66 Ways To Make Money With Handicrafts

• USING WOOD
  • Make house signs
  • Make walking canes
  • Refinish old-fashioned children's desks
  • Mass-produce quality chopping blocks
  • Make wicker baskets
  • Hand-carve picture frames
  • Make wooden greeting cards
  • Specialize in creating quality doll palaces
  • Build miniature furniture for dollhouses and adult collectors
  • Create decorative birdhouses
• USING CLOTH AND NATURAL FIBERS
  • Knit personalized sweaters
  • Specialize in batik wearing apparel
  • Tie-dyeing
  • Make old-fashioned quilts
  • Make quilts that tell a story
  • Sell macrame products from home, a shop, or mail order
  • Custom rugmaking
  • Create doll clothes and restore old dolls
  • Create unique ethnic and character dolls
  • Produce custom-made sandals
  • Make personalized leather snap-on bracelets
• FROM GOURDS
  • Create eating and drinking utensils from gourds
  • Make lamps with gourds
  • Make gourd planters
  • Make gourd totem poles
  • Create gourd creatures
  • Create birdhouses from gourds
• FROM MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
  • Make face masks
  • Make copper cameos from photographs
  • Make babies' hand plaques
  • Make dolls with faces similar to their owners
  • Moulding and casting faces
  • Dry flowers
  • Make book-safes: hollowed-out books for hiding valuables
  • Make personalized coffee mugs
  • Make jewelry from beads or seashells
  • Make bulletin boards
  • Embellish and redecorate household products
  • Make salt and pepper shakers from cow horns
  • Make custom wastebaskets
  • Create miniature replicas of antiques out of wood or ivory
  • Crate giant replicas of small insects
  • Decorate decanter stoppers with small clay caricatures of people
  • Offer natural tattooing with sun stencils
  • Make ceramic plaques of newborn infants' foot or hand prints
  • Make lamps from wine jugs, seashells, etched metal, rocks, transparent plastic, etc
  • Make money from mobiles
  • Make mosaics to decorate functional items
  • Make ceramic lawn decorations
  • Manufacture sundials
  • Make costume jewelry
  • Make weather vanes
  • Make unusual products from seashells
  • Manufacture terrariums
  • Make and sell bottled boats
  • Tint and sell pussywillows
  • Decorate penny match boxes
  • Make bottle gardens
  • Create novelty bottles
  • Manufacture stained glass windows
  • Make sculpture candles
  • Gift wrapping service
• SELLING
  • Operate a crafts marketplace
  • Operate a crafts consignment shop
  • Become a sales agent for handicrafts
  • Sell handicrafts at fairs