Perhaps I'm moving at a speed slower than the rest of you, but I just discovered this cutie handmade site, Red Velvet Art. It was one of those happenings where you're just stumbling through blogs and suddenly you've found something really cool. Akin to surfing off the coast of Maui and slamming head-on into an old pirate treasure chest. Okay, that doesn't sound very fun.
At Red Velvet Art, they peruse submissions and online crafters to find goodies that handmade lovers want to get their hands on. For the buyer, this means not having to sift through lots of potentially shoddily-made baubles from inexperienced crafters.
Here are some of my picks from the Red Velvet shop which include an owl purse by Brooke of So She Sews (which I swear I've seen on Etsy before), an Autumn Leaves hair piece by the Red Velvet Art studio, and a cutie rib cage bag designed by Elsie and printed locally near the Red Velvet Art home base in Missouri.
What I like more than the sweet eye candy is that this is a real live store in Springfield, Missouri with shelves and a door and everything (imagine that!). We're all getting so used to consuming our handmade fashion online that it can sometimes be hard to fathom that real retail stores are out there buying up handmade items from crafters and selling them to the world.
The shop has a limited number of open slots available each month for new products. If you are a handmade artist, you may want to consider selling to a retailer like this one to get your products moving en mass instead of to the individual buyer as in Etsy and Artfire type situations.
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