Since the beginning of the year, I've been working with my friend and client, Karen Schumacher, on reintroducing her pure soy candles to the public. Defining a strategy, users, a new look--even a new name, Heirloom Candles--was fun and sexy and exciting, and we are SO PROUD of the outcome. It was a blast working on the redesign and messaging. Except...now we have to sell some luxury candles, in an economy that's pretty much tanked, using PR instead of advertising because there just isn't a budget for advertising.
Coming to the country life
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It ain't sexy, but you've gotta do it
Monday, September 1, 2008
Safe in Body, Gustav Rocks Like a Hurricane
Right now, Hurricane Gustav is blowing Baton Rouge, Louisiana — my home town — to tatters. I've managed to get through to several important people either via phone or by text message: my mother and father, who watched as their next door neighbor's 70-foot oak tree smashed its owner's car and utility shed to smithereens; my brother on the other side of town, who said the storm wasn't nearly as big a deal as they'd thought (tell that to his wife, on lock-down at one of the city's largest hospitals); my friend Lynda Danos, who texted me that her family is blessedly alright in their home just outside of Lake Charles.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Queens, Commercials and Underwear Essentials
Last post was June 11--wow. SOOO much has happened since then. It's been exciting, frustrating and exhausting, but hey--what else would I want? :)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Teaching Children Manners and Values
I belong to a service called Help a Reporter Out (HARO). Reporters from all over the place ask for sources for their stories. It's pretty interesting what comes across as far as inquiries go...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Creaky Screen Doors Let in Memories
Do some smells trigger in you an immediate connection to another time and place? One for me is always the first smell of burnt leaves in fall. Even after 30 years, that smell puts me smack in the middle of my front yard, 12 or 13 years old, living on Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Mt. Clemens, MI. I was probably raking the leaves in that big old yard — no wonder I have an attachment.
Learn more about agriculture!
- Georgia Department of Agriculture--LOTS of cool info!
- Louisiana Farm Bureau
- The American Farm Bureau
- The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
- the National Ag in the Classroom website
- the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences--SO much interesting stuff here!