Handmade With Heart

I am up early this morning and I am cruising the internet for some "best practices" with a handmade,upcycled project (okay, we can say a craft project) and do you know what I notice? A tangible gender bias is prevalent in the entire handmade industry. Okay, it isn't news but there are so many "crafty moms" or "cool chick's crafts" and I have to wonder why is handmade craft immediately labeled as a feminine art form. I see wood workers who are male. There are guys who make clocks. Guys who repurpose technology are out there. Engineers, craftsMEN, and all sorts of other men are busy upcycling and crafting their little hearts out but the market as a whole is tilted towards women. What's up with that?
(Sean)

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Tonight I've been stringing up the elephants I cut out the other day. It turned out pretty cute but not at gender neutral as I had hoped since the store I'm working on some merchandise for wants gender neutral items. I guess this one is going with me to the craft fair this weekend. Jayden really seemed to like this one alot. He would not stop touching the elephants. I had to get onto him several times but eventually gave up and took some snapshots of him playing with the elephants. :)

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I decided to make a blog to showcase the projects I'm working on and track my progress making a business out of my hobby. I have my online store up and running with about 4 products so far and my facebook page going strong with over 30 fans already! So far in the last week I made 3 mobiles and two necklaces.

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