Happy Valentines everyone, I hope that you are being treated like Princesses or Princes, or you are least treating yourself today.
Right, so we are all getting pretty bored of the winter weather (not that it’s that bad in the UK right now) I miss those warm sunny days, dresses, and sandals. Now is [...]

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post where I talked about how I discovered another retailer was pinching my content for his own gain without my consent. This is what happened next: I had a polite rant on the phone to him and I later checked to see if had modified everything. Well, [...]

Earlier on today I was doing a spot of online shopping for some sewing machine needles and I happened to notice that this particular online store was selling a hard-to-find product (which I’ll call item X) which I also sell in my own shop.  So in the name of research I went to check out [...]

One of the things that I really enjoy in my craft business is hunting around for different products to sell in my shop. Well, it’s not always as enjoyable as shopping in the shopping centre/mall as suppliers can be unreliable, and hard to find, and sometimes not very reasonable, but most of the time [...]

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 [...]