Making Blogger pretty: adding social media icons (and other tricks)

small biz, tutorials

{background pattern Autumn Swirl by Chulabird, here}   If you have any kind of a blog that is connected to your business in some way, you absolutely need to include links to your social media accounts. Using social media icons is the most popular and the most...

Small biz how-to : making Blogger pretty

small biz, tutorials

 Making Blogger pretty  {via here} We are so obviously no longer in the typewriter age. And a blogging platform is a bit like this wire sculpture – we can fill in the blanks with colour and pattern and whatever we want to make it as individual as we are.  ...

Sometimes I feel like a frightened rabbit : Facing up to 2015

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I’ve just returned from my annual holidays at the beach a few days ago. While I do celebrate the new year on 1st January along with the majority of people in the western world, January itself is always a month of hiatus for me, a time of family comings and...

5 things to catapult you into 2015

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Best resources for a great start to 2015 {artwork via here} The New Year is an especially fabulous time for starting on new things. It all seems to fit together – a fresh mindset for a fresh calendar. So I’ve brought together a few of the best...

The best of 2014

small biz, surface design, the crafted object, tutorials

Oh. My. Goodness. There goes another year….. in all its chaotic, mind-bending glory. Disappointments, epiphanies, and serious amounts of hard slog. I’m older and wiser. And clearer on what I need to do. And that’s awesomeness right there, even though...

Small biz how-to : Designing a knock-out business card {Part 2}

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Business card design tips: Your business card is a bit like a PR manager – they can do a fabulous job of introducing you and making you memorable…. or not. {Did you catch Part 1 of “Designing a knock-out business card? It takes a journey through how...