So if anyone remembers a while back I was talking about trying to take my 'business' to the next level.

I want to get some stamps made, buy a butt-ton of gift boxes to ship things in, get an etsy account started, re-design my site, buy several tools and bulk necessities, like large spools of sinew, cleaning/sanitation materials for salvaged craft items, replace my dremel (it's starting to go :/ ) look into getting a rotary cutter, as well as purchase bulk shipping supplies and a postal scale(I've thought about stamps.com, since they supply a scale.. but I don't have a printer.... Shipping seems to be more now and I keep having to pick up the remaining shipping since I always estimate too low for quotes)

If you didn't know, 85% of the money I make from my crafts goes RIGHT back into the hobby (It's very much more a hobby than a business) I rarely buy things for me or use the money on personal things. I usually just buy more beads, leather, findings, or other materials with any 'profits' I make.

I have a few things I want to get some are more important than others, the dremel and scale for instance, my drill is working fine, so the dremel really is only used for etching art onto items, which ATM I really don't have any requests for. And the scale is just for convenience of estimating proper postage/mailing directly from home. I also did just buy a good amount of shipping supplies, so I really don't NEED those yet either. I'm waiting to see if I get this job I applied for to start and etsy, because of their fees and such.

But I saw some people use sites like Kickstarter to pool together donations to fund projects. But I know they don't allow you to start a pool for funding small businesses. Does anyone know of any similar sites I could sign up for to help accumulate funds?

I may just go back to the 'donate what you can' streams to fund this, I don't just want to flat out ask for something (especially money) without giving something back