Sarah J. Doyle | November 19, 2008
About a month ago my daughter bought a Xyron 510 label maker off Ebay and promptly started making refrigerator magnets, labels and name tag buttons for each of us to wear to the Honey festivals that we were participating in.There are a couple models to choose from – the Xyron 510 and the Xyron 900. [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 18, 2008
Teri Doggett has been in the business of creating original Santas, ranging from a few inches to life-size, for many years. Her enormously popular Santas have carried price tags of up to $10,000, for vintage look Santas designed for Neiman-Marcus window displays (see photo at left). Unfortunately, Doggett says that the stress of meeting ever increasing product demand took away [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 17, 2008
What a wonderful feeling it would give you to teach someone about your passion of sewing! Not only would you feel proud of that person’s accomplishments, the person doing the learning would feel “on top of the world” to have created something unique and useable.If you’re wondering where you could begin, start with some children – your own [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 16, 2008
As I was surfing the internet for cool things to make, I was amazed at the wonderful gifts and toys that were for children. The tutorials looked like they were quick and easy to make, so I figured I could give you some neat pictures and some information about them, then send you on to [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 15, 2008
I have a palm tree pattern that I downloaded free from Patterns2Go, and have been trying to decide how to use it to show off the beauty of it. The pattern is a counted cross stitch pattern, however because I’m convinced that those of us who sew and do crafts ALSO do other things, such [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 14, 2008
Lenna Green of StitchingCow.com credits her grandmother with teaching her to sew and fondly remembers spending lots of time with her as a child doing different sewing crafts and projects. “I can remember making small items on the sewing machine with her and I still have some of these projects today including a small doll’s apron [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 13, 2008
Mintel, a world renowned supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, has just released its predicted trends for consumers and businesses in 2009. The company has listed five key ways that consumers will adapt to the current economic uncertainty during the next year. A key theme in the list is a return to basics since financial instability tends to [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | November 12, 2008
With the Holiday Season is upon us, we all tend to get a little bit “frazzled” with all the things that have to be done. I have found an excellent article that has already helped me with my Holiday baking and I think you’ll want to not only read the article, but print it and keep [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 10, 2008
If your business is one that is out of your home or if it is a brick and mortar store you’ll need to be thinking about doing some Holiday advertising.You could do some newspaper advertising, which will require that you investigate the prices on the various sizes of ads, or you could do some direct [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | November 9, 2008
I’ve found the neatest knitted purses made out of recycled fabric. This is a little off-beat from our “sewing” blog, but I figured there might be sewers who also do crafts, knitting and crochet. This idea comes from a lady named Romaxx that writes articles for Squidoo. Check out her link just given to get [...]
