We all have a fear of the unknown and we have all heard someone say “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. This is all well and good (and it’s a maxim that I try to guide myself by – even though I would rather stick rusty forks in my eyes [...]

One thing that Wendy (the founder of eMoms) and I noticed very quickly from your responses to CraftBoom! is that there is a huge crafting business community out there that isn’t being supported on the internet as well as it could be. Your response to this blog has been wonderful and I want thank all [...]

Switch on the news and read any newspaper and you’ll hear about fears of an economic downturn/slow down, at least I know this to be the case in both the US and the UK. My crafts e-commerce business is my sole source of income so I’m particularly mindful of what’s going on [...]

Happiest New Year Everyone. I hope you all had lovely time with your family and friends over Xmas. I myself was really ill from the 22nd of Dec to…well…I’m still feeling a bit pants, but thankfully over the worst of it of now.
A new year brings the promise of a whole host [...]

Woo! This post is very timely for me because all last week the UK was in the grip of a nationwide postal strike. This was very stressful for me because I send all of my parcels by Royal Mail (the UK’s postal service) and I do not use couriers (YET!). Even though [...]