Buy Handmade Pledge
June 8, 2009 Craft Professionals, Crafts, Green Crafting, Trends No Comments
I was catching up with my friend Linda Peterson the other day… well, I was reading her blog and spotted this:
BuyHandmade.org
I love the idea of all of us taking a pledge to buy handmade. I started my career as a professional crafter. For about 10 years I sold wood folk dolls at arts and crafts shows all over the South. I also sold my smaller dolls wholesale to gift shops all over the United States. I still make handmade items for some of my first customers who call or write asking for something special for a friend or member of the family. Without those wonderful and loyal customers, I wouldn’t be where I am today… a happy craft professional who gets to craft for a living.
Thus I do believe in returning the favor and whenever possible I buy from other professional crafters or handmade businesses. So thanks Linda for reminding me that it’s important for us to buy handmade!
