Are You a Crafty Mom? Make Money With a Craft Blog

An online blog may be the perfect place for you to start sharing your love of crafting. How would you also like to make money while you blog? Journaling online, called blogging, allows you to share your beautiful crafts and your talent with other crafty people. With simple to learn, free applications like Blogger.com or WordPress, you can choose templates to suit your style. Your craft blog can be personally designed to illustrate:

Pictures: Post plenty of clear pictures of the items you made to show others what you can do. You may want to include before and after pictures if you are using common household items or if you are re-purposing other items to make your crafts. Take photos of each stage during the crafting process, and you'll get regular blog readers very quickly. Use a high quality digital camera to capture the true beauty of your crafts.

Describe the materials: When your readers look at the pictures of your crafts, they want to know exactly what materials they are looking at and where they can buy them. Be specific, using familiar names, even brand names, of the materials, specific colors, sizes, and shapes. The reader can then find the exact items they are looking for at their local craft stores or online. Detailed descriptions of materials used also helps by telling the internet search engines which items you're discussing on your blog. Google.com (tm) will then begin to send people to your blog when people search for items using words you mentioned in your description.

Include a lesson: If you have a craft that is quite involved, or possibly very popular, you may want to include a simple "How To", or lesson on one or more portions of the craft. Your fellow crafters may like to expand on your craft, making it uniquely theirs for gift-giving or personalizing. A technique or craft that is yours alone may even be worth a patent. That way you can actually sell the instructions or technique to an interested reader at a reasonable price.

Materials: A list of materials should be simple, but concise. Your readers will want to know what was used to make your craft and where to find the materials. Describe the materials in as much detail as possible, including the amounts and sizes. Include any substitutions if possible. Your reader will want to have a thorough list when they shop for the items needed for your craft. When your readers re-create your project at home, and it turns out perfectly (just like yours) they'll be sure to tell their friends and family members all about your blog, which turns into free advertising for you.

Selling on your Blog: If you're looking for a return on your investment when you start your blog, you may want to consider selling your crafts directly from your blog. If you can customize your crafts, you most certainly will have a market. Even if you just offer special craft items over the Holidays, or offer a birthday only craft, you will find an audience. It's possible to sell your items directly off your blog, or you can set up a storefront on a site like eBay.com or Etsy.com. You may also wish to design and sell the patterns for your crafts, sell advertising on your blog, or look into other options for making money on your blog.

You know how much time crafting takes, and how much talent, and patience. But, what you need to learn is how a blog about your own unique crafting can take your interest in crafting to a whole new level. If you let other crafters know about your abilities, a whole new world will await you... a world with a paycheck!

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