"Have you ever tried doing markets? You should sell at markets!"
How many times have I heard this over the last five years? And I was never interested, because I didn't want to pay the table fee, or travel, or buy table decoration, when I could reliably sell everything I made online.
Ok so trying to do weekly updates was an interesting challenge, and one that I mostly managed to stick to (let's ignore that one post that came the Monday after). But I'm not quite convinced that forcing weekly updates is the best model, as I'm not always interestingly productive (and honestly I ...
2025-03-19 11:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been having loads of fun with the laser cutter recently. I took some time to sketch up a bunch of concepts for different earring (and maybe jacket patch?) designs. I've already implemented #3, #16 and #18, but I'd love your input on which ones to make next.
Every design has multiple l...
2025-03-07 17:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
My work week started early; I spent a few hours on Sunday having a huge workshop tidy, in preparation for hopefully getting in some new equipment.
I'm trying to do so many new things at the moment, and of course everything takes longer than I expect. I spent a bit of Monday catching up, and...
2025-02-24 13:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostI always want to start these with "a weird week" or "a slow week" or "not a very productive week". In my head, I'm never as productive as I should be. And yet I have friends (mostly software devs; I used to be in that industry too) making 4-6x the money that I do who tell me they're only putting ...
2025-02-16 18:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a weird week, this week. I recently bought a video camera for YouTubing. I saw the Sony ZV-1 recommended in a few places. It's several years old now but still a very popular choice, and I managed to get a second hand one in very good condition. 2025-02-08 20:09:24 +0000 UTC
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It's a short one this week; we took a long weekend to celebrate my partner's birthday.
One of my plans for the laser cutter involved making myself some brand labels! I usually sign my books by hand, but I've never had any good way to sign soft builds like bags. It's possible to buy labels, ...
2025-02-03 10:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been planning to start Patreon and YouTube properly for years, always promising myself and hopeful commenters that “yes, tutorials are coming, within the next few months.” But I always found myself too busy, and it never quite materialised.
So far, I’ve found that self-employ...
This is a slightly awkward place to start blogging, as some progress builds on things that happened earlier. For example: at the very end of last year, I made my first Influencer deal. Kind of crazy! I received a laser cutter for free, in exchange for producing some content. I got the thing set u...
2025-01-25 18:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostI first tried to start a Patreon account back in February of 2021 and my plan then was to upload longer build videos, tutorial content, and the like. But Patreon didn’t allow video hosting back then (that I could find, anyway), so my only option was to upload to YouTube, and embed the file into...
2025-01-18 13:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Attached to this post are full and print-fiendly versions of The Mimic Compendium, which contains a variety of homebrewed mimic items and monsters. 16 full colour illustrations, and a couple of bonus black and white pictures.
This is version 0.5.3 and is not yet complete. In future I hope...