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It happens from time to time, there comes a point where you look at a blog and you’re just cringing. It’s old, sad, the content is drooping– it has seen better days and if it were a horse it would be put out to pasture or sold to the glue factory. Fortunately, with a little [...]

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin said it first. It’s probably better to save a penny than spend it and earn it back later because the earned penny will be taxed a second time. I’m not talking about being miserly or cheap, but wisely frugal. When you are working online it’s important [...]

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 [...]

..then quit trying to make it work. I was reading in one of my favorite blogging forums this particular post where someone said you must have a certain thing with lots of other certain things in order to accomplish something and that was the only way. Period. End of discussion. I wanted to reply but [...]

… that sometimes friends are very destructive.. I know that sounds pretty negative, but it’s true. I’m not going to foster the idea that everyone out there is out to crush your dreams or undermine your self confidence because most people aren’t, but sometimes the most well intentioned people can have issues of their own [...]