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Giving Back with the Girl Scouts

A few weeks ago, after an article about my business ran in the local newspaper, I received an e-mail from (what I thought was) a woman who was a Girl Scout Leader inviting me to come and speak at an event to help young girls learn about having their own businesses.  I said yes right [...]

An evening with Perideau Designs

I’ve been lucky enough to meet a few of my Etsy pals in real life.  Lauren of Ornametal just happens to be my neighbor, which I probably would never have known if not for hours of forum surfing during my former day job.  And Michelle of Cicada Studio and I had a great visit (but [...]

Announcing our giveaway winner!

Sorry, I’m a delayed in announcing the winner for last week’s Scavenger Hunt.  That was fun!  Rather than use the random number generator that seems to be popular for these sorts of things I called up a friend and asked her to say a number between 1-33 (the number of entries there were–sorry Mom, yours [...]

Photography Phrustrations

Our Christmas wish list had only one thing on it–a new digital camera.  We did a ton of research and decided on the Pentax.  It came super fast from B & H and we’ve had it just under a week now.  We purchased a book with some helpful tips on general photography and I’m still [...]

The Value of Record-Keeping in your Small Business

It’s a bit out of the ordinary for me to post on such a mundane topic as record-keeping.  I don’t even have an interesting picture to illustrate my point.  But from my own experience, I’ve recently learned just how important it is to maintain clear, organized records of your business finances.  That is, if you [...]

Twitter Quitter

Oh, it feels good to be free!  For many months now I’ve been Twittering, and with every tweet I ask myself why.  It never made sense to me.  I couldn’t grab the interest of my followers—and despite having over 500 of them, it seemed as no one really cared what I had to say.  And [...]

Blog Out Loud–San Francisco

Have you heard about this event?  It sounds fantastic!  A long time ago I somehow accidentally added a bunch of sites to the “most visited” toolbar at the top of my firefox page.  One of them was the blog Beach Bungalow 8 which has become a favorite regular read.  That’s where I read about Blog [...]

When life hands you lemons…

Sometimes you just don’t have it in you to make lemonade.  Sometimes you might just want to smash the shit out of the lemons until there is nothing left but bitter, bitter pulp.
Painted image by Small Impressions.

Seriously–how do people do it all?

I was really on a roll there with the regular posting and then things got a little hairy round the studio in the past week or so.  But there’s a lot brewing, so I’ll be filling you in as I get a moment to breathe.
One fun little project was this Goddess Day Invitation that I [...]

The time my foot almost swelled off from bites.

Ahhhh summer…in a condo!  Four feet of green space over run by rambunctious children whose favorite game is SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND THEN SCREAM LOUDER!  Fan freekin’ tastic.
On the rare occasions when we indulge in a little outdoor time at our own home our only option is to sit on our [...]