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…
Category: business of craft
One week and counting
Thank heavens the weekend coming is a long one. Three days sans kid obligations will likely finish things up nicely for the fair. Not to mention that Hannah has kindly volunteered to help me put tags and strings on things, stuff items into bags and do any other odds that her back will allow her…
Two weeks to go….
… until the Christmas Fine Crafts Fair. I’m actually within striking distance of it, have most smaller stock either done or largely done. I did a quick review of last year’s sales and reminded myself that 50% of my sales were $20 or under and the other half was stuff priced between $20 and $50….
Two weeks to go….
… until the Christmas Fine Crafts Fair. I’m actually within striking distance of it, have most smaller stock either done or largely done. I did a quick review of last year’s sales and reminded myself that 50% of my sales were $20 or under and the other half was stuff priced between $20 and $50….
The Landscaping Business
Saturday’s fabric painting was, as far as I can tell, an unqualified success. The follow-up to this was Sunday’s Quilted Landscape Design and Construction workshop. My chief aim in going into this workshop was to help people select an idea that they wanted to tackle, assist them in deisgning a plan as to how to…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 