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