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February 23rd, 2009

New look

I have some more tweaking to do, but I’m tackling my to-do list(!) and instead of just thinking about working on the new look for my website, I’ve actually gotten a lot of it done.

Remodeling

I’m going to try to do some stuff to the website design today, so don’t be surprised if you come to visit and it looks a little messy.

I fixed it nice and quick, but I accidentally did something stupid. Imagine that. I was trying COPY files and instead I MOVED them. Luckily it was quick and easy to move them back and nothing is permanently messed up.

Thanks for following me. I knew you would. I hoped you would.

The blog theme is going to be changing, this light-colored theme was just the easiest thing for me to do last night. The whole look and layout is going to be changing, just as soon as I figure out how to make it do what I want it to do. I have something pretty specific in mind, but I’m still working on the details of how to implement.

Last night’s idea to offer a QUILT was a spur of the moment kind of thing. Yeah, sure, a quilt, that sounds like a good idea.

I wasn’t sure WHAT quilt, but then I decided to channel Scarlett** and moved on to something else. In the light of day, I’m wondering a bit where my brain was, but I’m still committed to offering a quilt.

I started thinking about projects that are in progress, and had this vision of a top (at least I thought it was finished to the quilt top stage…) only I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t in my sort of neatened up sewing room.

That’s the trouble with having some stuff here and some stuff at the shop. Thank goodness the shop is only 2 minutes away. And the unfinished project was at the shop, only it wasn’t as finished as I thought it was, because, as I now recall having seen it, I’m not sure WHAT to do to finish it. Nothing at the shop or in my stash will suffice. Phooey.

So, Plan B. Look for something else in-progress. (And here she starts channeling Goldilocks, too small, too big, too complicated…)

Or Plan C. Start something new.

Cause you know I don’t have anything else going on.

So, Plan D for now is to leave it as a to-be-determined quilt of my choosing, and maybe while I’m not watching the Superbowl later I’ll come up with some great idea.

Haven’t signed up yet for your chance to win this amorphous prize? See my previous post.

And thank you. Thank you all for being my friends. I make myself laugh, and it makes me feel better to know that you are laughing with me.

You are laughing with me, right?

Not at me?

Suzanne aka Easily Paranoid Girl

**If you didn’t get the Scarlett reference, I don’t want to know about it.

Housewarming party

Thanks for putting up with me and following me to this new site.

If you click on the POSTS link, right above my picture (gee, it looks like I’m looking at those links up there in the corner)… you can subscribe to my new blog in your favorite blog reader. (I like Google Reader, myself.)

And in your free time, if you could update your blogroll or link directory, I would really appreciate it.

And then, you can post a comment, and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a quilt (style, size, design to be determined). And maybe you could tell your friends, too?

I know you are probably shaking your head, wondering what on Earth that Suzanne is up to now. It will be come clearer eventually, just know that there is a method to my madness.

Really. There is.

Suzanne

Cold toes

I ran home to deal with lunch, and my toes haven’t warmed up yet from the excursion.

The boys came home from school yesterday absolutely convinced that they would have today off. A winter storm was bearing down on us, and it looked to be a doozy.

They weren’t wrong: school is closed today. Thankfully, though, we didn’t get pounded as much as we could have. It started with a layer of ice, and ended with a dusting of snow. And wind — lots of wind, blowing that snow around.

I don’t envy the people that have to make decisions about schooling closings or delays. No matter what a superintendent decides, someone will likely disagree. Last year we ended up with more than 20 days of delays/early dismissals/closures. We had a late start last week, but this is the first day off.

Today’s snow day points out a flaw in this whole move-the-business-out-of-the-house-thing:

I have to actually LEAVE the house and venture out into the cold. Meaning a new level of complaints that you might hear from me as the winter grinds on. And it’s not even technically winter yet!

You wouldn’t know it from my postings of late, but I have actually been quilting and knitting. I haven’t posted about much of it, though, because most of the quilting has been for customers (and has either been super simple and not really worthy of posting or has been of items that I shouldn’t share because they are for gifts).

I did actually take a picture of a quilt yesterday, and am working on a tutorial based on said quilt. I’m going to make you go somewhere else to see it, though, because I’m in the process of mentally restructuring my usage of my blogs.

For quilting and knitting projects, I’m going to start posting at the shop blog:

http://www.knotsandbolts.com/blog

This blog will remain here at this location for the time being, but will be more of the everything-else-besides-quilting-and-knitting type posts.

At least, that’s my plan. I hope you’ll go over there and take a look and add that blog to your blog reader. If you are only here for the fiber-related postings, you can go over there and not have to read about my kids or the weather.

Though, I can’t promise I won’t occasionally mention the weather over there.

I joked about it the other day, but I really am thinking about renaming this blog. Any suggestions?

I think my toes have finally warmed back up after venturing out for lunch, so I’d best get to work!

Suzanne

Whee………..

LOL

Pictures full size individually….

Inserted as Gallery…

Interesting……..the functionality is all there, it’s just…different, so look around, don’t get frustrated, you’ll find it. Promise!

Suzanne

Switched servers last night and last day of NaBloPoMo

Switching servers means that my blog looked like it disappeared for awhile. It took me until this morning to realize that the reason I couldn’t get my blog address to point to the right place was because I wasn’t checking one tiny little box. Oops.

So those of you that might have been looking at really old posts from 2006, my apologies. Hopefully you’ve come back to make sure I’m really actually still here.

The fact that I did switch servers means that (a) I’m getting more junk mail, which, oddly enough is OK with me, because it also means that (b) I was finally able to get the password reminder e-mail from Ringsurf. I just knew that my previous host had been treating those as spam. The fact that I had gotten it means that (c) I have FINALLY fixed the MQResource webring. Phew. I should have switched my web/e-mail provider long ago.

(And darn it, I was so annoyed when I did get the password reminder e-mail. Now that I see it, I remember choosing the password that I did, but it is completely different than any of my other passwords, and I never would have remembered on my own that that is what it was.)

In other news: this is the 30th of November!!! That means that technically, I can publish this entry and I will have posted every single day in November as a part of NaBloPoMo. Hopefully most of you found most of my posts this month at least somewhat interesting and didn’t groan too badly thinking “Oh, dear heavens, what is she blathering about today.”

I’ve seen some bloggers that have participated that have been strugglign for the last week or so. I’ll have to be honest, I’ve felt pretty invigorated by the process. I have enjoyed the challenge of trying to post something daily, I think it’s been a good exercise in discipline for me.

I don’t know exactly what will happen in December. I’m hoping the commitment I’ve made to November will carry over to a new project that I’m starting tomorrow. I’m keeping it a surprise until the project actually starts, then I’ll tell you all about it.

I did do something interesting and related to art/craft last night, and will post later today. Right now, though, it’s time to go get the slugs out of bed and get our day started. Unfortunately, the slugs like to get out of bed as much as their Mama does (which isn’t very much), so it takes awhile to get them going.

TTFN-

Suzanne

Seriously annoyed

Excuse me as I rant (and apologize) for a moment about something:

The MQResource blog ring is broken, and has been, and I can’t do a @#$% thing about it at the moment and I’m seriously annoyed about it.

I apologize to all of you that are members (or want to be members, but can’t because I can’t activate your membership).

I have sent an e-mail to tech support, but have gotten no response.

I can NOT log in, and I can’t explain the situation. I try to have them e-mail me my password, but I never get the @#$% e-mails. That’s a separate rant: my e-mail provider thinks it is protecting me from spam and has a filter on my e-mail such that I don’t even get the opportunity to say YES! I want that e-mail! Yes! That’s a valid e-mail. @#$%@#$%@#$%

So, at this point, I’m not sure what to do, other than to abandon the existing ring and start over. I am NOT impressed with Ringsurf, but quite frankly wasn’t impressed by the other Ring websites that exist. I’m not sure what to do, and I apologize profusely to anyone that has tried to surf our Ring, or tried to join it.

I’ll let you know in a day or two what I’m going to do about it.

Suzanne