How Blogging Changed My Life: Kimberly Grigg

My first exposure to blogging involved me politely corrected a conference speaker on his pronunciation of the Southern dish, “chicken bog”. He was speaking about BLOGS…  Mortified! However, in only one year, blogging has become my platform for promoting “green” design, gaining national recognition for my work…  On hgtv.com

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Fenella Pearson

I’m an interior designer and I have breast cancer. I started blogging because I wanted to help other women be less afraid. Jane Bryant Quinn, editor of a start-up hyperlocal news publication, read my blog and hired me as Home & Garden editor. Now I have a new career!

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How Blogging Has Changed My Life: Cheryl Draa

Rising from the dust of recovery to focus on the future this “steelworker” takes what was learned from the past and begins welding the future.   Blogging has provided me another outlet to my future, allowing me to merge past design experiences and knowledge into new forms of marketing and recognition.

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How Blogging Has Changed My Life: Sherry Hayslip

Blogging compels me to think carefully; to consider, weigh, and savor good design, good places, good people. There is joy in blogging… even Joseph Campbell’s elusive “bliss.”  Designing and writing about design are near the top of my “bliss list.”  To ponder the beautiful things around us, the meaning that beauty and creativity bring into each…

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Cristin Bisbee Priest

I followed my passion by launching Simplified Bee® blog in January 2009 – it was now or never. The blog not only helped kick off my business, it allowed me to live for today, love life again and eventually move past an early stage breast cancer diagnosis nine months earlier.

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Nyla Free

I opened the door and walked right into a world of inspirations, new friends and a way to find my voice within the design community. Opportunities have knocked that I would never have dreamed of. I am embracing it all. There is no limit to what lies ahead.

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Regina Garay

I used to speak almost incessantly about design and decorative painting to loved ones. To save the relationships, blogging became the outlet for my passion.  It’s provided endless inspiration, unique opportunities and beautiful kindred spirits – all while honing a deeper appreciation of design. P.S. I’m still invited to family gatherings.

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Leslie Fine

Writing can be a lonely pursuit. However, my blog has connected me to engaging, insightful and intelligent people from all over the world.  Looking up at the moon, I think about others who are also looking up and who have made the world feel much smaller and welcoming.

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Amy Lambert Lee

I’m a full-time Pharmacist., husband is working on his 3rd degree, and daughter is 21 months. Blogging has allowed me to pursue my passion for design and build a client base to realize my dream of switching careers when husband graduates!

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How Blogging Changed My Life: Carla Stolper

Three months of blogging hasn’t changed my life at all, but it’s changed me. I wake in one brainstorm and go to sleep in another. In my own little corner in my own little chair I have begun, once and for all, a future in design. Let’s rock and roll.

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