I missed this but will join in next week - it’s in the diary now!!
Poxy internet decided to crash for 3 hours this evening so couldn’t join in. I have a days holiday from my full time job on Friday so one of the jobs on the list of things to do is find a new broadband supplier because it seems to becoming a bit too regular for my liking !!!
So many wonderful work spaces and studios. Thanks for sharing and the glimpses into folksy creative lives. See you all next week.
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Sorry to have missed #Folksyhour last night, hope to make it next week 
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Hello everyone! So it’s Tuesday which means tonight is #FolksyHour over on Twitter. Last week Sian ran it and was utterly BRILLIANT. This week it’s me again, so I can only dream of reaching her heights of speed typing and incredibleness…
I would really, really, really love to get it trending, so if you could all join in that would be amazing. It would also really help if you could tweet about it a bit today - so we can tell as many people as possible that it’s happening and get them to join in too.
The theme tonight is creativity - where it comes from, if it starts from childhood spent making, how your parents and teachers supported your creativity, whether schools are doing enough now to encourage and teach craft, and what you do if you get stuck in a creative rut.
We’d love to see pictures of your creativity in action too - so works in progress, pictures from your sketchbooks, ideas that you haven’t quite worked out, the piece you’re most proud of, that kind of thing.
Please come and please tell other people about it too!
See you at 8pm?
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I’ll be there will go and tweet it now Dottie x
Ohhh I do love a good twitter 
I will be there.
I will pop a tweet on now to remind folks too 
Karen
Sorry can’t make it tonight , being taken out to dinner! However have tweeted about it. Love the topic. I had a handmade childhood, my mum, sadly no longer with us, made all my clothes and I had all the scraps. Best ever Christmas present was a sewing box which my father made and my mother covered in fabric and filled with all manner of sewing things.
Will read the tweets when I get home as I think it’ll be a great hour. Still using scraps!
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Remember it’s #FolksyHour 8pm tonight. CU later!
Missed it! Had a tech problem…sorry. Will do a search for #FolksyHour today and try to catch up on the activity.
I was only on there for a little bit; husband was getting stuff ready to go away on business (again! why is it always a tues night?!!) so had to stop socialising and sort stuff out. Always an enjoyable time though even if it was only about 10mins for me
Don’t forget #FolksyHour tonight 8-9pm!
Last week’s theme was creativity and we were fascinated by your experiences of craft in education, so we’re going to carry on the discussion tonight.
If you missed last week, you can catch up here: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23folksyhour&src=tyah
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Looking forward to being part of this week’s twitter hour. Love a good crafty chat.
Sadly, I will not be able to join you tonight but hope to be back again next week.
For those who can join us, this is your 10 minute warning! Get the kettle on
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Tomorrow’s #FolksyHour promises to be a goodie.
We’ve enlisted three brilliant photographers Yeshen Venema @Yeshen, Holly Booth @hollyphotobooth & Kerrie Mitchell @Styledproduct to solve your product shot problems. They’ll be on hand throughout #FolksyHour (so this Tuesday 17th March between 8-9pm) to answer your questions and crit your Folksy shops and shots.
So if you have any specific questions you want them to answer or product shots you want them to review, get your links and images ready and don’t forget to include the hashtag #FolksyHour in your tweets, or they won’t be able to see them.
See you then!
Today’s Folksy Hour was very useful. It was nice to get some good feedback but there are so many other things I can also do to help improve my pics, especially for the larger textile originals. Have plenty of ideas, now need a bit of sun and decent light and I can get cracking!!
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Missed it!!!
Had an order to complete…
I’m so pleased so many people took part in last night’s #FolksyHour - I hope it was really useful for everyone who took part, and if you couldn’t make it I’ll be writing up the product photography advice in a blog post.
What I’d really like to know now is your suggestions for future themes and topics. Would you like to continue having particular topics, possibly with guests experts to share their advice, or would you like to leave it more free sometimes so you can just talk and meet other sellers?
If you’d like some more themed #FolksyHours, what topics would you like to cover? If you could let me know your ideas - and the things you’d most like help with - it would be really useful.
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I think a mix of both to be honest. Having a few Qs to ask like “whats your favourite item in your shop?”, “what top tip would you give to new businesses?”, “Recommend a craft fair” or things like that, which you’ve done a couple of times. I thought that worked quite well as gave a good mix of being able to interact with others as well as showcase items.
Last nights was pretty good, but felt I couldn’t interact much with other sellers like I had done before.
Was the hashtag #FolksyHour still trending last night? Was it better or worse from other #FolksyHour evenings?
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