As many of you know, last year I took Whimseybox through the Excelerate Labs business accelerator program. (If you want to catch up, you can find my series of DIY Biz posts here.) It was the smartest, luckiest, best experience of my professional life by a factor of about 100. I cannot recommend it more [...]
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The backstory to this video is that last Thursday Alyssa was shooting a ton of new photos for all sorts of stuff on Whimseybox. Photo shoots are one of my favorite things – I’m obsessed with great DIY and craft stuff so spending the day creating beautiful, inspiring pictures is no hardship for me. And [...]
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(Turkey, 2009. “How much are these earring and I am supposed to negotiate? Maybe I’ll ask the woman in black what she thinks. Oh never mind, I don’t need them anyway.”) If you came for tips, I’ll have to direct you to one of these books or something. But if you’re here for entertainment, read [...]
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(Right before the show opened) Don’t actually kill them. I’ve been listening to too much AWOLNATION. Last weekend I got to spend some time around some of my creative ‘heroes’ at Craft and Hobby Association tradeshow. It’s kind of a weird feeling when the Internet comes to life like that! Designers, bloggers and personalities I [...]
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This is basically a Myspace-2006-era-style slideshow of my year. Remember those? (Why doesn’t Facebook make that stuff as easy at Myspace did? But I’m glad they killed my ability to auto-play music when you came to my page. My songs were awesome, but everyone else’s SUCKED!) 2012 was a pretty kick ass year. I’ll remember [...]
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I'm Alicia DiRago, founder of Whimseybox. I live in Boulder, CO + love all things DIY, fashion, craft, style and design. 
