Day 6// Purchasing materials can be super exciting or super frustrating, depending on the angle you approach it with. If you’ve found the perfect list of affordable vendors it’s easy, fun +inspiring. If you paint, selecting new hues to your basket is like a double dose of inspiration. Same goes for picking out buttons, fabric, markers,… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 Days — Day 6, Where to buy materials.}
{Baby Bump — 18 week update}
Every morning Bauer picks up his leash and drags it around the house *hoping* we notice and take him outside. As though he isn’t walked daily… snort. Since we have hardwood throughout it’s pretty noisey, but it totally makes us laugh. Once we get outside Bauer either drapes it over himself {how does he do… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 Days — Day 5, How to handle copycats.}
Day 5// Ohhh, this is hurts a little to talk about. It’s never fun to handle copycats. It’s never fun to be called a copycat. Over the years I’ve had to do both: decide how to follow up with a so-called copycat + defend myself when called one. And nearly from the beginning I have found… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 Days — Day 4, Creating goals.}
Day 4// Whenever I think about the lull, no-change moments in my life I recognize them as moments where I didn’t set any goals. Take our move to California, for example. It’s a more personal example, but I’m trying to offer suggestions with each post that applies to non-business owners, too. Zack + I talked… [Read More]
{Decorating our living room + shopping at World Market.}
Remember how we sold nearly everything we owned, packed up our Jeep, and drove out to California from Minnesota? Yep, that was about a month ago. And ever since we found the perfect apartment to call home, the perfect apartment to bring our baby home in March — complete with honey hardwood floors, fresh paint… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 Days — Day 3, Gaining support from your spouse/partner.}
Day 3// Gaining support from your spouse/partner. This particular prompt, I realize, could be tailored in a dozen different ways to custom fit the various lifestyles + relationship statuses out there. Instead of going over them individually I’m going to focus on what the relationship between me + my husband is like, and share a… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 Days — Day 2, The importance of a blog.}
Day 2// The importance of a blog. Often during mentorship sessions I’m asked how important I think it is to have a blog in addition to an online website, one that is a host for more personal content in addition to the products one sells. And my answer is the same every time: I think… [Read More]
{Handmade Business in 31 days — Day 1, Knowing when to say ‘no’}
It’s that time of year — time for The Nester’s “31 days” annual October series, and I’m super excited to announce this years topic ~ HANDMADE BUSINESS in 31 DAYS. We have a whole list of topics, ideas, photos + inspiration to include in each daily post, as well as additional post content pulled from… [Read More]
{On embracing change.}
Moving to California has stretched me — all of us — in new ways. First we needed to gather {what seemed like} endless amounts of inspiration + willpower to make this move happen. I mean, we traveled 2,000 miles from the tundra state to the sunshine state. Then we needed to gather endless amounts of… [Read More]
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