I originally wrote this post in 2017, but as my holiday show season is starting up again, I thought I would do an update and re-write it with some fresh eyes.

A friend posted a comment on something I wrote on Facebook:

I want to have a booth at a show, but I am nervous that I will not be charming enough. Any tips for being yourself And an introvert and a good salesperson for the crafts you love to make?

What a great question! I am a major introvert. When I say that, I [read more…]

My sister was here for the weekend and we had no big plans so since it was a crazy hot day we decided to try some ice dyeing. A great day for melting ice! I had a collection of random dyes from a whole bunch of previous projects that needed to be used up so we got a collection of t-shirts and napkins and set up some ice dyeing in the driveway.

Although I have taught dozens of dye classes, I have never actually done ice dyeing before. It seems pretty straight-forward, but I decided to look up some instructions to [read more…]

Some friends at a local software company have started a new podcast about AI and how to use AI in your business. As an artist, I am pretty solidly anti-AI because most generative AI is stealing art and content from creators. I recently had to move my websites to a completely different hosting company because the one I was using was allowing my sites to get bombarded by AI bots scraping and stealing the content and they wanted me to PAY for that extra bandwidth and visitor traffic. Paying for the bots to steal my stuff.

But like I do [read more…]