Hello there! I'm 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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News Updates (and a little more on Handmade Pushkin)

News Updates (and a little more on Handmade Pushkin)

…Just time for a few quick update-y things today! I just started a three-post series over on the Vianza blog. It’s about getting more purposeful about your online activity if you’re online to market a small craft business. These posts are getting at the core of some big things I hope to say about blogging …

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Introducing… Whimseybox!

Introducing… Whimseybox!

Just wanted to share a piece of awesome mail I got recently. Whimseybox is a new thing – a monthly subscription program that gets you a lovely box of craft supply samples! It’s the brainchild of Alicia DeRago, who blogs at Dismount Creative. She had a vision of helping people break out of their creative habits …

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Goodies and News for You…

Goodies and News for You…

Happy New Week! I have a small pile of quick news items for you today. Here goes…   Spoonflower is doing a giveaway today only of my book. Kanzashi In Bloom, plus a collection of six fat quarters I curated. Wanna enter? Pop over to their blog and say howdy – today only, remember! Next up, I …

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Pinterest, Inspiration, Copying and the Whole Ethics Thing

Pinterest, Inspiration, Copying and the Whole Ethics Thing

Here’s another big debate brewing in the community, and this time, it’s about Pinterest. I caught wind of it when Rachel sent me a link to an interesting discussion on Salt City Spice. The premise of that discussion is: “Here’s the thing that’s been bothering me though – after a few months of pinning and …

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Check out beautiful tutorials (and other stuff) on Pinterest

Check out beautiful tutorials (and other stuff) on Pinterest

I’ve been looking around for ways to build a nice online archive of the many great tutorials I find in my daily surfing – not so I can find them again (that’s what my Google Reader is for), but so I can share them with you. I think I’ve found a good solution – Pinterest. …

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Previews of Big Doings Next Week…

Previews of Big Doings Next Week…

Well… boy, did I have big blogging plans for this week! Except then I came down with another whopping flu. So all that crafty goodness will have to wait for next week. But I thought you might like a little preview… First, you’ll want to be here on Monday, for quite possibly the most epic …

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A little snapshot from the Craft Social…

A Snapshot from the Craft Social from Diane Gilleland on Vimeo. So, just in case you missed the Craft Social event on Twitter today (or you aren’t on Twitter), I thought I’d share this little video shapshot of what it was like. (There’s a larger frame version here. Quite. A. Ride. Kind of like a huge …

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Coming to the Craft Social tomorrow?

Coming to the Craft Social tomorrow?

In case you’re on Twitter and have somehow missed my incessant mentions of this, Barbara and I are hosting a Craft Social there tomorrow. The event happens from 1-3pm Eastern time (that’s 10-noon Pacific). Hope you can join us! You can get some background at the project’s website that Barbara was kind enough to …

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Introducing: Make & Meaning!

Introducing: Make & Meaning!

Here’s another chapter in the “New projects I haven’t had time to blog about” saga. A while back, Paul Overton (of Dudecraft fame) and I got to emailing. Paul had a great idea for a blog that would explore the meaningful aspects of making things – whether that be craft, fine arts, cooking, carpentry, model-building, …

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Indie Publishing Stories, Part 2: The New CRAFT!

Indie Publishing Stories, Part 2: The New CRAFT!

You may be aware that our beloved CRAFT just re-launched as an online magazine. And although there is a company behind it, I still think it’s a great indie publishing story. As a print magazine, CRAFT was the bomb-diggety. It always featured a wider variety of making than I’ve seen in any other printed craft …

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