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Blogs and Forums for the Craft and Retail Community
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American Craft Forum
Sign up and find out how your peers, both artisans and retailers, from across the continent, are handling challenges, ie., what credit card companies to use and what to ask them about; what POS systems retailers are using, etc.
Crafts Report Forum
Sign up and find out how your peers, both artisans and retailers, are handling challenges. Find out what’s going on nationally in the crafts community. Click on "industry information" for articles on what to consider when starting or when looking for specific solutions. Craft supply sources and more. Stories about craftspeople.
Country Business
Great tips for retailers. Active forum.
http://crazyasaloom.blogspot.com/
Crazy As A Loom
Rug weaver from Kingsbury, just east of Saratoga Springs, NY
The Wild Inside
Jeweler from Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Blue Piranha Jewelry
Polymer jewelery. Many topics including what's the ten best things she's done for her business.
Pottery Blog - Emily Murphy
Functional soda fired ceramics. Links to other potters.
Catherine Chandler
From Portland, Oregon. Metalsmith and jeweler. Links to other metalsmiths and jewelers.
Extreme Craft
Designer at Perkins+Will architects in Atlanta, as well as adjunct faculty at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Writes and includes pods about and for extreme craft artists.
Design*Sponge
Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours.
Design*Sponge editor Grace Bonney has a unique angle on the industry, working as a freelancer with top publications like House and Garden, New York Home, Food and Wine, Better Homes and Gardens, and others. In addition, she wrote a weekly design column for the Philadelphia Inquirer for two years and has worked as Style Editor of HGTV’s Ideas Magazine. 35,000 daily readers.
This is Love Forever
By day Kayte works as a stylist and visual merchandiser in NYC. Some of her clients are Anthropologie, Parents Magazine, Adorn magazine and Cutting Edge magazine and Brooks Brothers. She is a member of the Department of Craft, a New York based organization dedicated to independent design and art. Lots of links.
Roadside Scholar
Gigi had two shops in the 90s in Chicago. Now she highlights artisans she has discovered in her blog "Stuff I found on the highway of life."
Paula McCullough
Mixed media from found objects. Stowe, VT.
Abigail Percy - Designer Jeweler
From Glasgow, UK. Great collection of links to many other artists, publications, design sites and more.
Judy Dunn
Artrepeneur; The collison between art and business. Jeweler. Reflective articles about letting go, tabletop photography kit and many other topics.
Luannu Dell
An artist’s life, and the business of craft. Jeweler. Becomes a regular columnist for The Crafts Report in December 2007. Writes about shows and preparing for shows, pricing, presentation, salesmanship and telling your story.
Carrie Cahill Mulligan
Fiber artist from Canaan, NH. Member of New Hampshire League of Craftsmen. Markets herself online in a down-to-earth manner at All About CCM Hats, CCM Hat Gallery, My Facebook, My Flickr, My LibraryThing, and MySpace.
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