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July 10, 2013 / no mom left behind

Last year, the common themes I took away from Alt NYC were ‘be authentic’ and ‘create original content’. Wise words. The big takeaway for me this year was beautifully lettered by illustrator and photographer Garance Doré (see below) It started with Grace Bonney‘s opening keynote, “Surviving the Internet”. She talked about how original content is now the baseline and…
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#nomomleftbehind meets #onemoms

July 1, 2013 / crafty ass

I think the best thing that happened at Alt NYC was also the first thing that happened. When my sponsor dinner host had to cancel, I was invited to join Gabrielle Blair and Sara Urquhart for dinner along with several attendees and, as it turns out, one of the speakers – Ginny Wolf from the…
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ready or not

June 18, 2013 / crafty ass

more like NOT. I’m headed out tomorrow for NYC and once again I’m all amateur hour. Back in February, after I snagged a ticket to Alt Summit and right after my With Intention weekend workshops with Jess Lively I had BIG plans. I saw it all coming together so nicely and Alt seemed like a…
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card art ’12

December 26, 2012 / crafty ass

Here we go again – a few stats about this year’s design: there were four dry runs before this one (including last year’s) this was supposed to be Card Art ’11 but I couldn’t get it right I almost bailed on this design all together it took 2 trips to Paper Source to consult the…
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ALT > REALITY

August 29, 2012 / no mom left behind, Uncategorized

here’s me, soaking in all the goodness that was Alt Summit. there’ve been multiple recaps floating around* but by far my favorite was done by  sarah tolzmann who so succinctly illustrated my favorite speaker of the day: tina roth eisenberg (swiss miss) the founder of creative mornings, tattly, and my personal organizer teux deux. tina’s opening…
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post-ALT post

August 24, 2012 / crafty ass

I’m on a train again on my way home from Alt NYC and I wanted to let you know I found my tribe. I was fortunate to spend the day with julee of warm hot chocolate and her fellow-texan friend tara wilson. two kind, bright and funny women who made this event even better. it was…
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