It’s been a little too long since I last posted, but it’s for many good reasons. It’s been a great combo of overworked and underpaid I’m the Creative Director of a community mural project here in Ames and what started out as a “easy project”, is now a massive project involving 8 organizations, the Public [...]

I’ve been trying to get to work by 10am for over a year now (both when I was at an in-home studio and now in an outside-the-home studio) with varying degrees of success. It is finally becoming a habit and I’ve been happily working away by 10am. But now that it’s a habit, I still [...]

The Crafty Business series has been dormant for awhile now so I’ve decided to bring it back just in time for hitting that reset button. Since being self employed entangles work and personal life so much, I’m going to address both sides: establishing a daily schedule you can actually stick to, establishing your daily/weekly/monthly tasks, [...]