Your warm and encouraging comments about my photography have sparked a new idea: JOY CARDS — pocket-sized editions of my home & garden, craft, pet, food, and dance photography. Each image is enhanced with a custom motivational phrase on the back side. Now available in my new etsy shop. Come take a look! I’m working…
Category: Business
Vision Board for My Business Life 2008
The vision board I created to reflect my business aspirations for 2008. I’ve walked my career coach through each aspect. She’s teaching me how to spin together both creativity and the joy of running my own business. Meeting her is one of the most outstanding synchronistic events of my ’07. The results of our collaboration…
What al fresco means to a New Englander in February
I once worked with a wise friend who advised that every business trip must include at least a bit of the local sites and culture. Too many times I’ve travelled to a new city with the best of intentions and found myself back at the airport on my way home kicking myself. So what did…
My own version of a Book Tour
Last week it was a public speaking gig all about “Online Marketing: Creating a Buzz” and this week it was an in-store opportunity to lay out my books for sale and offer customers a sample of one of Eating Clean‘s recipes. Remember my summertime job as “Artist in Residence” at the garden center, making up…
Into the Potential Zone
This is the vision board I made during the Friday night session of our writing retreat last weekend. It is one of my new favorite things. And I wonder if it inspired me today. … One of Barbara Stanny‘s recommendations is to s-t-r-e-t-c-h one’s self every day. That is, to do something a little…
“Overcoming Underearning”, the seminar
Meet Barbara Stanny, author and teacher extraordinaire. Perhaps you’ve heard of her books? Secrets of Six-figure Women. Overcoming Underearning. To name two.On Monday she flew into NH from the west coast and for two days she shared her story, knowledge and wisdom with a group of us entrepreneurs. Barbara’s a master at guiding one down…
World’s Largest Artistic Collaboration
Fellow blogger and writer Joyce Schwarz dropped by Dream Big, Live Large yesterday. So of course I stopped by her blog to check it out. Right there on the front page was a post about the world’s largest artistic collaboration. How could I resist? Bottom line — I couldn’t. I love mosaics and have always…
My Life as an Artist
I hadn’t even clocked in yet at the garden center yesterday before two people stopped me, somewhere between the parking lot and my new home-away-from-home: the potting shed, and gleefully announced that my services were in high demand! Brand new and already I had a custom-order for a client with a weekend party and a…
New Gardening Gig
Patio Pot of Geraniums, Verbena, Pansies & Lobelia, originally uploaded by lallennh. The words came over the phone line last week, “You were in my dreams last night!” Not the usual entree into a conversation, but they bring a certain kind of music to the ears. And flattery will get you some place with me,…
Lesson from Self-publishing, Part III
If you were being published by someone else, they would determine the physical elements of your book. But as a self-publisher, all of the choices are now yours. Print-on-demand, commonly referred to as POD, utilizes standard formats for finished book dimensions, paper quality, and interior formatting. So if you decide to work with a POD…