Handmade Is Five!
Saturday, 25 August 2012
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As nosotros were constantly searching for inspiration online to assistance us larn amend at our work. (the blog) was a house to catalogue this inspiration. We constitute it rather hard to honour character move online during that menses in addition to it took a tremendous sum of fourth dimension to honour things.
As fourth dimension went on, and every bit nosotros continued writing on in addition to every bit Etsy developed, one-time inwards 2006 nosotros started an Etsy Pick of the Day on the blog; where everyday nosotros posted an especial from Etsy. We did this for a few months (on i of our sidebars) in addition to started realizing it would brand feel to catalogue this inwards unopen to form, in addition to hence for fun nosotros started an "Etsy Pick of the Day" blog (visit it - it's fun to see the designs hence -circa 2007 in addition to the people who made them). So every bit fourth dimension went on, nosotros realized was form of a middle human betwixt artists in addition to buyers/retailers/press. There was all the same no huge search abilities on Etsy at the fourth dimension (no treasuries, no color search, simply the fourth dimension motorcar in addition to a search push really); in addition to people started emailing bespeak us to write virtually their move hence they could hold upward seen in addition to heard. We started to larn a house to honour character handmade goods in addition to art.
As Earl was studying/working inwards novel media past times then, nosotros decided together to fix an actual house where people could run across - buyers in addition to sellers - much similar an arts in addition to crafts fair - alone online. Hence Handmade. Because it would possess got unopen to manpower to upkeep such an endeavor, nosotros felt nosotros had to accuse something to comprehend management (marketing, planning, writing weblog posts, admin, etc). We wanted to larn inwards affordable to the artists (fun fact: nosotros possess got all the same non increased our prices inwards v years), nosotros wanted it to hold upward successful for artists to larn their advert out there, to innovate novel production they may possess got to our readers in addition to nosotros wanted to fix a community. It's all all the same evolving in addition to nosotros expect frontwards to what's to come.
We desire to give thank y'all all our readers in addition to participants for assistance making this hap every calendar month for the past times 5 years (and almost vii for the blog)! We'll possess got unopen to surprises inwards the weeks to come, hence remain tuned! In the meantime, banking concern represent out our novel Indie Love market! It's the kickoff of the vacation shopping season, in addition to if you're similar us, this twelvemonth we're planning on doing our shopping early on to salve a chip of the stress.