Anti-Spiral Field Notes
Field Notes is where I think out loud about the business side of a creative business.
Pricing, pitching, numbers, promotion. The unglamorous work that actually gets you paid, written in real time as I build my own. No theory. One action you can take this week.
How to License Surface Pattern Designs: The Business Side the Courses Skip
You can design a beautiful repeat. Nobody taught you what happens when a brand wants to use it. Here's the business side the design courses skip: the deal structures, what royalties really pay, and how to spot a rights grab before you sign.
How to Start a Creative Business When You Already Have a Job, Kids, and No Spare Hours
You've meant to start for two years. It isn't a time problem, it's a structure problem. Here are the four decisions that make a creative business fit around a job and kids, in the order that actually works. The playbook I used to build three of them in the cracks.
Side Hustles for Women: Five Realistic Routes to Turn a Creative Skill Into Income
You've saved 400 side-hustle pins and started none of them. That's not an idea problem. Here are five realistic routes to turn a creative skill into income, with the honest truth about what each one pays and what stops most women in the first ninety days.