At the moment the weeks seem go by so fast, it’s crazy. So I thought it’s a good idea to sit down at the end of each month, pause for a tiny bit and reflect on all the things we have accomplished and done in the previous weeks. Otherwise it feels as if we didn’t…
Like every year I wrote our Elmastudio New Year’s blog post yesterday. This year I felt like writing an additional post about 2019 and my intentions for 2020. 2019 in review Some moments of the last year were quite new and challenging for me. The impermanence of life is suddenly something very present to me,…
As I prepared to write this New Years blog post I always browse through the posts of previous years. Doing so I always feel grateful and excited. When we started this blog I could never have imagined myself in 10 years still here, loving my job in the web design and WordPress community. What’s even…
To be honest, we can hardly believe it, but it really has been 9 years since we published our very first blog post here on this website. On July 11th, 2009, from our tiny shared apartment in Auckland, we wrote about a brave little bird, about inspiration and the courage to build something and believe…
If you asked me a short time ago if I would ever write a blog or create a website I probably would have answered with a laugh! Over the past month or so, I’ve started working for Ellen and Manuel at Elmastudio. They develop premium themes for WordPress and wanted some help with their business.…
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