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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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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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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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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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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