A Word About Advertising....

Alrighty Folks,

            Occasionally, we'll interrupt our regularly scheduled informational, entertaining, and magical Folk Wisdom posts to tell you a little bit about our upcoming magazine.

    Hopefully, this will catch you up on the excitement we're feeling here, and we hope you feel excited, too.

Our latest topic is one we've been grappling with a bit lately, the issue of advertising.

Those shiny ads in some magazines are the best way a magazine has to pay for it's publication fees, but we also wanted to set up a system where we helped small, handmade, local, or fair businesses find advertising space they normally couldn't, in larger publications...

Basically,  what we've set up is a way to help you...help us...help you. Got that?

From the get-go, we wanted to showcase  businesses that create beautiful, self-sufficient, or practical things that jive with our Folk Wisdom ethics.

We realize that most huge publications may charge in such a way that these businesses couldn't afford advertisement space.

But we want to be a little different--
We have super-low introductory rates to get your message heard...AND, in the process, your ad helps US keep going and offer low prices to our readership, in the process!

**Plus, you'll get exposure to the type of  ready-made audience who can appreciate authentic products and services!

So, if you're interested in an affordable and effective way to get your business known, please
SEE OUR ADVERTISING PAGE.

AND THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

Folk Wisdom: Photo Shoots and Folk Art Fridays!

                                                             Outtake! Photo by Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor

People, it has been mayhem around here. Mayhem, I tell you!

We've been busy--hard at work, but having fun--crafting a magazine that we think you'll want to read.

Folk Wisdom is one part old ways living, one part tutorial, one part discovering old objects and people who use them, one part history, and one part magic.

What we intend is that you learn as much as possible how to create useful, healthful, wonderful things in your own life, and how beautiful and simple these things are.

More than a stuffy magazine, or just one with beautiful pictures, Folk Wisdom is DIY Old-Ways living, a fresh take one older skills.

With that in mind, there are TONS of photos going on. Right now, we're working several issues at once!

A few weeks ago, I was humbled to follow Master Herbalist Sarah Preston, from Pennsylvania, as we gathered goldenrod and nettle, to dye with--yes! These plants can, and have, been used to dye clothing for centuries.

Here's our favorite photo from that session--with plenty more to come--so stay tuned as our upcoming Fall issue will feature pics and info on how to make your own plant dyes.

Meanwhile--you may have heard last weekend I was in heaven, photoshooting with horses, in amazing pasture-land, and with an even more amazing photographer!

Jennifer MacNeil-Traylor has had the distinction of being an accomplished folk artist, with an emphasis on horse and animal painting, as showcased at her Gypsy Mare Studios. She is also a featured artist with The Trail Of Painted Ponies.

Long before I knew Jen in person, I was enamored of her paintings of folk life, farm life, and more. By the time I had met her, she had taken up the camera--and created her own dazzling effects with them.  Because of her experience with horses, it only made sense to have her on our cover shoot.

I couldn't be more right! Besides taking stellar photos, she helped wrangle our senior Percheron, Bob, in a pinch!  I am indebted to her professional work and creativity!

Below are sneak peeks of our cover shoot--as well as the outtake, above!  Do yourself a favor and get to Jen's blog site, where you'll find her Flickr photos, or hire her for whatever photos you have! I believe her ETSY Store also has some amazing prints and art by this master artist (don't tell her I called her "master artist," though--she may just blush!)

And stay tuned for NEXT Friday, as we continue to profile artists of ALL Sorts for our Folk Art Fridays!

The Latest Folk Wisdom News!

                         Here's what we've hatched up!
Alrighty, Folks!

Here's what's afoot!

For those of you who have kindly asked about our PRINT magazine, here is the distribution schedule!

SPRING 2013 - delivery date: 1st week of Feb 2013
SUMMER 2013 - delivery date: Mid May 2013
FALL 2013 -delivery date:  Late August 2013
WINTER 2013 - delivery date: Early October 2013

We will have our purchase button up early next week, for those asking for Early Bird Specials!
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In other News:

NEW FEATURE: FOLK ART FRIDAYS--

                                                                                     Zan Asha's Folk Art

 Are you a professional folk artist? Do you create old-style works or depict old themes? We'd love to feature you!

Just send us an inquiry at folkwisdommagazine(at)gmail.com

From there, we will ask you for a bio and a few jpg pictures of your work, which will we will feature each Friday!

Would you like to recommend an artist! Feel free to email us, as well!

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CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR WRITERS FOR OUR MAGAZINE!

Please be an expert in the following:

Old Style Stone Masonry
Kiln Pottery
Lace Making
Tatting

Feel free to look at our WRITER's GUIDELINES and drop us an email if you are interested in contributing!

REMEMBER, all emails can be sent to folkwisdommagazine(at)gmail.com

Thanks!
Zan Asha