Live from BlogHer: Amy Sedaris and Crafting

The room is packed and many bloggers are drooling over the presence of Amy Sedaris.  The panel: Cathy Cano Murillo, Kirsten Roach, Natalie Zee Drieu, and Amy Sedaris.

Blogger Challenge - Do a googly-eye photo in honor of Amy and post it on your blog when you get home.

how has the online community changed crafts?

• Sub-culture of crafting.  more appreciation for extreme and diverse crafting
• Accountability to chart progress
• Community to learn new techniques, meet new crafters

how do you price your finished goods?

• Charge for your talent, not for your materials
• Go into detail for all the materials - call out those aspects when you market the product
• Include packaging
• Take into account everything that it takes to make

how do you convey the quality online?

• Have a compelling story
• Show the creative process making it
• Link to the process posts so that a buyer can see the effort involved

how do you protect your work?

• copyright your patterns and illustrations
• doesnt have to be a business
• do a promo on your blog for work that inspired you but still make it your own
• check out creativecomments.org for copyright-like guidelines for your crafting

Comments

[Marijean]

So is Amy hilarious? I was torn between Amy and the business session. I can hear laughing through the wall in the craft session.

No laughing on this side of the wall.

[Selfmademom]

Marijean- our side of the wall was boring I think! Robin, how's that wand holding up?

[Nataly]

Thanks for the recap - I missed this one and really wanted to go. I've talked to Cathy Murillo before - she is great!