Your local creative network
Helping makers find an engaged audience
Handmade in Norway is here to bring Arts & Crafts back to the forefront. By giving makers a place to sell, and engage with their audience in person, we create a platform from which they can grow their business. We double up on the benefits by arranging markets AND coaching creatives.
Our two-fold approach
But it doesn’t stop there. Because of our two-fold approach (arranging markets and coaching creatives), we create an atmosphere like no other. By arranging markets AND coaching creatives, we make sure that both makers and customers get the most out of the experience. Confident, well-organised creatives meeting enthusiastic customers.
Personalised Coaching
Kelly Palencia, founder of Handmade in Norway, coaches creative makers – teaching branding, social media mastery, and non-salesy sales techniques. Our focus is to help makers to find their loyal audience and maintain a great dialogue with them.
Support and Growth
Handmade in Norway is here to help and support creative businesses. We help creatives to stand tall and grow because we believe in creating a more sustainable and circular economy for small creative businesses. We also believe that by arranging markets AND coaching creatives we can further the reach of handmade products, giving more stability to makers and more choice to customers.
This is YOUR creative network!
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These weekend long markets are focused on given those from our creative community a place to showcase and sell their handmade products. With a focus on high-quality handmade products we will bring locally produced art, design and crafts to Vulkan.
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The Handmade Revolution is ONLINE!
Visit our online shop and find high quality handmade products from Norwegian designers and makers.
We have many local makers lined up to join in and list their handmade items right here. So keep popping back and check out what’s new!
Our Markets
Our markets have a superb reputation for high-quality products, and a great atmosphere.
By arranging markets and coaching creatives, we create a welcoming, interactive sales arena where customers can visit a world filled with creativity and inspiration.
Makers can confidently promote and sell their products, knowing that they are doing it right.
Customers get the best handmade products, presented by confident and enthusiastic makers.
Creative Coaching
You’ve learned your creative skill, you’ve made some great products – But what now?
Getting the most out of markets, social media and your website is not as easy as it sounds.
At Handmade in Norway, we are dedicated to arranging markets AND coaching creatives. We want local makers to feel confident in what they are doing so that they can get the absolute most out of each move they make. Whether posting to Instagram or attending a market, knowing how to present yourself, and your products will I’ve you maximum effect, in minimum time. No guess work – You can tell your story cohesively, each and every time.
By joining Handmade in Norway HQ, and taking part in our many workshops and courses you will get the knowledge, experience and support you need to succeed in promoting your creative business effectively.
This three week course will give you a solid base from which to build your creative business!
- Story Telling and Social Media
- Pricing , Tax , Mva
- Branding, Communication and Audience Building
Testimonials
I am so lucky I ended up in this group 
And so thankful for everything you do Kelly, I really am. You’re a very capable woman, talented, with lots of knowledge, approachable and with ability to ‘lift’ people – after each and every conversation I have with you, I feel optimistic and full of hope, like ‘I can do it’. I really appreciate all information and tips you selflessly share with all of us who wants to learn and be even better in what we do and in setting up and building our own small business. You’re a true spokesman of handmade!
Thank you, Kelly, for your advice, this opened new doors for me. I learned how to schedule posts and started to show my dolls with poems and short stories. I sold 3 dolls in December!
Handmade in Norway is a perfect platform for those who are just starting out with their own business. It is a source of inspiration, a place where you find wonderful people and support. When I didn’t know who to ask, I found answers here. When the ideas overwhelmed me but I couldn’t decide, here I found support in clarifying my ideas. In addition, here are many tips and arrangements for creative minds/souls/hands. Thanks for all you do for us!
Handmade in Norway HQ
The Handmade in Norway network was created on Facebook, but we have grown up and ventured out. We now have our own space online where we can learn and grow together.
Our network has grown quickly because we all need a place where we can be together, where we can find like-minded people, that understand what it is to be creative.
HQ is a network space where you can work constructively to build your creative business. There are resources available where you can work alone, at your own pace or through Creative Coaching with Kelly.
Handmade in Norway consists of three circles. Each circle is designed to cater for different types of creative makers.
Let’s find the circle that is right for you!
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