book: crafting a business
Country Living Crafting a Business: Make Money Doing What You Love (Country Living)
This book is quite an inspirational read. Filled with the stories of women who have made their handcraft passion into their livelihood. From weavers to cake decorators to book binders the women in this book are all passionate about what they do. There are mothers who turned to working from home out of a need to be with their children and women turned to crafting their business after a career elsewhere that left them empty. The stories of how these women became or are on their way to becoming successful are interesting and insightful and show what it actually takes to make crafting for a living actually financially viable. (lots of hard work and a passion for what you do)
There is a great deal of advice throughout, as well as a summing up at the end of each section and at the back where there is an excellent resource including how to write a business plan, marketing and sales and financial management and more.
Some of the women who are mentioned in the book include designers, shop owners and artisans: such as Liz Alpert Fay - textiles (rug hooking), Phyllis Leck (country weaving), Kaari Meng from french general , Amy Butler (fabric design), Crispina Ffrench (re purposing wool), Lisa Norris from Made by one girl (book binding) and lots more including caterers, fashion designers, flea market tours, cowgirl non-traditional vacations, florists and floral garden designers, interior designers and childrens clothing designers. Such a range of fantastic and inspiring women - a great read and resource.
