After a year at my job at my local election office, I’ve found that it can be quite the balancing act to work full time and do tech editing. I’ve found if I go on an editing hiatus about a month before the election until about a week afterwards, that it seems to work best…
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It’s that time again! If you’re a Virginia resident, you know that I’m talking about the primary election coming up next month. As was the case for the last election, I will need to take the next several weeks off from editing in order to focus on my job at my local election office. Though…
So that election was a bit of a wild ride, eh? Thankfully all went relatively smoothly in my county, and while that month or so before and the two weeks after were extremely busy, it’s all settled back down into a more manageable workload. Our office, as I assume is the case with other elections…
Many of my clients and social media followers (both business and personal) know that I have been volunteering as an election officer since 2012, and have been a big proponent of getting people to vote. This summer I started a full time staff position in my county’s election office and have been LOVING IT! However,…
I’ve had an unpublished pricing list for designers and writers who want to get multiple items edited at one time, but thought it might be helpful to have it published and transparent for anyone who might be thinking of submitting multiple items at once. Two (2) patterns/documents – 10% off total invoice Three (3) patterns/documents…
Tomorrow I’ll be making my yearly pilgrimage to the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival in Berryville, VA. If you’ve never been there I encourage you to come out! It’s a smaller festival than some others I’ve been to, but there are still plenty of vendors to shop, fleeces to check out, and activities to do, including…
I’m trying out a new contact form and playing around with the location. Like a lot of women reorganizing and redecorating, I will probably move it around all over the place, think I’ve got it where I want it, and then move it back to where it first was. All I know is that I…
Since tech editing is not very well-known throughout the yarn-crafting community, and a lot of designers are on tight budgets, I felt an additional way to help people publish their best possible patterns is by making a permanent pricing change. Starting today, August 26, 2019, all new clients will receive an automatic 15% off their…
While it took a bit longer than I anticipated (mostly because of my own indecision), I am very please to launch my new logo! So while I’m surrounded by creativity from pattern designers, and I often come up with creative variations of pattern designs that I’m knitting or crocheting, I am not creative on my…
I don’t know about you, but the last five or six weeks have been a weeeeeee bit busy! We’ve celebrated my youngest’s birthday, my oldest’s birthday (see pic below), my parents’ birthdays, our wedding anniversary, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, all of the end-of-school stuff (we got out June 11th), the Virginia Primary election (I’m an…