Say Hello to the Newest Member of the Nytro Marketing Team!

Hey guys! I have some news for you 🙂 I know most of you are here for my craftventures, but this blog is named "Work-Craft Balance" after all, so I like to share parts of the W when they come to be. When I started working for SAP, I met some cool people from a marketing …

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WCB…Z? Adding Zumba To My Work-Craft Balance!

Friends, I want to share something with you that I literally didn't tell anyone about before doing it: I got certified to become a Zumba Instructor! Ahhhh, it feels so good to say out loud/write publicly. Let me explain: I love to dance. It's something I do all the time and it makes me genuinely …

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Friends & Family: Little Interior Architect Extraordinaire

For this week's Friends & Family feature, I'd like to give a shout out to my little, Ana! As you guys may know by now, I do these posts around the subject's birthday, and Ana's just so happens to be tomorrow so HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY LITTLE! Here's a little tribute to your beautiful work, I …

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Friends & Family: Cindy – the Crafty & Beauty-Obsessed Influencer!

My next subject for the Friends & Family series is also one of my favorite people in the world - my cousin and first best friend, Cindy. Her birthday just passed on March 29th and since I'm doing all the F&F posts around each of their birthdays, today's post goes out to her! My cousin …

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Biggest Prop Order to Date! WCB for SAP

The reason I started WCB (the blog & Etsy shop) was because working for a software company in Corporate America was not very conducive to me expressing my creativity, and I needed an outlet. Even after leaving SAP, I'm still in touch with my colleagues and every so often, they reach out for a craft …

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Moroccan Bridal Shower Invites

Hello friends! Now that the year has begun and we got our goal-setting in order, let's start strong by tackling two head on: make things I haven't made and make more videos! With my best friend's wedding fast-approaching on March 24th, the first big event leading to it is her bridal shower, which I'm planning …

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Happy New Year! Let’s Be Goal-Diggers in 2018

Hi friends! First post of the new year, so I'm going to keep it short. Promise! I rarely set goals for the new year because I get in my head about accomplishing them, but I wanted to at least look ahead at some things I'd like to achieve that are very much within reach. In …

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5 Settings to Use on VSCO to Improve Your Pictures!

Hello shutterbugs! This post can be useful not only for product pictures but also for shots of humans and landscapes and really many types of photography! I'm a huge fan of the VSCO app for editing all kinds of images on my phone, and I'm going to share the top settings I play around with to get …

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Riding Sturdy: Confidently Saying Yes to a Monster Truckload of an Order!

I'm not sure how much I've let on about this, but when it comes to crafting I'm often pretty confident in being able to replicate a lot of things I see or visualize without any sort of instructions on how to do so. My favorite type of order is one where I have to make …

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DPhiE Turns 100! #DPHIE100

And for that, the C in WCB stands for Centennial today 😀 I can't recall if I've written much about DPhiE (Delta Phi Epsilon, my sorority) on the blog, but I can summarize it with the following: 100 years ago, five women who were shunned from joining other sororities due to their religious beliefs, banded …

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