I am so grateful. Let me back up. Almost a year ago, I started thinking about taking some time off to travel to Istanbul. I had no clue how I was going to make it happen, but I figured the trip would work itself out. Then I decided to fund the trip through a combination […]
Cross-stitch pendant by Steph Cortes, photo by Stefanie Renee You may know that I’m part of a group called LIDL (short for Ladies’ Independent Design League). We’ve been meeting every Monday morning for over a year now, and provide each other with support (and occasionally, criticism), expertise, and lots of encouragement. There are seven of
I started to write a blog post reflecting on my first year of self-employment and it somehow turned into a video blog – my first video blog ever. And seeing myself on video is kinda creeping me out.But in the spirit of just doing it, I’m posting it anyway. Bags under my eyes, streetcar passing
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Can back-to-school season be here already? I haven’t been in school in a very long time, and I have no kids to make me eagerly look forward to the first day of school, but I do love me some school supplies. Boxes of brand-new pencils, stacks of brightly-colored post-it notes, spiral notebooks with nary a
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