Here is the first thing you need to learn if you want to work in the fields of arts and crafts. Everyone will have an opinion about your work. Yup they will either hate it, love it, like it, or think indifferent. Some will be vocal about it, others will not. Some will be jealous, others will admire and appreciate. Opinions will be about your work though and not about you. Intimidating, very much so... it is also liberating. Not every piece will sell, not every piece will be perfect yet you are doing something others are not, and that is producing and taking a chance. At the end of the day - the only thing that matters is that you did somethin