For anyone who missed the Flow Show, here’s my piece. Hope you enjoy it.
Girlfriend was having a rough day, and I’m having a slow one at work…. So I made… Kitten Lilies.
I haven’t been hooping too much since I got out to the Vulcan, but I had a super inspiring morning yesterday and just went with it. Hope you enjoy it, let me know what ya think.
So I’m camping my way across the country for 2 weeks on my way out to live at the Vulcan for a little while. Thought I’d shoot some video of the trip to keep myself entertained and hopefully all of you too!
Keep an eye out for the next video, which will have a few awesome colorado spinners as well.
Music is by Pretty Lights - Country Roads remix
If you really must skip about… staff section lasts from 2:30-4:45, the rest is hoop
Home of the $100 fire hoop
Finally got the website done and live. Check it out and let me know what you think or place an order….
lightfae-deactivated20121206 asked: How is the fire hoop market? Do you make a lot of sales? What's the market like on etsy?
So far… slow. It’s all about word of mouth, and it takes a while, but I only recently started so I think it’ll pick up. As for etsy, I’ll definitely be moving away from them and onto my own site, they just aren’t where people go looking for fire hoops I think.
- sooo i wanna start selling my hoops on etsy. i can figure out the manufacturing part, and the sales part, but how exactly do u ship a non travel hoop/ is it expensive?? talk to meh!
- Short answer... yes, very. If it coils down you can make it a little bit cheaper, but honestly it's still gonna be in the range of $20. It's pretty much cost prohibitive to sell just standard practice hoops through etsy, what with shipping, listing fees, and etsy's percentage.... not to mention paypal's percentage. I'd recommend only selling practice hoops to locals or at festivals.
- Source: I sell fire hoops on etsy and will soon be moving to my own website
symphonyofthecosmos asked: !!! I'm so glad I found this blog. You taught at FLAME? Do you live in Georgia?
I did indeed teach at FLAME… but I don’t live in GA, right now I live up in WV, and in a month I’m headed West and hopefully moving into the Vulcan in Oakland.
GO TO KINETIC FIRE!
(Source: kineticfire.org)
At long last, the first small batch of fire hoops has gone up on etsy today. There have been some design changes. To allow for easier shipping/travel all wicks are now removable (threaded bases). Also, now all wicks are knotted rather than wrapped to reduce hardware, and all the spines bases have 400+degree heat tape. All this comes at the SLIGHTLY elevated price of $100 (shipping included)… which means basically a $10 increase. This is pure added material cost, still keeping this as low as I can for y’all. So without further ado… here’s the direct link : http://www.etsy.com/listing/96054698/polypro-fire-hoop-shipping-included-in (or just click the photo)How the… How are the wicks secured? Not trying to make you come off ancient Chinese secret or anything, but safety is a factor.
I assure you, they’re every bit as safe as any fire hoop can be. There’s a piece swaged onto the cable beneath the wicking, it’s not just knotted onto the cable directly don’t worry. In fact that connection is a whole lot stronger than quite a few hoops I know of that use epoxy.