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Small Business Sunday, Loosely Speaking

by WaterGirl|  December 5, 20212:10 pm| 48 Comments

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Who says Small Business Saturday has to last just one day?

Small Business Sunday

Do you have a small business?  Make something?  Sell something?  Do consulting?  Create art?  Write books?  Write or produce plays?  Knit, crochet, or tat?  Do photography?

Provide editing services?   Bookkeeping services?  Have an Etsy store?  Cafe Press?  Or any one of a million things I haven’t listed…

Tell us what you do and post a link to your stuff in the comments.

Housekeeping note: I tried to post this on Small Business Saturday, and then the next day, but there were a ton of posts so I kept moving it back.  Now it’s Sunday again so I don’t even need to change the title.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:12 pm

    Adam is working on a post but there’s no telling when it will be done.

    So I’ll put this up now, and then if Adam steps on it, I’ll move it to later in the day.  :-)

  2. 2.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 5, 2021 at 2:21 pm

    I think I’ve probably babbled about writing enough that most people know this already, but I write YA fantasy novels. I’m proud to be with a small press that’s headquartered in the UK that’s a registered social enterprise. That is, they give part of their profits to charity.

    Here’s all my books on Amazon with descriptions of the stories.

    And here’s the three most recent at my publisher’s. If you order from them, they make a little more money but obviously the shipping can cost you more. They don’t charge sales tax though.

  3. 3.

    RobMidd

    December 5, 2021 at 2:24 pm

    I have been making abstract paintings for about 25 years as my pathway to mental wellness. I sell works at various price points from $30 into the thousands, at http://www.RMiddleton.art.

    (I love this community and read it every day, but this may be the first time I have ever commented. I am a little shy.)

  4. 4.

    germy

    December 5, 2021 at 2:32 pm

    Let’s not forget the amazing Werebear, who has a small business involving cats:

    This one’s for @aproustian with my HOLIDAY THANKS and I’m pleased to discover another outlet for my #CatArt because it’s like a big future cat opening a wonderful present… and that’s my special purpose ? in this NOW.#CatsOfTwitter #CatLovers #CatFutures pic.twitter.com/1IiPrlchg3
    — WayofCats (@WayofCats) December 5, 2021

  5. 5.

    Ruckus

    December 5, 2021 at 2:34 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I’ve owned 2 small businesses. One manufacturing and one retail. That covered 1/3 of my working life. The manufacturing one employed others, the retail did not, although if the great recession hadn’t come along I intended to once again be an employer. I do appreciate that republican governance brings so much depression and destruction to an economy and it’s citizens, it makes the political choice a lot easier to those without the gene for total selfishness.

  6. 6.

    germy

    December 5, 2021 at 2:38 pm

    @Ruckus:   it makes the political choice a lot easier to those without the gene for total selfishness.

    But Democratic candidates will need a majority.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:39 pm

    @RobMidd:  Welcome to commenting!

    Your first comment has to be manually approved, but now that i have done that, future comments will show up for everyone right away.

    Lurk less, comment more.  :-)

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:39 pm

    @germy: Nice!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:40 pm

    @germy:  So true, but still I giggled.

  10. 10.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 5, 2021 at 2:41 pm

    @Ruckus: My DIL’s father worked in the steel factories near Gary. He once told me that he used to be “independent” but then he noticed he did better under Democrats. So he could be selfish and idealistic at the same time

  11. 11.

    germy

    December 5, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    She’s the greatest, a hero to all cats

    There’s a cat that’s been coming around to my yard.  Not a stray, I think he lives a few houses down.  But he likes to poke around the neighborhood, so sometimes I leave him some food. He keeps the rabbits away from our vegetables in the summer.

  12. 12.

    Quiltingfool

    December 5, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    I’m in the business of making quilts.  I love making them, but they do tend to stack up!  I have a store on Etsy (my nym will take you there) with finished quilts.  If there isn’t anything you like, I can custom make a quilt – color or design.

    My favorite quilts to make are cat-themed quilts.  I have almost finished a custom quilt called Sawtooth cats (just now took it off the quilt frame).  I think my next project will be a quilt with appliquéd “vegetable” cats.  I’ve got 13 vegetable cat patterns and I can’t wait to put them in a quilt.

    I have reasonable prices and I make a quality product.  I don’t sell a lot of quilts (as compared to small hand made items) because, well, they’re big, they cost a sight more than a placemat or table runner, and how many quilts do people need?  I guess my goal is to make something that makes you happy when you look at it and has the added bonus of making you warm!

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    December 5, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    @germy: Thanks, I see what you did there :)

    Here’s my Amazon book page. Sign up to +FOLLOW me and get notice of my second cat book, Cat Civilization.

  14. 14.

    JoyceH

    December 5, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    Why, yes, since you ask, I DO write books! You can find them here –

    Joyce Harmon’s Books

    Some Regency romance, some historical fantasy (based on Pride and Prejudice), a couple mysteries, step right up.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:54 pm

    @Quiltingfool: What is a vegetable cat?

  16. 16.

    Miss Bianca

    December 5, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    Well, I don’t know if it counts as “small business” or not…but partner in brewing D and I have started our first batch of…well, anything…for two years. When COVID hit, somehow that ended up shutting down our dreams of a brewing business and we just didn’t brew anything for ourselves.

    So today’s “Hale Cyser” – a cyser being a cider/mead mixture – is our first step back into the world of brewing. Hail, Cyser!

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 5, 2021 at 2:56 pm

    @Quiltingfool: Yes,  your quilts are gorgeous! My grandmother made a quilt for each grandchild before she went blind. I still have mine.

    @WereBear: Every cat owner I’ve pointed in your direction values your advice.

    @JoyceH: I’ve read at least two of the Pride and Prejudice books. Also the one about the city and country twins. They’re very entertaining.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 2:57 pm

    @Miss Bianca:  I tried to make it clear up top that we are very flexible in our view of “small business”.  :-)

  19. 19.

    WereBear

    December 5, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    @germy: Awwww! Check out my new “giving back to rescue project” that was in a guest post over the weekend.

    the Cat Shelter Project

  20. 20.

    WereBear

    December 5, 2021 at 3:02 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Puns and brew. Delightful mix.

  21. 21.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 5, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Did you know that in the first half of the European Middle Ages, almost all brewing was done by women? That’s where the term “brewster” comes from. You’re part of a long tradition.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    December 5, 2021 at 3:18 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor

    the steel factories near Gary

    Shep reminisces on the mills.

  23. 23.

    Dr. Fungus

    December 5, 2021 at 3:22 pm

    I develop custom eLearning under the name Cogent Rogue Consulting.

    I was trying to think of something with the word “Cogent” that wasn’t already taken, and my black Lab, Rogue, was lying by my feet saying “Hello!” The rest, as they say, is her-story.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    December 5, 2021 at 3:25 pm

    @Miss Bianca

    Last of the small wax-sealed gift bottles of homemade apple cyser received from a friend — oh, it must be a dozen years ago or more — comfortably nestled in the liquor cabinet.

    Expect that by now the stuff could strip the chrome off a bumper.

    ;)

  25. 25.

    lahke

    December 5, 2021 at 3:34 pm

    @JoyceH:

    Eagerly awaiting book 5 of the Regency Mage books– I love your version of Mary Bennet.  Any info on when this could happen?

  26. 26.

    JoyceH

    December 5, 2021 at 3:44 pm

    @lahke: I’m working on it, but if I gave you even an estimated date, I’d be lying, because I have no idea. I AM writing on Book 5, but I’m still in the All Baffled state.

    I’m a Pantser (someone who writes by the seat of the pants, the opposite of a Plotter, who Outlines), so I start out with only a vague general idea of where I’m going. I’ll put in some weird little bits, with no notion of why, and then about mid-book, when I’m starting to panic, it all sorta gels. OH! If she does this, then he would do that, and this weird little thing from twenty pages back would come into play and it would ALL MAKE SENSE.

    But until I reach that point where it all makes sense, it gets pretty Fraught around here…

    (I’ve tried to become a Plotter, I really have, but it just doesn’t work for me.)

  27. 27.

    Chris Johnson

    December 5, 2021 at 4:08 pm

    I’m still coding audio DSP plugins at airwindows.com. So if you’re music-making on a computer, especially if you’re trying to get stuff that runs on the modern M1 processor, I’ve got a lot of stuff that is free and open source and it’s Patreon supported.

    The Patreon’s taking a hit this holiday season but it’s still well over minimum wage and I will see how it goes over a longer term: been good so far :)

  28. 28.

    Ajabu

    December 5, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    As many of you know, I am primarily a jazz musician and composer. You can check out what I do on the Artists page on this site. I have two commercially released Products easily accessed from this link:

    http://donmoors.hearnow.com I also have an excellent Christmas CD that I sell on gigs that is available directly from me and, for you visual learners, I have two Live concert DVDs as well. One from Sacramento, CA and the other from St. Croix, USVI. To get any of those use my email – [email protected]

    Thanks for your interest…

    Ajabu’s Artists in Our Midst Post

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 4:49 pm

    @Dr. Fungus: Love the name Rogue Consulting!

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 4:51 pm

    @Ajabu:  Since you referenced it, I added your Artists in our Midst link to your comment.

    Hope that’s okay.

  31. 31.

    GregMulka

    December 5, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    The link to my spouse’s Etsy store.

    https://www.etsy.com/shop/GreatRiverCrafts

    Some outdoor decoration items. Those are by far her most popular product. She also has some jewelry made from tumbled stones. We’re posting some edge-grain cuttingboards this week as well as lip balm made with beeswax from our apiary.

  32. 32.

    Paul T

    December 5, 2021 at 5:52 pm

    Endless Treadmill of Shopping Occasions Christmas.  We do this for more than 10 percent of the year now.  Has Black Friday ended yet?

  33. 33.

    Butch

    December 5, 2021 at 6:05 pm

    Funny you would mention it specifically, but I do provide contract technical editing services, and partner is an upholsterer…[email protected].

  34. 34.

    Carol Van Natta

    December 5, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    Thanks for a great post. Lots of fun things to look at!

    I write both the Central Galactic Concordance space opera series (4 novels and 4 novellas and counting) and the Ice Age Shifters paranormal romance series (5 short novels so far).

    I’m also the editor of the limited-edition Pets in Space 6 science fiction romance anthology. It benefits Hero Dogs, a charity that raises and trains service dogs for disabled veterans and first responders. The book features 11 novellas for a pretty cheap price, and goes off sale at the end of January.

    I’m currently working on novel 5 in the space opera series. And by working on, I mean engaged in daily death struggles with the most feral book, ever.​​​​​​​​

  35. 35.

    MazeDancer

    December 5, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @Carol Van Natta:

    How can anyone resist a book that benefits such a worthy cause, features pets and romance and costs a mere $4.99?

  36. 36.

    Ivan X

    December 5, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    I’m a very empathic and skilled Mac expert who works with people both remotely and in person to help make their tech lives a little more pleasant. IvanExpert Mac Support

    Thanks for this idea, WaterGirl!

  37. 37.

    Ivan X

    December 5, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Chris Johnson: This is great! Thanks for your work!

  38. 38.

    persistentillusion

    December 5, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @Quiltingfool: I can testify to the beautiful, very well made quilts Quiltingfool makes.  Wonderful and warm, as the temps drop in Colorado.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    December 5, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    Everyone who posted something in this thread should at least think about putting your URL in the url field (where you put in your nym and email address) so people can click on your nym to get to whatever it is you have mentioned here.

  40. 40.

    Quiltingfool

    December 5, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    @WaterGirl: Vegetable cats – the real name of the collection is Garden Patch Cats, appliqué designs that have the cat bodies look like a vegetable or fruit.  They are pretty cute (well, I like them!).  There are 20 designs, I’ve got 13, but I want all of them, lol!

    I’m hoping a quilt of Garden Cats might appeal to someone who likes cats and gardens!  Nonetheless, I will have great fun making them – and as an added bonus, use up bits and pieces of fabric from other projects.

  41. 41.

    Quiltingfool

    December 5, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @persistentillusion: Thank you!  I’m so glad you like your quilt!

  42. 42.

    Ramalama

    December 5, 2021 at 8:23 pm

    My bro and his partner have a shop near Madison WI: Wisconsin Candle co.

    They have a website too (it can be a little confusing to my friends who have gone online there). The things we love are: walnut scrub, Fraser Fir candle, Peppermint candle, White tea & Ginger candle, Tarocco Blood Orange, and the burnt orange patchouli soap (olive oil & shea butter). I love just about everything (except apple spicey scents) at this company. When I make trips down to the US (not recently), I have to order for a bunch of friends up here who just love their stuff and can’t get them shipped to us in Canadia. Good for people with asthma or allergies especially. Good for anyone who appreciates a talented nose.

  43. 43.

    GregMulka

    December 5, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @WaterGirl: But if I do that I can’t link to my egoboo flikr site like when I’m posting from my computer. Unlike this vile phone.

  44. 44.

    TerryC

    December 5, 2021 at 8:41 pm

    My family owns a disc golf pro shop which has an online store as well as a physical presence on two 18-hole disc golf courses – wwwThrowShop.us ?

  45. 45.

    Carol Van Natta

    December 5, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    @MazeDancer: Thanks for the signal boost for PETS IN SPACE 6! We think it’s a pretty good, deal, too. ?

  46. 46.

    Ruckus

    December 5, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    @germy:

    You are correct, there are a lot of people whose character gene is stuck on total selfishness.

  47. 47.

    Emily B.

    December 6, 2021 at 1:04 pm

    Thanks for this opportunity to talk about what I do when I’m not reading Balloon Juice. I’m the author of two fantasy novels, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, and its recently published sequel, How to Talk to a Goddess and Other Lessons in Real Magic. Short version: A grad student in English literature finds herself in an alternate world and begins the study of magic instead. If you like the novels of Catherynne Valente, Deborah Harkness, or Philip Pullman, you might enjoy mine, too. Book 3 is in progress!

  48. 48.

    Tehanu

    December 10, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    My cousin’s daughter, Erin, who’s 16, is selling wholesome, home-made dog treats and horse treats to raise funds to compete in horse shows. Here’s the link: http://www.pupsnponies.com/. I’m sure she’d appreciate some orders.

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