Money Making Reports

66 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH HANDICRAFTS

|USING WOOD

1. Make house signs
   
   
2. Make walking canes
   
   
3. Refinish old-fashioned children's desks
   
   
4. Mass-produce quality chopping blocks
   
   
5. Make wicker baskets
   
   
6. Hand-carve picture frames
   
   
7. Make wooden greeting cards
   
   
8. Specialize in creating quality doll palaces
   
   
9. Build miniature furniture for dollhouses and adult collectors
   
   
10. Create decorative birdhouses
    
    
    

|USING CLOTH AND NATURAL FIBERS

11. Knit personalized sweaters
    
    
12. Specialize in batik wearing apparel
    
    
13. Tie-dyeing
    
    
14. Make old-fashioned quilts
    
    
15. Make quilts that tell a story
    
    
16. Sell macrame products from home, a shop, or mail order
    
    
17. Custom rugmaking
    
    
18. Create doll clothes and restore old dolls
    
    
19. Create unique ethnic and character dolls
    
    
20. Produce custom-made sandals
    
    
21. Make personalized leather snap-on bracelets
    
    
    
    

|FROM GOURDS

22. Create eating and drinking utensils from gourds
    
    
23. Make lamps with gourds
    
    
24. Make gourd planters
    
    
25. Make gourd totem poles
    
    
26. Create gourd creatures
    
    
27. Create birdhouses from gourds
    
    
    

|FROM MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

28. Make face masks
    
    
29. Make copper cameos from photographs
    
    
30. Make babies' hand plaques
    
    
31. Make dolls with faces similar to their owners
    
    
32. Moulding and casting faces
    
    
33. Dry flowers
    
    
34. Make book-safes: hollowed-out books for hiding valuables
    
    
35. Make personalized coffee mugs
    
    
36. Make jewelry from beads or seashells
    
    
37. Make bulletin boards
    
    
38. Embellish and redecorate household products
    
    
39. Make salt and pepper shakers from cow horns
    
    
40. Make custom wastebaskets
    
    
41. Create miniature replicas of antiques out of wood or ivory
    
    
42. Crate giant replicas of small insects
    
    
43. Decorate decanter stoppers with small clay caricatures of people
    
    
44. Offer natural tattooing with sun stencils
    
    
45. Make ceramic plaques of newborn infants' foot or hand prints
    
    
46. Make lamps from wine jugs, seashells, etched metal, rocks, transparent plastic, etc 47. Make money from mobiles
    
    

48. Make mosaics to decorate functional items
    
    
49. Make ceramic lawn decorations
    
    
50. Manufacture sundials
    
    
51. Make costume jewelry
    
    
52. Make weather vanes
    
    
53. Make unusual products from seashells
    
    
54. Manufacture terrariums
    
    
55. Make and sell bottled boats
    
    
56. Tint and sell pussy willows
    
    
57. Decorate penny match boxes
    
    
58. Make bottle gardens
    
    
59. Create novelty bottles
    
    
60. Manufacture stained glass windows
    
    
61. Make sculpture candles
    
    
62. Gift wrapping service
    
    
    

|SELLING

63. Operate a crafts marketplace
    
    
64. Operate a crafts consignment shop
    
    
65. Become a sales agent for handicrafts
    
    
66. Sell handicrafts at fairs