Today’s blog post is sort of a “guest post” from sewing YouTuber, Julija Gobere, AKA SewingJulia (see link for her channel). Her video is used with permission.
After watching this video, I thought… “Uh-oh! Did I give a sob story about how much it costs me to run this website, so people would help me out financially?” Ugh. I don’t wanna be that sewist!
You might remember the blog post that I titled simply, “How much money did ChellyWood.com earn in 2024?” It has been my policy to give a yearly report on how well my small business, ChellyWood LLC, is doing, just for the sake of making it clear that I’m running a dot com (a company that earns money) rather than a dot org (an organization that’s not-for-profit). My intention is to be up-front with my followers about financial matters regarding my small business.
But Julija’s video made me do a double-take. I asked myself, “Am I coming across as inauthentic, when my intention is to just be open and honest about my small business’s income?”
So I went back to read this blog post from January 28th, which I typed up and posted once I’d finished my paperwork for my 2024 taxes. I read through the blog post again.
“Whew!” I sighed with relief after reading what I’d written there.
Nope. It’s not a fakey-fakey sob story like the so-called seamstresses give at the opening of Julija Gobere’s video. It’s just me being honest and open about the way I spent my earnings in 2024.
As I said twice in that blog post, “No regrets!”
With that said, the blog post from January 28th inspired a few of you to donate to my website. Some of those donations were the biggest donations I’ve ever received.
So I want to take a moment to say how much I appreciate your generosity. THANK YOU!
And for anybody who can’t afford to help me out financially, the “Thank you” image above offers a bulleted list of ways you can help me grow my audience, keeping this website — with all its free doll clothes sewing patterns — alive and well!
Also, I want to give a special thanks to Sewing Julie for allowing me to embed her video on this blog post. If you have also seen trends in the online sewing world that you’re not happy with, please head over to Julija Gobere on YouTube and leave your comment under her video.
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