Miss Mustard Seed » Running a Business

Over the years, I have bought and sold more antique “shoe carts” than I can properly remember.  These antique shelves on wheels are called shoe carts because they were often used in shoe fac...

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I feel like I’m going home in a way!  The Lucketts Spring Market was a big event in my business for almost a decade and it’s so fun to be back.  I’m just going as a shopper on VIP day, wh...

https://missmustardseed.com/lucketts-spring-market-2023/

“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.”  – Henry David Thoreau As some of you know, I broke my foot back in May.  While it was a frustrating inconven...

https://missmustardseed.com/walking-again/

This week, I was asked to give recommendations for a “real camera” and lenses.  As I started answering the question, I decided digging up an old post I wrote about my camera gear and sharing...

https://missmustardseed.com/my-dslr-camera-gear-tips-creative-business/

Thank you so much for all of the enthusiasm and support for my new book, !  Writing a book is such a long process and you never know how it will be received, but the feedback I’ve been hearing...

https://missmustardseed.com/feels-like-home-book-launch-team/

As an entrepreneur in the ever-changing world of technology and social media platforms, I’m consistently assessing and reassessing what I do, where I share, how I share, what I spend my time on...

https://missmustardseed.com/youtube-and-book-reviews/

I will admit that my job isn’t a normal one.  I often say to my boys, “I know it doesn’t look like I’m working, but this is what my work looks like today.”  Sometimes it’s painting....

https://missmustardseed.com/what-i-do-all-day-five-tips-running-your-own-business/

If you drew out the first five years of my business on a graph, it would show a pretty consistent line that started at the bottom lefthand corner of the page and disappeared off the top right cor...

https://missmustardseed.com/getting-out-of-a-creative-slump/

Notice anything different?  I’m sure you do because my site got a complete overhaul! My business has changed quite a bit over the past few years and it was time for the website, blog, and onli...

https://missmustardseed.com/a-fresh-look-new-prints/

A part of organizing this month has been scanning old documents and photos (I’ll share more on that in another post) and uploading old photos that were saved to a disc to an external hard drive...

https://missmustardseed.com/rufus-porter-style-mural-in-a-civil-war-home/