My Customized Crafts

What’s up beautiful souls? A lot of you already knows about my handmade crafts, as I had mentioned about it every once in a while. For those who haven’t read about it yet, you can check it here. So today, I am going to share to you about my made to order or customized design my clients has requested for the past years. Ever since I started doing this kind of crafts which is felt crafting, I can no longer recall how many people were requesting for a customized order. Of course I was so happy because this was only supposed to be a hobby for me. A hobby which I enjoyed doing. Earning from it becomes a bonus.

I posted most of my crafts in my shopee account last 2019. The good thing about using shopee was that I can use my account by selling my items at the same shopping for my personal needs a.k.a. shopee budols. Of course during the first year there were only few who inquired about my items. And then finally I received an inquiry requesting for a customized design. The client wanted a helicopter design keychain to be used as souvenir. I asked her to send me a sample picture and then tell her I would try to copy it. I gave her a few days for it to be done. When I showed her the final product she liked it and proceed on purchasing it.

It took so long before I got another one. The next customized order I received was phone cases with different designs. These were all made from felt cloth and specially handstitched. The client requested different cartoon characters and included some of my personal designs. She sent me the pictures that she wanted me to copy. I did my best to imitate the characters in every details, not only for my client’s satisfaction but mine as well.

Last year 2020, I have mentioned on my past article about how business opportunity comes along with my hobby. It started when I posted my felt christmas ornaments in the facebook market, and since then inquiries started to come from time to time. Along with questions if I do customized designs and all. I entertained some but I focused on my regular designs. Customised design will take up one week or even weeks depend on its details and the number of orders. Unlike with the my regular designs I can make of up to 30 pieces a day, since I was doing it for a long time. But a good friend of mine, well actually she was my classmate in high school sent me a message, asking me to make a customized design for her older sister. Since I also knew her sister, I didn’t refused. I just told her to wait for some days before I can be able to do it. And before the deadline comes, I finished it just in time, I agreed to meet with her sister who was living near our area. The next morning her sister Anne, updated me with her new christmas tree together with the customized ornaments I made for her.

This year, someone inquired in my shopee account for another customized design. I think it was June. She asked if I can make a peppa pig and her classmates characters into a felt ornaments, since she was planning to put up a Peppa Pig and friends theme for her christmas tree. I looked up and searched in the net for the simple designs, because complicated designs will really took long to make. First, I made a sample of each characters and showed it up to the client. She eventually loved it and the next thing was, another order was done. On the following month, she again contacted me, and requested me to make a disney princesses ornaments. Since she was a regular client I didn’t say no. When I showed her the final product, I can say that she was so satisfied with it and she ordered right away. Just last month she gave me a message and sent me a picture of her christmas tree which include all the customised felt ornaments I made for her.

Final Thoughts

You can really earn a decent money from felt crafting because the price of each was a little pricey, since it will take up a lot of efforts before you can perfectly made one. My only edge I guess was that I offered it in a much lesser price. From what I have seen in some sites, they offered the same product as mine at around 35 pesos ($0.7)to 50 pesos each.($1). That was a little expensive for me, so last year I only sell them at 20 pesos each ($0.4) and I gave them an additional discount for wholesales order. This year since the raw materials price got a little higher, I have to to sell them at 25 pesos ($0.5). It was actually fun making these customised designs. The fulfilment I felt everytime I was able to copy the desired characters my clients want. To end this article let me share to you what I am planning to put up on my christmas tree this year.

Our very own BCH. Hurray for that. I still have a lot of time to make more of this in the next couple of days.

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This is my first post for the month of October. I wish this month will give us more bch😁 and I also hope it goes up to the moon. I am sure that’s what you are wishing too, right?

Also hurray for these lovely souls. Please give them some love by visiting their profiles and be inspired by their works. 😍

All the images used were mine and credit to Unsplash for the lead image used.