I think success is odd concept for a small business because how, when you work by yourself in a unique business, can you gauge how well you are doing in your market place? I have been selling my work for about 3ish years now and, to begin with, it was really hard to build up my customer base, stockists and so forth and some days I really did miss the reliable income of my old office job work! When I first started out I would say that a lot of the time, it felt like I was tryi

I just want start by saying a that I was amazed about how many people commented and messaged me about my last post ‘Dyslexia & Me’. It is great to hear from all of you and I will be writing (dictating to my mum) about Dyslexia and my life again in the not too distant future so keep your eye peeled! Anyway onwards to blog number 3… I won’t lie to you this week has been a nightmare…. All was going well – I was super organised. I had made about 250 pieces of jewellery all ready

So here we go, finally after about a year and a half of me threatening to start a blog I have written my first post… Writing doesn’t come naturally to me as I am awesomely Dyslexic, but I have some wonderful people who will be doing a bit of proofing for me! (They don’t actually know it yet…aren’t they lucky!!!) To start off let me tell you a bit about myself to get us going and how I ended up running my small creative business. My name is Miranda Caley and I am a 28 year old