Accomplishments? It’s a good thing I’m not getting paid!

It’s been a fun week, I have done a lot and accomplished nothing. I have been experimenting with backgrounds for the website, and buttons, and all sorts of “improvements”. I did like the willow leaf as a button. It sort of seems to go along with the Wild theme. I am working on other things that may find their way onto the site, if I can figure out what I am doing.

I have been using Netscape 7.2’s composer to put it together, and ran into a glitch that I wasn’t sure was the composer or me, and since it is no longer supported, I was lost as to how to find help. I find that Mozilla has a newer browser, the Seamonkey, that has the composer built in, so am using it, as of this morning. Unfortunately, it looks as though I am the glitch not the software, which means I need to ask some questions or find some instructions, however, that is the point in using a software that has support. And that is what I shall do. I have been trying to use an image as a background, and it won’t stick in the user menu, and It won’t show up when I try to put it in the html, so I must be doing it wrong, and need to find out what it is I missed in all the instructions.

There are a lot of wonderful papers and images that could work as backgrounds if I can figure out what I am doing. Soft and subtle textures and colors that add to rather than distract from the print. But . . . . .Ya gotta be smarter than the software, eh? So, I will just keep rambling, and figure what I learn now will help me somewhere later.

Su

Hey, Good morning,

I have been working on learning how to put buttons on my site rather than just straight links, you know, where the menu is on the left, that sort of thing,

I have learned how to create the buttons in PSPXI, now the trick is having them coordinate and look like they are part of a wild garden, these actually look to ‘neat” as in carved for a wild garden, so I may still continue to learn and see if I can learn to make some “wild” buttons.

Added a new design to both website and cafepress, not a startling one, as it fits with the experimentation with punctuation marks I have been doing. It is called the asperand, which seems to be a “new” name, as it has been so often misnamed the ampersand. I am thinking about finding a couple of other truly fun punx so that I can make a “set” for cups and things like that. Well, it will be fun exploring possibilities.

I am also wanting to expand my section on the watercolors of the little wild ones, so that each has it’s own page, and my readers can see what it will look like on a T-shirt before they venture off my site over to cafepress. I am not sure whether that will make a difference, but, sometimes, seeing the product can be just the incentive that says, “Oh, yeah, that looks cool, I want one.’ We’ll see.

Anyway, it is all good, and fun, and keeps me busy and out of other people’s hair. And, say, sometimes that truly is all good. Thanks for taking the time,

Soon,

Suzi

My new website is up!

This time the website is one I was able to design from A-Z, that was fun, but a lot of work. I have a new appreciation for the designers of the templates that are all over the web. I am actually hoping to take an idea I got from one and put it into practice, but it may take some experimentation. It uses a drawing and the look of vellum on the site, I like the idea, as vellum just looks and feels rich.

A friend of mine spoke about the business of the slavery being a bit jarring on an otherwise almost bucolic site. I think I may have to use a different formulation, I am not sure, I may just go ahead a create a small network of sites that address certain things, as that would keep the art site from being confused.

If I do that, it will be my goal to make the entire network about learning to honor the Sacred Space of all living beings. Seems a bit ambitious, and I may go at it a piece at a time. I am trying at the moment to think of what to call the hub site. Sacred Space has been used to mean so many things that I am not talking about that I may have to develop something for this that will stand on it’s own. I am thinking about simply using the term “honoring” as in honoring one’s sacred self, honoring other humans, honoring other corporate life forms and honoring Spirit. We’ll see how that works. All that I have written for the book could then be worked into those sites, so I won’t have to invent the wheel for all the copy for the sites.

It might just work out!

Su

Gonna have to change ~

What an ugly thought, change! However, there are those who say that is the only constant in the Universe, so I guess the only answer is to “Get used to it!” However, Texas weather is so boring, (and when it gets exciting it gets dangerous, so people actually pray for boring.) That I think I shall have to find another intro to my blog. Perhaps the wild ones that are so much a first love, I would enjoy that, perhaps you all would as well. Start over?

There, that’s better, a new Wild child every day. I think that will maybe keep me busy for a bit, as well as providing some different pictures and things to concentrate on. I am working up the courage to start on the series of three for my nephew. I have them all rounded up, and let me think, yes, at least two of the references are in the public domain, so I could show you them before I have drawn them out. And I could give you a link to the poster that will be the reference for the third.

This one is from Wiki, I love that source for references, their pictures are in the pd or they won’t list them. Then Taja, from pdphotos, I believe, what gorgeous fellows, all, eh? It is going to be a bit of a challenge to do justice to all of them, but I try to collect a number of references, so that details I can’t see in one photo, because of angle or size of photo, will show up in another and allow me to get more dimension in my piece.

When I was working on my vixen, the beginning pic, I had to go to a reference of the skeleton because I could not tell from my photo reference where the shoulder should be. When I drew it in where the skeleton showed it should be, I went back and looked at my photo reference, and there it was, so subtle I had missed it, but there, nevertheless. Well, have a lovely day, Ttfn, (Tigger’s tata for now!)

Suzi