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What can you expect at Craftcation 2024? ✨Five

What can you expect at Craftcation 2024?

✨Five life-changing days at the beach in California.
🎨💻Over 200 craft and business classes taught by industry experts.
😍Lots of social gatherings to connect, educate and foster community.

As multi-year alum @marshmueller said...
“Craftcation has this effect… when you walk through the door it’s almost like a magical transformation.”

Holly and all the other alums and newbies... we can’t wait to see you next April!

Discounted early bird registration is open now!

#craftcation #craftconference #smallbusinesssupport #smallbizlife #artconvention #craftconvention #makersformakers

Which emoji best describes how you cope with appli

Which emoji best describes how you cope with application anxiety?

🍷 📓 📚 📺 🎧 👯‍♀️ 🌮 👟 or something else?

Application anxiety is real! Remember, one craft fair won’t make or break or break your business.

BTW: Our @thepatchworkshow applications close next week on 9.27. Apply via our bio 🔗.

We have SEVEN awesome locations in California this fall.

🏖 Long Beach @marinestadium 10.29
☀️ Ventura @downtownventura 11.5
🌆 Tustin @oldtowntustin 11.12
🌉 Oakland @jacklondonsq 11.18
🌳 Redwood City @cityofredwoodcity 11.26
🎨 Sebastopol @sebastopolarts 12.2
🛳 San Pedro @craftedportla 12.10

#craftshow #craftshowprep #smallbizowner #smallbiztips #smallbusinessowner #smallbusiness #makerfaire

Ready for the last one? You have to tell yoursel

Ready for the last one?

You have to tell yourself the new story over and over until you believe in its truth. You may not believe your new story at first, you probably didn’t believe the negative story that you’ve been telling yourself all these years at first either but you kept telling yourself and eventually it felt like the truth. You can do that with the positive story...

📣Tell it to yourself again and again until it becomes the truth.

This process sounds simple but it isn’t. You’re basically trying to change the way your brain works, the way you think and that isn’t easy.

⛷Imagine if you skied down the same mountain every day, several times a day. Your skies would make a path in the snow. Imagine you did this for years, like 20 or more years. That path would be deep.

❄️Then, one day you decide there’s a better way to ski down the mountain. You point your skis in this new direction but after a few feet, you’re back in that old path.

🗻Every time you go down the mountain, you may be able to go a few more feet on this new path, heck, some days, you may hit a stride and go for 10 or 20 feet on this new path but it takes patience, determination and resilience.

🧠This is what it’s like to adjust your mindset in your brain. You’re basically carving new neural pathways in your brain for your thoughts to move from, you can’t do this to yeah, we’ve got this!

Now that you have all this information, what are you supposed to do with it? I want you to take action! I want to help you bridge the gap between understanding and doing.

Join the waiting list for our course Goals Getters Academy where you’ll figure out what you really want and craft a doable plan to make it happen. Just DM me goals and your email address and I’ll add you to the list or join via our bio link.

#innercriticbegone #innercritic #craftbizlife #craftershelpingcrafters #craftersgonnacraft #smallbizowner #smallbusinessowner

If you relate drop a 👏🖐👍🤣 below. Tell

If you relate drop a 👏🖐👍🤣 below. Tell me I’m not alone!
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I can’t count the number of me-made projects that I tried to wear or only wore once because they didn’t turn out right. If only I would take the time to learn from a pro.
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Lucky for you, this no longer has to be your fate. We have THREE sewing rooms at Craftcation where expert instructors show you how to create your own clothing and sewing projects with confidence.
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Ready to make garments you love to wear? Join us at Craftcation and you could be...
🏖 spending five days at the beach in California
👯‍♀️making friends like the ones you made (or wished you made) at summer camp as a kid
👩🏿‍🎨pushing yourself outside your creative comfort zone to make all the things
🥅having 1.2 million AH-HA moments to fuel your next big leap
📈getting actionable business info
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This is why the most common word that appears on our post-conference surveys is LIFE-CHANGING. Discounted early bird tickets are available now.

#craftcation #smallbizconference #smallbiztips #craftersofinstagram #craftersgonnacraft #crafttogether #makerssupportingmakers

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If you need to compete...
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race against yourself!
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Look at your revenue from last year and try to increase it by 10% or 20% or more this year. Look at how many hours you worked on average per week last year and find ways (HELLO to delegation, systems & automations) to work less without losing revenue.
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Challenge yourself to be a better boss to yourself, set goals and then craft a plan to make them happen.
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Want help? Join the waiting list for our course Goals Getters Academy where you’ll figure out what you really want and craft a doable plan to make it happen. Just DM me goals and your email address and I’ll add you to the list or join via our bio link.

Like and share with your goal getters.

#smallbizsupport #smallbusinessowner #goalsetting #craftybusiness #craftersofinstagram

Here’s your pep talk for today —> READ THIS B

Here’s your pep talk for today —> READ THIS

Being a creative business owner isn’t easy or pretty.

There’s a lot of crap (accounting, answering emails, updating your website, bookkeeping, contracts, marketing, answering DMs, taxes, customer service, shipping, & a million other tasks) that you have to do to keep your business running. And, you probably do all or most of this yourself. And, you’re probably raising kids or pets and managing a family or friends and mental health and trying to take care of yourself and be creative and do ALL things.

It’s. Not. Easy. But... it is worth it.

I think it is. I’d rather trade all those late nights, early mornings, & many years of being terrified the day rent was due as I started growing my businesses, than for settling into gainful employment doing something that doesn’t feed my soul.

I struggled for a long time. It took me forever to learn to delegate (I’m still working on that one). Sometimes it feels like as soon as you have something figured out, something comes along and shakes things up (hello to COVID, video being key on social media and so many other things that threw me for a loop over the years).

Each of those things that kept me on my toes also reminded me that I’m scrappy and creative. They remind me that I chose this life as a creative business owner.

And, every morning when I wake up and open my computer, I chose it again. And every night when I close my computer I say thank you that after 20 years of being my own boss, I still love what I do and feel like it matters.

So, yeah, it isn’t easy but the worth it things often aren’t.

If you’re a creative business boss looking for your community and support, join us this spring at Craftcation. Discounted early bird registration is open now.

#craftbusinessowner #entrepreneurs #craftentrepreneur #craftcation #workvacation #businesscoaches #treasuremaker #collagemaker #jewelrymaker #candlemaker #soapmaker #clothingmaker #fiberartist #digitalartist

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