RE: 🎨 [Step by Step] - Process: Pink-Pearl Hamsa using Embroidery Beads / "The Forces of Evil can’t act wherever the Hamsa is" - By: Tesmoforia.
This is such a beautiful piece of embroidery. I think you made a right decision when you didn't attach a pin to it. It looks stunning on those different background. My favorite is the blue one in the middle. The colors pop up so nicely there.
I love your step by step photos. You included so many of them :) And the design is top! It's impressive that you didn't use anything to make it. You are very creative and you have great imagination. I can imagine that it takes a lot of time to create such pattern that is full of harmony and love.
40$ sounds like a lot but if you sum up the cost of your material, time and work that you invested I don't think it's valued very well. In Switzerland just the material would cost more than this but you couldn't send it for much more as people wouldn't purchase it. I find that art is still undervalued and that such gems like yours should be priced much higher! :)
Thank you for sharing your beautiful piece of work!
Hello @delishtreats! Omg, thank you so much for the compliments and for giving me your opinion, my heart is soft and happy from reading you 🌷 🌷 🌷
I love knowing you like the step by step, because I’m just experimenting with more comfortable and practical ways to present the process for these small projects without reducing their beauty or details, but that would correctly adapt to Steemit’s layout 👍✨
The design was completely improvised, but done with a lot of patience and tons of love, I needed this Hamsa to end nicely since my heart had been asking me to make it for weeks, and that’s why I gave it its respective time (I spent 4 days to finish it).
Hey! You are giving me some really important facts totally unknown to me: Frankly, I don’t really know how to place the right price for my work, so I try to guide myself with the prices of some other artisans who make similar crafts (I’m scared of placing a price that is too high, or too small) 💦
Thank you very much for leaving me this wonderful comment (I BLUSHED AND ALL), fills me with motivation to move forward! 💖 🙏
I like that you are following your heart. This is the most important :) And it's also visible in your work.
You need to place yourself in the market where you live. I don't know where you are based but 40 dollars might be a huge amount in your country. Which is fine and you can then ask for it (or even lower if it's really too much there). You should make sure that you cover your expenses and don't forget to include your time. I understand that you love what you do but if you wouldn't be doing this you could have done something different that would bring money too so you need to make sure that the time you spend on you embroideries is not for 'free' :) I was working in finance for many years, lol :D
It's been my pleasure :) Thank you for this adorable gif ;)
Wow, it sounds great that you worked with finances @delishtreats, I would’ve never imagined!
Currently, I live in Venezuela, 40$ was a lot of money some months ago, however, due the constant devaluation, it isn’t today.
People don’t normally buy this kind of articles here, most can become really stingy when calculating the artisanal work hahaha (nobody would give me even $10 for this Hamsa), that’s why I seek potential customers at other countries.
And all you say is really true, and I think that yes, indeed I shall consider if I will continue spending my time or not into create those things ; v ; since I don’t produce money with them, I would really like to sell them but I don’t leave in a place with enough market for that (maybe when I trek things will change)
I send you hugs, and I hope your weekend is marvelous 💕