Bread and Jam was never intended to be an extra income stream though. She quit a job (retail IIRC) to start it - not even testing the waters by doing it on the side for a while first.
2012 employment off the top of my head, although I'm sure I posted the receipts somewhere:
Nov '11: quits fire service
spring '12: gets job in bar/cafe. Quits about a month(?) later
later spring '12: gets another job. Fired after a week
summer '12: no paid employment but lots of volunteering
autumn '12: gets job, I think retail. Quits after 1 - 2 months to become full-time crafter.
around the same time: starts writing weekly column for the Southend Echo (quite poorly paid - she didn't start working there as a full-time reporter until early '13. Then she quit that 6 months later.)
It's amazing how much of the Poverty was just Jack being too lazy to stick to a job.
She was also - and I say this as a sewing frau - trying to sell handmade clothes, while being unable to sew for shit. This is not just a little bad, this is horrendous:
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I actually think her sewing may be worse than her cooking?
PS
@Valiofthedolls when you get to the one about how she doesn't
need to be on a 10£ budget but she sticks to it because it's so much fun, and she and SB are healthy and chubby etc, you're in for a treat. Those old blogs are a goldmine.