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    July 28, 2007

    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

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    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.

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

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

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