*Editor’s note from Nicole: When I started my first ‘real’ (not the refrigerator box stationary shop on my front lawn when I was six) business Random Nicole, I didn’t even have money to buy the fabric to make my purses….
the return to modern domesticity and girly graphic design a few months ago i posted about how the first patchwork show never would have happened if I didn’t get my heart broken. Then, delilah posted her own story of patchwork’s…
the worst business mistake I’ve ever made…twice or how to stay true to yourself in your business by Jeanette champion-fanning of sweet perversion *editors note: for those of you that don’t know Jeanette and her business sweet perversion, you should….
8 things your product packaging should be: if all my ex’s were in room together and a stranger walked in and was asked, “what do all these people have in common?” chances are the stranger would run through a hundred…
When I first started my clothing line, Random Nicole over a decade ago the internet was hardly a marketing tool for entrepreneurs the way it is now. There were no creative small business conferences like Craftcation. I built my business…
i made these lovely basil, goat cheese + marcona almond stuffed apricots wrapped in prosciutto a few weeks ago for a pool party at my parent’s house. they were a huge hit. six years ago i finally went to europe….
Mrs. Phelps was raised in the Netherlands but had lived in france for over a decade with her ‘lover’ before moving to California to teach French at my private junior high school. I’d never heard anyone referred to as a…
the first time i went camping i was seven, alone and pitched my tent on the fenced in 10 x 10 patio of the condo where my mother and i lived. this first camping ‘trip’ was the result of two…
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