So you’re an artist who wants to enhance your art to make it more saleable, or a customer who wants something a bit different without paying the earth for it. Why not get a plain frame and paint it to make if a different picture frame?
Continue readingThe company Canvas Warehouse is withdrawing from the artist canvas market and are selling off their remaining stock at low prices. The canvases are well made and of very good quality. I use them for my Bob Ross painting days.
The prices shown below are per canvas and there are minimum order quantities based on the number of canvases per box. It is unlikely that boxes will be split.
VAT is not charged and the prices do NOT include delivery. If you email me: Russell Collins at [email protected] with a potential order I can get delivery prices calculated. As an example; a box of 20no 40cm x 50cm thin canvases will be around £12.00 delivery, 2 boxes will be around £19.00, 3 boxes around £27.00, 4 boxes around £35 and 5 boxes around £41.00.
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You can avoid having to register for VAT. Having to get VAT registered is not the disaster people make it out to be. Using an accounting software package simplifies the whole procedure and you can claim back VAT on your costs. There is also a VAT action a Government can take that will wreck our businesses. Read on….
It appears that a company now owns a trade mark on the term “Paint and Sip UK” and this is their web site: www.paintandsipeventsuk.com
Disney probably cannot sue you, your customer might be able to, Banksy probably won’t but the Great Ormond Street Hospital For Sick Children probably will. Read on to learn a bit more,
You have obviously seen our poster up in Hobbycraft about Hobbycraft Frames. Maybe you are an artist who wants to frame one of their works, or an art buyer who wants a simple frame. Whichever one you are, read on.
Does it pay to advertise? Oh yes indeed it does. Research going back a hundred years shows that 90% of the organisations that increase advertising in a recession increase sales. It also shows that 90% of the organisations that reduce advertising in a recession lose sales. In talking to people I get the impression that things are certainly better than a year ago but there is a feeling that the….
Accounting is the process of recording, summarizing and reporting financial transactions.
I asked a few people how they ran their accounts, and had 3 general answers: They use spreadsheets, let the accountant deal with it all, use an on-line accounting software. More Stuff About Accounts
I will concentrate on making more profit at Christmas in this post, and will expand on the subject of POD (Print on Demand) sites in a later post. You could upload an image for ALL of your events, and it could, over time, give you a good residual income. Read On
You can legally pay less tax with the Government’s approval, I got back nearly £3,000. Continue reading