*Editor’s note from Nicole: When I started my first ‘real’ (not the refrigerator box stationary shop on my front lawn when I was six) business Random Nicole, I didn’t even have money to buy the fabric to make my purses….
This week Delilah and I were interviewed on Work Life Branding, a web series hosted by Steph Calvert (Hearts and Laserbeams) and Nicole Longstreath (The Wardrobe Coach). Work Life Branding is a stellar resource for creative entrepreneurs. Delilah and I were overjoyed…
My junior year in high school I started drawing. I did a series of nude female sketches that my art teacher liked enough to hang in the student show even though the subject matter was a little risqué for my…
The night before I threw my first party I hardly slept. I was eighteen. I’d just moved to San Francisco and into my very own apartment. It was an 80s themed party and I’d planned every single detail including the…
Last Sunday at Patchwork Show Long Beach a first time Patchwork vendor came up to me and thanked me for putting together the show. Moments like this mean so much to Delilah and me. Patchwork takes months of planning to…
“Thank you for your application but we regret that we can’t offer you a space at our upcoming craft show.” The first time an email like this hit my inbox I was devastated. Although I had been running…
In the morning I pulled my underwear out of the freezer. They were covered in toothpaste and water and they were frozen solid. I had been warned about this the night before at my first slumber party. “First one to…
patchwork show: indie craft fair posters recently i wrote about the process of designing the posters for patchwork show. i thought i’d share the evolution of the posters from our first show until now. i designed all of them except…
the return to modern domesticity and girly graphic design a few months ago i posted about how the first patchwork show never would have happened if I didn’t get my heart broken. Then, delilah posted her own story of patchwork’s…
ten questions every entrepreneur should ask themselves Generally, when I have a problem I can figure out steps to move towards a solution. If I have a fight with a friend, I talk to them about it. If I can’t…
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