Sarah J. Doyle | August 30, 2010
If you’ve had a website or blog for any length of time, you’ve probably realized by now that it hasn’t grown overnight, nor has it grown without a lot of effort on your part. You could have a blog or website online for years, but without promoting on your part and getting the name out [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 23, 2010
For those of us who do sewing, crafting or alterations as a home based and/or internet based business, we keep hearing about finding our own “niche”. How do you find your own niche, and to follow that — what is niche marketing? What type of business do you have? Sewing? Crafting? Alterations? That’s the easy [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 19, 2010
After the post last Monday saing “School is starting today”, and talking about the fact that it isn’t too late to let people know you can sew for those hard to fit plus size children, we’ve been swamped with emails asking about our plus size children patterns and pattern making classes. We were very moved [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 16, 2010
School is starting today for our grandchildren, however other schools will not start until next Monday. Even though school is or has started, it is NOT too late to do “back to school” sewing for those hard to fit children who probably are starting school with only one or two outfits. Check out the PlusSizeChildren [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 9, 2010
No, I’m not asking if the color of your home office walls are green – although Sage Green is one of my favorite colors! I’m really wondering how eco-friendly your home business is. “Green” is all the topic of conversation nowdays, and it would be a great idea to check to see where you are [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | August 2, 2010
We’ve talked many times about starting a home business, and various aspects of doing your own business. Today I want to mention a few “rules” that may or may not affect you in trying to start your own home business. ** Regulations. If you live in a subdivision that has homeowner policies and regulations, you [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | July 26, 2010
Motivation killers are those “little” things that we let build up inside us that can literally kill our desire to get something accomplished some days, and if let go can actually kill our business. “Attitude” is probably the greatest motivation BUILDER or motivation KILLER. It is absolutely essential that you keep a positive attitude about [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | July 19, 2010
I would think that older children (pre teens and teens) would be less likely to interfere with sewing projects, but the younger children (toddlers through 6-8) always want to “help”, which can make it difficult to keep your mind on what the sewing project is. I’ve found that when our 4 year old quadruplet grandbabies and [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | July 12, 2010
Well, I’ve gotten a few comments about my recent post, “How Productive Are You Now That Summer Is Here?” – including a conversation with my friend who informed me that there are some days that she couldn’t “add an additional hour” no matter what would happen if she didn’t. The suggestion was made that, instead [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | July 5, 2010
Several years ago I taught a series of sewing classes for children. I’d picked up several used sewing machines from yard sales and flea markets, which my “sewing machine repairman” husband would check out, do any repairs and get them ready for the kids to use. The basic sewing information and projects that we put [...]
