The Salty Blog — maker

  I. am. a. failure. I woke up at 3am Wednesday morning an absolute mess. I had a million things running through my head, none of which I was going to fix at 3 am from my guest bathroom (( so the lights wouldn't wake Jason up )). In a nutshell, one teeny problem I needed to fix created an entire snowball effect of being disappointed in who I was as a human, a creative and business owner. My irrational brain said I was failing at all the above.  • I've launched a passion project that I sold exactly 1...

Stop wasting money on fucking business cards. #SorryNotSorry I know, I know... "Professionals" have business cards    - Your Mom  (someone please point me in the direction of who deemed people professionals) Me: What's the goal of a business card? Connection... right? So CONNECT - in.that.moment. "Let's exchange numbers" "Are you on social media?" (this is an EASY one) "Scan my QR code".... are you getting it yet? Our phones are the easiest way to connect. We are more likely to check out someones business who just forced it on our feed. The life of a business card... Ken hands...

You have a talent at creating. Fantastic start.   Maybe you're just in the steps of knowing you WANT to create, you just haven't found your niche. That's a fantastic start too! It's better to try and to test than just to sit stagnant.  Take a step- no matter how little you think the step is.   I started beading wine glass stems.  I got inspiration from other places, tried a number of different things, thought I needed to create bigger objects to be able to fill space, FAILED at a number of those projects and came back to beading.  ...