Handmade Designs At the Markets

Local Markets have taken off and in 2013 selling your handmade products at the markets is a key spoke in any business plans for a start up or emerging idea.  As people like you seek to make a meaningful connection with place, process and product, markets and stalls are the key intersection between customers jaded with corporate sameness at shopping centers.

No longer is it good enough to present food of questionable origin, or buy clothes produced in sweatshops and not feel as you are as much a part of the problem for supporting it with your purchase.

People have wised up to the idea that wearing a new $4 shirt means someone, somewhere in the world, has had to work by hand on that item in appalling conditions for as low as $1 for a 14 hour day.

Buy local and keep your money supporting local producers.

English Language Found Dead; Craigslist Wanted for Questioning

If you want to use the Craigslist site for looking for love, don't let us stop you. Just be aware that the site, through no fault of its own, tends to draw the lowest common denominator. This hilarious article goes into the many flakes, posers, and just plain brainless minions who post on Craigslist just because they can.

The best is the third point, "Mediocrity in the first degree.". We'd like to see more people loosen up when they write a profile. Make fun of yourself. Make fun of dating. Make fun of the person reading. After browsing 1000 profiles before getting to yours, think how much attention you'll get if you are the one who throws every idea about online dating out the window and posts something daring and original.

Jodie BrittainPosted byJodie BrittainatTuesday, December 16, 2008