Book Review

How to Start a Home Based Gift Basket Business

How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, 4th (Home-Based Business Series)  by  Shirley George Frazier provides information on a gift basket startup. The book is written by a successful gift basket entrepreneur- and so, a lot of the tips are down to earth. Some of the main points of the book: what it takes to be [...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Core Conditioning by Patrick Hagerman

As in all Complete’s Idiot’s series, the book provides guidance to beginners who wants to work on their core conditioning. Our core consists mainly of our muscles in our trunk (not only at the abs but includes chest, back and hips) and keep us together. A lot of the daily functions that we tend to [...]

Giving everyday things a creative twist- Zombie cupcakes

If you are able to take everyday stuff and give it a creative twist- you would have something that attract everyone’s attention and could have great potential.  For example, the usual cupcakes are often being displayed in a sweet, pretty and appetizing way. Whenever we see a cupcake, it’s design makes us want to eat [...]

Beware of turning hobbies into jobs

When I saw the book Ignore Everybody and Other 39 Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod, the chapters I flipped that made me took the book were “Keep Your Day Job” and “Beware of Turning Hobbies into Jobs”. As I took the book back, I sat intently from afternoon and finish the book at dusk. [...]

Improving Beading Skills Through Reading Books and Guides

If you love beading, it would be a painful process when no one tells you what to do when make a mistake. I remember when I learned beading on my own when I was younger, I had made painful mistakes that cost hours of hard work to go to waste. For instance, in my beaded [...]