What if you don’t take breaks because you are so in love with what you are doing every day? Welp. Suck it up buttercup, you need a lunch break too.
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Ep 14: Annual Review in an Hour
Before making a plan for the next year, (Ep 01 of Craft Leftovers), let’s take an hour to consider this past year. What went well? […]
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Ep 13: Bookkeeping for Creatives
One of the questions I get most often. Okay more like the “oh no” deer in the headlights response I get when I bring up […]
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Ep 12: Making a Traveling Exhibit
After a year of work I’m taking the Junk Mail Migration Paintings & Tapestry on the road! How did I create a traveling exhibit? And […]
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Making an Year Plan that Works for YOU: Ep 1
Livestream introducing what’s on the horizon for Craft Leftovers and walking you through my method for annual planning and then implementing that plan ANYTIME of year.
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Speaking at 1 Million Cups Ames: Show Notes Edition
On February 17th, I woke up early and headed off to the Iowa State Research Park Core Facility to present my entrepreneurial story to our local 1 Million Cups chapter. I decided to scrap my usual presentation and tell my whole entrepreneurial story. Starting with Craft Leftovers and coming full circle with this year’s launch of my art business this October.
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Market Day Iowa & Craft Leftovers: Three Year Reunion!
We were up at 6am Saturday morning shuffling around the house, getting coffee and stocking the citizens up on pets and food for the day. […]
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LIVE Video Chat with me Tonight!
Hey everyone! I just wanted to remind you that TONIGHT, I’ll be hosting a live video chat on my new book Mend It Better. If […]
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Craft Leftovers at Renegade!
I’m super excited about this weekend’s Renegade Holiday Sale in Chicago and I hope I’ll get to meet at least a few of you that […]
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Mend it Better: Coming Soon!
I didn’t even know it, but my book is officially up on Storey’s site as “coming soon!” as of last week. Thanks to @staciemakedo who […]
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Studio Move: Great things… & so time to destash
This past month I moved my studio to my home fully, finally, and officially. I really like our house. So does Jason. We decided not […]
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RSS Feeds on Probation
Or how I learned to be a better blogger by examining my own reading habits. There are so many amazing craft blogs. And I physically […]
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In the Shop: More Stash Yarn and September Craft Leftovers Monthly
Part of organizing and using up my stash of yarn is to pass some of it on. The yarn is priced around a cup of […]
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Crafty Business: Organizing Contacts
I think most of us are beyond the world of Rolodex, but there is something nice about having all the physical contact info at your […]
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Crafty Business: Making Progress
Crafty Business: All the ins and outs of running a small, creative one woman business. In the last Crafty Business post, I talked to Kristy […]
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Crafty Business: Charting progress – a conversation with Kirsty Hall
This week I commented on using progress reports on Twitter and Kirsty Hall made a few remarks that sparked my curiosity. She had a lot […]
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Scrap Sewing Projects
I wanted to share with you a few of the great projects in the July issue of Craft Leftovers Monthly. I know you will just love them and it’s quite the deal: just $9 for 8 patterns + 1 recipe for a frozen delight + an interview with Lee Meredith + an article on dealing with scraps in my studio + a few of my favorite online tutorials and patterns + a crafty wordfind.
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Making Craft Leftovers Monthly: Part 3
Last week I talked about what the zine contains, Monday covered how I come up with content each month. And today I’m going to go […]
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Making Craft Leftovers Monthly: Part 2
Last week I showed you the content concepts and the general ideas behind Craft Leftovers Monthly–recycled, ad free, paid guests, patterns, goofy articles, illustrations and photos. Today I’m sharing with you how general ideas become specific patterns and articles. How does random inspiration from the blogs I read and doodles in my sketchbook become a 36 page zine each and every month?
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Making Craft Leftovers Monthly: Part 1
Each time I’m wrapping up Craft Leftovers Monthly, I’m pleasantly surprised to realize, “Hey, this is my job.” Thanks so much for making this possible by subscribing and letting me visit your mailbox each month. I want to share with you what Craft Leftovers Monthly is all about and how it comes together each month.