December DIY + Business Book Club
It’s been raining for almost three weeks straight where I live. Normally I’d be way more annoyed than I am about the fact that my backyard is basically a mud pit and that I haven’t been able to enjoy a…
It’s been raining for almost three weeks straight where I live. Normally I’d be way more annoyed than I am about the fact that my backyard is basically a mud pit and that I haven’t been able to enjoy a…
In the nearly 13 years that I’ve been teaching craft workshops I’ve noticed one common denominator among a surprising majority of my students. Fear of making. They were able to take the leap and sign up for a class and…
When I was in high school, my friends and I pushed against anything that was popular. We were the weird artsy group of girls that wanted to be unique in a sea of striped rugby shirts, cuffed pale blue jeans…
When I started my handmade business a decade ago there were very few resources for handmade entrepreneurs. There were no blogs like Oh My Handmade Goodness or books like Kari Chapin’s The Handmade Marketplace or podcasts like After the Jump, Fresh…
When I was in grade school one of my favorite days of the year was the day that the Scholastic Book Club catalogs arrived. In the morning our teacher would walk in with the big box containing the full-color catalogs…
The first time I made my own beauty products it was December and my second holiday season in Los Angeles after I’d dropped out of graduate school. The year before that, I’d made candles for holiday gifts. You can read…
There are few things I love more about summer than getting to be near a body of water. There’s something transformative and centering about spending an afternoon next to a lake, river, pool or ocean. Sitting back, relaxing and being…
My dad snuck me into a bar for the first time when I was 16. I stood in line wiping my sweaty palms on my dress and hoping the doorman wouldn’t laugh and turn me away. By the time I…
I am a die hard magazine lover. In high school I would close my bedroom door, put on my favorite mix tape and lay down on my bed for hours reading Sassy magazine. I went to an all girls catholic…
This time last week I was 30,000 feet in the air having a panic attack. This is the way I start pretty much all vacations (Remember my honeymoon plane flight)? by voraciously spraying my Rescue Remedy (it’s like an herbal…
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