House of HaldePets
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ms. Haldeman, step in to my office
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...
September Office Hours
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...
Thursday, Friday, happy days
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...
Summer in the Sunshine State
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...
On Tuesdays there shall be coffee
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...
Some work decisions I need to make while on vacation
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...
Hello, my ragtime gaaaaaaaaaal
A lot of times as a self-employed person, I feel like this.... .... but then there are days I feel like this.... ... and also...
Cheap, quick, right; pick two
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,...
