Sunday Afternoon Housewife

Pinterest is quickly becoming my brand new obsession, so I wanted to share a little bit about it with you today, so we can all be equally obsessed with it! I first heard about Pinterest when I took the Social Media Blitz Course offered for free by Handmadeology. It wasn’t on my radar at all [...]

I became a fan of Tara Gentile and her blog, Scoutie Girl, the first time I read it. The words Tara chooses when she writes are words chosen with purpose, with meaning. She inspires creativity, but more importantly, she inspires action. When I had the opportunity to take her e-course on busting procrastination, I didn’t [...]

The Etsy Kit by Jordan Moore is an amazing set of tools for helping both the new and the seasoned Etsy seller improve and grow an online shop. The kit contains quite a bit of information including all of the following guides:  The Etsy Seller’s Success Kit, The Etsy Seller’s Business Planner, The Etsy Seller’s [...]

If you are like me, then the craft you currently make and sell probably started out as a hobby. Is that true for you? Making jewelry and silk screening really were hobbies for me, and then it started to get more and more serious until it basically took over my life! It really is true: [...]

The Handmade Market Place: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and Online by Kari Chapin is not a book for under-achievers. Kari Chapin has taken into account nearly every possible thing that exists which  you can do to have a successful craft business, and she writes with a sense that makes you feel required [...]

You might have noticed I was pretty absent last week. I took a trip for the week and spent some time away from the computer and with my grandparents in Florida. It was a fun trip, though not particularly productive from a blogging or crafting standpoint! One of the good things that did come out [...]

For my birthday earlier this month, my sister-in-law graciously sent me a copy of Country Living’s Crafting a Business: Make Money Doing What You Love by Kathie Fitzgerald. I just finished reading it, so I wanted give it a little review for those of you out there who might be curious if this book is [...]