A Jane of Most Trades

It happens from time to time, there comes a point where you look at a blog and you’re just cringing. It’s old, sad, the content is drooping– it has seen better days and if it were a horse it would be put out to pasture or sold to the glue factory. Fortunately, with a little [...]

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin said it first. It’s probably better to save a penny than spend it and earn it back later because the earned penny will be taxed a second time. I’m not talking about being miserly or cheap, but wisely frugal. When you are working online it’s important [...]

I tried it. Image Space Media is the advertising network that uses javascript to overlay ads onto images. It seems like a really good idea and I could see it being more effective once the network is larger and has a broader range of advertisers but the ads were absolutely not relevant to the images  [...]

I’m going to apologize ahead of time, I just took some DayQuil the daytime sniffling-sneezing-coughing-achy-stuffy-head-what-in-the-heck-did-I-just-write-on-my-blog medicine. With seamsters, once a reasonable workspace is found, sorted out and declared a sovereign nation the big obstacle is organization. A well organized craft room means that there’s no stopping a project for twenty minutes in order to search [...]

The right tools are important when your livelihood relies on your ability to work efficiently. I could easily halve, or even quarter the number of craft and sewing tools I own and still work; the problem is that doing so would require more of my time to complete certain jobs. Beyond economizing time, you are [...]

Although it’s not my highest earner, I like using Project Wonderful for managing paid advertisements. Here’s why: Payout is low (ten dollars) If you don’t meet payout you can easily set up your own ads on  other peoples sites without a separate advertiser account You can set minimum bids for your ad boxes You can [...]

I am that tired. I should have gone to bed early last night. But I was too excited at the prospect of a new (to us) family car and working out details of our (endless) remodel that I stayed up late. And now the sandman is here and beating the snot out of me. I [...]

It’s the lower price point stuff that is meant to garner an opening sale. Table filler is the stuff that technically pretty much anyone can make (and does) and make fairly quickly from cheap materials. It’s cute and fills in the odd spaces hopefully without distracting from the more involved (and higher priced) items. I’ve [...]

Hi, my name is Wendy and I have not checked my stats for 10 minutes. All kidding aside, with as many blogs and sites as I have (and those that I maintain for others) I can’t take too much time to obsess over traffic stats, reader behavior, or unique visitors. Mainly because I have this [...]

If you work with fibers and fabrics in your at home business, you’ll need to pay attention to labeling requirements. The rules seem a bit arbitrary for instance you must label all clothing items, except for hats and socks, unless those fall under a different section of the labeling requirements (such as those from fur [...]