- Posts Tagged ‘Working mums’

Today's blog is slightly different to the previous ones in this series.  Lynne from 'Look After Me' did not turn her hobby into cash when she became a parent, but turned her parenting skills themselves into an income stream.             1) What is your hobby? It's not really applicable to my business, but traveling is my hobby/passion 2) Was this a hobby you started ...

This week's guest post in our series on turning your hobby into a business comes from Face and body artist, Kimberley Nkosi.   1)    What is your hobby? I am a face and body artist specialising in face and body artistry for both children and adults and all things nails! 2)    Was this a hobby you started when you became a mother or something ...

We're now up to part 5 in our series about mums that have made money from their hobbies.  Today's post is provided by Chelle McCann from Social Sparkle... 1) What is your hobby? Blogging, tweeting - love anything social media 2) Was this a hobby you started when you became a mother or something you have always done? It started when I was ...

Today is World Book day - Hurray! Both Ruth and I share a love (bordering on obsession) for books.  In fact for all the diversity in our local group of mummy-friends we are all united in our love for reading which is one of the reasons we started a book club - the other is of course wine but less ...

After the success of our 'Flexible Working Mums' posts that we ran last year, we thought we would run another blog series featuring inspiring Mums who have monetised their hobbies to enable them to do something they love.  the hobby has been turned into a fully fledged business, or whether they are just making some pocket money or covering costs, ...

A little while ago we were contacted by Studio Lambert, about a documentary they are researching for Channel 4 entitled “Should I go back to work”.  If you read our blog regularly, you will know that this is a topic we cover quite extensively and which we try to look at from all perspectives.  We have written and run stories ...

Anna-Marie Wayne is an actress, presenter and mother to two under fives.  With all that under her belt we thought she was more than worthy of a MTAM interview slot. It’s a really exciting summer for Anna-Marie as she is fronting a new-launch UK YouTube channel from Maker Studios - the brains behind hugely successful US network The Moms View - ...

Our flexible working Mums theme continues this Friday with a post from Rosalind at The Freelance Parent's Network.  This is a post you will definitely want to read if you have dreams of working part-time, from home, around the kids, but without having to set up a business from scratch. You can see other options for flexible working here and ...

Over the last few weeks we have been running Friday posts about flexible working for Mums.  Last Friday we had a post from The Working Mums Coach about the dangers of using the terms 'work/life balance' and last Wednesday we asked whether you could or would take your child to work.  Today, we have a post from Work Free a ...

I don’t know if any of you caught the fascinating 2-part BBC documentary ‘Babies in the Office’ where Private hire car firm Addison Lee invited it’s colleagues to bring their babies in to work with them.  We’ve blogged often on the balance and dilemma of whether to work or stay at home and which you can or cannot afford so ...