Turning your Craft or Skill into Money

I'm sure you've seen this before, but I'm going to say what everyone else says.  If you want to make extra money but you don't want to do something you don't enjoy, turn your hobby or craft into money.  There are three basic "crafts" you can turn into money: Services, Arts,  and Art Services.

Services: Services include anything you would do for someone else, such as cutting the grass or giving tennis lessons.  It could include anything that you offer your time to directly help the customer.  When you do a service for another, you have to make sure you are doing it correctly, safely, and legally. If you want to make money in an industry that requires a special certification, make sure you have proper documents stating that you have completed the proper training.  For example, you cannot Notarize something without being an officially licensed Notary Public.  Also, when you offer a service, such as some type of lessons, you are advertising yourself correctly.  A new guitar player cannot offer advanced guitar lessons.

Here are a few more services that one could offer:
Personal Cook
Delivery Person
Give Lessons
Mystery Shopper
Grass Cutter/Lawn Care
Notary Public
Tutor

If you can think of any more, feel free to comment and share your knowledge.

Arts: Arts are something you make and sell.  This can range anywhere from a homemade Greetings Card to a Kitchen Table.  You can sell your homemade items on websites such as Ebay, Etsy, or Amazon.  Note, that these websites take a cut of your profits, so make sure you add that in to your selling costs. If you have the proper FDA approvals, you can sell food items and soaps.

Here are a few more Arts you can offer to sell:
Soap
Candles
Handcrafted furniture
Crocheted items
Knitted Items
Sewed Items
Clothing

Pictured above is an old lawn chair that was modified.  Take off the plastic rope and used colored rope to make this design.  It only costs about $30 to make, and I know of people  offering to buy it for $75-$100. 

If you can think of any more, feel free to comment and share what you think.

Services and Arts: Serviced Arts are custom ordered items that you can offer on websites.  An example of this would be custom embroidered Christmas Stockings or a custom handcrafted kitchen island.  The world is the limit when it comes to this type of product.

Some examples of Services and Arts:
Custom wood projects
Custom fabric projects
Custom Ordered Food
Custom soaps and candles

Please share in the comments if you can think of anymore items.