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  As part of this on-going series, today I’m going to talk about ‘marketing’ and ‘advertising’. I took a marketing course in the late 1990s and while much has changed, much is the same. For years I had struggled with advertising/marketing my work but one of the presenters gave a definition I could really get…

  colour gamp – ‘natural’ tones value gamp A few years ago (quite a few years, now) I belonged to a weaving group and a discussion of colour gamps came up with much gnashing of teeth about having to buy so many different tubes of colour in order to get just a few yards of…

  logo Yesterday I mentioned one (generally misunderstood) aspect of being in business.  Another is your business ‘identity’. This morning I saw an article about how our brains ‘see’ symbols more quickly than words.  And why businesses generally have a ‘logo’ – a symbol that people can use to quickly identify a business. Like the…

  If it was easy… I started my business in the late 1970s when there was no internet.  Since then, things have changed dramatically, in some ways not exactly for the ‘better’ when it comes to having and nurturing a small business. With a very broad background (even at a young age), knowing a number…

  Yesterday I felt a bit better again, but this morning, not so much.  It’s a roller coaster and not a very nice one. With lots of personal maintenance appointments this week, I may not even try weaving.  Unless I feel much improved after physio tomorrow.  But that is to be determined. Given I don’t…

  tiny bubbles The past week has been frustrating, maddening, just all round disappointing – and that’s on top of the increased pain. After massage, I started to feel a bit ‘better’, enough that I could move around and felt less disabled, but no where near good enough that I could contemplate weaving.  I still…

  From a very young age, there were jigsaw puzzles to make. Neither of my parents were ‘educated’.  My father never actually attended school because the schoolhouse in his village burned down.  His older siblings took charge of his ‘education’ and later mom figured he had about a grade 2 level.   He ‘drew’ his signature,…

  Since Meta is blocking all ‘news’ content from Canadian media, I have been sharing updates on FB about the current wildfire situation here in Canada. Yesterday, amidst the updates to the current wildfire situation, we were told to expect things to get progressively worse here in BC over the coming weeks. We have had…

  smoke at sunset, Aug. 16, 2023 Heading into day two of ‘back in spasm’.  Yesterday I felt a bit better than today (so far) but thankfully I have a massage appointment already booked so I’m hoping massage therapist can get the spasms to let go.  But I won’t be ‘fixed’, yet.  After being in…

  Welp, as they say, my body has pressed ‘pause’. I’ve been struggling with back issues for a while now but yesterday my body threw me a curve ball and my lower back and hip went into massive spasm. I am now on ‘rest’ for – well, who knows how long?  I sure don’t. I…