Ketchup

Playing catch-up right now on all the (in no particular order): emails sent to me over the last month friends’ photos on Flickr that I haven’t commented on bills that need attention (mostly good on these) laundry. Oh lord, the laundry. Dog fur. We have three dogs and a vacuum that hasn’t been turned on…

Melba

   On Friday, a sunny, crisp day, our greyhound Melba made her trip to the Rainbow Bridge. It’s taken me a few days to pull myself together enough to write this and, truth to tell, I’m not doing much better now than I was then. While I have no regrets about our part in Melba’s…

The work of our hands

I’ve had a couple of favourable responses to my previous post about pricing crafts, responses which have inspired me to write blog entries on the process of designing, creating, and marketing craft. There will be smaller topics, of course, broken down by subject matter. Before I start, please be advised that don’t profess to know…

Pricing the craft component of my work

Every year I shilly-shally around with numbers, re-evaluate my pricing schemes and decide if I’m in the right ballpark. Taking the thorough approach, I calculate materials, wastage, product development time and materials amortised over my expected number of product for the duration of the product’s run, labour, overhead, and all the other good things that…

I know how she feels

Ended up taking yesterday evening off (except for two hours of driving all over town only to find out there is no heavy-duty stabiliser in town to be had for love or money) and going to sleep early. It was really nice. Except for the 6am greyhound, which was not so nice. The weather even…