A Jane of Most Trades

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 [...]

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 [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, my home studio was displaced by my husband needing to move his art studio back into our home. Last night we actually finished the last of the major setup, and the husband was kind enough swap out the old electrical outlets for new and improved grounded electrical outlets [...]

Is it SEO, networking, network marketing, plain old marketing, advertising, directory submissions, blog carnivals, or building back links? Or is it being able to go outside and witness the rain with your kids, taking photographs of moments that would might go unnoticed, developing otherwise impossible friendships with people states or even countries away, voicing your [...]

Sitting in front of your computer. Hands on key board. Blank page in front of you. And an hour later you’ve realized that being stuck on that first sentence would be a luxury compared to the living terror which is that cold and relentless  blank page before you. Staring back at you. Mocking you. I [...]

One of the problems with working online is that it’s possible to do quite a bit of work and still not feel as if I’ve accomplished a darned thing. At least when I was tapping out short stories on my mom’s IBM Selectric I’d have stacks of typed pages and a waste basket full of [...]

..then quit trying to make it work. I was reading in one of my favorite blogging forums this particular post where someone said you must have a certain thing with lots of other certain things in order to accomplish something and that was the only way. Period. End of discussion. I wanted to reply but [...]