Posts Tagged ‘ portland ’

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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I'm really psyched to have had the opportunity to write a bit of a guide to making a Mighty Ugly creature for the CRAFT blog. I mean, it's CRAFT! And I got to sit for an afternoon and make and photograph an ugly creature! Fun times. So if you've been listening to me blather about...
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Have I mentioned that I'm getting back into Mighty Ugly? Since I'm back to, you know, fairly full cognitive functioning now that Owen's almost six months old, I'm back to thinking a lot more about my favourite project. Something that excites me very much is that Mighty Ugly will be at one of Portland's Etsy...
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All I really want to say is that I hope the people at Hello Craft invite me to next year's Summit of Awesome. Because the one last week was fantastic. I've got my work mojo back. And there are lots of ideas I want to tell you about. But for now, I'm just going to sum up...
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Where's my favourite west-coast place to visit? Portland! The home of Powell's Books and mecca of the crafts world will play host to the Summit of Awesome from June 16-18. Why do I love working in crafts? Because when crafters throw a conference, we call it the Summit of Awesome. It's put on by promoters...
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It's been over a week since I returned home from a weekend in Portland better known as #craftgasm. It was the most fun I've had in recent memory, and I really can't find words to describe it beyond that. To spend a weekend with crafters of all sorts, all of whom live such amazingly...
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