Handmade Is Five!
As nosotros were constantly searching for inspiration online to aid us larn ameliorate at our work. (the blog) was a house to catalogue this inspiration. We constitute it rather hard to abide by character operate online during that stream together with it took a tremendous total of fourth dimension to abide by things.
As fourth dimension went on, and every bit nosotros continued writing on together with every bit Etsy developed, old inwards 2006 nosotros started an Etsy Pick of the Day on the blog; where everyday nosotros posted an exceptional from Etsy. We did this for a few months (on 1 of our sidebars) together with started realizing it would brand feel to catalogue this inwards or hence form, together with hence for fun nosotros started an "Etsy Pick of the Day" blog (visit it - it's fun to see the designs hence -circa 2007 together with the people who made them). So every bit fourth dimension went on, nosotros realized was kind of a middle human being betwixt artists together with buyers/retailers/press. There was notwithstanding no huge search abilities on Etsy at the fourth dimension (no treasuries, no color search, only the fourth dimension auto together with a search push really); together with people started emailing bespeak us to write almost their operate hence they could hold out seen together with heard. We started to larn a house to abide by character handmade goods together with art.
As Earl was studying/working inwards novel media past times then, nosotros decided together to construct an actual house where people could come across - buyers together with sellers - much similar an arts together with crafts fair - alone online. Hence Handmade. Because it would possess got or hence manpower to upkeep such an endeavor, nosotros felt nosotros had to accuse something to comprehend direction (marketing, planning, writing spider web log posts, admin, etc). We wanted to larn inwards affordable to the artists (fun fact: nosotros possess got notwithstanding non increased our prices inwards 5 years), nosotros wanted it to hold out successful for artists to larn their advert out there, to innovate novel production they may possess got to our readers together with nosotros wanted to construct a community. It's all notwithstanding evolving together with nosotros hold off frontward to what's to come.
We desire to give thank you lot all our readers together with participants for aid making this travel on every calendar month for the past times 5 years (and almost seven for the blog)! We'll possess got or hence surprises inwards the weeks to come, hence remain tuned! In the meantime, cheque out our novel Indie Love market! It's the outset of the vacation shopping season, together with if you're similar us, this yr we're planning on doing our shopping early on to salve a chip of the stress.
