Put that where, now?
Lorena
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.”…
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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…
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…
My current planner: Artful Agenda
I’ve talked a lot about planners before (shout out to my planner peeps!). I even had that epic Planner Thunderdome about three years ago… which I guess wasn’t as successful…
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…
I have entirely too many things to do
I have entirely too many things to do, some work, some life, and mostly thinking about them all makes me want to take a nap. But! Look, I did a…
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…
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…
GLAM 2022 recap
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 to bed at about 8:30.…