, designers and others who work in creative pursuits admitted that their fears included not being up-to-date on current technologies, being unable to reach or maintain financial security, and an inability to keep up with peers. But that's not all we're afraid of.

Who doesn’t love receiving good old snail mail? There’s no better time to make the extra effort and send your loved ones some letters than Valentine’s Day.

Like buying new exercise clothes to get your ass in gear for the gym, buying a new set of notepads, calendars and binders just makes you WANT to write things down and be that organized person you KNOW you can be. 

Whether you are a natural born scheduler, or a free-flowing tornado of cryptic messages on crumpled napkins, there are loads of clever options available to keep you organized (or at least, organized-looking) this year.