Maggie Whitley

Day 15// Deciding on a type of product to sell in your handmade shop — not to mention developing your style to infuse into your products, is kinda complicated, but only if you let it be complicated… and who wants that? Before deciding on your product, spend a couple of days reviewing, your talents {what… [Read More]

Day 14// Running a handmade business, really any online business, takes a lot of energy. Sometimes we need to give ourselves more freedom to step away from the computer for an entire day and let that be OK. If you are reading this today, on Sunday, please stop right now and close your computer. Spend time… [Read More]

Day 13// On Tuesday I asked you to share your biggest issue and many of you wrote that you’re dreams seem too big {you don’t know where to start}, you seriously doubt yourself + your talents, or you feel it’s time to hire {but you don’t know how}. The truth is we are all have big… [Read More]

Day 11// Running a handmade business takes an insane amount of energy, organization + daily/weekly upkeep that if you don’t feel confident in your workflow processes you will probably feel like a crazy lady. Snort. Today let’s talk about shipping product. When we had an apartment in Minneapolis I would ship product every day of… [Read More]

Day 11// OK, so answer this for me: Do you know what to do during slow seasons? All business have them, and some even have multiple seasons. My guess is your busy season is right after Christmas, throughout the summer + possibly once school has started. Having a slow season doesn’t mean you’re doing anything… [Read More]

Day 10// The longer I blog the quicker I am to feel overwhelmed with participating in all of the linky parties, online events + other seriously fun “stuff”. Because I want to participate in them all. There are so many creative parties to join. Because of course I like to bake. And of course I think… [Read More]

Day 9// Not to talk about all the “issues” we have as handmade business owners, but really, let’s talk about ’em! ;) I won’t deny it, being your own boss is hard at times. Designing product isn’t always a piece of cake. Staying on task with email, yep that’s hard too. And it’s totally possible for… [Read More]

via paper fashion via we heart it via Apartment 34 via write. click. scrapbook. via Cornflower Blue via kensie kate via Gussy Sews via the bendy straw Day 8// Let’s talk about quotes that inspire and your special place to hang such things. As women who create it’s important we have words that inspire us —… [Read More]

Day 7// A couple years ago I used to do all of my online work with my email open in a separate tab. If a new message popped up, I clicked over to read, and oftentimes reading an email would remind me of something else, and so on I went to yet another tab {different… [Read More]