tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950610514704668490.post7194610916351740532..comments2023-08-17T00:39:54.547+10:00Comments on A little bit of Kaos: Make it HandmadeMargarethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06767582964487650597noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950610514704668490.post-82388575955838909652010-08-05T19:23:48.242+10:002010-08-05T19:23:48.242+10:00Interesting post Margaret. It sounds like a good d...Interesting post Margaret. It sounds like a good doc. I'm not happy to hear that a huge cooperation like Wal-Mart has bought Etsy. But it isn't their fault that so many crafters underprice their work - that is a problem for the rest of us who are trying to make a living from craft.Theahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17347500412731766502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950610514704668490.post-66166271845299821432010-08-02T21:24:49.758+10:002010-08-02T21:24:49.758+10:00For me craft is personal, not political. I really...For me craft is personal, not political. I really enjoyed the documentary though. I suspect that most crafters are your average woman who likes to knit or sew or crochet a bit. Not as interesting for a film proposal though! And let's not forget that many people craft for a million reasons other than as a business.<br />Sorry that I didn't see you at the film!Larahttp://thornberry.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-950610514704668490.post-25717223748643355232010-08-01T21:55:00.183+10:002010-08-01T21:55:00.183+10:00I didn't see the doco but it sounds interestin...I didn't see the doco but it sounds interesting. The anti-Etsy, anti-business elements you mention make me think I wouldn't entirely enjoy it.<br /><br />I admire/envy the free & fuzzy alternacraft crowd but realise that after nearly 18 months in the craft scene, even as a market organiser, that I haven't met any/very many of them. Odd, seeing as I live in one of the craftiest suburbs in Australia's craftiest city. Perhaps the gap between indie crafters with enough disposable income to not 'need' to make money from their craft and WAHMs who can't get to social craft-alongs without organising childcare first is bigger than I had otherwise noticed. Or I should just accept I'm not cool and get over it! ;-)<br /><br />The Melbourne craft scene, and from what I've read the indie craft scene overall, is very much a middle-class white woman's game. One of my favourite craft bloggers, Oh Meaghan (http://www.ohmeaghan.com/) points out that in the US it's also a straight life-partnered woman's game because unless you've got a husband's health insurance to rely on (de facto homosexual parnterships generally aren't recognised by health insurance companies) a woman can't afford to leave a full time job to focus on her craft business.<br /><br />Now I'm feeling guilty about how much of my creative efforts are about self-expression and self-development when there's refugee women living in housing commission flats who have to focus all their energies on the basic necessities of life with little hope of self-actualisation. More of what we/I do should be about helping victims of tragedy and supporting the disadvantaged, not just bolstering my own self-worth.<br /><br />And on that note I'm taking my middle class guilt to bed.Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01257294267302489273noreply@blogger.com