ShowCase
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2/28
Have been working about 11 hours a day
on the book. I hope to get all finished with the first
drafts by the 14th of March. Still need to decide what
I want to do with a download booklet from the Showcase site.
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Class
Preparation
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2/26
Delivered pieces to the Beaded Frog as
samples for classes we will both be teaching there. They did
the judging for the guild over the weekend, so we are either
in or out and don't know it.
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Making Jewelry
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2/25
Spent the entire day making jewelry.
Don wove 2 bracelets and I made several nalbinding pieces.
I did some flattening of the nalbinding for the first time.
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Site Work
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2/24
Additions to the Spectrum site -
maintaining 3 sites at any level of interest and new content
is very time consuming.
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Free Booklet
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2/22
Planning a free downloadable booklet
of perhaps 3 - 4 pages for the Showcase site. Still
need to get a clearer focus on the subject. I would
like to get it online within a week.
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2/21
Working on the Showcase.
Showcase is set up in frames with a table of chapter
contents across the bottom and the contents of each chapter
in a right side frame.
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2/20
The application for the guild was
mailed today. We have put the finishing touches on the
card and it is being printed now. We have decided on
the satin finish rather than the heavier high gloss cards.
So many details.
I fear I will forget how to make
jewelry with all of these "office" tasks.
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Artist's
Statement
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2/18
The application for the Guild includes
an artist's statement. It has been kind of hard, but
this is what it looks like, at least for now.
Artist's Statement
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Jurying
Package
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2/15/06
Working on the package that needs to
go for jurying for the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi.
It probably takes several tries to get in, so we thought we
would start now and maybe get in someday. We send 5
photos and 3 pieces.
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Card Decision
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2/12/06
After some consideration we have
decided to use a landscape design for the card and Don has
been weaving a beautiful bracelet to go on the front.
We will use one of the other pieces as a watermark for the
back side. We hope to get this underway this week.
I did talk with the printer today and it sounded very
positive.
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Sales
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2/11/06
Wow - we sold 11 pieces this weekend
without even doing a show. It is encouraging. I
can't wait to finish the shop in the Spectrum site so I can
work on the book and finish that and get back to jewelry
making (If I can remember how.
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2/9/06
Time for some fun - I did a crossword
puzzle for the Spectrum site It was not as complicated
as I was afraid it would be. May be a good way to
learn more about the stones. If I can get the wire on
the Spectrum site as well as the glass, I can get to work on
Showcase.
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Site Work
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2/8/06
Have spent the last 2 days working on
the sites. The shop was redone, so I had to add a lot
of pieces. Naturally 4 pages would not work, so I
spent much of the day reading and rewriting code.
Jewelry making is more fun.
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Showcase Site
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2/7/06
I added a Jumpstarts Samples page to
the Showcase. I am trying to get all of the sites in
order so I can get back to work on the Showcase.
Perhaps by Wednesday or Thursday of this week I will be good
to go.
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New Kingfisher Site
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2/6/06
I have both the Spectrum site and the
Kingfisher site ready to go and hook up to the redesigned
cart. I hope they all work well together. Maybe
i will forget how to make jewelry with all of this
silliness. Now both sites are ready to add pieces.
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Old Kingfisher Site
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2/5/06
Typical case of "I like it today.
This is the way the Kingfisher site was (top). The
bottom is the latest redesign where I cleaned up the side
links a lot and changed out the splash graphic
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Organizing
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2/4/06
Started reorganizing the beads.
I thought it would take about 3 hours. It ended up
taking 2 full days, but they are organized, labeled and at
least temporarily easy to find.
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Old Spectrum Site
New Spectrum Site
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2/2/06
Since we decided to go ahead and put
jewelry making materials on this site and already had the
Kingfisher Designs site, we tried to figure out how to
integrate the single shopping cart in both sites. I
redesigned the Spectrum site to have a very similar look to
the Kingfisher Designs site.
It is a typical case of "Begin as you
mean to continue." (Which I should have done.)
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