What makes a craft conference great? How can you create a truly transformative, relaxing, and inspiring experience for a broad range of attendees? Today on the While She Naps podcast I’m talking with two women who have the experience and understanding to answer these questions. Nicole Stevenson and Delilah Snell are the organizers of Craftcation,…
Archives for December 2014
How Bartering Can Help You Grow Your Creative Business
I got a lovely email yesterday from someone I’ve never met. Her name is Karen Katin and here’s what she said: Abby, As a subscriber to your newsletter and avid reader of your blog, I wanted to say “Thank You” for the creative service that you are providing through your words and products. I find…
Book Review: The Ultimate Sock Puppet Book by Tiger Kandel and Heather Schloss
Four years ago at Christmas time I was doing some holiday shopping on Etsy and came across SockHollow, an Etsy shop with wonderfully charming sock puppets like I’d never seen before. I bought two (a zebra and a giraffe) for our good friend, Huck, who was in preschool at the time. When they came I…
Podcast Episode #37: Vanessa Vargas Wilson (The Crafty Gemini)
On the While She Naps podcast today I’m talking about YouTube with The Crafty Gemini, Vanessa Vargas Wilson. Being a YouTube star was certainly an unexpected career path for Vanessa. While in law school she yearned for a creative outlet and asked her mother to teach her to sew. She took to it immediately. When…