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Whimseybox = fruit of the month for crafters
I met a swell gal named Alicia today (thanks Marc!) – she’s the sparkly brains behind Whimseybox, the awesome monthly craft box subscription site. It’s a great concept. Cool and quality crafty...
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Space media – from Hubble, Voyager and beyond
If a starry night sky can be the stuff that paintings are made of – imagine a Starry Night full of a hundreds galactic images from the Hubble? Alex Parker, a PHD astronomy student took Van Gogh’s 1889...
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Jellyfish photo study with Alexander Semenov
There’s just something about jellyfish that absolutely mesmerize me. I could watch them for hours. Alexander Semenov is a Russian photographer with a jaw droppingly awesome portfolio of floating...
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RIP Seamus Heaney
RIP Seamus Heaney, you made this word-loving Irish woman proud. Blackberry-Picking By Seamus Heaney Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just...
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Read: Houdini’s ‘The Right Way to do Wrong’
Have you tried Oyster yet for your iPhone? It’s like Netflix for your book habit and, while I’ve only been testing it for a few days, I’m loving their book selection and clean design. The first book...
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SciFi book nerdery, coming to a blog near you
My reading has been all over the place lately (from Harry Houdini to wheat belly to Parisian perfumers to leadership development), but science fiction has been heavily on my reading brain. Chances are...
View ArticleMarketing geek: Email + Social Media marketing
Email marketing meets social media strategy – IABC Conference 2013 from Katie Laird I spoke at the IABC Southern Region Conference 2013 in Houston, TX last week on connecting email marketing and...
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Iceland + fairies – it’s a thing
Our collective histories are all full of tiny bits of magic and moments of the supernatural. For centuries, we made up stories to explain things we couldn’t understand. And some of us never grew out...
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Fund it: Mimobots + 99% Invisible
Kickstarter project time!!! For years I’ve been using the super-cute Mimobot USB drives. Part toy, part thumb drive, all hilariously awesome. Their latest venture, currently pretty darn close to...
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How to be happy in the new year
Being honest about the ‘happy’ in happykatie So this blog is called ‘happykatie’, but you know that’s more of a state of mind and worldview than a constant state of being, right? 2013 has had a lot of...
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