Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Understands my words way more than I expect. Signs “milk”, and says “mama” and something very close to “bird”. Reads books out loud and talks in an adorable unknown language that includes words like “apbm”, “capbm”, and “puapua”. Knows exactly what we’re talking about when we sing the tune made by a certain toy, book, [...]
While my poor fingers have started recovering from the recent rampage of my “piquitin” habit, the photo shoot of my latest wallet for the shop left something very clear: I need a manicure. AND. There’s no way in hell that I could ever list a product for online selling with such horrible fingers as models. [...]
With all the recent turmoil, I had completely forgotten to document a very important milestone: Joaquin signs!… It has taken us months, throughout all of which Joey kept asking me: [dumb masculine voice] “Is he ever going to sign?”. And what did I know?… Although Joaquin wasn’t signing, he reacted very clearly to my signs. [...]
Over the last few days I have been very pleased to find that those who fight hard are doing everything they can to bring public attention to the devastating consequences brought by an unaffected CPSIA. I have also met artisans who, unlike me, have no choice but to keep their shops open and stay on [...]
Apologies in advance to all the regular readers of this blog. I don’t have many ways to spread the word, so here it goes… Because of upcoming laws and regulations that will make it impossible for tiny artisans like me to legally sell any children’s products in the U.S., my Etsy shop will stop carrying [...]
New children’s product safety laws taking effect on February 10 are threatening to put a lot of businesses — big, small, and tiny — out of business. The Law is extremely complex and broad, and I won’t even attempt to explain it here, because I’m not even sure I understand it fully. So for clarity [...]
Tuesday, 7:58 pm. This is prime time. Along with me, some 1,253 people are browsing Etsy’s Treasury. My eyes stuck on the top list. It’s about to expire. I figure at least a thousand people are waiting for this moment… The second that list #333 expires, the Treasury will open and geeky curator wannabes like [...]
A little over a year ago, when I was a free, childless, freelance web designer, I had plenty of time to do things like: Encrypt my style sheets so plagiarists wouldn’t have such an easy ride with my portfolio site Put and manage traps to find out when somebody downloaded my portfolio site with a [...]
No. Not from the breast… Turns out, Joaquin stopped breastfeeding exactly at the year without any trauma. It happened in the most natural, gradual, perfect way I could’ve possibly planned, except, I didn’t have to plan it and execute it. It just happened, and all three of us involved (Joaquin, me, and my boobs) didn’t [...]