Jun 18, 2015 | business, design, work-at-home mom
Have you ever had a friendship where you didn’t exchange something of value– something like a gift, a borrowed book, a recipe, or a good joke– with your friend? Of course not! When you really connect with someone, an exchange of value is inevitable. Business is,...
Nov 20, 2014 | business, design, learning, Print
“Look what I found in the bottom of my bag!” Danielle said, plopping a business card down in front of me. We were both at The Little Things Birth and Baby Expo, minding our booths and making connections. The business card Danielle had found had obviously...
Nov 13, 2014 | Branding, design, learning, web design
Changing a business’s name and branding is a pretty big deal– you have to make some big decisions, hire a graphic designer, have your website rebuilt, print new business cards… But when you are a graphic designer and you want to rebuild your website anyway...
Mar 1, 2014 | abundance, baby, carpe diem, design, difficulty, family, friends, learning, meta-poetry, poetry, rest, time, vice, work, writing
I need to write more poems again. I miss the way my brain worked then. I also need to play more songs, design more websites, right more wrongs, find more clients, make more cash, do more with my craft-stuff stash, speak more Spanish, read more books, spend time...
Feb 22, 2014 | design, work-at-home mom
For a long time I made fun of my husband for keeping several extra computer monitors around. He had given away or junked several older computers but he wouldn’t part with the monitors. I thought it was just the little bit of hoarder in him coming to the surface....
I grew up in Illinois but Sioux Falls is feeling more and more like home. When I'm not designing, I'm usually working on a house project with my husband or chasing our three-year-old down the sidewalk.