Motivational
Tips for Beginning Craft Designers
Professional crafts designer Lisa Galvin offers practical and motivational tips for how beginning crafts designers can get started in this industry. She emphasizes the importance of joining professional organizations to meet the individuals who will help you up the ladder of success. Includes links to several resources.
Sharon Rifilato’s Success Story
Success in life is about much more than making money. It’s about living life to the fullest and looking for the sunny side of life even when days are cloudy. Here’s how one woman’s lifelong involvement in crafts has helped her cope with multiple sclerosis (MS) and get through many difficult days.
Refresh Your Spirit with a Staycation
Do you find that you’re working so hard all the time, or so constantly busy with activities that you don’t have time to relax, let along quietly ponder your life and goals? Maybe it’s time to hang a Gone Fishin’ sign on your door. Learn why you need to give yourself the gift of a staycation from time to time to ease your stress and refresh your spirit.
How to Set and Achieve Your Goals
We can’t get ahead in life or business if we don’t regularly make set new goals for ourselves. Here are tips for setting, reviewing, and achieving your goals.
How Life Leads Us
Have you ever noticed how life leads us in new directions when we least expect it? A step in any new direction will automatically set in motion a chain of events that could change and enrich not only your life, but the lives of your family and friends as well.
The Kathy Cisneros Success Story
This is the step-by-step success story of how single-mom Kathy Cisneros turned a simple bottle cap hobby into a profitable homebased business, first as a teacher, author and columnist, and then an internationally-recognized songwriter and vocalist.





