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Making paper gift bags to sell

What’s particularly great about possibly approaching shops with your homemade paper gift bags (for them to sell for you) is that there are LOADS of shops you can approach – just about any shop that sells items that could be thought as of gifts, and that are small enough to fit in one of your gift bags should be on your list of shops to approach. Of course one can also sell gift bags at a fleamarket, hire people to sell them for you (where they earn a commission), or start a blog or website where you display the gift bags (photographs of them) and take orders for packs of ten different ones, ten identical ones, whatever, so that people will always have gift bags at hand when they need one! … Read entire article »

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Make and sell custom chess sets for extra income

At some time or another everybody has at least tried to play chess. For some it remains a life long involvement, and for others, it is merely a pastime. Very few people totally escape the magic and allure of chess. Most people who play chess have chess sets, but these are generally plastic, with cardboard boards, and as such have no place of importance, and it often becomes a chore to have a quick game. If you are skilled in one or more crafts, you will be able to make chess sets for resale. Wooden or stone chess sets with the traditional figures are no longer all that is considered a valid chess set, and no matter what your material of choice, or your preferred style, you are able to make and … Read entire article »

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Weaving is fun and easy for both kids and adults

It’s really easy to weave. It’s fun too, especially when you realise the more you weave, the more creative you get and all sorts of weaving ideas start popping into your head. What is weaving? Weaving is when you start with creating or preparing your loom – which could be something as simple and inexpensive as a box with tiny slits cut on two sides of it, and thread strong wool, thick thread or even try string across the box to form the warp. The warp is the area of threads strung across the loom, so that you have a whole lot of threads filling up the entire top area of the open box, running across the open space, from side to side, about 1 or 2 cm apart. Sort of a list … Read entire article »

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