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Merry Midwinter Celebrations (a poem)
Snow and ice Cold pinches your nose It's dark everywhere and silent, serene A drop of light warm and inviting twinkling on your way home Merry Midwinter Celebrations! Read all »
The last #weekwtass Instagram challenge is a GIFT
Merry Midwinter Celebrations Instagrammers! The #weekwtass weekly photo challenge is going on a hiatus (at least) and thus this is the last of challenges. Because it's that time of the year, this week the theme is GIFT. Wrapped gifts, boxed gifts, unwrapped gifts, old gifts, new gifts, non-material gifts, people or... Read all »
Hot Font #9: Amatic SC
It's been a while since the last Hot Font, so here's another one. Currently (Dec 2012) you can see this font on the titles and such of this blog. It's called Amatic SC. Amatic SC is a handwritten, small caps font, designed especially for web use. The font's style is simple and rather naïve. Works great for titling... Read all »
Twitter Tuesday: A couple of words about Twitter headers
Twitter launched it's new profile design earlier this fall and now the new design is on for everyone. The design comes with header or cover images, on the top of each profile page. The header image is good for branding purposes, but it also works if you want to show your personal interests or skills. Read all »
Keep calm and the Weekly Wrapup
I'm not a calm person. Anyone who knows me knows how I can explode from the tiniest thing in the right circumstances. You don't want to make me angry. You know. Like the Hulk. I can relate to Banner. He feels such a blinding fury he turns into something and someone completely else. Big, green and dumb in his case. I... Read all »
PAPER for the weekly Instagram challenge
This week, as we are all wrapping our gifts, the theme for the Instagram based photo challenge is PAPER. What you can do from and with paper? Perhaps you make paper. What do different sort of papers look like? Up close, from distance. Show it on Instagram, the easy instructions are below. It's easy! Do this Dec 16 -... Read all »
What is responsive design in short
If you are confused when you hear someone talking about responsive design or layout, you are not alone. Also people who work with websites seem to be baffled about the concept. Because of this confusion I decided to whip up a simple explanation or definition for responsive in web design. Responsive design/layout is... Read all »
Twitter Tuesday: 5 common business and marketing mistakes
While lots of brands and businesses are using Twitter for marketing, customer service and more, many of them are also making lots of bigger and smaller mistakes. Here are five of the most common mistakes I've witnessed of using Twitter for business and marketing purposes. Not using Twitter - Many businesses are... Read all »
Build it, promote it and they will come (with the Weekly Wrapup)
It's been now a week since I opened my Etsy shop, tasselflower crafts. I have digital goods for sale and I constantly add new items for sale. The shop includes Photoshop (and GIMP) brushes, pattern/digital paper packs, blog headers, Etsy shop packs, logos and then some. What I've noticed again during this week is... Read all »
A very FRUITY Instagram challenge
Are you on Instagram? Do you like to snap away photos of things around you? If your answer to these questions is yes, join us for the weekly photo challenge! Tag your theme appropriate images #weekwtass and you are in. Don't forget to like and comment the other entries. This week the theme is FRUITY. Fruits, juices,... Read all »
Hello, my name is Mervi!
I’m a Digital Craftswoman, geek, cat person, dreamer, awesome, always right and quite boring. This is the tasselflower blog about web design, social media, life, marketing and business. Have some tea!
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