I can’t believe that the New York Gift Fair is a little over a week a way. I’m feeling a little crunched, and while I have tons of posts in the works here for DMBA, I’m finding it hard to focus long enough to finish any of them. Since I’m about to head into serious …
How many times have you thought, “I would love to do this for my business, but I just don’t have the money!” With bank loans hard to come by and credit cards with ridiculously high interests rates, funding your next creative venture can seem like a pipe dream. But in the past year or so, …
We all know that watching Project Runway can make you a better designer. There’s nothing like watching the designers scramble through a challenge to build your own problem solving skills, or watching Nina and Michael critique the runway to hone your own design eye. But did you also know it can make you a better …
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Today I’m happy to share a guest post from Kate Gatski of The Steek Fork. Like me, Kate and her husband Ben run their business, Gatski Metal, from a rural part of Pennsylvania. Kate’s provided a great post for tapping into your local resources, which is important whether you live in the city, the country, …
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