that
YOU
WANT!
PAPIER MACHE can be lucrative because it takes so little cash to start a huge business. No rent, you create a workshop in your garage. No problem getting ideas, use GOOGLE IMAGES. When you're making money hand over foot, expand. To mass produce, do what Ford and GM do, train villagers in foreign countries , pay them a fiver a day and import the finished goods from other countries.
You can find any village an hour out of any foreign capital, Kenya,
Tanzania, just far enough away from the madding crowd to be happy with
5$ a day salary. Face it, they have very little resources acessible to
the natives in these foreign countries. But everyone there has flour, glue
and newspapers. When you think in terms of making artisanry objects
in starving countries do consider businesses predicated on trash paper.
And taking advantage of their naive, folk art painting abilities. 
NEXT, location, location, location. Are you near the Philippines? That might be where you want your second workshop, (after your garage works for a few years.). The entire west side of the USA faces the 28,000 islands of the Philippines yet pays that labor force virtually no attention! Our minds reach as far as Hawaii and stop. We could gain much from the labor force in this inexpensive paradise. The problem may be that FEW of these Filipinos speak English so you'd have to play charades to instruct them, or sketch, draw the designs carefully then take them through every step of the sloppy newspaper, the glue, the forms, molds, visually. You may just want to pay for an interpreter/guide which you'll probably need anyway if you are going to travel an hour out of Manila. Don't forget, there are thousands of other islands there and most have ports and can ship product to you on boats, if YOUR city in USA has a port.(It is the cheapest way to ship).
Now, if you live near our SOUTHERN
BORDER, you're near Mexico.
Most of us speak adequate Spanish so that's a terrific place to locate
your work force and 'taller' they call it, your studio. It could be that
enough recessionary, poor Americans will have crossed the border to make
an English speaking work force possible for you but right now, all of us
speak enough 'maid spanish' to make our design suggestions intelligible
to our workers.
The work comes by train, and NAFTA has made it incur no tariffs. WHOOPIE!
LEARN TO MAKE MOLDS for three dimensional items, boxes, masques. Wall
statuary. MOLDS allow you to make wall sculptures 
mirrors of all sizes and on the coffee table, three dimensional glowing
lacquered BOXES. Currently some exquisite ones come in from asia, beautiful
ones, inexpensive, too. RUSSIA has a fabulous and famous box. Some are
a thousand dollars a piece. Copy this type of design in the same glowing
colors, but leave off the Russian words. Just make it a villager in the
forest. Not Russian. 
Women love Boxes to tuck gloves in, earrings, sentimental objects like
eyeglasses, rings, theatre tickets, old corsages. Boxes are a great item.
The Russian box shown here might be just five inches long. That size is
five hundred dollars. Bigger ones get more expensive fast! They are made
of real wood, not papiermache. They're Lacquered with gem like colors that
stand out against black backgrounds.
Also, you can make what GOES INTO THE BOX. Jewelry comes to mind. Elegant, hair ornaments. Just GOOGLE "HAIR ORNAMENTS" on the IMAGE page Google offers.
The list is endless. Dolls for adults to hang on their wall, puppets,
kachina doll designs, just a lively statement of our favorite totem. Mine
would be the HANG IN THEIR KITTY CAT famed icon, you know paws stretching
upward as its claws just hold a branch. The paper mache part is hands and
face, feet. Rest is fabric and stuffing. Or a big cat sitting down proudly
ready to perch on a shelf looking out over the room.
To learn how to MAKE paper mache, surf to the BEST SITES
http://home.eol.ca/~props/papier.html
MAYBE something here
http://www.papiermache.co.uk/
GOOGLE papier-mache both at text sites and image sites. Spell it differently.
paper mache
papiermache
papermache can be spelled many, different ways.
THEN be sure to google the same words AS IMAGES.
google images on those words
KASHMIR INDIA makes great boxes.
PAPER MACHE JEWELRY.
The smaller items = bigger profits
FIND gems, light chips of mirrors, put them on papier mache hair ornaments,
(like the fluttering chandelier earring type things that hang off a comb,
which GEISHAs wear in their wigs. GOOGLE "HAIR ORNAMENTS" on IMAGES/GOOGLE
you'll see some fabulous designsMake costume jewelry and interesting bead
necklaces, using ethnic designs. 
Make jeweled boxes using real gems. http://www.masterjules.net/gems.htm
American semi precious gems are affordable but quite ritzy. Imagine a big
shiny chunk of chalcedony. Get ROCK AND GEM mag, get lots of small, cheap,
flashy items, even big glass rhinestones, mount them on colorful bases
made of paper mache.
HOW DO WE START? Easily, alone at home, or with your team helping you. In your own garage workshop. A heater, tables, lots of glue. What other BUSINESS can start off with just a stack of newspapers and some elmer's glue?
1.) HIT THE STREETS. SHOW THE STUFF OFF! Bring in the best pieces. Show many in 8 x 10 photos printed on your PC's PRINTER. Get some order books printed up at stationers, then hit the highway. Success is mainly putting your feet on the street. Take sample to dept stores, boutiques, get orders on them.
2.) INUNDATE CRAIGS LIST and EBAY with your website's URL. The internet is THE WAY. SELL your necklaces, Godboxes, your SUNS and MIRROR FRAMES at EBAY.com and get good prices. The lady who runs the yummy fudge business does a huge business on EBAY.
3.) WOO THE REPORTERS - Sidle into the COURIER's office at lunch time with a box of burgers and a tray full of your treasures. Show them the high concept items. The fact that you turned a garage and some newspaper into a booming business, Little you, is fascinating to readers stuck in jobs. Or college grads who need inspiration now that the Corporations moved to Mexico. You will get newspaper coverage if you keep an inspiring tone. And you'll get buyers.
4.) GET A WEBSITE! Dive right in and design your own. Beginners can. READ WEBTECH. Do you have a pal who does websites? He/she would know how to do the website of your dreams.. My designer pals Srimad or Catheann are two separate businesses, only charging l00$ to do a website. They will help you sign up to get your domain name.They can find the lowest price annual ticket price for a website.