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Should your creative business be an LLC?
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Should your creative business be an LLC?

ByGuest Contributor December 2, 2016November 25, 2016

Editor’s Note: “Should we become an LLC?” This was a question Delilah and I pondered for years before actually taking the leap and making it happen. Did we have to budget for it? Yes. Did it break the bank? No. Are…

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How to stretch yourself creatively and launch a new revenue stream (or even a new career)
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How to stretch yourself creatively and launch a new revenue stream (or even a new career)

ByRebecca Pitts November 25, 2016November 25, 2016

by Rebecca Pitts It was right around the time that my first child started sleeping through the night when I laid the groundwork for starting my handmade business. I brainstormed ideas, I launched, and amazingly, landed national press mentions and…

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How to Create Genuine Partnerships with Editors and the Press
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How to Create Genuine Partnerships with Editors and the Press

ByRebecca Pitts June 22, 2016June 22, 2016

By: Rebecca Pitts of Hudson + Daughter Whether you’re pitching your products to be featured in media outlets, or submitting original craft projects to trade magazines, connecting with editors can sometimes feel a bit mysterious, or worse, futile—like you’re sending your work…

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Four tips for perfect product packaging
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Four tips for perfect product packaging

ByNicole Stevenson June 1, 2016June 18, 2016

Each of my husband’s days off start with the same phrase, “I’m hungry.” He wakes up ravenous and immediately thinking of breakfast. The majority of our days off together are spent talking about food… What we ate the night before….

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5 Awesome Online Resources Every Blogger Needs
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5 Awesome Online Resources Every Blogger Needs

ByGuest Contributor March 23, 2016March 23, 2016

Editor’s Note: We’re so excited to have our friends from Darby Smart share 5 awesome online resources every blogger needs. Although blogging isn’t the main part of our business at Dear Handmade Life, it is an integral part of what…

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5 Steps to help get Your DIY Tutorial to go Viral
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5 Steps to help get Your DIY Tutorial to go Viral

ByGuest Contributor March 17, 2016March 21, 2016

Editor’s Note: We’re so excited to have our friends from Darby Smart share these 5 steps to help get your DIY tutorial to go viral. We’ve been doing DIY posts for years so we know how much work goes into…

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Three must-have photos to increase sales in your online shop
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Three must-have photos to increase sales in your online shop

ByNicole Stevenson November 17, 2015June 17, 2017

Editor’s Note: Hope you find our tips below helpful. If you’re inspired to learn more… Check out our Photo Styling 101 online workshop with Rachel Smith of The Crafted Life. -Nicole -Nicole When I started my first online shop for my handmade products several…

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Four tips for taking awesome online shop and blog photos
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Four tips for taking awesome online shop and blog photos

ByNicole Stevenson November 10, 2015June 17, 2017

Editor’s Note: Hope you find our four tips for taking awesome online shop and blog photos helpful. If you’re inspired to learn more… Check out our Photo Styling 101 online workshop with Rachel Smith of The Crafted Life. -Nicole In my…

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How to write a letter of recommendation
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How to write a letter of recommendation

ByDelilah Snell October 30, 2015October 21, 2015

In an earlier post, I shared seven tips for hiring interns with your creative business. One of the benefits of having an intern is having extra help and the possibility of a future employee. However, interns benefit as well by…

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How social media has changed the handmade business community + what it means for your business
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How social media has changed the handmade business community + what it means for your business

ByErin Duncan October 23, 2015October 23, 2015

“57 Mistakes you are making on Instagram” “How to increase your Pinterest following and your sales by 900% in the next 3 days” “100 ways you aren’t living up to your business potential”. Does this sound familiar? Ok, maybe these…

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What's Patchwork Show all about? You can... 🛍S What's Patchwork Show all about?

You can...
🛍Shop from 100+ local makers
🎨Get crafty at one of our DIY craft booths
🐕Bring your pooch to shop alongside you
🌮🍹Eat & drink from our food vendors and local restaurants and bars
🎶Listen to tunes from local DJs and musicians 
😍Spend the day enjoying a FREE event with your friends or family.

Come celebrate our 14th anniversary of Patchwork Show with us this season and meet these vendors at our Tustin show.

Head to our profile link for info on our shows:
🌆 TUSTIN - Nov 6 & 7
🏖 LONG BEACH - Nov 13 & 14
🍇 SANTA ROSA - Nov 20 & 21
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🚪Doors to The Club close on October 1st! 🗓 🚪Doors to The Club close on October 1st! 🗓

Inside The Club, you'll get:
💻Expert-led business classes
🥅Mentorship-focused group coaching
👯‍♀️Unlimited support via our members group
📖Creative Boss Book Club
🗄Unlimited access to The Club Class Library
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AND… exclusive bonuses

We can't wait to see you there!

Head to dearhandmadelife.com/theclub (link in bio too) to get details and join.

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Podcast 127: Time Management, Trauma, and Producti Podcast 127: Time Management, Trauma, and Productivity with Nache Snow. Each time I leapt into the next chapter of my career whether it was dropping out of grad school to become an artist or quitting the six-figure business I’d sacrificed everything to build to focus fully on helping other creative people through Dear Handmade Life, I was scared (actually terrified), and second guessed myself a lot. But, I also know that this is it and living someone else’s dream for me isn’t going to cut it. 

Our guest on the podcast today, podcaster, online educator, and maker @nachesnow knows about taking risks too. After a traumatic car accident, she stopped caring about what other people thought about her and her choices and she realized as she said, that “the majority of our time should be having fun because we only get one life”. 

And, if you want to live your big bold beautiful messy life and go after your dreams, you’re going to have a pretty long TO-DO list, so you’re going to have to learn how to manage all those tasks. That’s where Naché's skills in and love of time management and productivity come in. In this episode of our podcast, she shares some of the platforms, tools and concepts that help her live her life with intention and pursue all the things she wants. 

Check out the snippet from our interview here on DHL TV and then head to our podcast (search Dear Handmade Life) where you listen to podcasts and grab a notebook because you won’t want to forget the tips and tools Naché shares.
Let's be rebels together! Ready to join me? Tell Let's be rebels together! Ready to join me? 

Tell me your favorite creative medium to express your resistance to the status quo.

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Close your eyes and think about a time when you fe Close your eyes and think about a time when you felt truly connected and supported.

🔦Maybe it was when you were a kid and you and your bestie were up late sharing secrets by flashlight under the covers.

🍷Maybe it was sitting in the hotel bar at a creative conference and having one of those laugh until your stomach aches moments with someone you just but who you felt like you knew forever.

💡Maybe it was excitedly sharing about your latest big idea or win with your partner or a friend over dinner and hearing them root for you.

📖Maybe it was reading one of those life-changing books… and underlying passage after passage and saying, “Yes!” to yourself over and again as you read. *(We know we’re not the only ones who devoured Big Magic in record time!)

In Dear Handmade Life: the Club we create a safe inclusive space so you can weave those magical connections that change everything.

The ⏰clock⏰ is ticking: membership to The Club closes on 10/1/21 at midnight PT.

Find details in our bio link.

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Tomorrow is my birthday. Guess how old I'll be? R Tomorrow is my birthday. Guess how old I'll be?

Ready? 
45! 
Yeah...
👶🏻45 with an almost two-year-old baby. 

👩🏼‍💻45 and I've spent over half of my life being my own boss and running my creative businesses.

👩‍❤️‍👨45 and I didn't meet my love match until I was in my late 30s.

📝45 and my list of things I want to do before I leave this earth seems to get longer and get less elaborate every year. 

🤫45 and I know the secret to life, I've known it since I read Henry Miller 📚 when I was likely too young to really understand everything in them and I read the Wisdom of the Heart when I was 14 and this line burrowed into my mind... 
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.”

So, that's what my 45-year-old self will be doing tomorrow... trying to live in the realm where the world is a poem. Cheers!

P.S. - My friend @paige.wery took this 📷 of me at High, the rooftop bar at my favorite hotel in Venice Beach @hotelerwin

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