This week will be the one where I sat right by Steve Martin in a restaurant.  I just love him, and how funny was the 3 Amigos?  I still watch that movie at least once a year.
Also this week, I read an article  that I’ve been thinking about ever since.  It’s the 4 Burners Theory by Chris Guillebeau and it’s all about work / life balance which everyone should read.  It adds some dimension to the whole thing by adding  “family” and “social life” to “work” and “personal” which means …

I have been obsessed with block printing the last few weeks since I’m dying to make some kind of business cards myself.  I’ve been eyeing up this kit to start because it includes everything you need to start printing for under $50.
If you’re not familiar with block printing it’s basically where you carve a stamp into a piece of linoleum and paint ink on it and stamp it on things.  People use them to make pillows, T-shirts, tote bags (think for the farmer’s market), cards (mine will …

photo credit – from moon to moon
When I saw author of “Eat,Pray,Love” Elizabeth Gilbert speak this spring she said “every afternoon I take a silence bath” in which she basically just sits in a room quietly and hangs out with her cat or falls asleep.  “Rough life” I thought “must be nice to be an author with a gazillion readers so that you can take silence baths every day”.  Sometimes I don’t even get to take a real bath every day and  the only silence I get is after …

This week we’ve been having some insane tornado-ish weather here so it’s been wonderful to watch. On the other hand, we’re looking for a new place to live (not fun), I’m trying to set up an office space (for my future new place that I haven’t found yet), and seriously haven’t been grocery shopping in 2 weeks (sad).
My new office isn’t going to have a desk, I’m going to use a drafting table like this one.
Great “know it all” pencil set – $10 Don’t you still love pencils?
The Ford …

Photo by Erin Dollar
The topic of Facebook Fan Pages is coming up more and more regularly as people and brands try to decide whether they should spend a lot of time and money to have an amazing fan page and how they are going to get it above 6 fans that aren’t married to or otherwise related to them.
Now there’s research out there that suggests that people that fan your brand are also much more likely to recommend or buy from you.  Then there’s research that tries to figure out …