September 2011
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little things link love: Peanuts by Charles Schulz
The stuffed Snoopy doll that I got when I was a baby is still sitting in my bedroom. Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts characters are like an institution. For a lot of us, they were some of the first comics we ever read, the first characters that graced our toys, our beds, and our clothing. The [...]
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Tina Jett is an artist, writer, photographer, and world-explorer. Her husband describes her with the phrase, “It’s like she lives in a coloring book.” See how that vision influences the work on her website and on Dandyville, a curation of all things creative and swell.
Acute How-To: Simple Baby Mobile
I recently made this super easy and inexpensive {this whole project cost me about $6} mobile for my baby nephew. I have had it hanging from the ceiling in my studio all weekend and love it. I love it so much that I am going to make something similar to spruce up my house for [...]
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Regina Morrison is the owner of a small handmade accessories business, Acute Designs, and a freelance writer. She recently escaped her 9-5 job and is actively pursuing a life as a handmade business owner. Read about her journey and business on her blog, where she posts daily. She currently lives in San Diego with her husband and two crazy dogs.
sponsor feature :: jennifer rapp peterson of indiemade
We love our sponsors! Today, get to know Top Drawer sponsor Jennifer Rapp Peterson of IndieMade! In a nutshell, what do you do? I am the founder and principal of IndieMade.com, a company that provides simple, but beautifully designed, hosted, all inclusive websites (store, blog, image galleries, news, calendar and custom pages) to creative entrepreneurs. [...]
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Carrie is Scoutie Girl’s advertising manager & assistant editor. She owns a graphic design & ebook editing biz and also runs a nifty crochet pattern shop for discriminating ladies, likeclochework.
where craftiness comes from: the courage to create
Creativity comes in waves. Some days it’s full on and others it’s lacking that oomph. It can be just what you were expecting, or it can completely surprise you. Having spoken to many different people who began their creative journeys at different walks of life and from very different upbringings, it has occurred to me [...]
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Dannielle Cresp is a creative direction enabler and web designer, creating a handmade friendly world through mindful living. Learn how you can too at her blog.
How Do You Deal with Feedback?
As creators, part of the act of creating is sharing the work with others. I believe that there are several “acts” to creating, much like the arc of a play: Act One: the creator makes something. Act Two: the creator shares that something with an inner circle, and then (here’s the tension in the arc) [...]
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Liz Kalloch is an artist, designer, traveller, and writer who has worn many different creative and entrepreneurial hats – and some of these hats she has even designed and knitted herself. Her artwork – and life – is focused on searching the soul to stay connected to her life path, clarifying and re-clarifying a life purpose and always trying to listen more carefully to that inner voice that speaks the truth. These days you can find her in the San Francisco Bay area where she runs her own freelance design and art creating business and blogs about it here.
