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Today, two items (and those paintings are coming, promise!):
#1. To get blueberry stains out of clothing, pour white vinegar on and blot it off with a paper towel and rinse with hot water. Or soak in white vinegar and pour boiling water over and let sit for a bit. Just, you know, in case you needed to know.
#2. After the success of my half-price print sale, I have decided to make it an official price-lowering for the summer in my Etsy shop and at shows/sales in-person! See it as my version of the economic stimulus, perhaps. Affordable Art for the masses! 8×10’s are now $10 and 4×6’s are $6, plus shipping. These are all printed by me on a lovely gloss photo paper, guaranteed to last a real long time. Probably longer than all of us (not to be morbid or anything).
I have come to this decision in part through my various price experiments. Didn’t you know you were all part of my experiment? I’m a mad scientist! ok, no, but I have spent the past few months travelling around to different shows, and chaning my prices here and there to see how things sell at different price points. And doing the same on Etsy. I think this is an invaluable way of determining prices, but of course in a time when many people don’t have a lot of disposable income, the experiment goes a little haywire. I’ve tried different methods and equations for pricing, and my favorite by far is the secret formula I used to come up with this “affordable art” price. I’m sorry that I cannot share that equation (e-mail me if you reallywanttoknow), but I’m sharing this whole story as a way of possibly helping someone who is in the same place I have been, trying to figure out how to not undersell yourself (or your fellow artists!) but also make a living and sell your butt off. I hope it helps to see that you have to try different things, and your business and business practices must continue to grow and evolve as your product and you grow and evolve. There’s no perfect way of doing it, if there was we’d all be millionaires. I plan on being one soon enough, but right now I’ll make do with selling my butt off. Buy prints here.
