09/05/2026
I have A LOT of work ahead of me over the next couple of weeks and itās a good chance to ponder the value of actual handmade work compared to all of the machine made products that you see floating around everywhere these days.
Each Never-Wither Botanicals product takes time, skill, patience, creativity and practice to perfect!
Each item has to be designed, thought out, assembled, produced, and inspected.
Thatās before all of the work that goes along with running a small business like packaging, branding, labelling, marketing, finding venues, building a display and so on!
A handmade makers production capacity is ultimately limited by their own two hands!
Not by how long we can keep running before needing to be reprogrammed or fed more materialsā¦.thatās manufacturing! š¤£
That distinction should matter.
There is something pretty darn satisfying about knowing that every single peice that I put out into the world was designed and created by my own hands!
After-allā¦that is what handmade meansā¦that is what being a crafter means. šš