Hi Trish, I am a saddler, but these days I specialise in custom made bridles

You chose the color/style and I buy a hide of leather and cut and stitch it into something that fits your horse perfectly.

I sell direct to the public, I have not factor-ed wholesale into my margins, besides, why should someone else get rich off my work lol

I just spent the last weekend camped out at the state equestrian centre in QLD flogging my wares, I had a good show, lots of orders taken, I generally travel to sydney a couple of times a year for the national championships of various equestrian disiplines.

It is long hours, but I love it.

The best bits,
Long weekends whenever we want (we often leave to go camping friday lunchtime)
No peak hour travel
I can wear my 'jamies to work some days.
Nobody tells me I cant use FB in my lunch break LOL

The sucky bits.
Hard to leave work at work, when its at home.
Lack of human interaction
People think you have it cruisy, cause you work form home and thats not really having a job right?
Sometimes I just wanna wave my bank statement in peoples (MIL's) face and say "SEE!! HERE!!!! All this money, not bad for someone who must just sit on their arse all day at home"
Can you tell that last one is a sore point?

LMAO

ZFI think a big part of keeping the house running smoothly is to
1. Have a very well trained hubby and
2. To have set working hours, and just treat it like a normal go to work job, so the house and all that stuff gets done AH. Like normal people have to.