For me the month of September feels like the crafters New Year. There is so much to look forward to; the little ones have started/gone back to school (freeing up time for busy Mums), there are all of the rich autumn fabrics to drool over, we start spending more and more time in our [...]

If you are at the stage where you are thinking of taking on help, I salute you. It’s a brave step to make and I know how hard you must have worked to get to the stage where you need extra hands.
Amy of Coco Crafts recently asked me how I went about finding people [...]

Thanks to everyone who has popped in for a read/subscribed/linked to/commented on CraftBoom! Your response to this blog has been wonderful I’ve been rooting around in the CraftBoom! stats and I thought it would be useful to put the most popular CraftBoom! posts all together in one place. So here [...]

I know that when you’re already busy enough with the family, the housework, and making your handcraft items to sell the idea if of making time to socialize on top of all of the other stuff you have to do is perhaps less than appetizing. But marketing yourself is only one of the benefits [...]

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So what do you do when folk says your handcraft is too expensive? For starters don’t go and slash the price of [...]

As in everything in life; a setback becomes less of a setback if you use it as a opportunity to learn from it and grow stronger. Woooah come back! Before you think “oh dear, this is going to be one of those over-generalized self-help sound bites” I hope you’ll think it isn’t. [...]