Twitter can be a fun way to promote your handmade products

Twitter is a platform for sending short messages (140 characters) out to people who 'follow' you. You can use Twitter to build relationships with other people who share your interests and promote your handmade business. This lens is all about how to use Twitter to promote yourself and your work, have fun doing it, and not being spammy.

Twitter lets you build relationships between you and the people who follow you. You can let them know more about yourself and your business and get feedback from other people who also sell their handmade goods.

How to make your profile more distinctive.1: Pick a name related to your business, if at all possible use your business name. 

2: Make your full name visible. Face it, if you're running a business people need to know your name and trying to be totally anonymous online will probably hurt your business.

3: You only have 160 characters for your bio, make it good. Don't just say you're name, tell at least a little about what your create too.4: Don't forget to add your website. This could be your Misi shop but if you have a blog or other website you should use that also. Twitter is about building relationships so it's better to send people visiting your profile to a site that says more about you than directly to your store.

Announce when new products are listed. If you've just listed one item post a direct link to it but if you are listing more than 2 or 3 items in a day wait until you're finished for the day then announce with a link to your shop.

2: Announce sales and promotions. If you're having a sale announce it once or twice during the day, not every few minutes or every hour. You don't want to flood your followers.

Here are the type of people you want to follow for promotion (other than personal friends, family, or celebrities, of course follow them if you want but that's for fun not business). Find them by browsing forums you frequent, blogs, and using the twitter search. Also make sure you check out the profiles of people who follow you and follow them back if they look interesting. I wouldn't recommend auto-following everyone who follows you, there are spammers on twitter and you don't want to get flooded with spam posts.1) People who also sell handmade products. Even if they aren't in the same niche as you.
2) People interested in your niche

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Personalized Gift Ideas For Your Teacher

Teachers play a great role in the society and in the life of every student. Giving a gift is a wonderful thing to do as it shows love, appreciation and care for your teacher. There are numerous occasions to give teachers a gift. There is his/her birthday, Teacher's Appreciation Week, etc.. So what are the best personalized gifts for a teacher?

Personalized Stationery: Your teacher makes use of different stationery daily. You can get pens, note pads, or writing pads with your teacher's name or initials monogrammed on it. This can be a perfect gift for your teacher.

Picture Frame: Get your teacher a personalized picture frame as a gift. A decorative photo frame or a thank you frame is a great gift to give. Include a message on it saying how much you thank him for what he taught you.

Customized Items: A personalized coffee mug, T-shirt, mouse pad, key chain is one of the best personalized gift ideas ever! In the coffee mug, for example, put a message like "You are the Best Teacher in the World!". This would really mean a lot to your teacher. He/She will treasure it for life.

Handmade Jewelry: If you are good at arts and crafts then making a handmade jewelry for your teacher will be a great idea! Make a handmade jewelry from wire, metal, beads or clay. This for sure will create a heartwarming gift.

For more inspiration on great personalized gifts, visit www.mymisi.com

Sewing Crafts Give Projects for the Whole Family

In this day and age there are a small number of folks that choose sewing and other crafts as their preferred hobby. There is a multitude of other activities to do that people rather prefer, more modern, and provide more immediate gratification that tend to pull people away from enjoying the crafts hobby.

In general people also are so preoccupied that they rarely have the spare time to spare to spend on crafts than was true in the past.

Increasingly more women pursue business careers and during those times that they have available at home they want to hang out with the husband and children in preference to focusing their remaining energy on crafts.

Yet, there are sewing crafts that are easy that are easy on the pocket and do not require a lot of time. It can be very enjoyable for all to integrate a few sewing projects into the time that the family spend together. Not many families these days make time for quality time together, but when they do that then integrating a relatively simple sewing project into the available time could be a very worthwhile and rewarding exercise.

The most frequently enjoyed is making clothing or assorted outfits with the use of a sewing machine. Some folks are not very interested in that or do not believe that they are capable of making a complex outfit. For these folks there are other kinds of projects that can be an equal amount of fun. These include making Xmas ornaments, putting together tissue box covers, making beautiful dolls, and so many additional decorations that one can make through sewing.

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Buying Personalised Valentines Gifts

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, even though it is just less than a month away, a lot of people will no doubt leave their shopping to the last minute. To avoid this last minute stress why not shop online as there is a huge range of personalised gifts available, so it may be an idea to start shopping now to get ahead this year. Preparation is the key for a thoughtful gift for your loved one. Valentine's Day is that extra special day of the year when you can really express your true feelings.

If you're finding it difficult to find the right gift then the best option is to visit online stores that offer a variety of unique and hand-crafted gifts. Sites that stock hand crafted gifts offer a collection of exclusive, sophisticated and memorable gifts for all kinds of people. There is no better feeling than the feeling of giving to your loved one, and online stores like these add the extra details that provide you with a shopping experience like no other.

Whether you looking for a small surprise for your girlfriend or boyfriend, a cute keepsake for your wife or husband or a valentines treat for your son or daughter then there is a selection for everyone. Presentation is an important factor and handcrafted gifts usually include gift wrapping at no extra cost, each gift is delightfully hand wrapped, which adds that extra decorative touch, you're loved one is guaranteed to be impressed.

So to give your loved one a gift that is sure to be cherished this year then visit www.mymisi.com but remember to allow yourself plenty of time for shipping so that your gift arrives on time.

5 Reasons to Make Handmade Gifts

Handmade gifts are not only unique and more valuable, but they can also be fun and relaxing to make. Yes, handmade gifts can be time consuming to make, which is most likely why most of us choose not to make them. However, there are many reasons to make your own gifts, many of which will outweigh the time issue.

Here are 5 of them:

Unique. Handmade gifts are always unique. They have your personal touch - a touch that will always remind your recipients of you when they use your gift. And isn't that what you want?

Fun and Relaxing. Making handmade gifts can be fun and relaxing to make.
No matter which craft you choose, once you get going you'll find your worries and other stress begin to disappear.



Inexpensive. Ha! you might think. But, no really, handmade gifts can be inexpensive. It can be expensive when you first get started as you will need to go out and get all your tools to actually do the craft. But once you have the basic tools, all you need is the material, which in many cases is cheaper than if you were to purchase the gift.
In addition, staying home and crafting is a lot cheaper than going to the movies on Friday nights.



Environmentally Friendly. Making your own gifts can help to save the environment. How you might ask? Because when you make things at home, you are not utilizing large machines that require a lot of energy. You are using your own energy to make the item with your hands. Thus, the need for huge factories is eliminated.

Says You Care. Last but not least, there is nothing that says you care like a handmade gift. Time is the most precious gift that we have today. Simply put, time is money. And by taking the time to make something unique tells the recipient they were important enough for you to take the time and make something for them.



If you need some ideas and want to see how our users did it than visit www.mymisi.com

5 Scrummy Bakes for Dad

Dads can be notoriously hard to buy for – especially when you’d rather be giving him something personal instead. These five easy bakes for dad can be quickly customised with his favourite toppings or ingredients. Plus, they’re all super simple to do – and perfect for baking beginners!

1. Shortbread

Shortbread is a good bake to start with if your new to the world of baking – you don’t need a lot of ingredients or equipment to make something that both tastes and looks delicious!

2. Bread

This white loaf would make a great breakfast-in-bed treat. Cut it into thick slices with a healthy spread of butter and jam, for a delicious Father’s Day treat!

3. Flapjack

Flapjack is a perennial bake for dad! This super simple, super sticky recipe is sure to become one of your family favourites.

4. Cookies

Cookies are a great bake for the kids to help with (and little fingers make light work!). All you need for these hand-crafted cookies are some cutters and Ready-Roll Icing!

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Dad's token tin

Instead of the usual coupons, why not give dad some fun tokens this year. 

What you need:

*  small round tin (i got mine at michaels - it's about 4" in diameter)
*  one sheet of black cardstock
*  two or more sheets of white cardstock (depending on how many tokens you make)
*  sheet of tokens
*  black ink pad
*  scissors

Step one: print your tokens, then punch out with 3" punch.

Step two: trace and cut out white circles a little larger than your tokens. i used a large soup can. (you can probably use a cricut for this) then trace and cut out one black circle for the lid of your tin. this needs to be bigger than your white circle, but not bigger than the lid. 

Step three: ink the edges of your white circles. 

Step four: adhere tokens to your white circles. (adhere the black one for your lid) then have your child(ren) write things they are willing to do for their dad on the tokens. make sure to have them sign their names too.

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How to Add Closed Captions to YouTube Videos

YouTube has the ability to display closed captions and use those captions to translate into many different languages. This article explains how to upload an prepared caption file to YouTube.

1. Log into your YouTube account.

2. Go to the My Videos page and scroll down to the video you want to add captions to.

3. Look at the bottom of that section. You'll find a set of buttons (Play, Edit, Annotations, Captions, etc.) that are used to make changes to your video.

4. Click the "Captions" button.

5. Search for the "Available Caption Tracks" section. Click on the "Add New Captions and Transcript".

6. Browse for the file you downloaded. Select "caption file" as the file type, Make sure the language is in English, and click the "Upload file" button.

Now you'll see that there's English as an available track. Play the video to the left to see your captions in action.

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Make Father's Day Handprint Cards!

Supplies:

- Heavy card of white card stock with matching envelope

- Craft paper

- Pencil

- Scissors

- Glue

- Paint (we used watercolor but, any paint will work. If fact, you could use markers or crayon, too)

- Google Eyes

- Fabric Scraps

- Markers

How to make:

- To make this Handprint Card, we traced our youngest son's hand with his fingers held tightly together onto craft paper.

- We cut out handprint. 

- Decorated the handprint and attached to card.

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Father’s Day : Printable Trophy Dad awards

What you can do for your father is awarding him a bunch of mini Trophy Dad awards.

On to Father’s Day – I still wanted to celebrate all the good little deeds my father does for us. So I came up with these little printable trophy awards for the kids to post around the house :)

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How to Sign Up for Pinterest

Pinterest is an image-based social media site that allows you to share your cool things that you find across the web! This article helps you to signup for an account and get started.

1. 
   
   Go to the Pinterest.com website. It's found at: http://www.pinterest.com. If you don't have an account already, click "Signup" on the home page. Check your email and click on the link that is sent to you to create an account. Alternatively, you can signup thru Facebook too.
2. 
   
   Log in. You can log in with either Facebook or Twitter. Create a password to go with it.
3. 
   
   Click on images or items that catch your interest. Then click on "Follow People." Doing this will get you started on the site.
4. 
   
   Check out the people you're now following. You can unfollow later, if you choose.

Make a Textured Ombre Pen Pot or Vase

My desk needs a bit of sprucing up. My big plan is to sand it completely to remove the stain, and then paint it white, or maybe yellow. In the mean time I decided to work on a smaller project to make my work area a bit more cheerful. I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk, so I wanted to have a cheery pop of colour there. I decided that a new pen pot would be just the thing! And while I was at it I made a vase too.

Supplies for a Textured Ombre Pen Pot:

• Empty jam or mason jars. ( I always have a ton of these I keep, you?)
• White gesso
• Spray ink
• A sponge dabber
• Non-stick craft mat.

1. Measure out some white gesso onto your non-stick mat, and using the sponge dabber apply it all over the glass jars in a, well a dabbing motion

We’re going for texture here, so don’t worry too much about it going on evenly. Once the jars are completely covered, turn upside down to dry.

Luckily gesso dries pretty quickly, so it’s not a long wait!
2. Holding the jar by the rim, spray the ink on the lower part of the jar while turning it at the same time

This part is very unpredictable, so you have to be up for surprises! If you’d like a more even  edge, you can put some painter’s tape around the top part of the jar. To get deeper colours, you can apply several coats of the ink.

Now wait to dry, and that’s it! Time to add pens and flowers

I love the weather beaten look of these, and the pen pot is the perfect touch for my somewhat drab desk.
Other Ideas

• You could make these in a rainbow of colours for a themed event.
• Or paint different shaped jars in the same colour for some uniformity.
• Instead of spray ink, experiment with acrylic paints or washes.

Enjoy!

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