Question!

[threeeasysteps.livejournal.com]

Have any of you guys ever wholesaled any of your items before?

I got contacted the other day about wholesale pricing my plush, they were gonna buy around 10 of them and see how they did, and depending on that, ask for more or not.
I have no idea how to price them, I haven't been having much luck looking it up, so I'd like to ask you guys.

How do you wholesale price something that's only $5 to begin with?
The other plush he wanted from me were $40, $30, $35, & $50.
I don't know how much to hack off the price to make it fair for both me and him.

Advice?

05.23.08

[bestill.livejournal.com]

05.23.08, originally uploaded by Traci Bunkers.

Here's a journal spread I did last night. I feel like I use the same colors, and that my journal spreads always look the same, so I tried to use colors for the background that I normally wouldn't use--I went with pink and blue. It's not as obvious once I kept adding to it. The fish stamp on the bottom left side is a new stamp that I carved the other day. The image was actually out of an ethnic clip art book. I love how simple images can be so interesting. The image of the baby heads is a photograph of a headstone that I took some years ago in a cemetery. It was a headstone for quite a few babies from the same family. I remember thinking how sad and eerie it was, but beautiful at the same time.

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[anewseptember.livejournal.com]

i havent posted anything in a while, but heres some stuff i had to do for a class last quarter (it was water based media if youre wondering)

( i go to art school )

thanks for looking!

Sequins

[lucy-the-kitten.livejournal.com]

Hi!
 So, i have some of those strips of sequins (its sequins all sewn together in a long strip) and I need to sew them onto the top of a dress. But making like, flowers, and doing a few lines of sequins around the neck line. i was just wondering if there was anyway of sewing these on my machine without it looking like crap. Ive had to sew these buggers onto something by hand once (i sewed like green sequins onto a pretty black braided trim, then i had to sew green beaded trim onto that to make the trim for my prom dress. had to have about 5.5 yards of it. whee. -_-) Ive googled it, and could only find stuff on how to sew on individual sequins, and i am way to lazy for that. lol
 so, any help would be AWESOME!
  thanks in advance!!

Knitting Question

[daderain.livejournal.com]

So my girlfriend and I want to learn to knit this summer. We aren't really sure what to buy or where to begin. What do we need? Any tips? I am looking at the sites featured in this communities links but I thought asking would help to.

Thanks in advance!

Tin Can Jewellery

[reeshiebeads.livejournal.com]

 Well I only just found this community, so many of the "crafty" communitys are just "Buy my stuff" this one comes as a blessed relief!! Anyway, on to the subject in question. I have recently been making jewellary out of old beer/coke/other fizzy drink cans. The effect is really cool, and I'm really into it. However, I am stopping the edges from being sharp by folding them over, and this means the back of the item is always scratchy. Can anyone think of a better way of doing this?

( The jewellery in question... )

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[cheshcan.livejournal.com]

I've been using Jacquard textile paints for stencilling, because they're super-cheap, relatively soft, and they used to be available at Joann's. But... it looks like they're not anymore? So, since I'm going to have to order something online either way, I was wondering what you guys use for your stencils. My preferences:

1) Cheap! I am but a poor college student. (The Jacquard paints are around $4 for 2.25 oz at the most, but they're usually cheaper than that.)
2) Soft and opaque! I've never been satisfied with my acrylic + textile medium results in this arena, so that's right out.
3) Comes in small quantities! What am I going to do with 32 ounces of fluorescent yellow paint?
4) No fumes that will give me or my cat cancer! It's just one of those things, you know.

I'm especially curious as to what works well on dark fabrics--I've never found anything that doesn't get lame and cracky after a few washes.

And so you have something fun to look at, here's the last thing I stencilled: ( My IAMX shirt )