Website is plodding along

Well despite the INSANE week that I had this past week in school, the website is plodding along.
It was a terribly productive week. I am thankful for productivity, but it was exhausting and demoralizing in the end because I was literally busy all day every day (9 am to 2 am) for one week straight. I had a presentation, a case study, several meetings, and some other school and lab duties... BUT, the week is over, and I did well on the above mentioned presentation and case study.. aaannnd I got over 100% (with extra credit) on my parasitology test last Friday, so my hard work has paid off!

So about the website...

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm a super-perfectionist and the site just isn't quite there yet. There's a bunch of white (maybe a little TOO much) and while I spent a jazillion hours making my graphic, I feel like I could have done a better job with that too. I keep telling myself that its been years since I've used photoshop and I can do a site update soon and that savvy with graphic design comes with practice. My goal for now is to get the site up even though some sections will be skeletons for now (such as the patterns section which is going to require me making pdfs). I recognize the need to just get it up, because everything else in my life is suffering due to my lack of time. I now know why people hire someone to do this! I may make one more major set of changes before putting it online, changing a lot of the white to a darker color. Right now its so pastel-y. Color is such a tricky thing.. knowing how much of a color pops a design or makes it look cartoony... its a delicate balance for sure!

I will *hopefully* go live next week sometime. I still need to create my store and register/link my domain name.

My next project (website wise) will be to create a flash photography portfolio with all my work. I am sure that will take me forever as well.


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I haven't listed anything on etsy in awhile largely due to the fact that I have been waiting (impatiently) for a macro filter to arrive in the mail. I ordered one, but the seller (from Hong Kong) shipped me a UV filter (which is pretty much useless since I already have one). My weak link on etsy, in my opinion, are my photos. The focal length of the lens that I have is too long to take intricate photos of my jewelry and the lighting in my house is fairly poor. My next major purchase will be a flash setup. The nikon speedlight is very nice. One of the school newspaper photographers has one of these and wow.. the results were great!

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I made a fairly large purchase on ebay this week. I purchased a new hp photoprinter to print, and hopefully eventually sell my artwork and photographs. I am so excited for the opportunitiy to use it!