I’ve followed Megan Hunt since she appeared to me as Princess Lasertron in Where Women Create Magazine in 2009. Since then, it’s been a pleasure to be inspired by her business ventures and to get to know her. Her December Radvent is a fantastic blogging challenge that helps me grow. When she and her friend […]
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I grill, therefore I am. ~ Alton Brown The Chillin’ and Grillin’ continues as more barbecues entered my calendar this past week. It’s been nice to go out and meet new people while being cooked for by manly men (even when the women start the grill, the men have a way to gravitate toward it). On […]
Before my Cruise Night excursion (every Wednesday in Lemont through August), I revisited Waterfall Glen to explore the trail further. Last time I only had 20 minutes, which wasn’t long enough to experience this Prairie Gem just an hour from Chicago. So I decided to take 3 hours before my appointment at Aurora Rose to […]
I started posting pendants of the day to my personal Facebook page, which seems to be resonating with my friends. So I’m contemplating shifting that over to the fan page to see if a pendant of the day/week is something people like to see. Clockwise: Seashells in the Waves, Raffia Square, Wrapped Boomerang and Womanly […]
Some scenes from my Fourth of July Weekend: Chilling in the park. Â Wandering around on Independence Day. Discovering the City has reconfigured rocks to make sitting on them less inviting. This used to be a large slab you could picnic on, but no more, it now seats one. Finding a sitting spot anyway (shhh, […]
To me, the Fourth of July always signals barbecue season, so I am thrilled to have another one on the books after yesterday’s with friends. The Network of Entrepreneurial Women is hosting our first annual Meet & Munch Networking Barbecue. Since entrepreneurship doesn’t happen in a bubble, and takes a village to support, our lovely […]
Sometimes I forget that a startup takes more time than anticipated. That you need to envision it, plan it, and double it—money and time—just like a remodeling project and other things with numerous moving parts. I am remodeling my life, after all. “She was never meant to be a common creature — extraordinary takes time.†[…]
I took a little walk this weekend after the past weeks’ ‘monsoons’ had subsided, and really enjoyed the explosion of color in my neighborhood. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.”  ~ Jim Carrey “Flowers seem intended for the […]
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Summer is a bit late in starting, but I was able to get my critter cam out last week. (Yeah it’s the same camera for everything else, just different models in front of it during summer). Here are some favorite snapshots from Emily Oaks Nature Preserve, a minuscule preserve in Skokie that lets me get […]
After all the anticipation and preparation, my feelings about the “success” of Custer’s Last Stand as a vendor are mixed. It was a great challenge for me, and also a fear-buster, but financially it did not live up to its expectations. Friday night set-up I quipped a few weeks ago about how reading about manning […]
