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best of… janice bear: I’m gonna snap!
Let’s take a look back on 2011 – the posts that inspired, challenged, and encouraged us. Today, enjoy one of Janice Bear’s most popular “Tooling Around” posts from August. How many times have you heard it? The key to getting sales at your internet shop is having good photos. Great! Sign me up! Oh no, [...]
About the Author
Janice Bear designs unique garters (for offbeat brides, burlesque, Tuesdays…) because she believes everything you wear should be a reflection of you – right down to your underpinnings. To learn more about what she does and why she does it, please visit her blog.
thrifted thoughts: thoughts on thrifting
I’m sorry to say that I don’t have a furniture makeover idea to share with you today. In fact, this will be last Thrifted Thoughts post. But, I would like to leave you with some thoughts on thrifting (ha, get it?). Here are my top tips for successful thrift shopping… Go often. As we all [...]
About the Author
Lia Fagan is the blogger behind Mod Nest & the designer behind Mod Pieces. Learn how to design outside the lines, visit her website.
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) [...]
About the Author
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.
tooling around: lights, camera, composition
In case you are just tuning in, Tooling Around has been focusing on photography. Check out parts one and two. And, in case that isn’t enough, here’s a little graphic review of what I now know is called the exposure triangle. For my wrap up post, I want to address the problem bought up by [...]
About the Author
Janice Bear designs unique garters (for offbeat brides, burlesque, Tuesdays…) because she believes everything you wear should be a reflection of you – right down to your underpinnings. To learn more about what she does and why she does it, please visit her blog.
tooling around: i’m gonna snap!
How many times have you heard it? The key to getting sales at your internet shop is having good photos. Great! Sign me up! Oh no, wait. I take pretty mediocre pictures. Just ask the numerous family members who I’ve snapped from only the chin down. I also have some great shots of heads floating [...]
About the Author
Janice Bear designs unique garters (for offbeat brides, burlesque, Tuesdays…) because she believes everything you wear should be a reflection of you – right down to your underpinnings. To learn more about what she does and why she does it, please visit her blog.
