Marie Soap Dishes
Lorena
The Marie soap dishes! This is the entire process, other than glazing. I either forgot to hit record when I was glazing, or I accidentally deleted the video somehow, or…
HaldeCraft
Skull soap dishes
Skull soap dishes! I tried to get the entire making session down into one video, but Patron got three videos and everyone else got two (putting those footers on really…
Rabbit trinket dishes
For my next shop update (probably July?) I want to have remade all of the current trinket dishes (I’m making them a little larger and want to get replace the…
The February 2026 Patreon Ceramics
One of the (many) things I do over on Patreon (shameless plug) is make ceramics for those who are in the highest tier. This is what I made for February.…
More Than a Little Tired: The State of the Place
Here’s where I am right now. I wanted to take two weeks off at Christmas to have a little physical (and mental) down-time and be able to spend a good…
Time for that annual review, Ms. Haldeman!
That’s right, y’all, it’s that time of year when my boss (me) takes me (also me) into her/my office to discuss what happened over the last 11-12 months and what…
Back to life, back to reality
I just looked up the lyrics of that song, to see if there was a good stanza or something I could use in this post, something to tie my topic…
HaldeCraft: Lack of motivation? Perfectionism? Procrastination? Burnout?
For immediate lack of a better term, I’m going to say that since I got back from Ireland, I’ve had a severe case of Being Unmotivated. But… is it really?…
What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business
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 feminist magazine… I did, once,…
Oh, yay, finding new accounting software is my FAVORITE
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 I read it and was…
More on that video/ring light confunction
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 and suck it up if…
Accounting puts the irk in wirk (Part 2)
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 to devote to it that…