So that’s it! There’s no going back now! I broke up with my accountant on Friday and what better way to start a new week than registering for self assessment online!
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Today I decided to break up with my accountant. We’ve been together since 2003 and we’ve had a great relationship, but I’ve decided that it’s time to go it alone and register for self assessment at long last and take charge of my annual tax return.
Many of you may already know that I have another life – that of a web designer. I’ve been self employed since 2003 and have successfully run Eskymo New Media Design for over 10yrs (although I’ve not updated my website for a few years now). It’s been brilliant to be my own boss and work […]
Over the weekend I had over 300 people in my studio! Milomade HQ was one of the venues on the creative trail around Kinghorn we like to call Round The Horn. This was our third year and it was a really great weekend!
It’s that time of year again when we creative folk in Kinghorn open the doors of our shops, galleries and studios to the public for our unique one day creative trail around the village we’ve aptly named ‘Round The Horn’. This year we have a very exciting lineup and lots of new people exhibiting with […]
A week or so ago I signed up for a challenge set up by The Design Trust called ‘Get your online shop ready for Christmas’. It all started with a webinar which was amazingly informative and this led to people, like me, posting up 5 tasks to complete before the end of September.
It’s that time of year again when we creative folk in Kinghorn open our studios, shops and galleries to the public prior to Christmas for an exciting Advent Calendar Trail around the village. Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, we’ve expanded a little and now have 11 venues on the creative trail and […]
Over the past few years I’ve had to put work on the back burner a bit and only dipped my toes in here and there to stay in touch with things and keep things moving albeit at a snails pace. This has been down to health issues, pregnancies and finally being blessed with baby Milo […]
It’s been a bit quite on the Milomade blog recently and this hasn’t just been because I’ve been on holiday. I’ve also been really busy thinking about the future of Milomade. Sounds daunting and I guess it kind of is, but now less – read on…
I recently attended an event up in Newburgh entitled ‘Selling your work, not your soul’ organised by Applied Arts Scotland and Fife Cultural Trust. It was aimed at applied artists and designers living and working in Fife that are either just beginning and considering ways of selling work or more established makers considering new ways of selling including trade fairs […]