Posted February 28th, 2009 by christine
I was approached this week by Josie, owner of PreOwned Wedding Dresses, about promoting my custom wedding guestbooks on her site for her weekly giveaways. Josie founded PreOwned Wedding Dresses in 2004, where she connects buyers and sellers of preowned designer wedding dresses. Her website has been featured on publications, online and offline, such as [...]
Tags: bargains, bridal, CNN, Cosmopolitan, custom, designer, dresses, giveaway, guestbook, InStyle, Monique Lhuiller, preowned, promotion, The New York Times, wedding
Posted February 21st, 2009 by christine
Grant had his promotional pieces printed in December of 2008 so that he could be prepared to enter his website and his booklet into the Rochester Advertising Federation ADDY Awards this year. He had Canfield & Tack print the booklets on a textured paper and they came out beautifully. They set aside 100 booklets for [...]
Tags: Add new tag, booklet, Canfield & Tack, Grant Taylor, pamphlet, photography, Rochester, signature, stitch, stitching
Posted February 17th, 2009 by christine
Concepcioun’s custom wedding guestbooks on now available on my Etsy Shop. They have all the same options as the custom wedding guestbook ordering kits that I have been marketing to a couple local retailers. Customers can pick from archival grade cover papers, page layouts, and ribbon colors to match their wedding palette. Each wedding guestbook [...]
Tags: album, book, bride, custom, groom, guest, guestbooks, journal, wedding
Posted February 14th, 2009 by christine
I call them “pocket books” because I think it is a clever name. For the sake of this post, I will call them “envelope books”… I have made some adjustments from my previous envelope book post. Instead of using a #10 business envelope template for the book, I ended up using an A6 envelope, horizontally [...]
Tags: book, eco-friendly, envelope book, journal, mail, Martha Stewart, recycled
Posted February 13th, 2009 by christine
I took the week off from my full-time job as a graphic designer to make journals and catch up on things with Concepcioun Handmade Gifts. I made several journals and added another pick-up line to the collection of pick up line journals. I made small adjustments to the craftsmanship of the covers. They look great. [...]
Tags: blank, booty, gift, journal, lines, pick-up, pirate, writing
Posted February 9th, 2009 by christine
A few weeks ago, I was shopping around on the web for a book sewing frame and soon realized that I would have to spend at least $100 or more for one. Since I am such a bargain shopper, I kept shopping to look for the best deal. I finally came across another bookbinder’s blog [...]
Tags: book, book making, Bookbinding, frame, Jim Poelstra, sewing, supplies
Posted February 9th, 2009 by christine
I received a call voicemail from Syracuse Card Co. a couple of weeks ago as a followup. They said that as much as they liked my custom wedding guestbooks that I had presented a few weeks ago, they didn’t think that they would sell enough of my products to make up for the cost of [...]
Tags: boutique, custom, retailers, stationery, Syracuse Card Company, Wedding Guestbooks
Posted February 5th, 2009 by christine
As I am embark small business ownership I have had, and still have, plenty of questions: Do I need a tax ID number? How do I claim on my tax forms? Do I need to charge tax for my products? Where do I start as a small business owner? Is owning a craft business any [...]
Tags: accounting, bookkeeping, Craft Business, entrepreneur, IRS, Meg Mateo Ilasco, resources, small business, Small Business Administration, sole proprietorship, Start Up Nation, taxes, woman owned business