EARTH ANGELS: October 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

...a very happy halloween to all....

TRICKS or TREATS...

enjoy it all

xo Jen

Monday, October 16, 2017

...my column is on the newsstands...are you an Artful Entrepreneur???

...many of you don't know that my formal training is in Urban Planning -- yep -- even have the Masters and the Professional License (AICP) --
but that may not seem to match with what I do everyday with Earth Angels Studios...

But it does! It does! Why???

My specialization in Planning is in small business economic development... that means, I know how to help business grow through garnering sales, how they market and how they position themselves within the economy as makers and manufacturers...

So now -- instead of working with food and fashion liked I used to in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn when I lived in Queens -- I work with handmade and have since I started my dabbling in 1994 as a hobby business...

I went full time into Earth Angels in 2000 when I had my first kiddo and have not looked back....

Soooo it' really nice for me to have the opportunity to come full-circle and share my business development know-how in a four part series called

"Paying the Bills with Your Passion"

A huge thanks to Jo Packham of

Where Women Create: BUSINESS

for the opportunity to write this new column on artful entrepreneur....

Part I is on how to turn a hobby business

(yes, just like I did) into a legitimate one...with research and evaluation of the market and your goods!

You can read the entire article in the July issue...

get the mag on my site or at WhereWomenCreate.com

....and the October Issue has just hit the newsstands with Part II of my column -- more on that soon

...and hope you can catch these pieces if they are relevant to you as you start or grow your own handmade business....

xo Jen

Monday, October 9, 2017

BLYTHE -- quick question answered in images!

I was recently on the phone with an old friend and long time, passionate doll collector....HI MAGGIE!

...she had never really looked at Blythe and the realm of custom Blythe dolls...

and she was not sure what all the fuss was about!

So, I thought I would quickly post a few images here that came up on a google search -- some before and after customization pics -- that I had sent along to her... (sorry, I cannot credit the 3 images to follow to the photographers, if these are your shots -- let me know so I can!)

Anyway....here are these same images to show you -- in just a few pics --

what the artists who customize do...

they sand, and carve, and paint, adding custom eye chips, gaze correction and more..

I am astounded at what they do to a base/stock doll...Maggie was too...there is a lot going on here in the realm of Blythe that deserves attention and celebration!

Thanks to all of the custom artists for applying their talents to the medium of Blythe...

You can see more dolls on our pages from some of our featured artists...CLICK HERE (and below)