I attacked July with a list at the ready along with pen and paper close by. Although a little later than I had planned, the secret I had been working on is now online. It's a page where guilds from all around Australia are being listed along with contact details. Listing more than this information would take away from that guild's website, which I think would be unfair, so I think it is best to simply stick to contact details and have those who are interested, easily able to contact the guild and find out more.
The amazing 500 Likes or Less competition, which is held twice a year on the Squnches Craft Network Facebook page and then on the website, has been a wonderful success with voting closing at midnight tonight with winners announced tomorrow. Holding a competition for handmade businesses with so few likes is a way for Squnches Craft Network to help the up and coming handmade businesses connect with other businesses and customers and also to help get their name and products out into the world, a bit like a helping hand up you could say.
Back to normal with the markets and events now and regularly updating and adding new markets and events to the website. It's fantastic to see so many taking place all around Australia. The last task I had hoped to achieve for the month of July, unfortunately a little behind schedule, was a fortnightly newsletter to help all craft minded people keep up to date with the website, markets and more. Hopefully, all going to plan, the first newsletter will be sent out in the coming days.
As for August, the aim is to populate the guild page so that anyone interested in learning new skills, crafts or just wanting to get out and have a cuppa and chat with like minded craft people can do so. These days it seems more and more people are keeping to themselves and all these wonderful crafts and skills are slowly fading away, which is a great shame.
~* Sarah
