Although that title implies that I’ve not been doing any, which would be inaccurate. More precisely, we now return you to your regularly scheduled life, sans major holidays for a while. Over the hols I spent a wee bit of time playing with highly messy techniques involving glue, dyes, cheesecloth and tissue paper. It was…
Category: work
Raising the bar: Craft or Fine Craft? Semantics or Public Perception?
The word “craft” elicits many images in peoples’ minds, from plastic canvas and popsicle sticks arranged into predictable objects of dubious originality and bead kits assembled into Christmas ornaments to expertly knit socks, hats, and mittens, jewelry and home decor wrought from metal, and wood turned, shaped and polished in such a way that the…
The work of our hands
I’ve had a couple of favourable responses to my previous post about pricing crafts, responses which have inspired me to write blog entries on the process of designing, creating, and marketing craft. There will be smaller topics, of course, broken down by subject matter. Before I start, please be advised that don’t profess to know…
Pricing the craft component of my work
Every year I shilly-shally around with numbers, re-evaluate my pricing schemes and decide if I’m in the right ballpark. Taking the thorough approach, I calculate materials, wastage, product development time and materials amortised over my expected number of product for the duration of the product’s run, labour, overhead, and all the other good things that…
I know how she feels
Ended up taking yesterday evening off (except for two hours of driving all over town only to find out there is no heavy-duty stabiliser in town to be had for love or money) and going to sleep early. It was really nice. Except for the 6am greyhound, which was not so nice. The weather even…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 