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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Work

Trying to get my head into "work" mode at the moment - must try and bring in some extra money! As quite a few readers of my blog will know, I don't actually "go out" to work - my way of contributing to the household funds has been through my Montessori materials which I design and make and have, in the past, sold in pdf.

This way of selling the materials has had advantages to both my and the customers that brought them - they get to have the materials at a lower cost than if I had to print/laminate/post them, they get them quicker (always within 24 hours), they can make as many copies as they want. For me, it's less time consuming - I simply store the materials on my computer and email the customers what they've ordered - simple! I also don't have to worry about keeping huge amounts of card, laminating pouches, ink, envelopes etc to hand.

However, lately (over the last couple of months or so), it has become apparent that some of my materials (and who brought them, I have no way of knowing) are being made on various sites and being passed off as made by someone else.

This I cannot and will not tolerate. I didn't make huge sums of money from my work - I always tried to make them reasonably priced so that anyone who wanted them could afford them so it really upsets and angers me that some people would do this.

Anyway, I've thought about it long and hard and come to the conclusion that the only way round this is to start selling in printed format only - this might not stop the problem completely but should lessen it (it's very hard to photocopy something clearly enough to then pdf and sell on!) This is obviously going to involve more work and greater expense for me which means I'm going to have to sell at a higher price than I used to. This is unfortunate but that is the way of the world is it not? A few unscrupulous people have spoiled it for the others.

As I said, I need extra money - if I don't do this for a living then we have less money so it's this or ... gulp ... get a "proper" job. I think I'd find it hard to find something that fit in around homeschooling the kids! I'd have to work when Tim didn't!

Anyway, back to the grind!