Posts Tagged ‘apprenticeship’
Local Business Snapshot: GirlsGuild (For Girls, By Girls)
Finding ways to be creative is a constant endeavor for professionals who create for a living. Where can you gather and go to be inspired? Austin’s GirlsGuild is filling that niche. Co-founders Diana Griffin and Cheyenne Weaver are creating a space that encourages learning and expanding creativity for girls in a new and exciting way.…
Read MoreConfessions of an Upholstery Fledgling
So it finally happened. I knew it would eventually as it has happened to all the other girls here at Spruce. And it is only fitting that my “initiation” into upholstery would happen only three days after my apprenticeship ended and midway through my first week of real production. I stapled my finger. This was…
Read MoreConfessions of an Upholstery Apprentice 1
Tessa Cooper as her sugar paste self CONFESSION #1 So after six years of working in public relations, event planning and production, and finally advertising, I found myself not really liking the marketing world. Oddly, it took doing what my degree was in, advertising, to realizing this line of work was not for me. I…
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