How to organize your sewing
I’m going to apologize ahead of time, I just took some DayQuil the daytime sniffling-sneezing-coughing-achy-stuffy-head-what-in-the-heck-did-I-just-write-on-my-blog medicine. With seamsters, once a reasonable workspace is found, sorted out and declared a sovereign nation the big obstacle is organization. A well organized craft room means that there’s no stopping a project for twenty minutes in order to search [...]
Gear up
The right tools are important when your livelihood relies on your ability to work efficiently. I could easily halve, or even quarter the number of craft and sewing tools I own and still work; the problem is that doing so would require more of my time to complete certain jobs. Beyond economizing time, you are [...]
Addicted to stats?
Hi, my name is Wendy and I have not checked my stats for 10 minutes. All kidding aside, with as many blogs and sites as I have (and those that I maintain for others) I can’t take too much time to obsess over traffic stats, reader behavior, or unique visitors. Mainly because I have this [...]
What is really worth your time?
Is it SEO, networking, network marketing, plain old marketing, advertising, directory submissions, blog carnivals, or building back links? Or is it being able to go outside and witness the rain with your kids, taking photographs of moments that would might go unnoticed, developing otherwise impossible friendships with people states or even countries away, voicing your [...]
Don’t know what to write?
Sitting in front of your computer. Hands on key board. Blank page in front of you. And an hour later you’ve realized that being stuck on that first sentence would be a luxury compared to the living terror which is that cold and relentless blank page before you. Staring back at you. Mocking you. I [...]
Seeing productivity?
One of the problems with working online is that it’s possible to do quite a bit of work and still not feel as if I’ve accomplished a darned thing. At least when I was tapping out short stories on my mom’s IBM Selectric I’d have stacks of typed pages and a waste basket full of [...]
9 Apps that get it done (for free)
There are few things more frustrating than plopping down a bunch of money on software that you know you may never fully utilize before it’s completely outdated. And there are few things more unfortunate than not being able to use the same programs on all your computers due to licensing restrictions. Inkscape a vector graphics [...]