Merry-Go-Round - Networking

Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts-women from around the world as they link hands and tell you a little bit about their lives in craft.

Do look up the answers from the rest of this band of crafters (links to your left).

If they haven't posted yet, remember we all live in different time zones and check again later...

This month's theme:

What do you do to network? In what ways does it work or not work?

These days, I have even less time for networking than for crafting.

Over the past few years, I have tried the usual (myspace, blogging, among others) and the less usual (this Merry-Go-Round, the Thursday Sweet Treat...). I don't believe the networking sites, such as myspace and facebook (which I keep personal) are any good for me.

The only forum I still visit on a daily basis is the DaWanda forum. If only because I find it much more congenial than the Etsy forum where you get a measure of support but also a lot of gratuitous aggression. I have no time for this... Still, the Etsy forum is where I found the Thusrday Sweet Treat, which was a really inspiring 'place', (when I still had time to be part of it...) and it is much faster than the DaWanda one, especially in English, which is a shame.

As I have never done this full time,
I really have no idea what concrete results it has brought about, or what it could have. What I do know, though, is that it has allowed me to learn a lot from fellow crafters. It has also inspired me in a way I couldn't have been if I had only been focusing on making and selling.

It has kept me curious and — relatively— ambitious.

In short, though it sometimes felt like the networking time was stolen from crafting, I suspect I wouldn't be crafting at all anymore, if it wasn't for the virtual ties that have kept me going.

Using my blog address as a signature at the bottom of all my mails has brought me at least two clients among aquaintances who didn't know of that part of my life. I also keep giving away my business cards, though I still don't know what effect it may have had. Who knows...

Nouvelles / News

Promotion de Printemps / Spring Promotion

Pour inaugurer la nouvelle fonction "EVENTS" sur le site DaWanda Shopping Community 

To inaugurate the new "EVENTS" feature on the DaWanda Shopping Community:

Si vous avez une page sur le site DaWanda Shopping Community, les frais d'envoi seront gratuits sur tous vos achats effectués et réglés d'ici la Fête des Mères française (le 25 May, donc), dans ma boutique DaWanda. Vous n'avez qu'à me donner le lien vers votre page.

For anyone with a page on the DaWanda Shopping Community, free postage worldwide on all purchases made and paid by French Mother's Day (May 25th, this year, it's always on the last Sunday in May) in my DaWanda shop, wherever you want me to post... Just give me the link to your page.

Ma dernière création, parce qu'il paraît qu'elles sont très belles (je trouve aussi, et d'ailleurs, je trouve aussi que je devrais apprendre à me servir de mon appareil photo pour que ça se voit un peu plus, qu'elles sont très belles) : des boucles d'oreilles on ne peut plus simple, faites tout exprès pour une amie qui voulait quelque chose à mettre à ses oreilles quand elle porte l'un de mes "colliers" Perle sur un Fil.

My latest— a custom-order for a friend who wanted something super simple, earwise, to wear with one of my Pearl on a String necklaces. They look much better thatn my photographic skills indicate— if I'm the one saying it!

Très bientôt, ici-même, (Tadaa!) des liens vers des blogs qui me plaisent... En partie parce que grâce à la soirée organisée à Bordeaux le 14 Mai, par le Nuage des Filles, j'ai rencontré des blogueuses très différentes et découvert des blogs sur lesquels je ne veux pas être la seule à passer des heures !

Coming soon (see above) on this very page, links to blogs I've enjoyed— French and English.

A Suivre ! / To be continued!!