Tag: Business

Life after corporate America.

Life after corporate America.

I spent most of my work life in Corporate America. With my retirement I fell in love with the freedom from corporate culture.

Color Theory & Our Brand

Color Theory & Our Brand

Color evokes emotions and color should be a central consideration of your business brand. We are continuing the #Marchmeetthemaker series with a chat about color, and our use of sunflowers as part of our brand.

How many hats to you wear as an artist/entrepreneur?

How many hats to you wear as an artist/entrepreneur?

There is a hat for every reason… baseball caps keep the sun out of our eyes when we are playing the game.  Straw hats cover the gardener working to pick weeds, till their garden and attend to the vegetable plants.   And there are sunday 

Whats so great about handcrafted cold processed soap?????

Whats so great about handcrafted cold processed soap?????

Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store.  TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh.  It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove.  Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap.  The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps.  And we did.