This is a page about selling handmade crochet items. Deciding to sell your handmade crochet items is only the first step towards successfully marketing your handicrafts.
Whether you are selling retail or wholesale, you need to determine how much it costs you to make your cards. This is a page about selling homemade greeting cards.
This is a page about "What are the best selling crafts this year?". Every year certain handmade crafts will become popular at shows and fairs. If you are a crafter, knowing what is selling well can help you improve your sales.
This is a page about selling glass block crafts. If you really enjoy making seasonal and other occasion crafts using glass blocks, perhaps you have thought of selling them.
This page is about simple crafts for a church bazaar. Making items that sell will benefit your organization's charity.
This is a page about selling recycled bag rugs. Plarn is made from plastic bags and used to create crochet craft projects. Selling crafts made from recycled materials is currently quite popular.
This is a page about selling handmade jewelry. Selling handmade jewelry has the potential for being a successful cottage business and perhaps even a more lucrative concern.
This is a page to selling crafts online. Selling crafts online can be an excellent way to earn some extra income. However, navigating the plethora of ways there are to sell your wares is a difficult task.
I want to make crafts out of recycled things and sell them. Everyone needs a little money now and then! How can I make things out of recycled aluminum cans, glass bottles, or bottle caps? Actually, I am interested in making things out of anything that is normally thrown into our great big American trash cans.
In Germany, recycling is just a part of life. I want to go green! I also need money for a little "nest egg", save, save! My goal is to recycle and help others. I need to make Christmas gifts too!
By Linda Gale from Pearl, MS
Hi Linda,
I want to do the same thing you are! In fact, I ordered a book today off Amazon on metal crafting. If you would like, we could collaberate together and share what ideas we come up with, you can contact me at gypsygina@gmail.com. That goes for anyone else here who is an avid crafter like Linda and I and would like to fuel our imagination with creative ideas :)
One more thing, windchimes are a very nice craft that you can do with discarded items and make them come out very unique. I once made one from driftwood and silverplate utensils with beads interspered. Another time I made a large dreamcatcher about 12" and then had bought a bunch of old keys and strung all the keys into 5 different strings that hung down. Around the dreamcatcher I put buffalo teeth and feathers. It hung total about 3 feet. It was very cool and you would not believe how many compliments I got about it.
Anyway, hope to year from you and other crafty folks :)
Gina
Oklahoma City
Hi all, I am looking at making salt crystal to sell. I am wondering if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction with regards to the legal stuff.
My intention is to mix essential oils. I am based in UK, thank you.I am looking for any suggestions for crafts that I can make and sell at my family's restaurant. I am a beginner, but any suggestions would help. Thanks.
By CRYSTAL from Zebulon, NC
I suggest to make & sell peanut brittle candy also make simple aprons & make some pecan butter as in peanut butter. It's very good, search online for more craft ideas, good luck.
I would love some craft ideas to sell at markets.
By Jillian from Sydney, Australia
I am looking for crafts that will sell well.
Peggy from Charlotte, NC
My Aunt used to make her living selling crafts she made. She would work all year, take everything she'd made to a Christmas craft fair and sell it all at once. She told me the trick is not in knowing what people will buy. It's in having good taste.
Peggy, I think that it may be possible that it would depend on the area in which you live in.
My friend and I have sold items at craft shows for a number of years and we changed things every year. Our big sellers were painted, dried gourds; they were painted to look like santas and elves. We also painted used lightbulbs to look like santa, elves, and reindeer. For the spring shows, we painted the gourds with outdoor scenes, flowers, and birds on them. We also painted clay pots that were stacked upon one another to make a base, and then the clay saucer (or dish) was set on top to make a bird bath: they were very good sellers but were heavy to carry to the shows. One year, the booth next to us had cut white birch logs, drilled one-inch round holes into them, placed tea light candles in the holes, and hot glued dried mosses and flowers to the logs. They sold tons of them! My friend and I were amazed how many people were walking out of the craft show with logs!
I would suggest to anyone that wanted to make and sell crafts to start small. Make a few items in your specialty and sell them at a church bazaar or a school craft show. You can look around and see what other people are making and which items are big sellers, as well as, what your big seller is. One very important thing, price your items so that you are making a good profit; selling your items for too low of money is an expensive hobby! You need to make sure that you are making money, not just paying for supplies, to sell items, to buy more supplies! It would be best to find wholesale suppliers for your supplies because retail just costs too much and cuts into your profit. Also, don't buy items (especially on sale) because you think that you "could" use that someday. You just end up wasting your money and needing extra storage space to store everything! Only buy the supplies that you need to make the items that you are going to make and sell. Also, use freecycle to ask for supplies, free is best!
