Looking back on this year it has been a big one for this little ole blog. I’m so excited to be sharing more beyond scrapbooking, going into gardening and DIY and even Southern California lifestyle. It has certainly been a fun ride this year and I look forward to even more creativity and sharing in 2015!
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Tag: blogging
What are The Craftys?
The Craftys is an awards show (online) for crafters! They explain it best so here is the excerpt from their blog post: Awards season has plenty to offer TV actors, movie directors and jazz-fusion musicians, but what about crafters? They toil long into the night on artistic creations that may be gone in the gulp
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100 Things I Learned At SNAP Conference
On Sunday I arrived home from SNAP Conference with a to-do list a mile long. Not from things I had forgotten to do before I left, but a list full of ideas and adjustments I wanted to make to my blog, social media, and business as a result of presentations and networking done at SNAP.
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Getting Ready for SNAP Conference!
Last fall I decided that 2014 would be the year I go to more conferences. Well, 8-9 months in advance, how can I know what was going to happen? All hell broke loose in my personal life between October and now and well, I am finally coming out of it. For a few moments, I
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Time Management is for Woosies
I am wayyyyy behind on blogging. I love it when people ask me, “how do you do it all?” I don’t “DO it ALL”. My house is dirty, my yard is a wreck, I am still in my PJs, Katie or Xaver usually cook dinner, I have really bad IBS and fibromyalgia days where I
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Screeching to a Halt — Are My Giveaways Violating Facebook Rules?
Ever since the guidelines for Facebook Promotions changed in May 2011, I have been a big proponent of trying to help spread the word about the rules in the craft industry, research the tools we can use to run giveaways, and to follow those rules as close to the letter as possible. I mean, I
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Losing My Way
The last two years have meant very different things for me and Hydrangea Hippo. Changes in all kinds of ways and failures and successes and health issues and health improvements and moves and move-ins and working with a design team… well. A lot is different. At some point I did not want to scrapbook any
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