I did it! I moved my blog from Typepad to WordPress. Hooray and welcome to my new space! May was the 9th birthday of While She Naps and felt like the perfect time to invest the time, energy, and money into creating the right sort of home for it. All 1,300 posts have migrated over,…
Podcast Episode #12: Clicks, Calories, and Caves
In this episode of the While She Naps podcast my guests are Gwen Bortner and Stacey Trock. Gwen and Stacey are both yarn people – Gwen designs knitwear and Stacey designs crocheted stuffed animals. But they are also much more than that. They are teachers, and business owners, and bloggers, too. On today’s show the…
Podcast Episode #11: Present and Standing
My guests on today's episode are Claudine Hellmuth and Betz White, two fantastic indie designers with successful art businesses. We have a really fun conversation about our current favorite apps, blogs, tools, videos, recipes, subscriptions and more. Claudine Hellmuth designs and illustrates printable boxes and kits that bring delight to customers young and old. She's…
Easily Create a Blog or Etsy Banner for Free Using PicMonkey
PicMonkey is a free online tool for editing photos and creating graphics. It’s easy and intuitive to use, and it’s more powerful than many people realize. I’m a PicMonkey superfan! Today I’m going to show you how to easily create a beautiful new banner for your blog or Etsy shop, for free, using PicMonkey. Head…
Podcast: Graphic Design Tips and Tricks with Stacey Trock and Mollie Johanson
When you have an online business you end up using graphic design tools all day long. You're editing photos, creating graphic elements for blog posts, sprucing up your Facebook banner, designing a new logo, laying out ebook pages…the list goes on. If you could sit next your favorite creative business owners and watch them work,…
Making Halloween Costumes for Kids
When I was a child I desperately wanted to make costumes for myself for Halloween and Purim. We didn’t have a sewing machine and although my mom is very creative, making costumes was not her thing. I remember spending one particularly long October afternoon when I was eight taping paper together to try to make…
How to Bring Your Audience Closer to You
When it comes down to it, we all want to feel like we're part of something bigger. And we want to be in relationship with other people. Being included is a human need we all share. As a person with a handmade business it’s in your best interest to take this fundamental human feeling into…
How to Become an Expert
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…
Upcoming Event: IgniteCraft Boston
Next Friday night, January 11, I'll be speaking at IgniteCraft Boston at the Stata Center at MIT. The event is free and open to the public, although you do need to reserve tickets online. All sorts of interesting creative people will be giving five minute presentations about what they do. You can watch past year's…
Professional Development: Learning New Skills
I started off 2013 by checking Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls, by Jan Horrox, out of the library. I don't make many dolls. I've always been more interested in stuffed animals. I'm not totally sure why. I think I'm intimidated by the idea of making something that simulates a human. Be that as it may,…
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