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Oh My! Handmade

Oh My! Handmade

Making a good life since 2010

May: Bloom, Nest, Spark!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 by Jessika Hepburn

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Our month of businessy goodness has propelled me back to Mama Earth and all the lovely green and growing things in this part of the world. Hopefully with an infusion of our galactic biz smarts you are ready to bloom right along with your business and we’re here with you! This month we are sharing posts on blooms-the literal & the metaphorical kind, nests-getting our biz & workspace & cluttered minds all aired out and tidyish, and sparks-our creative ones, those sparks of life, newness and joy we carry inside (but sometimes neglect).

I’m feeling pretty sparkly right now! I’ve barely touched down from our launch and tomorrow when most of you are reading this I will be flying towards New Mexico and Spark Retreat. My shoes are packed, my first ever passport is all new and shiny ready to be stamped, I have blank books and expansive thoughts waiting to be let loose. I can’t wait to share all the pretty things I have crafted for my workshop!  I’ve never flown out of Canada as an adult or left my girls before (7.5 years!) but I’m still more excited then scared. I know that there are new friends waiting to be made and many hugs + laughs + learning waiting for me on the other side. Since I can’t pack you all up with me I’ll be writing about the retreat this month, taking lots of pictures, and our weekly #omhg chat will be happening live from Santa Fe on Thursday- so you can almost, sort of, come along too.

Our incredible contributors have lined up a month of beautiful and inspiring posts this month, so we truly will get a little bit of a retreat. Together we’ll all bloom, nest, and recharge our creative sparks.

Hello month of blooming brightness, we’re ready! 

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Care/Carry/Cure an essay from ‘You Care Too Much’

Mine-Mill organizers claimed that the first of four concerts, held at the Peace Arch in Blaine, WA, in 1952, attracted 40,000 admirers, mostly from the Canadian side of the border near Vancouver. Source: Pacific Tribune Archive.

On Distance: Paul Robeson and the Rolling River of Resistance

New Year's Revolution, illustration of hands breaking free from shackles

A New Year’s Revolution

Go Do Some Great Thing, Lawrence Hill

Go Do Some Great Thing

Dr. Pauli Murray, "I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods. When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them." An American Credo

Draw a Larger Circle

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#FellowMakers History & the Triangle Factory Fire

Seventy Ways to Build Community, Save Your Sanity, and Change the World

70 Ways to Build Community

Stop the Hustle | Oh My! Handmade

Stop the Hustle: On Slowing Down, Stepping Up & Paying Attention

Community Is Not Clubs: How We’re Segregating the Internet & What We Can Do

Letter to Etsy Board of Directors on Behalf of #EtsyStrike

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Care/Carry/Cure an essay from ‘You Care Too Much’

In June of 2016 I supported my love Chris as we dealt with the death of both his parents and a co-worker over a three week period. This essay written the summer of those deaths is my attempt to make sense of grief and the struggle to carry all that I care for. Originally published […]

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