61. How to Make a Living Selling Handmade Home Goods

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Danielle Spillman is the co owner of Wood Intimations, a small home goods company that was built on the foundation of love and a passion for people and all things beautiful. They sell kitchen products and custom made tear drop trailers.

In this episode, we discuss how she transitioned from owning a yoga studio to a home good business, how she was able to get wholesale and consignments accounts, and finding your happy.

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• Danielle is located in Northwest Montana; she is originally from the outskirts of Portland, OG
• Late 2017 Danielle and her finance, Hy, started the home good business Wood Intimations that sales kitchen products and wooden tear drop trailers 
• We discuss her owning a yoga studio and why she decided to close it
• Danielle began sharing her wood making process on Instagram and people began direct messaging her and leaving comments asking if they could buy her products
• Danielle discusses the process of coming up with a name so she could open up her Etsy shop
• Danielle believes the way she’s pricing her work is reflecting her own self worth; her compass for pricing right now is what feels good
• Wood Intimations currently has wholesale and consignment accounts; she found them by looking for places that she loves; she has also  began partnering with other creatives (one is a past podcast guest!)
• To create a look book to pass out in stores a friend of hers recommended Chatbooks; it allows you to create affordable books using images from your social accounts or you can upload images
• We discuss how they are building out their trailer business by going to relevant events to attract the right customers
• Danielle’s advice for finding your happy is to go back to doing what you loved to do as a kid and then keep doing the things that make you happy

Links

• Episode 39: The Art of Making and Selling Handmade Watercolors
• Chatbooks
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood [Poem]
• Almost 30 Podcast
• One Part Podcast
• SW Basics 15% discount – Promo code: SNOW

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