I’m quite an information junkie and a lover of things that are both beautiful and practical. From my experience not only as the mom of five adult kids, but also as a serial entrepreneur and side hustle enthusiast, I’m sharing my favorite life hacks and tips in posts on Thoughts and Designs.
Here at Thoughts & Designs, I hope my passion for design and beauty shines through. I am not just here soliciting clients, but my desire is to guide any potential client (or anyone thinking about hiring a designer for a project) and help them understand what steps they need to take to ensure their project is a success no matter who they hire to complete it. I’ve written many basic, step by step guides to help potential website owners, and those starting a business from home better understand the basics, based on questions I’ve gotten from my own clients over the years.
When I start working with a client in designing a website for them, my job goes beyond just designing a website. A large part of my job as a web designer is also educator. I educate my clients on usability. I…
For several years now, the FTC here in the United States has required that bloggers and website owners (basically all content creators) disclose to their audiences when they are being paid for an endorsement on their site or via social…
Summer is upon us, friends! The main problems with summer and being a WAHM, from what I can tell, is a combination of a few things: The Kids don’t have a regular schedule and are home all day long. By…
A few months ago, my friend Christina Root (of Youthful Homemaker) created an e-course for how to make some extra money using Pinterest. I was intrigued for a few reasons Most of my traffic came from Pinterest, from two pins in…
I’m convinced that the secret to home business (or any business) success is to first and foremost, figure out who your audience is, and what they need. Why is this? Once you know who your target audience is, you can…
There are only so many hours in a day. For most of us, the problem isn’t laziness or not working harder. Work Smarter Not Harder Hard work wasn’t as much of an issue in my life until two of my…
I have a serious problem sometimes. Maybe I should say “Had” a serious problem. Although to be honest, it still crops up from time to time. Steven Pressfield in War of Art would call it “Resistance”. Maybe Gretchen Rubin would…
As a designer, I have a passion for, and a love of Typography and Fonts. I have quite a font addiction, in fact. Over the years, learning more and more about the effective use of fonts in design, I’ve learned…
Susanne recently asked me, Do you know of any good books to read about blogging or writing up my website for our business? We are getting ready to take our furniture business online. I feel ask though I have so…
Maybe this is a bit of wisdom that comes with age — the biggest danger I see for me and for others in getting things done and managing our time best is not so much in being lazy, but in…
Some people claim that print marketing is dead. I disagree. Strongly. Some of you may even be here due to my print marketing efforts. Rethinking Print Marketing When I’m talking about Print Marketing, I do not mean buying expensive ads,…
Print-On-Demand is a publishing and manufacturing process where an item can be printed one at a time, as the orders come in. This is different from traditional manufacturing, where a huge inventory of items are created and hopefully sold. One…
