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#ThinkCreateReflect: Releasing the Year

It’s that time again – the time when we take a moment to pause and do some thinking about our lives & businesses. Won’t you join us for a moment of quiet reflection? This week marks the end of 2014...

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Have you asked your customers?

Sometimes when you own your own business, you wind up sort of living in a universe of your own creation. You’ve got a To Do list a mile long, a pile of products to make/list/sell/ship, social media to...

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#MakersWednesday: Sometimes it just doesn’t work out

Happy #MakersWednesday, creative people! This week I’m sharing a project that just didn’t quite work out the way I planned. I had wanted to make a shawl for my step-mother for Christmas this year,...

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New Year for Creative Businesses

Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year to really dig in – to your planning, your big-dream-creating, your visions and goals. We’ve rounded up some great tips from the Web to help you! Let’s get...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Totem Animal

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, your bi-monthly dose of creative or business prompts to get your juices flowing! This week’s prompt: If your business had a spirit or totem animal, what would it be?...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Clean Spaces

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, your bi-monthly dose of creative and business inspiration! This week’s prompt: Do you find it hard to work in your designated work space? Do you have a cluttered desk,...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: A Day to Do Over

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, where we give you a dose of creativity for your Friday morning! Since this week was Groundhog Day, it has us feeling nostalgic (mostly for 1990s Bill Murray movies). So...

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Teamwork Tools

Whether you work alone or you manage a large team, there will be times in your business life where you need to collaborate with other people. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up some resources for you....

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Back in Time

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, where we take a little time to flex our creative muscles! This week my kids and I have been reading a book about what it was like to be a child in Colonial America. It...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Think Spring

It’s time for #ThinkCreateReflect – your dose of inspiration at the end of a long working week. For this week’s prompt: Let’s do a little spring cleaning! How can you spruce up your online or...

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Crafting a Message vs. Shouting into the Void

I hang out in a circle of mostly Makers – people who are making a living in some sort of creative business pursuit. This makes my life pretty awesome, in so many ways. But it also means I hear a lot...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Lucky Symbols

It’s time for #ThinkCreateReflect, your bimonthly creative prompt to get those juices flowing! With St. Patrick’s Day happening earlier in the week, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about luck and lucky...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Spring Cleaning

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, where we provide you with a prompt to get your creative and business juices flowing! This week, I’ve got Spring Cleaning on the mind. And it doesn’t have to involve...

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#MakersWednesday: Pokemon Deck Holders

Happy Maker’s Wednesday! What have YOU been making this week? This week I’ve got a project to share that I made for two of my kiddos. My sons are both into Pokemon, and my eldest asked me if I could...

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Your Life + Your Biz: Preparing for Travel

As you read this, through the magic of the Interwebs, I’m actually completely out of state enjoying a trip to Disney World with my family. I’m not working this week, but this little blog is still...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Showers to Flowers

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, your biweekly thought prompt! Today’s prompt: As the old saying goes, April showers bring May flowers. But the basic idea behind it is that you sometimes have to endure...

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Priorities

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, your weekly dose of brain food! This week’s prompt: Everyone’s always stressed out about time management – there’s never enough time, we wish we could add more hours to...

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Networking at Industry Events

As I write this post, I’m still fresh off the high that comes from attending an industry event – a show, festival, or retreat full of people who are just as much into your thing as you are. For me,...

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Friday Fun: In a galaxy far, far away …

Welcome to Friday Fun! This week I thought it would be fun to pay homage to Star Wars Day, which was this past Monday. So today I’m rounding up some of my favorite galaxy-inspired items from Etsy! 1....

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#ThinkCreateReflect: Ditch the Clutter

Welcome to #ThinkCreateReflect, where we give you a quick prompt to inspire your thinking and dreaming! This week I’ve been working on de-cluttering my house. Something about spring just makes me want...

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