How Bloggers Can Bring Creativity into Daily Life

The dream of creating a mega blog that has millions of readers and generates a healthy income to thoroughly replace the paid job is a dream for many and a reality for only a few. But happily the really achievable reality for many bloggers is the opening of interesting...

What Uni Doesn’t Teach Artists

I was talking to a very frustrated aunt at market on the weekend about her treasured artistic niece. This lady was very proud of the creative talent of her niece but was flummoxed by the lack of business skills training she had received as part of her tertiary arts...

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Listening to the radio this morning with the reports about how women continue to be paid substantially less than men across a range of industries (let’s admit it, all industries!) I was disgusted and appalled at stupidity and sexism of it all.  I started...

Where Creative Women Can Build a Long Term Successful Business

I’ve been running my little business at markets since 2001 and I’ve always been delighted by the number of the businesses at market being run by women. We are in the majority. Yes, there are some male market business owners but they are usually running the business in...

A Small Artisan Business Going Carbon Neutral

For quite a while I’ve been thinking about going carbon neutral for Creatively Belle and I’ve finally made the decision to make this happen. For years now I’ve had my household electricity usage at about 55-60% of the standard household for my size...