One year, eight months, 16 days Posted By Lorena I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...
Dear Tim; who were you, even? Posted By Lorena CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......
What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business Posted By Lorena In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...
This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23) Posted By Lorena At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
HaldeCraft What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business Posted By Lorena In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite... Read More
HaldeCraft Oh, yay, finding new accounting software is my FAVORITE Posted By Lorena Remember my post a few months ago, about Craftybase? (Part One; Part Two) Well. They sent out an email a few weeks ago, and honestly... Read More
HaldeCraft More on that video/ring light confunction Posted By Lorena After reviewing ring lights, good ones (well, "well-reviewed" ones) I think the answer is going to be jury-rig something myself out of three different things... Read More
HaldeCraft Accounting puts the irk in wirk (Part 2) Posted By Lorena In Part One (here), I talked about how I came to Craftybase after leaving Outright/GoDaddy Accounting. I talked about how I didn't have the time... Read More
HaldeCraft Accounting puts the irk in wirk Posted By Lorena This may come as a surprise to you if you know me, but... I didn't start my own home-based craft business so that I could... Read More
HaldeCraft GLAM 2022 recap Posted By Lorena I started to write this last night, stared at the screen for about an hour and a half with one line on it, and went... Read More
HaldeCraft Size doesn’t matt— oh, shit, that’s huge Posted By Lorena In a normal year, about now is when I'd start planning for next year. Work-wise, I mean... my personal life doesn't really have a plan.... Read More
HaldeCraft Let’s talk about lotion! Posted By Lorena Have you been washing your hands a gabillion times a day? Are your hands raw from sanitizer? I got you, Boo. Well, until these sell... Read More
HaldeCraft OK, Universe, got it – I’ll slow down Posted By Lorena Ever had one of those weeks where everything you try to do takes longer, is frustrating, and comes out wrong? I'm heading into Week Three... Read More
HaldeCraft HaldeCraft and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Pandemic Posted By Lorena Since all this started, all the talk about Covid-19 and social distancing and essential businesses and who should be open or closed and what safety... Read More
HaldeCraft To policy or not to policy, that is the question Posted By Lorena What follows is one of those long rambly over-thinky work posts. I will probably, next week, edit it down a little and post it over... Read More
HaldeCraft Ms. Haldeman, step in to my office Posted By Lorena It’s time for my annual review! How did I do this year, y’all? Fantastic? Perfectly? Awesome! 37% raise! HAHAHAHAHAHA but really tho. I know I... Read More