Meeting artist and self-proclaimed “geekyfantastic” entrepreneur Willo O’Brien at today’s Women 2.0 co-working day quickly became a proclamation of phases that started with “I like your”…angel wing earrings (she makes them by hand), “Eat. Sleep. Rock. Repeat.” t-shirt (she sells them on the WilloToons online shop, laptop bag (reviewed in one of her recent blog posts, et al. The local illustrator and graphic designer said she was tired of making pretty things for other people and wanted to put her creativity and illustrations into her own products when she opened up shop two years ago. Using expressions she and her friends followed with “we need to put this on a T-shirt,” O’Brien’s baby onesies and adult T-shirts featuring octopi and rocker squirrels have been a hit. 

O’Brien, who recently sat on a South By Southwest panel about “Snappy Strategies for Selling your Art & Crafts Online,” opened a site for first-time business people kicking off their e-commerce efforts. I admired her ability at the co-working event (which was well-attended by smart cookies) to give off-the-cuff business advice in addition to music recommendations–Thao & the Get Down Stay Down and Starf*&^r are new additions to my list.

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