First Step: Quit Day Job. Second Step: Make and Sell Wooden Potholder Looms

When I quit my day job in early July it was as traumatic as a birth. As I walked down the back “employees only” hallway the last time as an official staffer, I cried like a baby while trying rather unsuccessfully to hide my face behind a vase-full of sunflowers. It was a pretty pathetic scene, but at least I was fully clothed for this “rebirth” as a creative independent. Once outside my workplace, I put on my shades and took my first breath of air as a free woman. I was immediately overwhelm