HOLIDAY ads on sale NOW!

i just love my sponsors {here's my monthly FREE-to-sponsors giveaway, for example!}  i'm so thankful for their kind and artistic support each month! and i'm just delighted with how things are going, growing here on the blog with you lovelies. thank you!

so i'm very happy to be offering a few new ad spots as of today for OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER!

with the Holiday season comes  the busiest shopping time of the year!  i hope it might be the perfect opportunity to showcase your beautiful shops & blogs for all of those handmade shoppers & bloggers & media out there!  i'm offering a few new ad spots, all at GREAT prices!

if you feel that your shop, group, Etsy Team, or blog would be a good fit with the rikrak studio blog feel & focus, and are interested in rates, please email me at 

---> rikrakmail @ yahoo.com <---

there's lots of continued fun coming up on the blog: funfun guests, little inspirations, more fabulous giveaways you're not going to want to miss, great games, fantastic features,  and, as always, a few extra fun surprises, too. being part of the blog is a great way to boost sales, increase exposure and build your business in the handmade indie community, too!

i'm a handmaker & mommy and know it's a challenging economic time out there... so i try to keep the rates nice & reasonable.

i also love designing ads for folks that need them, too.

so just let me know if i can help!

come & be part of the fun!

thanks so much, lovelies!

k.

PS: 2 great giveaways happening on the blog this week: be sure to enter

WIN a $25 shopping spree to the sponsor shop-of-your-choice!

&

WIN a beautiful pair of jacaranda designs earrings

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small business ideas: PicMonkey as a great (& free!) Picnik alternative

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sadly, picnik.com is closing next week. 

it was much a friend of small businesses everywhere, but i'm happy to say that i'm super pleased with one of picnik's suggested photo editing & graphic designing replacements:*PicMonkey.com* 

wonderfully, PicMonkey is free, created by some of the folks that made picnik originally, and has many many of the same great features of that other site, except that i've found it's even EASIER & faster to use! hurray!

it's my current fave in a crop of new editing tools for everyday small business use.

you just upload (or *drag*) photos to the site and the rest is easy-peasy.  (and here's hoping they'll soon integrate a number of other features like collage & more, too!)

i'm recommending it to you, nicies, and any of my clients looking for a great stand-alone, FREE editing & creating tool. 

what do you use to edit & make small graphics? 

tried PicMonkey? what do you think?

{ps: superthanks to my superfun brother for suggesting it!}

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brilliant advertising photos: the architecture inside musical instruments

 all images courtesy of the berlin philharmonic

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ah... the art of music!

as small business entrepreneurs we're always talking about the importance of GREAT great photography to advertise our businesses.

so i especially love the way the berlin philharmonic took this idea to heart recently & showcased these AMAZING macro lens photos of the INSIDES of orchestra instruments, for a series of promotional posters. aren't they BRILLIANT?

don't you want to just LIVE inside each one?

talk about unique perspectives! bravo!

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advertise with the rikrak studio blog!

thanks so much to the nicies who have come on board to advertise in these 1st few months here on the rikrak studio blog! it's almost the end of the month - and so i thought i'd let folks know that for the new month of july, i have three new spots available, if you're interested!

if you feel that your shop, group or blog would be a good fit with the rikrak studio blog feel & focus, and are interested in rates, please email me at rikrakmail@yahoo.com i'm a handmaker & mommy and know it's a challenging economic time out there... so i try to keep the rates nice & low!

i'm also happy to design ads for folks that need them, too! the rikrak studio blog is young but will hopefully continue to grow & grow! thanks so much for helping to build it, wonderfolk! so come & be part of the fun! thanks so much! k.

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