I began writing the Pink Chalk Studio blog 7 years ago. I remember installing the Akismet plugin for spam. It caught everything. Then it stopped working. About a year ago I noticed that some older posts were getting bombarded with auto-generated type spam. My solution was to remove them all by hand and then close…
I’ve always been very open about allowing people to use my images where ever they’d like. I’m a small business for goodness sakes, PLEASE use my images! We recently realized that images on the blog were blocked from being pinned to Pinterest. Eeek! That was not intentional. A little sleuthing led to Flickr. We post…
You have 4 more days to enter. Visit The Printed Bolt for details. I’ll be a guest judge in March. Good luck!
Carrie sent my business card into The Farm Chicks business card contest and guess what? We’re a finalist! They put us in the ‘Simple and Happy’ category, how sweet is that! Thank you to both Carrie and The Farm Chicks! You can see all the finalists and vote for a favorite on The Farm Chicks…
First off, thank you for the fabulous naming ideas. We’ve been throwing them around all morning. Choosing is going to be difficult. Please keep them coming! I’m writing this follow up post to answer a couple of big questions that came up in the comments: 1. Kathy, can the tips be from another source and…
I’ve always been a firm believer that the business success I have the potential to achieve is up to me. That a colleague or competitor’s success does not and can not negatively effect my own. In fact, if we join together and share our knowledge there are opportunities beyond anything each of us could reach…
Whew! The blog is working again and the upgrade was relatively painless. Like jumping off the high dive for the first time. Just a little bit of water up my nose. I was on WordPress 2.6 and upgraded to 2.9.2. The big incentive was my obsession with getting threaded comments functionality. It’s just so practical…
Susan and I took a little field trip this morning to Sportsman Business Park on Bainbridge Island to visit the future home of Pink Chalk Fabrics. We had a good time and realized we definitely need to get out more during the day! When I first walked into this space I knew it was the…
I purchased this necklace for myself from Nancy Hom of Sunlan Designs, an amazingly talented silversmith and jewelry artist. It’s a cuckoo bird and I LOVE it so much. I’ve got to figure out a way to see her work again soon! A Christmas gift for Caitlin. Sam Trout is a very cool looking artist…
Kathy Mack
Carrie + Diana
