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Hello there! I'm Sister Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?  
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 My first Archive-Along project is a fairly analog method of preserving your best blog content. (I’ll be talking about digital back-ups next week.) One very crafty way to create a permanent archive of your blog is to use one of the oldest and simplest forms of hard-copy-making there is: zine-making. Consider this: your blog is, … Read On! There’s More! Today kicks off a special blog-project that Rachel (of Average Jane Crafter fame) and I cooked up. It started, as so many fun ideas do, from a snippet of random conversation. We got to thinking about how, all this frenzy of online activity – all these blog posts, all these tweets and Facebook updates, all … Read On! There’s More!  Ooooh, what a fun time we had this weekend! Peggy of Chocolate Craft Studio opened her doors to a group of PDX crafty types, and we spent a blissful couple hours making stuff from chocolate. Peggy offers an incredible array of chocolate shapes to play with – flat ones and dimensional ones, some decorated with … Read On! There’s More!  Paul Overton and I are talking about Free again – this time, from a standpoint of service. We also talk about how Free is just as applicable to a corporate job as it is to an entrepreneurial effort. Read On! There’s More!   This likely comes as no surprise, but I’ve been reading a lot about Free and related subjects lately. I wanted to share some particularly great posts I’ve found. If you’re interested in this continuing discussion of Free, these links are all very worth your time. Over on Crafting an MBA, this post about Etsy and … Read On! There’s More!  Image by Melissa Averinos I wanted to share something lovely I’m participating in these days. Maybe you’re a fan of the hoop-skirt and the brooding hero, too? Recently, Melissa Averinos watched a BBC production of Jane Eyre (which is freaking amazing, by the way). She quickly became a bit obsessed with Jane, and so she joined … Read On! There’s More!  ACK! Well, I had planned to have a nice, new Easter basket tutorial for you today, but then I lost a couple days to some mystery illness, and now I’m playing catch-up. So instead, I’ll share tutorials for three Easter baskets I did last year… This paper basket is based on the traditional woven paper heart. … Read On! There’s More!  I offered a free online class last week, called Value 101. And, as so often happens when I’m teaching, I learned some extremely valuable lessons. In one of the live chat sessions, a group of very kind and caring women began counseling me on the prices I’m charging for online classes and educational ebooks. This is … Read On! There’s More!  This design showed up in my sketchbook a long time ago, but I resisted making it because I really don’t need another pincushion. But I do have a pretty serious yo-yo habit, and finally broke down when I couldn’t resist playing with my yo-yo maker any longer. So, this project begins with 6 to 8 … Read On! There’s More!  Hi, everyone – just a quick note today. You have just two more days to sign up for my next session of Craft Blog Tune-Up. Class begins Wednesday morning. If you want your blog to be prettier, or have more readers, or help market your crafty business, or become a crafty business, this class can help … Read On! There’s More! |
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