Hello! I wanted to let you know that I’m going to have a pause on the blogs for a little bit… I am going through some business changes right now and it’ll be helpful to give that my full attention. I will be back in touch to share the news with…
This month marks 4 years since I left my part time job to branch out into my business. It’s been quite a ride! This last year I have continued with adventures by joining a mountain biking group. It was the choice of a dark room with lots of sweaty bodies or the great outdoors. No…
Do you ever wonder if your stuff is being used by other people apart from you? If your creations are on the web, you might want to make sure they aren’t being used by others without your permission. Or have you looked at something online and don’t know who owns it and maybe…
I met Sherwette 2 1/2 years ago when we did a business course together. Sherwette has a background in consumer behaviour research and now works in management consulting in customer experience. She calls herself the ‘Consumer Behaviour Gal’. Back then she had a blog at www.Sherwette.com and had a plan to write a book.…
It seems that Journalling is all the rage these days. People sharing about the benefits of it alongside the practice of gratitude. I totally agree. I have been journalling, or I would have called it writing in my diary, since my early 20s. I was downloading whatever I was experiencing at the time and writing…
Do you have a creative business, another business or are you an entrepreneur? Are you just starting out? It can be overwhelming thinking about where to do start to market your businesses. Or maybe you have been doing your business for a while but just want to check you haven’t missed anything important?…
Some great things can happen outside the comfort zone. I took this challenge on a few weeks ago by tackling on the fear of heights with an aerial obstacle course when I visited Loch Lomond. I hugged trees for real as I crossed the course. My friend and I had looked at the…
As a creative, it is quite normal to gather a selection of things that inspire you on your creative journey. Images, sketches, objects and so on. But how many of us have believed the myth that if you copy less than 30% of another person’s work you are not infringing their intellectual property?…
Imagine it. Your first sale at 89 years old. This is the inspiring story of Carmen Herrera. She was an Cuban-American artist who died on 12th Feb 2022, age 106. She was born on 31st May 1915. She had studied Architecture, then Painting. She faced huge sexism towards her having exhibitions because she…
Have you ever wondered why your images look ok on screen but when you print them out they look poor quality? This is because an image can be lower quality or lower resolution on screen and still look fine. But to be printed out, the quality or resolution needs to be higher to…