Dear You: Summer Smoke Signals
Every six months, I scribble secret things on paper and burn them in my backyard. I started this tradition during a June heat wave a few years ago. A friend of mine suggested we write down our goals and then…
Every six months, I scribble secret things on paper and burn them in my backyard. I started this tradition during a June heat wave a few years ago. A friend of mine suggested we write down our goals and then…
The morning of our Patchwork Show in Oakland last Sunday one of our vendors told that me that she “felt a great vibe and had a feeling that the show was going to go well”. Hearing her positive attitude was…
My friend is having a baby, so I swung by my local big box baby store. My family currently is just my hubby and me—so it was a new experience. Almost instantly, I was lost in the aisles. The dizzying…
After our Long Beach Patchwork Show last Sunday, I stood in the almost empty parking lot talking with two of our long-time vendors about how the craft show scene has changed over the years. Although I no longer sell at…
Its hard to believe it’s been two months since Craftcation Conference 2018! We miss the beach, our attendees and that feeling of knowing that everywhere you turn you’ll run into someone who gets what it’s like to be a creative…
Editor’s Note: We recently surveyed our Patchwork Show vendors about the areas of their business that they had the most difficulty with and (no surprise to us) one of the highest scores was finance. If you’re having trouble with something,…
One of my favorite parts of our Patchwork Show Santa Ana last weekend was running into a family who has been coming to the show since the early days. It was so cool to see that the daughter who was a…
My mom is pretty awesome, my first DIY hero. So many kid memories of sitting on the floor with some crazy construction paper creation—that required yards and yards of tape—while she whirred away on her sewing machine. She also taught me…
I first fell in love with instant cameras in high school. Back then, I took photos on an old DSLR camera that my dad passed down to me. I’d shoot a roll of film then drop it off at the…
Hello Friends! We’ve been on a podcast break while we’ve been at our annual business and makers conference, Craftcation Conference and we’re going to extend our break as we finish out our spring Patchwork Show: Modern Makers Festival season. We’ll be back…
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