It’s time again to come together for four life-changing days in the charming seaside town of Ventura, CA for our annual makers and small business conference: Craftcation. Join us at our nationally-recognized conference for small business smarts, creative craft workshops and social gatherings. Craftcation registration opens today October 5, 2018 at 9:00am PT and the […]
Three Ways Craftcation Changed My Life
Editor’s Note: Mélissa Peng is joining us on the blog today to discuss how attending our Craftcation Conference changed her life and her business. I was lucky enough to meet Mélissa at our makers and small business conference in 2016 when we were both first-timers. Then in 2018, when I was able to return to the conference, […]
Three Tips for a Life-Changing Craftcation Experience
Editor’s Note: Attendees come from all over the world to attend Craftcation, our Makers and Small Business Conference because they want to either spend time crafting their hearts out, learning how to improve their business, or a little bit of both. But what people have told us really seals the deal for them to come […]
Three Tips for Teaching Your Craft
Editor’s Note: We recently spoke to Angie Chua of bobodesignstudio.com about how and why she chose to diversify her income where she talks about deciding to teach her craft of hand lettering and chalk lettering. Continuing with that theme, today we’re talking with Jennie Lennick of JennyLemons.com. Due to her success as a teacher in […]
Craftcation is Coming and Our Manifesto
Since the very beginning, Dear Handmade Life has always been about empowering and inspiring passionate creatives to craft awesome lives and businesses filled with purpose and intention. We believe in the makers, the dreamers, the doers and wanted to provide a place to showcase their talents. That’s when we started Patchwork Show: A Modern Makers […]
A Year of Creativity & Community Giveaway
AS A CREATIVE BUSINESS OWNER, it is easy to become overwhelmed with all of the steps required to be successful. How do you obtain wholesale partnerships? Where can you buy your supplies in bulk? How can you better your craft? How can I run this one-person show all by myself? What systems can I put […]
Attending Craftcation on a Budget
The word budget used to make me cringe! I thought being on a budget meant limiting my ability to have fun. And who wants that? But what I’ve learned as the CEO of my household of four humans, one dog and two guinea pigs is that by creating a budget – and actually sticking to […]
Building Creative Community & Gift Bag Giveaway
Editor’s Note: We’re excited to welcome our new marketing maven Katie MacAvoy to the Dear Handmade Life team! We met Katie when she attended our Craftcation: Business & Maker’s Conference a few years ago and have been getting to know her better in our private online community for Craftcation Conference Alumni. When our current social […]
