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Blue Peanut Butter, Hamster Dancing, & Explosions

by: dee January 18, 2009

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. First, a few weeks ago, I read an article about blue peanut butter. Yes, you read that right – BLUE peanut butter. Apparently, someone decided that Blue Dye No. 2 *may be* chemically similar to compounds that bind to cancer-causing chemicals, limiting their ability to mutate DNA. To [...]

Customer Service 101 – for all businesses large and small

by: dee September 4, 2008

Today, I had to do something that I simply dread. I mean, this is worse than trying on swimsuits after a long cold winter! Jean shopping. I tried to put it off as long as I could – honestly, I did! But, with the temperatures what they are, and a 7:30 football game tomorrow evening [...]

What I learned from Build A Bear Workshop

by: dee July 27, 2008

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to take my “kids”, some of my younger daughter’s friends, 2 of my nieces, and both of my great nieces to Build a Bear Workshop to celebrate my younger daughter’s upcoming birthday. I wasn’t so sure about the Build a Bear party to begin with – Fiona had been given [...]

Presenting our custom leather book to the Smithsonian

by: dee July 18, 2008

A lot of you have asked about my recent trip to the Smithsonian. I’ve promised to share photos and give more details once I had “decompressed” from the trip. Since it’s been a few weeks and I’ve still not absorbed the entire trip yet….I thought I better post before everyone forgot! For those of you [...]

Finalist for Idea Cafe’s Al Marks Inventive Mind Grant

by: dee August 1, 2007

I am so excited to announce that I was named a finalist for the Idea Cafe Small Business “Al Marks Inventive Mind Grant”. There were 762 applicants who were narrowed down to 128 (for the semi finals), which was further narrowed to a field of 40, and I’ve been named as one of the finalists! [...]

New piece finished….acrylics on leather

by: dee July 16, 2007

This past weekend, I decided to finish a piece I had been working on for quite some time. Not that it was all active work, but, it was one of those pieces that I would work on a bit, then leave it for awhile, then work on it again…. I wanted to enter a competition [...]

How awesome! Featured coach on Women’s media

by: dee April 23, 2007

I just found out that I am the featured coach on Womens Media.com this week! How awesome is that?!? Nancy at Womens Media and I had discussed these mini coaching lessons late last year,  when they were planning to launch the mini-coaching lessons feature, and they have had some great mini coaching lessons so far!  [...]