While many people see creative pursuits as wholly separate from the professional world, in reality it’s quite the opposite. In my professional life I am a business operations and strategy pro, and those are skills I built with the same creative and technical mind that makes me a great crafter.

A big part of crafting, for me, is the mathematical and architectural element. I talk about building a wedding dress, the same way I talk about building a website (like this one). Crafting requires careful planning, measuring, geometric drafting, and testing, very much like growing a business. I love to work on big data sets in part because a spreadsheet tickles the same part of my brain as a complex craft project.

If you’re looking to hire someone with a huge amount of creative passion, an innately technical approach to every challenge, a keen eye for details, and a preference for rolling up their sleeves and getting stuff done, you’ve found her. Shoot me a message at annawflowers@gmail.com, I’d love to chat.

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