Alison's fiber optic hat. Brian's pipe organ chair. Your family's totally sweet hand turkeys and acorn wreaths. What can you do if you want to share these labors of love with the whole world?

Cards: Very popular these days are Moo cards, those wee business cards that the cool kids at the coffee shop pass out to one another. Moo has a bunch of neat designs that you can use, or you can upload your own. They have other products too, like holiday cards, for which they will donate a portion of the proceeds to charity.

Shirts: You don't have to run down to the silkscreening factory in the industrial district in town and order a minimum of 200 shirts anymore if you want a custom-designed t-shirt. Sites like Spreadshirt and Cafepress will allow you to print just one shirt at a time, if you want to commemorate Timmy's hand turkey forevermore. Their process is very simple: you upload an image from your computer onto their website, center it onto the shirt, and it's ready to go. If you really like the way it looks, you can set up a store and sell it to other people.

Feeling creative? Submit your t-shirt design to Threadless or Shirt.Woot.com and let people vote on it. The winners get their shirts sold on the sites plus a nice cash prize.

Crafts: Last, but not least, if you're a crafty sort, take a look at Etsy. They will allow you to list anything you've made by hand, crafting supplies, or vintage goods, and they only charge a small listing fee to do so. Some crafty folks have quit their day jobs and are making a living entirely off of their Etsy income. And from the other side of things, it's a nice place to go shopping for hand-made holiday gifts.

So once you have those hand turkey shirts and wreaths up for sale, be sure to let me know! I want to be your first customer. Anyone else have a favorite do-it-yourself website they like to visit?

Posted by Dee | tagged: Thanksgiving, craft