Business
Posts about my meandering journey into business ownership – from dreams of owning a retail boutique to freelancing as a web/graphic designer, to successfully starting and running a digital marketing agency. Thoughts on balancing entrepreneurship with family and motherhood.
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Work Space
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nora practically runs away from me in her rush to get to school. She is loving the cute little Montessori preschool we found for her in a renovated house, making a bunch of friends, and having such a grand old time she hardly wants to be at home. (Or stop for…
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Getting Stuff Done
📍 WyomingIt’s two am and I really should be sleeping, but I’m having one of those nights when I can’t stop myself from trying to catch up, at least a little, on my emails, website work, blogging, and a million other things. One of the big downsides to Chris’ super long work days is that…
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Business Decisions
As always, I am long overdue for an update on Papoose. I haven’t said much about it since World Breastfeeding Week, largely because World Breastfeeding Week felt like my last-ditch effort to garner some additional support and interest in my goals for supporting Nantucket families. I put my heart and soul into planning and executing…
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Oh, Hello…
Just coming up for air before diving back into a million and one website projects. I am juggling four websites right now and about to start another. I had hoped to stay right on schedule and complete each of my weekly websites on time, but other than the first one, all of my other clients…
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30 Days of Thanks: Work Completed
I’m one week into my great business experiment (the one where I offered a web design package and set out to build one site per week) and so far all is looking good. Recent Launches I finished the first website perfectly on time and am very pleased with it. (I also designed WestBay’s logo…
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Labeling a Life of Work and Family
It seems I’ve forgotten how to blog…and maybe dial the phone, too. Thank goodness for Facebook where I can at least post an occasional status update or photo as a means of reassuring my mother (all the way down in Texas) that, yes, we’re still here and still doing fine. I had realized toward the…
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World Breastfeeding Week & A Papoose Update
I’ve been pretty quiet about Papoose lately, because aside from teaching Tiny Tumblers classes and doing the occasional private lactation consultation, I haven’t been doing a lot. I took a break blogging over there when I got pregnant and busy with websites, because there just wasn’t enough time in the day or energy in my…
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Confession Two…
I’ve finally realized that I can’t really call myself a stay-at-home mom anymore. Yes, instead of checking into and office from 9-5, I spend my days at home and out-and-about exploring the world with Nora… But, between my design business, teaching tiny tumblers, and providing occasional lactation support, I have been working at least 30…
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Report Card
I know that come summer, when the sun stays up until 8:00, I’ll be really glad for “spring forward” and how much easier it makes bedtime, but on days like this (during weeks like this), when I have multiple websites to work on, clients to meet with, and tiny tumblers to play with, every hour…
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Officially Introducing…
After more than a month’s work, writing policies and setting prices, designing and developing, I am excited to finally share my web design(+) website. Chris and I have come to realize that no matter how hard I work at Papoose, it is going to be very slow progress to the final realization of my dream.…
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Yoga and Play
This past session of classes for Papoose were the best yet, especially with the addition of two Tiny Tumblers classes. I love the two hours per week I get to see little people jumping, balancing, running, and rolling. They are so cute, sweet, and enthusiastic. It makes my heart melt when they call out my name…
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New Skills
One of the things I decided recently was to start doing my graphic design work a little bit more legit (you know, instead of in Word and Paint…). It’s been fun to re-learn Photoshop, and I’m hoping that in the future I’ll be able to offer more logo/graphic design as a bonus to my web clients.…
