I block my days off each week, focusing on one thing each day. Monday is my small business day. This doesn't mean that I do nothing towards my business on other days, just that Monday is when I schedule most of my small business tasks. So, each Monday, you should expect something linked to my…
Category: Small Business
My First International Orders!
Yesterday I shared my Etsy shop for the first time. By yesterday afternoon I'd received a flurry of orders, two of which were from America! I can't tell you how excited I was! I packed them up and sent them off to their new home: Thank you to everyone who placed an order, I couldn't…
Woodland Sticker Sheet {Small Business}
Yesterday I added my new Woodland Sticker Sheet to my Etsy Shop. I could not be more pleased with how they turned out! It was a huge learning curve as I set about separating the elements in my drawings, making them transparent and then adding in enough of a white background for them to be…
Creating a Tiny Office {Seasons of Joy}
Over the past month, we have been reorganising our very small porch way and creating a tiny office for me. This was very much a labour of love for Gary, who did the entire thing himself, according to the specs I had given him. This was his birthday present to me. And literally if I…
Cottage Garden Notebooks
One of my goals this month was to publish a new range of notebooks with Amazon. The good thing about doing this is that it costs me nothing but time. I'm not necessarily expecting them to sell well on Amazon as I think the market is completely saturated with low content books such as these.…
Home Business Log #001
I don't know about you, but I love watching the trajectory of someone's journey. It can be an actual journey or a metaphorical one...it doesn't really matter, I just enjoy the progression of someone's dream coming true. In this vein, I thought I'd share my home business journey. Read More: How I created my own…
My Stickers!
I've just printed my final sticker sheets! It's so exciting (for me, probably less so for you...). Anyway, I thought I'd give you a peak of my first four designs: The sheets above contain a trim and bleed, so there won't be the gaping background all around the edge. I'm so happy with them! I'm…
Homemade Sticker Sheets and Small Art Journalling
When I first went into the gift shop in our village to see if they wanted to become stockists of my homemade cards, the owner said to me that once I had a design I could put that design on many different products. This, of course, was a great idea. Almost immediately I used my…
Designing My Invoices {Small Business from Home}
Invoices were one thing I hadn't really thought of. Delivering my first order up to the local gift shop, the owner asked me how I wanted to be paid. Hmm. So I took to Canva and began designing my invoices. Of course, I could have just used a simple black and white simple design. But…
Packaging My First Order {Small Business From Home}
Yesterday, I shared how I had designed my own vellum packaging and then found that my printer did not print vellum, the paper alternative I had chosen. Sigh. There is so much I don't know. I think that I've done the research but, alas, I find I know little. But I am nothing if not…
Designing my Own Packaging {Small Business Owner}
I've got a few 'small business' posts coming this week because my business is off the ground and I have had a few orders! This has made me consider how I want to package up these orders, the type of invoices I want to make and the type of business brand I want to develop.…
My Sea-Life Notebooks
I thought I would show you my five sea life notebooks that I now have published on Amazon: To give an idea of size, here is one of the books next to its companion card: And a last one of one of the books. I shall leave the link to each of the books below,…
My Greeting Cards Came Through!
This is a post which is heavy on the pictures and light on the writing! This is my first delivery of cards. Let's just say, I've learnt a lot. They are not perfect but the colours are wonderful and printed.com did a marvellous job with the quality. I will definitely be ordering from them again.…
Designing and Ordering a Custom Made Business Stamp
I'm running a bit late on account of Becca's Football camp! Somehow the day has completely got away from me. I have finally snapped a couple of photos to show you of my new business stamp and the start of the resulting business card. I can't tell you how delighted I am with the result!…
My First Business Mistake
I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but I would have rather my first business mistake had come a bit later than just a few weeks in. You all know the difficulty I have in formatting things for printing and understand colour profiles and the like. To be honest, everything feels a bit…