When you look for what is hot and what
is not in the craft show world, sometimes you will come across a
familiar catch-phrase: “build a better mousetrap”. Hey,
anything that can catch more mice than I do with my current mouse
traps is a good idea. So, why not apply that logic to some of your
crafts?
When you ‘build a better mousetrap’
this essentially means that you can make a craft show item out of
something that has already been around for years – but now you can
just make it a little better. Another way to look at it would be to
just add a twist to something that already exists. For example, you
could purchase an unfinished piece of pottery and paint it or add
mosaic art to it – to create more value as a craft.
Whether it is an improvement –like
adding a self-feeding mechanism to your bird houses, or just painting
them for appearance sake, there are a lot of different items that you
can apply this theory to. It doesn’t take much. You could
probably find a lot of new craft ideas just by looking at some of the
stuff around the house and thinking to yourself – how can I make
that better.
This approach does have some caveats –
because you never want to cross the line of copyright or patent
infringement. Most of the time any new creation is worthy of your
own copyright – but just in case here are a couple of rules of
thumb:
Building a better mousetrap is a
catch-phrase that a lot of different crafters use when they are
trying to find a new idea. They might see an item that has been
around for a long time and then find a better way to build it – or
make a simple addition to it and you have a craft that people could
flock to.
People have been improving things since
the beginning of time; there’s no reason why you can’t take
something and make it better in order to find new crafts for your
craft show business!
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