Teaching Good Things

Practical Skills for Real Life

Teaching Good Things - Practical Skills for Real Life

Category Archives: Home-Based Industry

A Place for Women to Thrive in Business

Women Thrive in Business

Home should be a natural greenhouse for feminine industry, a place for women to thrive in business and still embrace the calling of home life.

Blisters are still made.

Struggle and toil still happen and hearts are still broken.

Income is still earned and bills still paid.

But the rewards are unfathomably greater and the success sweeter.

The women here don’t have time for meaningless gossip and water cooler chats, because they have a foundation of purpose and a far reaching vision. They are more than just wage slaves, they have the freedom to take risk.

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life, learning, working… all intertwined… naturally!

You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging much, or maybe you haven’t.

Our life has gotten so busy, so industrious that the blog is waaaay down on my list of priorities. It’s not because I don’t have anything I want to blog about, actually, I keep saying, “I’m going to write a post about ‘that’ (insert passionate topic), but at the end of the day when I sit down to type, I am so exhausted my brain can not form a sentence.

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Building a Family Economy - Photography

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Photography is a great way to add to your family’s economy. It is something that can start out small scale and grow. If you are really good at it it can be a lucrative business.

Photography is also something that you can run as a home based business. Start out by offering some free sessions to build up a portfolio. With the age of social media word of mouth is the best advertising you can get. If your work is good and your prices are reasonable you’ll have work.

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The Work of Our Hands - A Two Wedding Weekend

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One of our family income streams is catering.

It’s small scale.

The big money maker are the cakes,

but with that comes TONS of stress!

For the first time I took on two catering jobs on the same day.

I knew we could do it if I planned really carefully!

This was only because I have enough adult kids that really want to work it! For years my kids have been drug along to many catering jobs (usually with pay), their heart not always in it, but they had to do it none the less…because we are a family and this is what we do. But now after years (a life-time) of training, they are truly skilled and are willing to be a part, and they are making some decent money; that’s always a good motivator! And now to have a capable son-in-law we can do more. I was able to leave one adult (married) child at home with the young children. One adult child at one wedding, along with 2 hired teen-aged friends. And then Jeff, my very skilled son-in-law Josh, and myself worked the second wedding. We did 500 servings of food!

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