Honestly, why do I bother planning things?!
Lorena
Before I left for WorldCon, say the three or four days before, I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to finish two or three…
How I work
Put that where, now?
Sometimes I think about a third of running a business that you run out of your home is thinking “is there a better/more functional place I could put/store/work on this.”…
Options other than Shopify
For anyone coming to this months or years after I write it, please know that this is not an article comparing and contrasting every single ecommerce platform to help you…
Stay with Shopify, or….?
Pardon me while I think out loud for a thousand words or so. The ecommerce platform I use for HaldeCraft is Shopify. I started with Etsy in 2010 and quickly…
Do you ever just want to start over?
I’ve had to start over, start fresh, so many times. In … sixteen (?) years of school, I went to three different grade schools, three different middle schools (technically I…
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…
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…
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…
Accounting puts the irk in wirk
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 do my own accounting. I…