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Report from Camp Creative: Beading Bliss
by Pepe Newton on 2/20/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
If you haven’t already caught up with what I’ve been up to over the Australian summer holidays then have a look here at my post about Camp Creative – a week of creative arts courses in the lovely town of Bellingen, NSW. We weren’t completely unaffected by the fairly extreme …
Creative Business Plan Series: The Mandala as a Business Tool
by Robin Norgren on 2/17/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Lilac Letterpress Gift Tags | $10 AUD | Ruby Victoria Letterpress & Printmaking
Robin’s Mandala
Notes on the Mandala
This is part 6 in a series on Writing a Business Plan using Lisa Sonora Beam’s Book “The Creative Entrepreneur” as the vehicle.
I got to admit this: I was ABSOLUTELY skeptical …
3 Generations of Creations: Camp Creative 2011
by Pepe Newton on 2/14/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Lovebird Earrings | Pepe Newton Jewelry Designer
For one week in January (in the Australian summer holidays) for the last 25 years creative people have been flocking to the Northern Rivers district to the little green hamlet of Bellingen, NSW, to go to a summer school with a difference. It’s called …
Handmade Love: A Collection of Crafty How-To’s
by Emily Orpin on 2/13/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Three heart dish | $22 | dkpottery
Let’s say that you started off on the anti-Valentine’s path but you’ve kind of succumbed to the pressure to do something at least mildly romantic on February 14th. Or perhaps you always liked the idea of Valentine’s Day but just lost track of what …
Creative Business Plan Series: Practical Dreaming
by Robin Norgren on 2/12/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Texas Art Block Paintings | $400 | redtilestudio
This is part 5 in the series on Writing your business plan facilitated by Lisa Sonora Beam’s book “Creative Entrepreneur”. Here are some notes I took while going through chapter 2 of the book:
Managerial Prompts
Value/Profitability Prompts
“The nature of entrepreneurship is the desire …
How to Make Crochet Coral Reefs – Hyperbolic Crochet by Handmade Spark Member Jenny Hoople
by Handmade Spark on 2/10/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
The Crochet Coral Reef project is so fantastic and on so many levels! It’s beautiful, it’s ocean creatures (which I’m fascinated by), it’s craft, it’s art, it’s science, it’s creativity and infinite possibility. I am drawn to it like a bee to honey. Perhaps the best part is that it’s …
Six Thinking Hats Exercise: Red Hat
by MCatherine Lunsford on 2/09/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
I decided to use the Six-Thinking Hats exercise to focus on three targets: Branding, Marketing and Cross-promotion. I provided information and asked to be given action points that will help me bulls-eye the 2011 targets for Hide A Heart then share my progress with you.
What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
by Georgianne Holland on 2/08/11 | View Comments Comment(s)
Coexist by Georgianne Holland
I met the author Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D., at a business conference in San Diego. He is the author of many wonderful self-help titles on the subject of affirmation. I would like to pose one of Shad’s questions to each of you, and I believe that anyone in …
