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fireheartocean wrote:

[I thought about setting up a stand somewhere, but I don't know if that's legal. 

You probably will need a permit if you want to set up a stand of some sort. Check the local laws where you live.

Can anyone help me? I'm also considering Etsy, but I like doing requests and stuff and I just really don't know.

Opinions?

If you're planning about using Etsy, you might want to read up about it first. There's a lot of things to think about like shipping and handling, online transactions, etc.  Here's a pretty good book about selling stuff on Etsy.

But if you're thinking about doing requests, you might want to consider doing commission work (aka. create a business where people ask you to make stuff for them) instead of making a stand. Ideally since you started selling stuff to your friends, that's a good start, you can ask them to their their buddies and families.

Thank you both very much, that's very helpful!    I'll try to get some more information both locally and on Etsy. It can be a summer project for me to work on.