Kim

A propos of nothing, I've been feeling an overwhelming love for Evernote. So I thought I'd share a bit about how I use it in case, like I was for the first several months I had an account, you're not quite sure what to do with it. If you're wholly unfamiliar with it, Evernote is a...
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I really like how Sister Diane does a round-up of how she supported the content she values in the month that just ended, and I thought I'd start to do the same. Perhaps you'll find some of these things interesting, too. Mostly, I Flattred things in November. Here's what: Diane's Craftypod blog. Isaac Watson's website, The Ambidextrous Brain. Isaac...
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Not being on Facebook gives me a new perspective on companies using Facebook for marketing. (And no, my perspective is not that I miss the marketing.) The thing is that marketing doesn't reach people who are not on Facebook. Now, most social-media users are on Facebook, so if I were a marketer I wouldn't care about not...
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The brilliant and kind people at Flattr have deemed today to be a good day to take a few minutes to tangibly support the creators of the blogs we enjoy so much all year 'round. Here's the gist of Pay a Blogger Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApeZoOsfb1g&feature=youtu.be Of course, Flattring content is a good and easy way to pay...
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Last week I received an email from a woman. You are missing one of your important jobs on the list in your blog blurb. Mommy! Ya gotta ad that because it's the most important job you will EVER have! I was on my ass with the flu at the time, which is why it's taken...
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I don't much like designing craft patterns. My passion for craft manifests more as a desire to curate, to pontificate, to advocate. I usually either follow other people's patterns or just wing it. I decide a couple of weeks ago to do an experiment, though. The weather was getting colder, and I realized Owen's going...
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Earlier today, Victoria (AKA @sfgirlbybay) tweeted a link to a great post about why books need bloggers. And over on her blog, Cirilia posted a photo of her crafty books and listed her favourites. We should all do this! Here are my crafts books (most of them). They're not going to live in this book...
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When I sewed the last felt spot onto Owen's hat on Monday, I kinda sorta burst into tears. I'd made my kid's first Halloween costume, dude. I felt like a god. Granted, I had a lot of help. Help #1: The pattern for the hat, by Michele Wilcox for Coats & Clark. (It's intended to be...
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I just finished reading the second book in an eventual trilogy that's already, in its unfinished state, found company amongst the most epic, popular and influential fantasy series of all time. The series is the Kingkiller Chronicle, by Patrick Rothfuss, and in addition to being a thoroughly engrossing story, it hits on some larger...
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Sean Low wrote a great short piece at DesignTAXI about not shortchanging the work we do as creatives. If... you fully embrace the notion that your clients hire you for your intention and vision as much as they do for the end product, you will understand that doing things how you do them, without compromise,...
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