Are You On Artfire?

I just found out ArtFire has linked up with JoAnn's to offer 10% off cards for purchases made at JoAnn's. So I went over to my shop on Artfire, which is still empty, to apply for the discount card. I guess I'm done being made at Artfire for stealing my Steampunk name out from under me, and maybe I'll list some items on Artfire to see how it goes. Since I lost my Steampunk name, I now have a shop named Neovictorian. I may do some mermaid paintings now that I'm getting back into oil painting. We'll see.

Right now I'm supposed to be getting ready for an SCA event in Torrance tomorrow before my boyfriend nags me again. My interest in the SCA waxes and wanes, and right now I have no motivation to go there at all. But he's selling arrows there and I should go to help you know.

Format Woes

I have no use for these wide green sidebars on this blog. There must be an easy way to shrink those so the rest of my important content isn't all squished down the center. Help!!! Anyone. I tried to do it once and wiped out my whole format and had to start again from scratch.

So many nice people in the Etsy chatroom tonight. Or at least they were putting their best foot forward. I finally left at 3:30 AM. Gads. I didn't mean to stay up that late. Why am I so wound up? Full moon? Friday the 13th? Who knows. People in there still don't see how I make money blogging. Every day it seems I explain that you can make money blogging using various methods...adsense, Kontera, Project Wonderful and so on.

Speaking of which, I went to log into my Artfire store called Steampunk and couldn't log in for love nor money. So I figured out how to go straight to my user name url, and the page that opened up was not my shop, but rather an Artfire subcategory. What the heck? So I hit the button for 'reset my password' and when I got the email confirmation, I saw they had changed my shop name from 'Steampunk' (a great name) to 'Steampunk1' (a marginal name). And worse, they didn't even notify me about the change. Looks like they decided to keep the Steampunk name for themselves. Kind of shifty if you ask me. So I tried to log in with the new confirmation code they sent, only I couldn't. It said 'you have not picked a security question so you must call our offices'. Great plan but it's the middle of the night and I'm not even sure they take calls on the weekend. What a hassle.

Anyway, now it's almost 4 AM. Thanks for coming to my blog. Out of a million or more blogs, you chose mine. Thanks so much.

Miniature Purple Wire Basket

I just finished a miniature twined wire basket and got it listed in my Artfire shop here: Purple basket It's my first listing on Artfire and I'm glad I figured out how to get it off and running. At first I was just getting error pages so I was getting worried, but then I restarted my computer and it uploaded just fine. On Artfire you can list 10 items for sale for free. Or they have a special right now where you can get a flat fee of $7.00 a month for life. Then again, who knows how many years any new web business will be up and running? For people that list to Etsy daily it's a better deal, but I don't spend $7.00 a month listing on Etsy so I'm not as motivated to sign up for the paid account. We'll see.

Welcome to the party.

Yippee! I got three new blog followers today. So that makes an even 10. Thanks for signing up.

I overslept this morning and woke up at 10 AM. Oopsy. Guess I stayed up too late in the Gypsy Camp Etsy chatroom last night, but I was having a really good time chatting with another writer named MSHalton. Bill from Pagancellar was also there. He was up late listing jewelry in his new Artfire shop. Everyone who came in the chatroom was an old school photographer so we talked about darkrooms and developing and the good ole days of photography too. I only had use of a darkroom when I was in college but it was a wonderful learning experience. My daughter has an Etsy shop for her photography but I noticed it was empty yesterday. She's really busy at her day job. Hugs to all you shutter bugs.

ArtFire Special Promo Deal

I'm building two new shops over on artfire. If anyone wants to join me here's the link: Artfire. If you can get 10 people to join you get your shop for free. But that expires on Dec. 31, 2008 so get cracking. I didn't even think to ask people today so help a girl out and sign up.

One of my shops is named Steampunk. I'm trying to remember the name to my other one. Laughs. I haven't had time to put anything in my shops yet. The Internet is eating my life.

Anyway, thanks for considering it.