Sep 5, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Welcome back to the Crafternoon Podcast hosted by Daisy @MyGreenCow and Meg @megjournals 📖✨ This week we're joined by Loti from @mamamakes . Loti is the mama, maker and professional glitter…
Do you have a moment where you went, "Actually, I want to work more on my stuff," or was there, like, a natural progression to it?
Not sure actually.
Mama Makes has always been a side hustle, and maybe that's a confidence thing, that I would never be able...
Like, I have two children now, um, and I just, I don't know if it would ever become a full-time thing because of a self-confidence thing maybe.
Like, I just...
If I invested all of my time full time into this, I don't think I'd be able to make certainly the salary that I get now working in gaming.
So I wouldn't want to put that burden on my family, if that makes sense.
The company has pivoted in the last kind of couple of years, where I used to make a lot of personalized stamps, and I was known to make everybody's business stamps and that kind of thing, and that's how we got quite big on Etsy.
We were known for making clear personalized stamps, not just rubber, wooden personalized, like everybody else was doing.
It took a lot of time and effort, to be honest.
It was weekly doing sheets and sheets for stamps.
Very fortunate that, that that happened and the company exploded in that way, like, and got busy in that way.
However, um- I got an email one random week that my manufacturer, who is local to me, and we used to pick up the stamps and everything, said that they were assessing the business and they no longer wanted to make one-off sheets of personalized stamps just due to the, like, time the artwork was taking.
Like, the margins weren't really there because it was a one-off thing.
I wasn't ordering 100 of that design, so the artwork time wasn't worth it and that kind of thing.
Which I totally understand from a business point of view.
This is a multimillion-pound company.
They have a HQ in America.
It wasn't like a small business that I was working with.
So it was a little bit disappointing, but at the same time, it made me stop and, like, reassess.
Like, do I still enjoy doing this, or am I just on this, like, treadmill and I've never stopped because if I stop, Etsy will be like, "Well, we're not advertising you anymore," or whatever.
[laughs]
Like, you get into that kind of, like, weird mindset of like, I just can't stop.
I would never put the shop on holiday just through fear of just being lost in the Etsy algorithm and everything.
So, um, it did make me stop, which was a very healthy thing.
Do you have a moment where you went, "Actually, I want to work more on my stuff," or was there, like, a natural progression to it?
Not sure actually.
Mama Makes has always been a side hustle, and maybe that's a confidence thing, that I would never be able...
Like, I have two children now, um, and I just, I don't know if it would ever become a full-time thing because of a self-confidence thing maybe.
Like, I just...
If I invested all of my time full time into this, I don't think I'd be able to make certainly the salary that I get now working in gaming.
So I wouldn't want to put that burden on my family, if that makes sense.
The company has pivoted in the last kind of couple of years, where I used to make a lot of personalized stamps, and I was known to make everybody's business stamps and that kind of thing, and that's how we got quite big on Etsy.
We were known for making clear personalized stamps, not just rubber, wooden personalized, like everybody else was doing.
It took a lot of time and effort, to be honest.
It was weekly doing sheets and sheets for stamps.
Very fortunate that, that that happened and the company exploded in that way, like, and got busy in that way.
However, um- I got an email one random week that my manufacturer, who is local to me, and we used to pick up the stamps and everything, said that they were assessing the business and they no longer wanted to make one-off sheets of personalized stamps just due to the, like, time the artwork was taking.
Like, the margins weren't really there because it was a one-off thing.
I wasn't ordering 100 of that design, so the artwork time wasn't worth it and that kind of thing.
Which I totally understand from a business point of view.
This is a multimillion-pound company.
They have a HQ in America.
It wasn't like a small business that I was working with.
So it was a little bit disappointing, but at the same time, it made me stop and, like, reassess.
Like, do I still enjoy doing this, or am I just on this, like, treadmill and I've never stopped because if I stop, Etsy will be like, "Well, we're not advertising you anymore," or whatever.
[laughs]
Like, you get into that kind of, like, weird mindset of like, I just can't stop.
I would never put the shop on holiday just through fear of just being lost in the Etsy algorithm and everything.
So, um, it did make me stop, which was a very healthy thing.
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