Exciting news: Four of my small works have been accepted into a group show at Capital Artworks here in Sacramento!
Lessons Learned and (maybe) Remembered
Proactive Communication Saves Your Ass
I recently told a client I would deliver a document by “the end of this week/early next week”. Normally that’s a fine promise to make and easy to keep. Except this time the document I was delivering was being written by someone else. I checked in on the progress every couple days, stressing that I had told the client to expect it. In fact, I remember that little voice in my head being wary- and I did say something to the effect of “If I tell him we’ll have it, we better have it.” Continue reading
Packing Tape Transfers and Decals
I like to make things. Specifically, I enjoy the assembling found materials and original art into something new. To keep pieces from looking like trash glued together, I take care to layer hand crafted elements and keep a running theme for each series. My current theme is related to women, work, family, and balance. Pretty much the issues which exhaust me daily (I write this while my 2 year old is screaming about being taken to the park in a stroller by daddy). Continue reading
WordCamp San Francisco 2014
It was another great time, though considerably different than last year for me. Continue reading
Work in Progress: Sailing
Learning to Screenprint
I finally learned to screenprint. I took a very informative class on how to screenprint at the Verge Center for the Arts. It was a 2 day event, all the materials were supplied.
Day 1
We stretched our own screens over provided frames. The screen material is actually polyester mesh. We used rubber cord in a gutter on the frame (like on a screen door) and stretched and pulled the material to fit taught over the frame.
Presentation to Rotary
The speaker at our #Rotary meeting this week will be @hnhogan Creative Problem Solver, Communicator, & Technologist. Join us @ironsteaks 12p
— Rotary Club SouthSac (@RotarySouthSac) August 20, 2014
Why My Grandpa is One of My Favorite People
My grandfather, Charles Daniels Jr. has been threatening to die for many years now. It started when I was in my twenties. I remember saying just live long enough to meet my husband… then come to my wedding, meet my first child, my second child (whom is born on the same day as Gpa, 89 years later)… He keeps holding on, and I’m blessed every day he is with us. He recently endured another surgery meant to improve ongoing pain. Some days are good, some are not. Continue reading
Ten Things I Know
In no particular order I’d like to drop some nuggets of wisdom I’ve realized, been told, or learned the hard way. Continue reading
Scoping, Contracting, and Getting Paid
Novella Ruth Daniels: A Biography of My Grandmother
Novella Ruth Mills was born on February 1, 1926 in the little coal mining town of New Straitsville in south-central Ohio. She was the sixth offspring of Edward Mills and Gertrude Mills. She had three brothers and three sisters. Continue reading
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Its been a big year! Novella started Early Kindergarten and is learning to write and read, Banyan learned to walk and run and climb, talk, scream, and get into everything. I started a new job with 10up and taught my last semester at Sac City. Justin helped make it all possible while hitting the bike trail as often as possible and keeping our wine collection and his sommelier/chef skills up to par. We celebrated our 11th anniversary, took an amazing road trip to Bend and then the Northwest String Summit, enjoyed lots of weekend trips with stops at local breweries, and ran those kiddos at all the playgrounds along the way!
I hope all is well with you and yours. Best wished for 2014!
-Heather
To See in Sacramento
Curtis Park
In a neighborhood south of Broadway filled with old stately and cozy homes built around 1910-1940, walkable, with good biking. See also Pangaea, Coffee Garden, Gunthers, and the HIdeaway for good eats and drinks. Continue reading
My New Home at 10up
I’m three weeks in and almost up to speed at 10up. It has been a very productive and busy first days: meeting staff, partners, and clients, navigating Google hangouts, chat, drive, and calendar, and just figuring out what to say, to whom, and when. Its been a long time since I’ve been thrust into something so new and different and exciting! I’m just thrilled. Continue reading
My Grandpa: Charles M. Daniels Jr., A Biography
Charles Maynard Daniels Junior was born on July 23, 1923 in Indianola, Pennsylvania, a small mining town in the Allegheny River Basin. He was the only child of parents Charles M Daniels and Cecelia Elizabeth Perrin, both natives of Cuddy, PA. Continue reading