Pricing, booth fees, cost per piece, taxes — the arithmetic behind the craft table, one honest guide at a time.
The real cost of a kiln load once loss and seconds are counted — and what actually moves over when a potter switches to a $19 tool built for one studio.
Read it → August 11, 2026 Quilting & sewingThat $150 lap quilt may be paying you $2.26 an hour. Here is the penny-by-penny math — fabric, batting, thread, the hours — and what the price should be.
Read it → August 10, 2026 LeathercraftThe side isn't your cost unit — the square foot you actually use is. Here's a wallet, priced to the penny, waste and all.
Read it → August 8, 2026 CandlesCraftybase is Stocksmith now, priced for production floors. Here's the honest math for a one-cure-rack candle business, wick by wick.
Read it → August 6, 2026Silver can move 3% in a day. Here's how to cost a sterling piece to the penny — grams, dwt, scrap — without redoing the math every time it ticks.
Read it → August 6, 2026 For every makerA recall doesn't care how small your shop is. Here's what a lot number actually needs to do, and what skipping one costs you, to the penny.
Read it → August 5, 2026 Pottery & ceramicsClay and glaze are the easy costs. The real math is what a kiln load costs when a fifth of it never makes the shelf. Worked example, to the penny.
Read it → August 4, 2026 Soap & bathCraftybase is Stocksmith now, climbing a pricing ladder built for bigger shops. Here's the honest math for a one-cure-rack soap business, bar by bar.
Read it → August 3, 2026 WoodworkingLumber isn't $14 a board foot once you add waste, milling, and the offcuts you can't sell. Here's your real per-piece cost, worked to the penny.
Read it → August 2, 2026What actually happens when a jewelry maker leaves Stocksmith for MadeKeeper: the gram-by-gram math, what imports clean, and what you rebuild by hand.
Read it → August 1, 2026 CandlesA 12-candle batch costed to the penny — wax, fragrance load, wick, vessel, your batch time — to a fully-loaded cost, margin, and net by channel.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerGross receipts, materials at cost — never your hours — inventory counted: one maker's real year worked to the penny, and what to hand your tax preparer.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerA $600 day at an $85 booth, driven 96 miles, worked to the penny — plus the rule that tells you which fairs to drop. Real profit, not the cash box.
Read it → July 31, 2026 Soap & bathOne cold-process loaf costed to the penny — oils, lye by SAP, fragrance — to a true per-bar cost, plus the cure as cash flow and lot records.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerThe honest dollar-for-dollar math: what Stocksmith costs now, what MadeKeeper's $19 covers, what it doesn't yet, and who should stay put.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerA file-by-file walkthrough of Craftybase's CSV exports — Materials, Products, Purchases, Manufactures, Orders — and the one thing that won't export.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerCraftybase rebranded to Stocksmith and moved upmarket. A plain, sourced look at the new pricing and a kitchen-table maker's real options.
Read it → July 31, 2026 For every makerThe honest, complete walkthrough of moving your whole Craftybase history to MadeKeeper: export, import, rebuild recipes, and what you'll lose.
Read it → July 31, 2026 Soap & bathPer-bar profit looks the same on two scents until you count the weeks each ties up your cure rack — here's the real math.
Read it → July 30, 2026 WoodworkingThe real fee math behind Square, Venmo, and a cash box at a weekend show, plus what your tax preparer will actually want to see.
Read it → July 30, 2026 For every makerThe 5-to-10x rule circuit vendors use, plus one $600 day worked to the penny — booth, miles, materials, and what the hours actually paid.
Read it → July 30, 2026