Showing posts with label craft shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft shows. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The First Craft Show Sept 14th 2009
Nancy Cook of SewNancy with her beautiful hand knits, felted bowls and pocket books, and one of a kind baby outfits. Get ready for the fall with her felt acorns, they look super cute in one of her felted bowls.
Semiprecious by Alison Oxman. Alison's beautiful jewelry made with semiprecious stones is quite beautiful and very well finished with great attention to detail. Unfortunately Alison managed to avoid being photographed. Apologies Alison, please send me one to put in the post.
We all thank Katie Clayton of On the Drying Rack who pulled this event together in a very short time. Jazz up your bulletin board and fridge with her fun flower pushpins, magnets and paperclips.
Jo Bradney, award winning artist with her beautiful fine art prints and note cards, originals too. Check out her note cards documenting her garbage. Who would have thought that garbage could be so alluring!
Ann Vollum of BeastlyBeasties does t shirts and letterpress prints and notecards all adorned with wierd and wonderful beasties. The window was a nice sunny spot to be, but not great for photos!We would like to thank Nancy Cook ( SewNancy), Jo Bradney and Alison Oxman (Semiprecious) for joining Katie Clayton (On the Drying Rack) and Ann Vollum (BeastlyBeasties) at the first SOMA Artisan's Craft show at Express Yourself Studios on Springfield Avenue, Maplewood.
Although traffic was not great I think I am right in saying that we all found the show a great experience for learning from. We had fun trading ideas and getting to know each other better. I believe that everyone came away with something from having participated, new ideas, critiques, some of us made sales, and we have all had more exposure from this show than we would have otherwise had. So please contact Katie at somaartisansguild@gmail.com if you are interested in participating in future shows.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
An Introduction to: SOMA Artisan's Guild
Artists Katie Clayton of CraftyKatie (CraftyKatie6.etsy.com) and Ann Vollum of BeastlyBeasties (BeastlyBeasties.etsy.com) are starting up a group to help local artisans promote and sell their work both locally and on Etsy.
We are inviting artists and crafters who either have or are planning to start a small business selling their work. The group is a local group for South Orange and Maplewood artisans, we are also extending the invitation to our neighboring towns. There will be a sub group called SOMA Etsy for those of us who have Etsy stores. This group will be registered as an official Etsy team.
Our goals are:
• networking
• self and cross promoting
• sales and marketing
local exposure through newspaper and magazine and on-line articles
increased exposure through Maplewood on line and SouthOrangePatch
• local shows and selling opportunities
• facebook
• blogging
• local craft shows
For Etsians:
• shop critiques
• how to shoot better images of our items for sale
• how to increase sales
These are some initial ideas. There will be no membership fee to join the group, however we do expect all members to share their expertise with the group. For certain events we may need to collect a fee to cover any expenses for the group.
If you are interested please e mail us at with the following information:
somaartisansguild@gmail.com
• name
• name of business
• type of business
• e-mail address
• do you want to be an Etsy team member
• telephone number
• an expertise that you are willing to share with the group. (don’t worry if you can’t think of one now)
The first meeting will be held on Thursday September 10th, at 10 am and there after the meetings will most likely be on the first Thursday of the month. If you can’t attend the meetings do not worry, we will be able to communicate on line too. At the first meeting we would like in put from you all as to what you would like to contribute to and what you would like to get out of this group.
We look forward to hearing from you all. Please pass this information on to anyone whom you think might be interested.
Best wishes,
Ann and Katie
We are inviting artists and crafters who either have or are planning to start a small business selling their work. The group is a local group for South Orange and Maplewood artisans, we are also extending the invitation to our neighboring towns. There will be a sub group called SOMA Etsy for those of us who have Etsy stores. This group will be registered as an official Etsy team.
Our goals are:
• networking
• self and cross promoting
• sales and marketing
local exposure through newspaper and magazine and on-line articles
increased exposure through Maplewood on line and SouthOrangePatch
• local shows and selling opportunities
• blogging
• local craft shows
For Etsians:
• shop critiques
• how to shoot better images of our items for sale
• how to increase sales
These are some initial ideas. There will be no membership fee to join the group, however we do expect all members to share their expertise with the group. For certain events we may need to collect a fee to cover any expenses for the group.
If you are interested please e mail us at with the following information:
somaartisansguild@gmail.com
• name
• name of business
• type of business
• e-mail address
• do you want to be an Etsy team member
• telephone number
• an expertise that you are willing to share with the group. (don’t worry if you can’t think of one now)
The first meeting will be held on Thursday September 10th, at 10 am and there after the meetings will most likely be on the first Thursday of the month. If you can’t attend the meetings do not worry, we will be able to communicate on line too. At the first meeting we would like in put from you all as to what you would like to contribute to and what you would like to get out of this group.
We look forward to hearing from you all. Please pass this information on to anyone whom you think might be interested.
Best wishes,
Ann and Katie
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