pass it on...

Here is a wonderful and inspirational post from a fellow Folksy forum poster and shopkeeper Leanne Woods (Visit her lovely shop here - Leanne Woods Designs)

"I know a lot of people are feeling down at the minute, May’s been a slowish month and the usual panic regarding prices starts to kick. Sales are offered, freebies are offered, first borns are offered all in an attempt to draw in a sale.




This is really an amalgam of great advice I’ve been given and some I’ve doled out myself in the last year.


I know we’ve all been guilty of under valuing ourselves, I did it too when I first started, barely charging minimum wage for my time, if even that, but let’s face it we could all earn minimum wage and have nothing in the world to concern our little minds other than waiting for the beep to tell us the fries are done or making sure all the tins of baked beans are facing forward.


Instead you chose this. Instead you can be found at any given time of the day rushing at break neck speed between umpteen different jobs and tasks.


You could have spent your days asking “do you want fries with that” and pocketed the paltry wage at the end of the week but instead you are …


The boss


The boss’s secretary


The boss’s whipping boy


The marketing manager


The photographer


The buyer


The web designer


The accountant


The postie


The delivery guy


The cleaner


The childcare


The cook


The driver


and the lady who makes the tea.


And in between all that, you somehow find the time to design and make stuff too.


Never forget just how bloody brilliant you all really are and don’t let anybody tell you different because chances are, they’d crumble to pieces after a week in your shoes.


Never mind minimum wage, you’re worth your weight in gold!"

Thanks, Leanne, for those words of wisdom... I just had to pass them on and I hope other crafters will to.