Busy couple of weeks. I’ve been feeling much better. Was a little traumatized after having, ya know, PINK EYE and all but the doctors gave me good meds and I’m all better now. A little rough-sounding in the mornings but otherwise doing pretty well. I’m hoping all these health problems are behind me because I’ve got a lot going on. A lot for me anyway.

Lots of big changes to tell you about.

If you’re reading this using bloglines or a feed-reader (if I’ve done my job right you can see these new posts using my old feeds, we’ll see) you might not know that I’ve got a whole new big spanking design. After years of futzing around with Movable Type and a few jobs for other people involving WordPress I decided to bite the bullet and convert my personal blog to WP. MT was the top of the line when I started this blog in 2004. I even got the pay version so I could have multiple blogs.

But the years have not been kind to MT while WP has aged like a fine wine. That seems to be the nature of open source - improving as people keep adapting it to suit them. So hooray for new site design! There are now actual functioning cookies for comments again, which means (if your browser accepts cookies) you won’t have to type your name and info in every time you comment like you used to on MT.

I only have one design ’skin’ for this site but having changing skins is a pretty old design trick anyway and has been a pain in the butt lately. Cody made this knitting hedgehog design for me. And he made a special WordPress plugin for me to keep up with my knitting projects on the sidebar. That guy’s pretty cool.

In other news I’ve been doing a lot of work on the Craftistas group too. We’re really getting moving on that. Getting all legitimate and shit. Beth’s working on a fee-free group shop for all the paid members while I’ve installed a Message Board and even made some fun variations on the logo to sell items at Cafe Press. Last night we gathered our squares for Project Compassion and we were all very proud to have 10 squares to send to Mama E.

We’re also getting moving on the Ugly Scarf Project, which should be fun.

You’ve probably noticed the dearth of photos lately. I’ve been on a photography boycott since Xmas. For some reason I just hate taking photos these days. Hate. It.

I haven’t even taken photos of the roof on the back porch that was picked up by the wind last Friday night, flew over our house, knocked the cap off of the chimney, and landed in the street in front of our house. I was out with Ashley and Christie and apparently Cody slept through the whole thing so the neighbors had to ring the bell to wake him up to let him know what had happened. So this mangled aluminum porch roof is sitting in our front yard waiting for the insurance adjuster to come take a look at it. I guess I should get some photos of that. But meh don’t feel like taking photos.

Hopefully that will change soon as I’ve got about ten thousand things to sell. Stitch markers, dyed yarn, handspun yarn, knit items. Even actual jewelry and pottery. Ha! Yes, I’m going to sell some things from the paint a pottery place. I’m pretty embarrassed about that. But not so much so that I won’t do it.

Anyway I hope you like the new design. I’ve still got a few little adjustments to make but it’s pretty much done now. And we’re going to be at Ladies’ Night at Art Attack this Friday night! Come paint dorky pottery with us!