A couple of weeks ago I visited Country Woman Magazine, a Reader’s Digest publication. Their Craft Editor, Shalana Frisby, gave me a tour of their building and I was able to get a glimpse into the behind the scenes action. The funnest part for me was the “prop loft”, an upper level area filled with [...]

Continue reading On Location: Behind the Scenes at Country Woman Magazine

Many of you know me because of my craft blog or my food blog, or perhaps from my Kaboose days, or maybe even as far back as FamilyCorner.com. However, I go back even farther than that, to a time where I worked 40 hours per week in general accounting from the northern suburbs of Chicago. [...]

Continue reading On Location: Prime Publishing, Northbrook, IL

I’ve been writing articles for websites since 1999. In the last 3 or 4 years my writing has been mostly limited to craft tutorials, recipes and blog posts with an occasional article here and there. That’s when I realized how much I actually missed writing. Not just writing about anything, but rather about my hands [...]

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