My poor, poor blog, you have been sadly neglected this past week.  The reasons are plenty, among which are a couple of new and exciting projects.  Two of them involves the internet, and one of them will materialize within the next week. :)

I’ve been having some issues with wordpress vs feedburner lately, and it seems that feedreaders have not been updated with any new posts. Sorry about that, it’s a technology thing. ;) I’ve switched plugins today, and hopefully that will fix it. If you experience any more trouble with this, please let me [...]

Are you a fontaddict like me? Then you might enjoy I love typography, a blog “devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical”.

I was surprised and glad to see that Loobylu had suddenly updated her site after over a year of absence.  She has a new look too!

I promised you a paper tutorial this week, and I haven’t kept my word.  Not good, I know, but life simply got in the way.  There’s a lot on our plate these days, and thankfully I have been able to tick off some of the things on my to-do list. I’ll get back to posting [...]

The past week has been busy, but I have finally found local sources of supplies with decent prices. The designs for the first line of greetingcards will hopefully be finished shortly, and hopefully go into production before the baby arrives. Unexpected happenings have been getting in the way a lot the past weeks, [...]

Now this really made my day! I posted a comment on the U-handblog last week, where Lisa wanted to know what the biggest challenges of running a craft business were, and thus entered a contest where one commenter would be randomly picked as the winner of two Amy Butler patterns. Guess what, the [...]

Three inspirational links for you today:
Design for Mankind has put together an e-zine where fellow bloggers/designers/crafters share the things that inspire them. It’s beautiful in itself, but also very inspiring to read. Go get it!
A blog I discovered only last week, Think Simple Now, has written about “7 habits of highly innovative people“.
A source [...]

You have probably seen it already, but SusyJack* has an inspirational article on the Storque on how to style your product shots. It’s filled with great tips and example photos, and is absolutely worth a read!

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Reusable shoppingbags, originally uploaded by Happygreen.
In an effort to be living a greener life, we have completely made the switch from plastic shopping bags to reusable bags. [...]