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Here's the thing about your business that most of

Here's the thing about your business that most of us creative bosses forget. Your business is yours. You create your schedule. You decide what to say yes and no to. You are in charge. And, if you need a break... TAKE IT. Even if you don't NEED a break but just WANT a break... TAKE IT. Don't wait until you're desperate. Find a way to make it happen. It doesn't have to be a disappear into the woods for a week type of break (although it can be).

You can take a mini-break from just one of your obligations. What does this look like? Use a laundry service for a week. Ask a friend who lives nearby to trade off cooking double dinner portions and drop them off for each other. Take yourself on a date. Or, take a social media break.

Does one of those sound good to you? Tell me what your mini break will be below.

My mini break will be from social media. Yep, we'll be quiet here for a week or so while we enjoy the last week of Camp Dear Handmade Life and start planning for our Craftcation 2022. That's right, when we come back we'll announce the 2022 Craftcation conference and registration dates. We. Can't. Wait. In the meantime, enjoy this sweet ass summer and give yourself the gift of a mini break.

Leave it to @robert_mahar to create a DIY project

Leave it to @robert_mahar to create a DIY project that's equal parts pep talk, colorful charm and vintage style... like these cut-and-sew pennant banners he created with @spoonflower that our Camp Dear Handmade Life attendees got in their care packages (lucky them!)

We're honored to have @spoonflower as one of our Camp DHL sponsors this summer. Aside from these perfect care package treats, they're also sponsoring our Diversity and Inclusion panel where Monica of @thatssewmonica Kenya of @travelingmilesstudio Deepa of @tctle and Dave LaBoy of @spoonflower will explore diversity and inclusion in the creative community.

They'll discuss how big brands can collaborate with and represent diverse voices, how small brands and makers can embody the ethos of diversity without being performative, resources for BIPOC creatives, how to keep up the momentum of activism as the energy of big movements fades, how we can all be part of creating a vision of cultural transformation towards a diverse and inclusive creative world and more.

If you're joining us at the Dear Handmade Life Summit be sure to attend this panel which will also have a Live Q & A!

Today is the very last day to register to join us

It's feels ironic that right now when I'm at my he

It's feels ironic that right now when I'm at my heaviest that I'm posting a photo of myself in a bikini. I remember just last year when I got emergency gall bladder surgery, the surgeon was explaining how small my scars would be and I stopped him mid-sentence and said, "I'm not worried about scars. No one will ever see my stomach." I would have never guessed that less than a year later I'd be prancing around a hotel pool in a bikini and posing for photos. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And, yes, my bikini is FULL coverage but all my scars are visible and so are those third trimester stretch marks and my pale dimpled cellulite. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The truth is, the older I get, the less I care. I actually DO care about how I look. I care about presenting myself with style and grace. But, I don't care what size my jeans are or how many scars I have. It's taken me almost 45 years to take a photo of myself in a bikini and then publicly post it but you know what, I'm doing it!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Even though I feel anxious about hitting post on this, if just one person sees this post and realizes that you're never too old or too scarred or too fat or too (insert your hang up here) to turn whatever body you have into a bikini body, well, then it was worth me being uncomfortable. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Cheers to you and your gorgeous bikini bodies! 👙❤️

A few months ago, I made a promise that I crossed

✨ A Message from your Future Self...⁠ {Save th

✨ A Message from your Future Self...⁠ {Save this post for later!} ⁣⁠

Hi - this is @quinn.tempest taking over DHL’s IG for the day to share all about PURPOSE!!

And here’s the thing…
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Your purpose won't just *bonk* 🙅🏽 you on the head in some quiet moment of meditation.⁣⁠
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Purpose is something you have the ⚡️ power to DECIDE and then go out and *create it.*⁣⁠
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I’ll be teaching a live session on how to #CREATEYOURPURPOSE during ⛺️ #CampDHL Summit ⛺️

Here’s a little preview of what I’ll share:

Why purpose is NOT 🙅🏻‍♀️ what you think it is!

✨ Questions to help you uncover YOUR unique *why*

A step-by-step framework that will help you move from FRAZZLED 👉 FULFILLED

Will you be there? 👇 Tell me in the comments!

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