Episode 172 Getting Ready for the Best Season Ever

<p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>It’s almost that time of year again! Carina mentions that August has always marked the beginning of her fall season. August is a great time to start thinking about how we can have our best season ever. Carina emphasizes that it is helpful to sit down and create a game plan for how you can make this your best design season ever. You can evaluate the things you can do to control things like how much money you make, how much you design, and how much you produce.  </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>__________</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here:</span> <a href='http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'> </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>__________</span></p> <p><strong>About Carina Gardner:</strong></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'> </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette &amp; Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'> </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Find ou