House of HaldePets Posted By Lorena Me telling people things is sometimes a curious mix of "yeah, I saw that on Facebook" and "I'm not on Facebook" and "wait, you still...
Beginnings Posted By Lorena Recall a time in your life when you made a fresh start. How did your life change? Well, there was the time that I moved...
More catching up Posted By Lorena About exactly one year ago, minus about four hours as I'm writing this, I got that phone call. Everything I think I want to say...
The things I want to talk about are flying around my head like fireflies, busy and uncatchable Posted By Lorena This is one of those “I don’t even know where to start” posts. One year ago tomorrow is the day they called me back after...
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 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
HaldeCraft September Office Hours Posted By Lorena Hey, all! I have a lot going on in September so I wanted to just put it all into a blog post to try to... Read More
My Random Life Thursday, Friday, happy days Posted By Lorena Saturday, what a day, rocking all week with you! Whooaaa-whoaaa- no, really, whoa. Nobody needs that earworm this early in the morning. I've had a... Read More
My Random Life Summer in the Sunshine State Posted By Lorena We've reached that part of summer that's full of rain... and boy howdy do we need it. Remember just a week or two ago when... Read More
My Random Life On Tuesdays there shall be coffee Posted By Lorena A little over a year ago, a coffee shop opened up in our little town. Now, y'all who live in a city where there are... Read More
HaldeCraft Some work decisions I need to make while on vacation Posted By Lorena Here's one thing about being self-employed... you're never off work. Even on vacation. I mean, that's OK, right, because if we didn't want to live... Read More
Navel Gazing Hello, my ragtime gaaaaaaaaaal Posted By Lorena A lot of times as a self-employed person, I feel like this.... .... but then there are days I feel like this.... ... and also... Read More
My Random Life Cheap, quick, right; pick two Posted By Lorena When I used to work in the document production department at an Engineering company, we had an unofficial slogan (ok, we had lots of them,... Read More