Kim

The weather has been so gorgeous here the last couple of weeks, it's all I can do to sit inside and work. It's like a proper northeast autumn – blue skies, crisp air, turning leaves. It's usually grey by now here in the Pacific Northwest, which makes outside even more irresistible. And to top it...
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Fall means knitting and crocheting, people. Seriously. Greg's started going to a class one or two evenings a week, which is like added crafting magic. I put the baby to bed, eat something, then watch all sorts of vaguely uninteresting television and knit. Which means I'm actually making progress. And that's a very good thing, because there's...
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It's that time of year. The time of year when I'm reminded we will never outdo our Halloween costumes from 2008.      
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Remember this, people. With a couple of important yet not universally applicable exceptions, you cannot control what others do with your work. The minute it escapes your possession, your work will be interpreted, judged, manipulated and sometimes downright defiled by people you don’t even know. One day I'll tell you the story of how Greg reacted...
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My mind is still reeling after the Hello Etsy conference last weekend, and I'll be writing quite a bit about it in coming days. Etsy has put several of the talks from a variety of conference venues up on Livestream, and there's a wealth of solid, inspiring, thought-provoking information in them. As I write...
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I can't wait to leave for Portland tomorrow for that city's instalment of the Hello Etsy conference. The main conference is in Berlin this weekend, and several American cities are hosting their own creative small-business conference at the same time. I was very excited and flattered to have been invited to pitch a session for the...
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A frequent discussion topic in the creative business world has cycled back around, and I want to chime in with a couple examples from my own experience. The topic is doing work for free (with the assumption it'll pay eventually) versus only doing work for pay. This round of discussion was sparked by Jenny over...
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Last week I took a walk with a new friend. I pushed the stroller and she held the leashes of her dog and mine. We chatted about all sorts of things new friends talk about, including the dramatic tale of Owen's arrival in our family. She asked me when or how we'll tell Owen he's...
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When the baby arrived and we decided to remodel and/or switch around half our house, my workspace pretty much got moved to the bottom of the priority list. For the first few months I wasn't working at all, and then when I started working there were just so many other things to do that...
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I'm very, very excited about this. The ebook is formatted as a PDF, so it should be readable on any device. And it happens to be the perfect start-crocheting-for-the-holidays time of year. Just saying. And also, for the time being at least, it's on sale. (Read more about my thoughts on ebooks.)
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