Cathe Holden

Cathe Holden began her full-time career at age 17 in the art department of an advertising agency in Missouri. Four years later, a senior art director, she was hired on with a major Midwest ad agency before moving to Northern California in 1987. There, she opened and ran the design firm Holden & Company, specializing in wine and food branding and promotion. Her design work has been recognized and published in multiple graphic design books and won National and International awards.

As she and her husband became parents, Cathe chose to be a stay-at-home mom and modified her business to logo and branding work only at Home Grown Logos and through the blog, Farm Fresh Creative. In 2008, Cathe started a new blog, Just Something I Made, a craft site featuring her original projects, free designs & graphics and creative inspiration. As her blog grew in readership and exposure, she closed up shop on graphic designing and became a full time professional crafter and blogger.

Cathe’s innovative craft project designs and writing style caught the attention of SC Johnson’s pubic relations team who began working with her in the fall of 2008 as a contributing blogger to the Family Economics section of the SCJohnson.com where she continues to write weekly creative articles. In 2011, Cathe became a Contributing Editor for Country Living magazine where she crafts monthly projects and designs free printables for the publication and website. Most recently, she has authored a craft book through Chronicle Books, awaiting its Spring 2013 release.

Cathe lives in the country north of Petaluma, California with her husband Jeff, a Battalion Chief with the Petaluma Fire Department, and their three teenage children.

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