The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131845 Message #2986281
Posted By: katlaughing
13-Sep-10 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
It fascinates me, too, Michelle. My head is spinning from all you have done, again! Glad you get to have some fun with your friends, tomorrow.
I know I did stuff today, but it sure doesn't look like it! I photographed the first two things I will be putting in my shop at Etsy, a personal-sized creamer & sugar bowl, really pretty with gilt edges, and a scary-looking carved wooden mask from Indonesia, then I went there to write my profile which, when I hit send, it promptly ate. That was this afternoon when I was too mentally tired to redo it right then. I will try to reconstruct it tomorrow morning. The avatar and banner that Alice did for me look SO perfect. I really WILL try to get it up and running tomorrow, though I do have an appt. at 11a which will take about an hour. If not then, it will probably have to wait until Thursday as I am working with my brother Wed. AM to get him going at CDBaby and/or blogging and/or FB&MySpace, then I have Morgan the whole afternoon because Weds. they get out early! And, there is no school this Friday, so I'll have him all day, as far as I know.
Oh, I know what else I did. I decided to jump in with both feet and publish the redesign of my website. I am not entirely happy with it and need to add more, esp. a bio of some kind, but at least I think it's better than the bland-but-pretty I had before. I wanted it to be less busy and more consistent; looked at the websites of a couple of authors I've read and liked theirs, so used them as "inspiration." I know I am a rank amateur and I used the templates that startlogic provides, but I did use one which allows one to change certain things and I know just enough html, I think, to make it work. Jack Campin has mentioned a couple of things I need to check in the bad website design thread as I asked, but all in all I like it better than what I had.
It's been fun to go on paperbackswap and see the book credits add up from all of the books I sent out last week. There will be more from the ones I sent this morning, too. I will be able to request at least ten books within this week, so my reading material will add up! Of course, I'll be listing more to go out the door, so I won't be adding to the clutter more than I was.:-)