One thing that I have found particularly important about starting your own business and working from home is having a routine that keeps you organised. It is very easy to fall onto the trap of laziness particularly when business is slower and you aren’t forced to be as productive as when there are many deadlines to meet. I make sure ... (read more)

Starting and growing a business like this is not always easy. It does take a certain amount of courage and a lot of hard work. It has been a very steep learning curve and has been incredibly frustrating at times. There are so many things you don’t know and worst of all, you don’t know that you don’t know about ... (read more)

Before discovering laser cutting, my passion has always been (and still is) knitting and crochet. I love doing it, I love teaching it and I even just love watching videos of other people doing it. Over the years many people have told me that I should sell my work but I usually just made items to give to charity or ... (read more)

I have often been asked how I first got into the laser cutting business. This is a great question. How does someone who has been a teacher for 30+ years suddenly go from the classroom to the tool shed? I had been teaching and running the school library for so long, and it was never on my agenda to give ... (read more)