I did it! I put a dent in my fresh start for the new year! I always get super-motivated at the first of any new year. In fact that starts for me, on December 26!I've been unhappy with my Pine Tree Designs website, well, almost always. I'm happy with how it looks now but not how it functions. I bought (inexpensive) Artisteer software to use but it it wasn't as user-friendly as I'd hoped, in terms of ease of updating. I consider myself fairly computer-literate so I'm not sure what the problem is. Clearly it's me, but moving on . . .
Then I got the idea to combine my And Another Thing . . . blog with my Pine Tree Designs website since most of the time I'm blogging about my paper art and I've been linking to my blog from my website anyway. Might as well put it all together. And I'm very familiar with how Blogger works.
Here's where it gets weird. "I'm familiar with Blogger so I think I'll go set this new blog/website at Wordpress, which I'm totally unfamiliar with." Yep, I'm a genius.
So I fiddled with it over the course of a couple of weeks and today, finally came to my senses. (See? December 26!) I deleted the Wordpress version and popped back over here to Blogger and worked on this for about half-a-day. Voila!
Now it's on to the online store I've promised myself to set-up. I started a new shop at Big Cartel because I have kind of a love/hate relationship with Etsy. I give 100% responsibility for the hate part to Regretsy.com. (Warning: It's best not to consume beverages while reading this website, or spewing at the screen might occur.) Although I think I've found some winners on my own. I can't find it now but the other day I found a knit cap with built in mustache/beard warmer. I sent the link to Gretchen, "I'm thinking of getting this for Mom." Oh never mind - it's nothing without the visual - and I've already spent way too much time looking for that ridiculous thing again.
So the online shop set-up might fall under the same category that I discovered today: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Meaning, maybe I'll end up reactivating my Etsy shop.
And we won't even mention the studio clean-up and paperwork catch-up which were my real goals for this weekend.
Here's where it gets weird. "I'm familiar with Blogger so I think I'll go set this new blog/website at Wordpress, which I'm totally unfamiliar with." Yep, I'm a genius.
So I fiddled with it over the course of a couple of weeks and today, finally came to my senses. (See? December 26!) I deleted the Wordpress version and popped back over here to Blogger and worked on this for about half-a-day. Voila!
Now it's on to the online store I've promised myself to set-up. I started a new shop at Big Cartel because I have kind of a love/hate relationship with Etsy. I give 100% responsibility for the hate part to Regretsy.com. (Warning: It's best not to consume beverages while reading this website, or spewing at the screen might occur.) Although I think I've found some winners on my own. I can't find it now but the other day I found a knit cap with built in mustache/beard warmer. I sent the link to Gretchen, "I'm thinking of getting this for Mom." Oh never mind - it's nothing without the visual - and I've already spent way too much time looking for that ridiculous thing again.
So the online shop set-up might fall under the same category that I discovered today: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Meaning, maybe I'll end up reactivating my Etsy shop.
And we won't even mention the studio clean-up and paperwork catch-up which were my real goals for this weekend.
3 comments:
Wow! You actually DID something this weekend. I had HUGE plans to do a bazillion things, and ended up sitting on my rear most of the weekend. Pththt.
How do we find you on Big Cartel?
I'll post a permanent link on this page when I get the shop set up.
(Thanks for asking, Stephanie!)
Post a Comment