Articles from April, 2009

Understanding Your Customers – my post on Design Sponge

I wanted to mention some more guest writing, this time over at Design Sponge, as part of Grace’s Biz Ladies series. I love that she’s using her platform as a top design blogger to really help other women fulfill their small business dreams, and I have to say, the posts I’ve seen from other women [...]

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Decades of Bridal Style – My post at The Storque

Hey guys, I wrote a guest post over at Etsy’ The Storque blog. It’s all about vintage wedding touches, broken down by decade/style. I think it came out beautifully, mostly because there are so many amazing things on Etsy for me to use to illustrate my points. I kind of wish I could get married [...]

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Making It Work

When I posted recently about my new life in Portland, a few of you asked for tips about leaving the corporate world to pursue a creative life. I’m not an expert by any means, but I can tell you my experience. Back when I was in grad school at Berkeley, I took an internship at [...]

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Yay for Glamour

Wow. I came across this gorgeous spread from Glamour magazine (of all places) on Jezebel. I have a pretty low opinion of most “women’s interest” magazines, because I think they reinforce really damaging ways of looking at ourselves and the world. But the fact that Glamour used a non-size 0 model and didn’t make a [...]

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Pretty hair

I’m kind of hair obsessed lately. This is probably because mine is in need of a bit of a color boost. Anyway, I adore this pretty girl’s hairstyle. Her bangs are very similar to the way I wear mine lately, but she has such a lovely color and perfect curls. Also a great white dress. [...]

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