smart goal setting
Growing up in Maine I was raised on Yankee ingenuity and work ethic. The idea that I always need to be striving towards something is deep within my cultural make up. However, drive, motivation and hard work are important when…
Taking risks in business, life and creativity
I fear snakes. I fear airplanes and being buried alive. And yes, even in my late thirties I have an intense fear of being kidnapped. My mother instilled these fears in me. Nowhere is safe. Not even your own home….
five tips for using pinterest for your business
five Tips for Using Pinterest for Your Business *editor’s note: dear handmade life is happy to welcome guest contributor andreea ayers. she’s an indie entrepreneurial powerhouse with a marketing degree and tons of first hand experience running her own business….
ten tips for craft fair booth design
*Editor’s note: We’re so happy to have this guest post by Janie of Janie XY on Dear Handmade Life today. She is one of the queens of booth display and we were overjoyed when she asked us if she could…
the benefits of taking a break
the benefits of taking a break a few weeks ago my husband, seth told me a secret. we took the afternoon off and drove to goat rock beach. the thing i hate about northern california beaches is that they play…
how to stay true to yourself in your business
the worst business mistake I’ve ever made…twice or how to stay true to yourself in your business by Jeanette champion-fanning of sweet perversion *editors note: for those of you that don’t know Jeanette and her business sweet perversion, you should….
eight product packaging tips + all my ex’s
8 things your product packaging should be: if all my ex’s were in room together and a stranger walked in and was asked, “what do all these people have in common?” chances are the stranger would run through a hundred…
patchwork show Long Beach spring 2013
Where does the time go… It really does seem like yesterday when Nicole & I were sitting in the backyard drinking cheap vino and talking about producing a craft fair done right in OC. Back then, in the Summer of…
patchwork show santa ana spring 2013
in 2007 i had my heart broken. it was bad. the kind of heartache that makes sleeping almost impossible because your brain races through every moment of the failed relationship trying to figure out what went wrong. it was the…
