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Lorena Haldeman

Crafting since birth; drinking since noon.

Lorena Haldeman

Crafting since birth; drinking since noon.

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Put that where, now?

Lorena August 15, 2026

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.”…

My Random Life

Age and weight are just numbers

Lorena August 13, 2026

I don’t know what got me on this thought train the other day but I was wondering how old my grandmother (G-ma) was when I was born. She was born…

How I work

Options other than Shopify

Lorena July 27, 2026

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…

How I work

Stay with Shopify, or….?

Lorena July 25, 2026

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…

How I work Navel Gazing

Do you ever just want to start over?

Lorena July 21, 2026

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…

How I work

Put that where, now?

My Random Life

Age and weight are just numbers

How I work

Put that where, now?

My Random Life

Age and weight are just numbers

How I work

Options other than Shopify

How I work

Stay with Shopify, or….?

How I work Navel Gazing

Do you ever just want to start over?

Navel Gazing

Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you? How? When? To what level?

Lorena January 14, 2025

Content warning for mentioning names of famous people who’s works I have enjoyed up until finding out that artist/creator is/was a Garbage Human. I will not be discussing the things…

My Random Life

All of my tattoos are my favorites, but…

Lorena January 11, 2025

… every new tattoo I just get is my FAVORITE favorite! Let me just tell you before we get to the pictures… as usual, I went to Sleepy Dave (Anthem…

My Random Life

It’s time for Church

Lorena January 10, 2025

And by that, I mean, it’s TATTOO FRIDAY, YO! I’ve been trying to get this tattoo since… January of last year? February? And it’s one I’ve been thinking about for…

My Random Life

Playing a poor hand, well

Lorena January 9, 2025

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London I have thought long and hard since, what, just yesterday…

Home and Garden

Victory garden? More like resistance garden.

Lorena January 5, 2025

Tim had a plan for a garden even before we moved out here. He had grandiose plans, he wanted to start large and get even bigger. Side note: I read…

Home and Garden

Getting these new floors was kind of like getting a whole new house!

Lorena December 17, 2024

The house looks different, sounds different, smells different… and since everything was moved and moved again and some of it moved back to where it was but some not… I’m…

My Random Life

Home again, home again

Lorena December 5, 2024

Of course my house looks NOTHING like what it does in this ten-years-old picture I’m using for my post image… and I have a different car… and I think that…

Home and Garden

Alas, Babylon

Lorena November 16, 2024

I grew up on dystopian science fiction. I was fascinated with reading about how people might survive after the collapse of civilization as we know it… I’d have little daydreams…

UK Summer 2024

Am I there yet?

Lorena November 10, 2024

So, the more I think about it, and reflect on all the travel I’ve done this year, I’ve decided that I love seeing places and things I haven’t seen before…

Monday Musings

I want

Lorena November 4, 2024

I want a big red car I want fancy new guitar I want a house with a big back deck And I want to come home with a big paycheck…

Navel Gazing

Brain Dump

Lorena October 18, 2024

I have a lot of things floating around in my head taking up space, so I went to do a “brain dump” the other day and I realized after staring…

Ramblings

Trying to reason with hurricane season

Lorena October 6, 2024

With apologies to Jimmy Buffett, you can’t. End of song! So much shorter than the original! It seemed like Helene took a full week to get to us; Milton will…

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  1. Anne B on The one about a picky eater with food allergies on weight loss medication who lives in a food desertAugust 3, 2026

    I’m just now starting on the Zepbound journey after losing 25 pounds in the first year-ish of diet, exercise, and…

  2. Alice on Options other than ShopifyJuly 28, 2026

    Aren't some of these costs considered expenses and get deducted from any income you make? Well, I'm a librarian, not…

  3. Alice on Stay with Shopify, or….?July 25, 2026

    Too many choices, too complicated, too hard but I'm sure you'll narrow it down to best choice.

  4. Trista on Do you ever just want to start over?July 22, 2026

    The last 7 years have been filled with do-overs. I feel you x

  5. Quinn on My Memory Table is too clutteredJune 22, 2026

    This sounds like an excellent plan. Congrats on closing and minimizing!

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How I work

Put that where, now?

My Random Life

Age and weight are just numbers

How I work

Options other than Shopify

How I work

Stay with Shopify, or….?

Lorena Haldeman

Crafting since birth; drinking since noon.

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