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Keeping My S*** Organized!
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items I run a multi-tiered creative business with my partner and person. We run a studio, teach classes and workshops, host creative events, do creative coaching, participate in art shows, run a YouTube channel, have a podcast, self publish books, write or...
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THE IRL STUFF (Physical Organization Products)
THE URL STUFF (Digital Organization Products)
THE POD/POS/MERCH STUFF
THE IRL STUFF (Physical Organization Products)
The tangible IRL (in real life) stuff I use to keep organized
I can't live without my weekly planner. If it's not in the planner, it doesn't exist in my reality. These planners are nice looking and easy to use.
2026 Blue Sky Planners
In addition to my weekly planner, I have a big two year monthly planner that I use with highlighters to get a quick monthly overview of all the things… so many things.
See It Bigger: Planners and Calendars – See it Bigger
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A good pack of highlighters to color code those planners so you know what you have going on at a glance.
SHARPIE Tank Style Highlighters, 12 Pack
We go through legal pads a lot for braindumping ideas and keeping projects going in the right direction. The color of the yellow matters (canary vs obnoxious yellow). This is the best deal I've found if you need a lot of them regularly.
Amazon Basics 50 Sheet Wide Ruled Note Pad, 12-Pack
We used these field books while adventuring to find our forever home. I used them to have a physical way to keep notes on house listings, places we visited, expenses, etc. They're a great size for keeping notes of many varieties while traveling or ou...
Elan Publishing ELAN-FN-003A Field Notebook
THE URL STUFF (Digital Organization Products)
The digital online organization essentials we use for our e-commerce website, socials, backend workflows, promotion, and keeping connected.
We use this software to allow clients to book one on one coaching calls with us. It's easy to block out available/not available times and generate links for the calls.
Calendly: Free Online Appointment Scheduling Software
We use Wordpress for our e-commerce site (and it's a behemoth). They have excellent customer support and almost limitless capabilities for customizing a site just how you need it. They also have excellent plug-in features to expand what the site can ...
Wordpress.com
The best back end shipping partner anyone could ask for. No upfront costs, easily integrates with our site, saves us tons of money on shipping, makes the shipping process fast and easy. Love this company!
Pirate Ship
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We couldn't do anything without google workspace~ From calendar syncing, to video calls (google meet is amazing), to google drive storage, and photo storage for our products, and more.
Google Workspace
We use Canva for so many things~ promo flyers, posters, thank you notes, and so much more. It makes quick work of tasks that used to take forever.
Canva Pro
This one is for painters and designers. This is the absolute best mockup tool we've found for taking your art (physical or digital) and placing it in a “room environment” to showcase it's size and vibe. The folks that run Canvy are amazing, it works ...
Canvy - Online tool for fine art painters and poster designers
We use IFTTT to automate content posts, so if we send out a post from our site, it automatically shares to all of our chosen platforms.
IFTTT
We record our podcast once and Podbean sends it out to all of the podcasting platforms so we don't have to do that manually. They also have educational materials for folks looking to start a podcast or improve their podcast.
Podbean
We use acx to distribute the audiobook versions of our self published books. You can also use acx to find work as a narrator if that's your thing.
ACX Audiobooks
We use Patreon to build and stay connected with our online community that formed around our YouTube channel.
Patreon - Empowering Creators and Building Communities
Discord is a chatroom, but it's more than that. We have two discord rooms- one that keeps us connected with our online Patreon community, and one that serves as an online forum for our in person artist community in our town. In my opinion, it's safer...
Discord - Group Chat
THE POD/POS/MERCH STUFF
These are the businesses we trust for our print on demand items, merch, and point of sale system.
We've used several print on demand services over the course of about a decade, and Printful has stood out as the top notch choice for quality, production time, pricing, and customer service.
Printful: Custom Print On Demand & Dropshipping
We've been using Square to take payments for over a decade. We use their card reader at fairs and shows to take payments in person with our phone, and we use them as our payment system on our e-commerce website. The fees are super reasonable, they he...
Square Payment Processing
This is who we use to showcase and sell our merch through YouTube and Social Media
Fourthwall Merch