…More bits of wisdom discovered in Saturday’s Killer Tribes conference!  Don’t miss Volume 1, containing The Big Idea and visual presentation notes from Alli Worthington, Daddy-O, Sarah Mae, Mark Hughes, Derek Webb, Bryan Allain, Jon Acuff, and Jeff Goins!  Or download a PDF of the full set of notes here. ***We will return to our regularly scheduled random river of thoughts later this week…but again today, I want to share a new experiment in visual note-taking.  I saw a lot of great visual notes from the SXSW conference last month, and thought I’d try my hand at it, even though I suck […]

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….And other bits of wisdom discovered in Saturday’s Killer Tribes conference! Download a full set of the notes here. ***We will return to our regularly scheduled random river of thoughts later this week…but for today, I want to share a new experiment in visual note-taking.  I saw a lot of great visual notes from the SXSW conference last month, and thought I’d try my hand at it, even though I suck at drawing.  So I have “drawn” a few of the key points from my notes from several of the sessions.  Let me know what you think!*** The Big Idea […]

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Wait!! Before you run and cover your children’s eyes and report me to the Internet Police for indecency and general depravity (which, if you didn’t do from the Piecaken post last week, I just don’t see why you would try it now), hear me out! Earlier this week, I joined Frank Fontana on his podcast: The Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana. You might remember Frank from HGTV’s Design on a Dime; now Frank hosts a weekly podcast where he shares design secrets and generally has a lot of fun with a wide variety of guests…like me!  So click on the […]

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Today, I am hitting the road with my old friend Lisa Thompson (simplifiedsaving.com & nickelsndimes.com). Wait, that came out wrong. Lisa isn’t old.  But she is my friend.  And has been for a while. We spent five weeks together in Ukraine.  That will either make you friends for life or it will…well…it made us friends for life!  And that trip taught both of us about blogging for the first time. Tomorrow is the inaugural Killer Tribes Conference, and my heart is filled with joy at all the amazing online blogger friends I will finally get to meet in person. Bryan Allain has an […]

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You may or may not know this, but I can be pretty handy with a set of tools.  Not every DIY project has turned to gold, though, and today I get to tell the world about one or two of them. And you, you lucky dog, you have the opportunity to support me in my podcast debut as a DIY Disasters guest on Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana! Blogging mentor and Chief Killer Tribesman Brian Allain was a guest on Frank’s show about a month ago, and last week he led Frank’s team to my doorstep as if my blog was a […]

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