Lefty Artisan Interview Questions

How to Do This Feature Thing on Lefthand Madens:

If you're an Etsyian:

1. Grab the questions below. Answer the questions and send them back to me in an Etsy convo to my Lefthand Madens account. Please don't remove the questions from the text. Keep them together. Otherwise I have to cut and paste everything back in.

2. Send me an Etsy Mini that is: 3 columns x 3 rows in Gallery format (not thumbnail), flash version of the code, (not script, flash is a big chunk o' code). Don't know how to make an Etsy Mini? Here are the steps:

a. Left hand side of your Etsy under 'promote,' choose 'Etsy Mini'
b. radio button: choose 'items from my shop'
c. radio button: 'choose gallery option'
d. drop down: choose 3 columns and 3 rows
e. copy and paste second block on code in convo to me, the flash version

3. See the 'Everyone' section below.

If You're NOT an Etsyian:

1. Grab the questions below. Answer the questions and send them back to me in an email to lefthandmadens at gmail dot com. Please don't remove the questions from the text. Keep them together. Otherwise I have to cut and paste everything back in. Make sure the header of your email has your shop name and 'lefty interview' in it. I get a ton of email every day.

2. Include a spotlight created on byhand.me that's 3 rows by 3 columns and send me the full code. This option is best for those on ArtFire, 1000Markets, etc. If you're not a member of byhand.me, it's free to join and a great community with a lot of resources, so I'd suggest signing up. If you're completely opposed to signing up, I'll do a spotlight for you from my account. Please see the screen capture below and follow starred steps in numerical order to find and copy the code for me after you've made your spotlight.

Everyone:

Here are the questions BUT WAIT... this whole little enterprise is for fun, curiosity and hilarity. Please don't answer the questions like I'm holding you at gun point. Be goofy; entertain people! We are lefties, after all! WE'RE THE CREATIVE ONES!

Okay, now you can have the questions...

1. Biographical info: Please include your name, location, what you make, and any other data that helps the reader get to know you.

2. What are your first memories of being left-handed?

3. What was the hardest thing about growing up left-handed?

4. Are you left-footed?

5. How does being left-handed affect your craft or artwork? Do you have to use special tools, different brushes, etc.? Do you have adjust your product for right or left-handed people?

6. Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, was left-handed. Does this change how you feel about Kermit and/or Miss Piggy?

7. If you had a sledgehammer, sixty seconds and total immunity, which of the three things would you demolish first:

a) all of the ink pens anchored to the right side of every bank teller's window
b) every left-handed school desk per thirty-five right-handed school desks
c) all of the spooky voices in your head that sound like this, "Well, I'd love to teach you how crochet, knit, stitch, play the piano, hop scotch, but you're a lefty, and I'm not, and I just don't know to do that..."

8. The following people are left-handed: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, Pablo Picasso, Jay Leno, Richard Simmons, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Michelangelo, Oprah Winfrey, Marie Curie, John McCain, Carol Burnett, Ruth Buzzi, Goldie Hawn, Angelina Jolie, Cloris Leachman, Marilyn Monroe, Ross Perot. Which one of these people makes you most want to back out of this interview right now?

9. Write your own question and I'll answer it. The question must start out like this:
Dear LHM Blogstress, ....?

10. How thrilled are you to be featured in a blog where only other lefties will be featured? Please exaggerate profusely, and if you can do it in a foreign language, I'll give you extra credit.

11. Take a bow.