Sounds good but how?
I would just love to stay at home and do what I love to do. Even better, make money doing it. People are always telling me that my knitting/crocheting/sewing/art/crafts are so good that I should sell them. But then I am like?????? I do not have a market. I just am not good at selling. I would like to make items that sell but I just do not know what people like. Anyone who I know that is successful at selling what they make usually has lots of friends.
I think some of the Canadian First Nations' people have some market for art objects: soapstone carving, small craft items. That is because they can attach a label that says "authentic native art". There are gift shops that specialize in these types of items aimed at mostly tourists. So what should we have a gift shop: "make by aspies"? Where is the market?
"I would just love to stay at home and do what I love to do. Even better, make money doing it. People are always telling me that my knitting/crocheting/sewing/art/crafts are so good that I should sell them. But then I am like?????? I do not have a market. I just am not good at selling. I would like to make items that sell but I just do not know what people like. Anyone who I know that is successful at selling what they make usually has lots of friends."
Ditto!!!
Your idea there is kind of being done on a new site by Donna Williams. Aspies and auties can describe their talents, and hopefully team up with others.
It would be hard to work for real life selling of crafts though.
Yes, me too. I make lots of different craft items and have been told they could be sold but I don't have the requisite marketing skills. It would be good to be able to go in with someone else who has better speaking skills but who is maybe not quite so good at churning out the craft items.
I would be too scared to sell on ebay, you do need to be fairly organized, and be able to communicate in a business type way with people.
It would be ideal if there was a central place where people could send items and have someone sell them on. In the past when mass production was not available, women would do that with their crafts, and would get a payment per item, rated on quality.
Or they would be commissioned to make specific items.
If we lived 100 years ago it would be much easier to work from home and sell our craft items. But of course we couldn't get together and discuss it with no computers :wink:
Well I've tried buying things on ebay and got in a mess quickly, so I am sure selling wouldnt be better.
I've sold a few things but what annoys me is people who say, "I like that one, but can you do it in a different colour?". The point is, I want to sell the stock that I have on hand first.
Why do I always end up working with Nt's? because it is a more reliable method of making money.
If I could join an arts and crafts coop that would guarantee a "livable non-poverty income" ok. That is the problem with disability pension schemes in most countries. They are supposed to be for people who cannot work. Most people could work only they are not many employers who will accomodate their disabilities. Then anyone who is self-employed, whether they make enough money to survive on, is disqualified from receiving a pension. So I just feel doomed into working at some temp jobs that I hate and I am not good at, just for the cash.
It costs money for materials to make crafts, even if they do not sell. The craft market is also short on paying realistic wages for the time required to craft certain items. Some markets will pay $$$$ mega bucks for hand crafted one-of-a-kind items but I do not know how to get into those markets. I only have access to the "yard sale - can I have this for a dollar? market". I have found that some people just go to yard sales to steal items.
In the UK people dont even have yard sales, so thats not an option.
We have car boot sales, but they are no good without a car. :?
Well, the law would see that as discrimination.
please let me know if there are any craft handling businesses in Canada.
Well, since no one else has asked... what's a "car boot sale"? First off, what's a "car boot"??? :oops:
Oh! OK, you mean the TRUNK. :grin:
That thing at the back of the car that opens up? i.e. the boot? At a car boot sale people sell things out of their boots.
Oh! OK, you mean the TRUNK.
Well, as an aspie, neither one makes sense to me. :?
A BOOT is a type of shoe, so it should be on the bottom of the vehicle, i.e., the tires.
A TRUNK is a type of animal nose, so it should be on the front, like an elephant trunk. Or it could simply mean a storage compartment (like luggage), in which case I suppose it could be anywhere in the vehicle. My mini-van does not have a trunk, but it has several smaller storage compartments throughout the vehicle. Maybe they're ALL trunks! :grin: