Nearly ten years ago my aunt Delilah and I sat in a Mexican restaurant and over several baskets of chips, salsa and a few margaritas we brainstormed ideas for the name of our first project together. It was going to…

A few weeks ago we published a post on how to upscale your creative business through insourcing from our friend Rebecca Saylor of Oodle BaDoodle and SFEtsy. Rebecca shared how investing in equipment (a heat press that she used with…

When I turned 40, I gave up t-shirts and jeans as a main wardrobe staple. Vintage dresses & skirts with good cuts seemed to be more flattering for a woman of well, my vintage. Only problem is that I love…

It’s been downright dreary around here with the weather. Dark, cold and damp.  Emphasis on damp – I was up at 4 am last Saturday digging a trench in the pouring rain so water didn’t flood our back bedroom! To…

I needed a Valentine’s Day gift for my mom who is IMPOSSIBLE to buy for.  Buy the lady a lovely handmade scarf or piece of jewelry and she’ll say, “Oh, honey you shouldn’t have… I could have made this myself!” …

One of my friends has the coldest hands ever. Grabbing her hand is like grabbing a frosty block of ice. She’s also a nurse – and I always imagine her poor patients leaping way from her chilly clutches.  That said,…

Despite the fact that she worked full-time and was a single mom in my early elementary school days, my mom was good at school lunches when I was a kid. REALLY good. No sloppy slap-dash PB & J’s. She always found…

Anyone who sews regularly knows that when you finish a project you always have a pile of thread ends (little pieces of thread you snip off). Years ago when I had a handmade business and sewed hundreds of purses a…