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Want to craft with us? TODAY is the day to join u

Want to craft with us?
TODAY is the day to join us for our free Virtual Craft Brunch with Natalie of @natterdoodles. This is the last event of our Community Over Competition Week in partnership with @ampjar
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🎨 💌Natalie is going to help us create beautiful embellished envelopes to send joy and encouragement to our fellow makers and community members.
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☕️🍾Bring a mimosa, coffee or your brunch beverage of choice as we craft along together!
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Link to sign up is in our bio.
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📷: @natterdoodles

When I was a kid, I used to listen to the jazz rad

When I was a kid, I used to listen to the jazz radio station. Yep, that was me, the odd little girl sitting in her room writing angsty diary entries, redecorating her bedroom for the umpteenth time and listening to jazz music.
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On one of those afternoons, I heard Nina Simone sing for the first time. My nine year old mind basically exploded when her powerful and gorgeous voice busted through the speakers of my purple 80s boom box.
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She immediately became my favorite singer and all the years later, she still is. I was lucky enough to see her sing in person with my dad in Hollywood a few years before she passed away.
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I don't remember which songs she sang but I do remember standing there with tears streaming down my face. Even in the big concert venue, her emotion reached me.
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Nina Simone (like all creatives) gave so much of herself to the world.
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I've started a series of illustrated quotes to celebrate the joy and awareness and pure poetry that artists have gifted to me (and all of us). Of course, I wanted to start with this incredible world-changing woman, Nina Simone.
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Stay tuned, more to come!

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Join us for our first ever Dear Handmade Life 2-day Share-a-Thon which is part of our Community Over Competition Week in partnership with @Ampjar.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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For 48 hours, we’re connecting the Dear Handmade Life community through Ampjar and encouraging everyone to share about each other over Instagram Stories to increase your exposure, widen your audience and lift each other up.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There’s no cost to take part, just sign up for a free Ampjar account (link in our bio) and then share your heart out about fellow small businesses in the Dear Handmade Life community on your IG stories on January 14 and 15, 2021.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We still have a few more FREE COC Week events, like our craft brunch on Saturday. RSVP via the link in our bio or by going to: https://bit.ly/COCWeek2020.

I was the girl at the slumber party who fell aslee

I was the girl at the slumber party who fell asleep first and woke up to find her missing underwear stiff with water and toothpaste in the freezer. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I mean, I didn’t end up with frozen underwear at EVERY slumber party, just that one where some malicious girl decided I needed to be pranked right after our umpteenth round of light as a feather stiff as a board. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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At other slumber parties, I got to experience that laughing until your belly aches and “deep talks” about unrequited love kind of bonding that gets harder to find with new people as you get older.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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At our Craftcation Conference, I get to witness authentic connections like the three incredible Craftcation alums pictured. There are so many stories of strangers becoming besties. So many businesses starting and growing not just because of the knowledge they get from the workshops but because of the support system they form with their fellow attendees. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It is so awesome when this happens organically, like at Craftcation, but it’s not always easy to find your business besties, the ones that will hug you through your defeats and cheer you on through your wins, the ones who will shout out about your business and who you love to shout out about. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Craftcation 2020 was postponed last year so we’ve partnered with one of the conference sponsors @ampjar to help you connect with other small creative businesses so you can shout out about each other and lift each other up during our Community Over Competition Week (1/11-17/2021).⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Join me for tonight’s FREE COC Week activity, the @ampjar onboarding webinar where you’ll get a step-by-step guide to help you make the most of Ampjar and learn how easy it is to share and be shared by authentic, awesome brands.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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RSVP for this and the rest of the COC Week events in our bio link or here: https://bit.ly/COCWeek2020

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Our Community Over Competition Week starts today!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We partnered with our friend Pete of @Ampjar to create C.O.C. Week! It’s a week of FREE online education, inspiration and action including a panel discussion, a virtual craft brunch and more to help you grow your business by marketing with heart, building your community and lifting each other up. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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RSVP via the link in our bio or head to: https://bit.ly/COCWeek2020

I've got music for you! 📻🚘🌧🌈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Between my high-risk bed rest prescribed pregnancy last year and COVID, I've basically been trapped in the house for two years! Because we can't really go anywhere, we take lots of drives to get out of the house. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm sharing the playlist I made for this month with you just in case you also find yourself driving around somewhat aimlessly thinking about everything you want to leave behind and letting hope seep through the cracks and you want a moody, folky, soulful soundtrack to keep you company.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The playlist link is in our bio (or by going to http://bit.ly/dhljan21playlist) and the artwork is by yours truly. Enjoy!

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