One of the most common questions crafters ask is, “Can I sell something I made from a pattern?” The crafter is often left to their own honesty and integrity to abide by a confusing and unclear law on copyrights. Whether or not a pattern is truly unique or original is something that has plagued crafters [...]

Unique and OOAK (one of a kind); do they still mean what they once did? It would appear that many crafters are using the terms interchangeably. Some would say they are also being overused to the point of making them meaningless. The irony is that even a quick check of Dictionary.com yields six different definitions [...]

Dahlonega isn’t a town that has the name recognition of say Atlanta, Savannah, or Augusta; but it is home to North Georgia College and State University. It is also the place where we found a huge dose of holiday spirit on one of our weekly road trips. Most every week we take at least one [...]

It is truly a shame how many honest folk lose their perfect domain name to one of the many Internet bottom feeders that see a name that has activity and grab it. What am I talking about here? Over on Craftster and probably any number of other craft-related forums, there have been a number of [...]

A recent conversation on a webmaster forum got me thinking about making a site linkable. A linkable site can help grow your business by getting higher results in the search engines and greater name recognition. I won’t go into why links are important; not sure if I will save that for another day, or just [...]

With apologies to my father for not finding a Marine Corps picture; I want to take a moment today to honor those who have worn the uniform of the United States of America and those who continue to do so to keep us free.