I’m in the car shuttling kids from one place to another when I’m suddenly struck with an idea for a brilliant design. I can see it so clearly in my mind’s eye and I become totally consumed with developing it and making it come to life. Duck prototype on my desk today. The rest of…
Make It Rain: How to Drum Up Business When You’re a One Person Show
If you read craft blogs (and you do, because here you are!) you’re bound to watch as other crafters get great opportunities. One just got a book deal. Another has an article coming out in a big quilting magazine. Someone else has their work in a new gallery show and she secured a licensing deal…
5 Simple Ways to End Procrastination and Jumpstart Creativity
Do you ever find yourself procrastinating from doing the thing you love most? Let’s say you’ve been really busy recently with a big project for work and now it’s finally finished. All the time you were working on the project you were longing for free time to sit at in your studio space and just…
How Dreaming Big Will Help You Reach Your Goals
You’ve got a craft business that’s humming along. Your work is selling pretty regularly and your business is getting some media attention here and there. Things are going alright. Now, let’s pretend in walks some very nice, very trustworthy, and very generous person. This person loves what you do and says, “I want you to…
Having a Dedicated Work Space Makes All the Difference
Have you ever had an idea for a craft project stuck in your head? Something you know you have to make? I get ideas like this all the time. It can be frustrating to have an intense desire to make something and watch the day slip away leaving you with no time to sit down…
On Rejection
You gotta dream big. I’m pursuing a career that I invented for myself. I design and sew stuffed animals. That’s a wacky profession, my friends. There is no path to follow, no boss to tell me what project to work on, no obvious next steps. It’s up to me to drum up business and…
Where do you find the time?
Is there time to take care of three kids and to make things everyday? My answer is a resounding yes. In fact, the time constraints of motherhood are what spur my creative productivity. In 2003 I had a whole summer off. I was a sixth grade teacher, married, living in an apartment we owned…
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