I went off work sick in April 2009, I was not functioning well and I made a lot of mistakes, wasted a lot of money and time. If I was living by myself I probably could not live on what I am making but with some other financial strategies that we have in place and my husbands income we are getting closer to where we were at when I was working full time. My business is now paying it's own bills and giving me a small income. I must say though there does not seem to be a great deal of money in selling embroidery designs, people do like freebies, but that side of it is at least paying for the webhosting etc... I do quite well from small local businesses needing their logos embroidered. The big embroidery companies don't cater well for the little guy. I have some regular customers and I am getting new ones every week.

we are getting close to where we were when I was working.

Good for you. It takes patience and hard work obviously.