‘Misc’ Archive

5 Easy Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas

You’d be forgiven for looking at this post title and thinking to yourself “Christmas? It’s JULY for heaven’s sake!” but in actual fact the season of Christmas shopping officially begins today as Harrods and Selfridges open their Christmas departments! If Harrods and Selfridges are a little out of your budget, you might instead like to [...]

Pricing your crafts

Putting a price on your crafts can be one of the hardest things to do and many people worry about pricing their goods too highly that they lose sales.  But price your goods too low and not only are you undervaluing your own work but you’re also undervaluing handmade arts & crafts as a whole. [...]

Need a website?

When I’m not crafting, I’m actually a freelance web developer.  I’ve worked in web development for more than 10 years on everything from small online retailer websites to tourist information websites to large blue chip investment company websites. I like to spend time getting to know my clients and their businesses quite well, therefore I [...]

Red Tape Challenge

I came across the Red Tape Challenge today and think it looks interesting! The idea is that the Government is aiming to cut some red tape by getting views on what is and isn’t working in terms of regulations. They are tackling it one sector at a time and the current sector is Retail.   [...]

Two months later…

I seem to recall back in January I said I was going to try a bit harder to keep up with blogging …. now here I am two months after my last blog post finally getting round to doing my next one.  Oops!!  Must try harder Life has been hectic as always!  As well as [...]

A new year & a new blog

Well, the hotwaxart blog has been sorely neglected lately and now it’s time to fix it! 2010 was a busy and quite stressful year for me on a personal level, with my youngest being diagnosed with autism and me starting a full time college course.  But things are settling down a bit now, so it’s [...]

Hurray!

Today we got our money back from the bank after last week’s fraud incident.  Still no actual communication from the fraud dept, so we don’t know if it’s been a mix-up or actual fraud.  Hoping they’ll send us a letter soon to put our minds at ease.  Still haven’t got our new bank cards yet… [...]

Stop! Thief!

I was checking my bank balance online the other day when I noticed quite a big discrepancy between the running balance and available balance.  Thinking it was either a mix-up or some horrific bill I’d forgotten about, I waited until this morning to check again in the hope that my online banking statement would give [...]

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas & New Year! I’ve got some exciting projects lined up which I’ll be blogging about shortly – stay tuned Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Lots of snow!

Lots of snow here in Dunfermline at the moment – here are some photos to prove it Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post