The end of June marks an entire year of working for myself full-time. I wonder how many days of wearing “work pajamas” that makes? Thank you for that term, Kayla Cagan! If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ve seen me experience the...
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I hope you U.S. readers had a great holiday weekend! A version of this post (minus the very important new #2) was originally published on a site that no longer exists. Since several bloggers thanked me for writing it, I wanted it to have a permanent home. If...
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You know what’s fun? When you get to work on a project with a friend. I met Sandra Harris of Raincoast Creative Salon in January 2012 when we first attended Alt Summit SLC. We didn’t really talk until after the conference, but by the time we met up in...
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Last weekend I was looking through old journals, searching for something that I’m pretty sure I wrote about years ago. If I find it, I’m going to share it here. No luck so far, but man was I sad/depressed/angry/resentful in 2002! Yikes. Glad that’s...
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What did you do on the interwebs before Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest? When you didn’t have a Feedly full of design blogs, food blogs, and lifestyle blogs to read? Do you even remember? I do. I used to visit Vivian Lives every…single…day. Does...
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Next month I’m speaking at an event called Blogger’s Summer Camp. I’ll be part of a panel called The Myths and Realities of Monetizing Your Blog. Speakers were also asked to lead a roundtable discussion on a blogging topic that we’re...
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This post is great for people who are thinking about working with me on their content strategy and want to know what happens when you hire me to help you. Also, these rad craftepreneurs can show you how to make sushi…from felt. Seriously. You’ll want to...
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This week I posted a photo on Instagram of some magazines that I was looking through to get inspired for a new visual identity project I’m working on. The lovely Kerri Jones from TenThings Jewelry asked me what some of my favorite magazines are for inspiration,...
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Did I ever tell you guys about the time I partially cleaned out my inbox and found issues of Trendland from two plus years ago? Or the time I found unread magazines that were at least three years old hiding underneath a shelf that was practically blocked by my sofa?...
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UPDATE: This workshop is now a workbook available on Etsy. It’s time, friends. When I first started writing, way WAY back in the day before I had a blog, before I wrote and optioned a romantic comedy screenplay, and before Facebook, Twitter, and iPhones even...
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