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How To Make Money with Paper Crafts
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It's possible to augment your income, or even to have full-time employment through your knowledge of and ability with paper crafts. Here are a few suggestions how you can cash in by putting paper to work for you. Making Flowers For Resale Lovely flowers of paper are in demand both in and out of their natural growing season. Various groups – clubs, charity organizations, churches – sell the flowers which they make. Individuals who have developed their skill to a professional point often sell their flowers. Local shops are often customers for flowers for window displays. Bakeries, gift shops, beauty parlors, restaurants are a few of the stores that may use them regularly and are fairly sure to use them at holiday times. Easter plants in the spring, roses at all times--these are pretty sure sellers. Giant over-size flowers are also popular for window displays especially in women's clothing shops. Teaching is another way to make money with your flower making skill. How to build up a class or classes will probably occur to you, but here are a few suggestions: A local shopkeeper may be persuaded to let you display your personal card with a bouquet of your flowers. On the card you can advertise your classes. You may be able to teach in a local club room charging in accordance with current hourly rates. Perhaps you can arrange with a local dealer, who sells flower making supplies, for you to give a demonstration of flower making. From those who gather around your counter you may be able to get the nucleus of a class to be conducted in your home. When you are skilled enough you may wish to lecture before local women's clubs or other groups. Such work will help establish your reputation as a teacher. Lectures on flower making can, of course, embrace points of interest about the flowers themselves, flower arrangement, and other allied matters. ... A booth at a fair or a bazaar: display your flowers, sell them, and make a few for the onlookers. . . . Private lessons: shut-ins and children may be interested in taking lessons at home. Everyone Buys Party Decorations Enterprising individuals can develop a good little market under favorable conditions if they are recognized as expert in making party decorations. Perhaps you can sell paper nut cups, favors, and centerpieces through a local store. Bakery shops, gift shops and confectionery stores frequently carry such gaieties. You may prefer to take special orders direct from individuals. Mothers may order centerpieces and favors for children's birthday parties. Engagements, weddings which you can learn of, if not by "word of mouth," through the local society columns of your newspaper are occasions for special favors and centerpieces; Silver and Golden Wedding. Centerpieces can be sold by special order and often direct to shops. It is well to make up some samples to show, a Santa Claus Grab Bag, a Circus Centerpiece, but offer to create favors for special occasions. This sort of thing –if a hostess is giving a farewell party to friends going to Mexico, offer to do smart little Mexican figures or baskets for her table. Local clubs are another potential source of orders. When the holidays come around, it is pretty certain that for their dinners they will be interested in something fresh and different for favors, nut cups and centerpieces. St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween, The Fourth—all offer money making possibilities to the paper crafter who is ambitious, dexterous, and imaginative. |
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