Work with Happy Days Travel and Crafts
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Who I Am
I am Andrea, founder of Happy Days Travel and Crafts. An English teacher by profession, nowadays I am combining my three great passions – writing, crafting, and travel – to grow my website.
For 25 years, my husband, Mark, and I travelled the world and wrote about it. Sadly, Mark died in May 2025. I am left unexpectedly alone and feeling bereft, but determined to continue the lifestyle we both loved. You can read more about me here.
What my Business is About
My brand, Happy Days Travel and Crafts, provides information, tips, stories and destination guides to mature people who are, or aspire to be, nomadic. Having travelled non-stop for the past twenty-five years, my readers look to me for advice and inspiration on how to sustain a long-term travelling lifestyle, particularly to ‘off-the-beaten-track’ destinations.
Since Mark’s death, I have added a new aspect to my business. I have always loved crafting, especially anything involving textiles and stitching, and have always sought out opportunities to support and learn about local handicrafts as we travelled. Now, I want to create content to appeal to solo female craft-loving travellers like me.
I give my audience relatable content. My writing style is conversational, informative and entertaining. I write about the subjects I and my audience love – travel (of course!), food and drink, culture, history, reading, genealogy, overlanding, crafts, and environmental issues.
My Stats
Despite having stepped away from Happy Days Travel for most of the past year, my audience has remained stable and highly engaged. Now, as I devote more time and energy to growing my business, I confidently predict that my numbers will quickly increase.
In September 2025, my website attracted 10,770 views.
My dormant e-mail list has gone from zero to almost 200 subscribers in a few short weeks.
3200+ Instagram followers
1200+ Facebook page followers
100,300 Pinterest impressions last month
Brands and companies that work with me now will benefit from my future growth. Join me now and be with me as I go from strength to strength.
Demographics
My readers up to now have been fairly evenly split between males and females, but I expect this to change as I introduce more craft-based content. They currently come from 77 countries, with the largest readership (33%) being from the USA. Although I am mainly targeting older readers, I do attract lots of younger ones, too!
What I Can Do For You
Product or Service Reviews
Present your product or service to a new audience. Trust me to create engaging yet honest reviews of your travel gear, your cooking class, your hotel or restaurant, your travel-related book, or your tour. See an example of a tour review here, a product review here, and a cooking class review here.
Press Trips or Destination Campaigns
If you represent a lesser-known destination or unusual cultural activity, why not partner with me? I will produce high-quality content for you and promote you across Happy Days Travel & Crafts’ website, e-mail list, and social media channels.
Brand Ambassadorships
I am actively looking for travel brands whose mission and values align with mine in order that I can promote them during my world travels. If you think this might be you, please get in touch.
Content Creation and Marketing
As well as producing content for Happy Days Travel and Crafts, I can write engaging articles for your own promotional literature and spread the word about it through my social media channels.
Newsletter placement
Reach a new audience by advertising directly in my newsletter, which I send out every week. You could use this as an opportunity to offer discounts or other incentives.
Colouring books
Get me to produce an adult colouring book for your business! You may not have thought about this, but adult colouring is a huge industry. Offer your customers the chance to buy a unique souvenir of their stay with you, or of their tour, or their meal – whatever it is you sell. Here are a couple of examples of what I’m talking about – some were created for individual businesses and the others are destination-specific colouring books. Unlike other colouring books on the market, which usually have whimsical and fantastical images, the drawings in my books are created from my own photos.
For further information and pricing, please go to our dedicated colouring book page.
Other Printed or Digital Materials
Ask me about producing other printed or digital items for you – whether it’s ‘Top Tips’ lists in PDF form to give away as an e-mail list builder or hard copy colouring pages of your business to keep your customers’ children happy. The possibilities are endless!!
Why You Should Choose Happy Days Travel & Crafts
You will be working with me, Andrea, not an anonymous brand.
I only work with brands whose products and services I know and love.
I work hard on building relationships with my partners.
I invest in my business to better serve yours. I do online courses, attend conferences, subscribe to publications, employ a mentor, and network with others to improve my profile within the travel industry.
I write well and love research. I will deliver authentic, in-depth articles which will answer all the questions my readers might have about your product or service.
I know my way around SEO, social media, and marketing and keep up-to-date with all the latest trends through online groups and by attending travel influencer conferences.
I have an eye for photography and will enhance all written content I produce for you with stunning imagery.
I will promote your product or service across all of my rapidly growing social media channels.
I am unique in my niche. I haven’t found another site where solo females in their pre-retirement years find ways to continue travelling without having masses of savings. Mark and I travelled longer than other bloggers in my niche – and slower, too. Staying in places for weeks and months, rather than just a few days, gives me a unique perspective.
Contact Me
If you like any of what you’ve read and would like to discuss things further, please get in touch.
My readers are my number one focus, so I will only partner with brands that fit the following criteria:
You have a product or service that I will love!
You have a product or service that my readers will love!
Your product or service fits with my ethos of ethical, sustainable travel and tourism.
I don’t work for free, but my rates are reasonable! I do this solely in order to sustain my travelling lifestyle and continue to explore this amazing world of ours.
I look forward to collaborating with you.