Bizness

None of the links on this site garner income for the site. However, funds from the Things We Love Store and Cafepress/aplace4us and affiliate associations are used to defray the expenses of the site and to help the Pofff Master, who is not paid for the time spent on maintaining any of her sites.

Thank you for contributing by linking through this site when buying books, T-shirts, or visiting and donating at the POFFF Master’s Squidoo.com lenses  (the number of lenses is growing). Squidoo is a wonderful site through which you can write about what you know and make a little money for your favorite charities or a good cause.

If it looks like a lot of time has been spent on pofff.com and other sites the POFFF Master/Lady Weaver of Yarns maintains, a lot of time has been spent on them. Writing is often an unpaid activity unless a writer is paid by an organization to write on the job, or until a writer publishes an article or story in a mainstream newspaper or magazine, or a publisher publishes a book for the world to purchase.

A book writer knows that even if a publisher accepts a book, it may take up to two years for the book to be published and appear on bookshelves and in libraries and stores. That is why some writers now self-publish their books.

Artists are similar. You aren’t paid for making art unless you are an illustrator, interior designer, house painter, or costume, scenery or graphic designer hired to work for an organization. 

Artists with work in festivals, street fairs, contests, or galleries often must pay fees to enter those, or the coordinating organization or gallery take commissions (that is, require a fee or percentage of what the artist makes). The artists themselves only make money if you buy the art and sometimes make much less than the price you pay for a piece due to the commission taken.

If you would like to show your appreciation to this writer/artist for this page of information, and/or the work on her sites by contributing as described above, please know how much your donations are appreciated. You can also help out by passing the word about what you have learned today.

Blessings and butterflies today, tomorrow, and always.