A little BAH and a lot of HUMBUG

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Suzanne

Yes, my friends, it’s that time of year. Time to skip right past Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas.

Shopping at Hobby Lobby last night, I bought some deco junk and then raided the home stash to try to get something done before our town’s Holiday Happening’s festivities kick off this weekend (with a lighted parade this evening, that will probably be in the rain. Oh joy.)

So, for the last 5 hours I’ve been (a) helping customers or (b) fiddling with crap. I warpped the pole with greenery and lights but after I hung the quilt up, it looked like crap. The dark greenery looked awful with the acid green. So the light and greenery (that was a pain in the tush to put UP, came back down.) And now I have this:

I found the stacking boxes at Sam’s Club, and don’t they look AMAZING with the quilt and the pole and the red and white checkerboard???

What I think I need (in addition to wiping the sand and crud off the front of the shop) is MORE of those boxes. Like, I don’t know: 3 or 4 stacks of those boxes!!!

And so now, even though it took me 5 hours to just get this much done, all of a sudden, while looking at this picture, the BAH and the HUMBUG have apparently disappeared. Too bad I can’t just run to Sam’s Club right now.

I have to figure out what the heck I’m going to do with the pumpkins that I pulled out of the window, though. Maybe my Mom wants them to make pumpkin-y things like bread. Mom?

Two things

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Suzanne

1. Gas prices the likes of which we haven’t seen in….I don’t know how long:

Yes, I actually took a picture.

2. Pictures of the entries at our Fiber Arts Festival this past week. It’s always been called a quilt show (becuase it’s always been just a quilt show….). Now that it has more stuff in it, we gave it a new name, but the new name doesn’t trip off the tongue quite as easily. Whatever you call it, it was fun, and we had a bunch of neat stuff. I am experimenting with posting all of the pictures over on my other blog, and if you have a few minutes and some interest, you are welcome to go take a look.

2008 Fiber Arts Festival Pictures

I am without energy today, so that’s all you get.

Tutorial on my other blog

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Suzanne

I’m starting to go a little crazy getting ready for the Saturday event here in town — it’s a ladies day out, and we are making checkbook covers here at the shop.

While I was doing some stuff getting ready, I thought I’d take some pictures, and I put together a really rudimentary tutorial on how/what we are doing. They are super simple. Super. Simple. Great gift idea, if I do say so myself.

I have to run home now and try to come up with something to feed my hungry football players, so this is all you get for a blog post today. Sorry.

Wool Felt Checkbook Covers

Technology, the girl with the curl

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Suzanne

So, this morning, I get an e-mail from someone who had been browsing my shop website and she was wondering if there was something wrong with her computer that when she clicked on the images to enlarge them, all she got was a blank page. And if it wasn’t her computer were there no larger pictures?

Well, there darned well better be pictures, becuase my sister and I both spent hours scanning/cropping/photoshopping/uploading those dangblasted pictures.

So, I wander over to the shop, and…yup, click to enlarge…works just fine.

And then I wonder.

That was Firefox. What about Internet Explorer??

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH NNNNNOOOOOOOOO………

Many Bad Words were used.

I futzed around with IE settings for a bit, poked around the shopping cart software a bit, and I’m stumped. If I set the photos to magnify or zoom, it works, but click to enlarge…not so much…

I’ve sent in a customer support ticket, but now I’m paranoid. How long has it been broken? How many customers have left my shop in disgust because they can’t view the enlarged pictures of the fabrics?

I’d love it if the whole world would switch to Firefox, but since that’s not going to happen, and so many people use IE, the shopping cart people better fix this tout de suite.

Technology: when it’s good, it’s very good indeed. When it’s bad, it’s horrid.*

Suzanne

*apologies to Longfellow

More news

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Suzanne

Apparently the newspaper from a bigger community about 45 minutes away picked up the story from my local paper — I went to the gas station this morning and one of the ladies asked if she could have my autograph. I just laughed, thinking she was referring to the story in the local paper. Imagine my surprise when she siad she’d opened the Marshalltown paper and found me there!

http://www.timesrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/510212.html?nav=5002

It looks like it’s a shortened version of the story.

Not that I actually read it.

ROFLOL