Colorado Potters Guild Screen Shot
WHEW, and let me just let out one more extended audible wheeewwwwwwwwwwww for my own benefit. I finally finished the Colorado Potters Guild website today – what a relief! I feel like I can finally get on with my life and I’m sure my family will be happier too since I will no longer be multi tasking every single minute of the day. Go ahead – head on over and take a looksie.
The good news about building a site from scratch is that I benefited from the knowledge I gained from all the mistakes I made on my own site. The bad news is that now I have to fix a lot of stuff on my own site – including my – the archive search is broken, among other things. It’s all good though because my own site isn’t nearly as pressing as the Potter’s Guild site. I’m going to make a list and tackle one or two items a day which will eventually get the job done.
More good news to share – my husband was spared the ax at work which is a relief and now we are making a few plans. I have decided to attend my first ever NCECA conference (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts for you non clay readers) taking place April 8 – 11th in Phoenix this year. I think the family is going to come along, but I’m not sure how much time we’re going to spend together. We have friends in Phoenix that we haven’t seen in awhile, including friends from high school and one of my husband’s college buds and former room mates.
We also renewed our passports recently and are planning to take a summer vacation. Hubby is trying to talk me into a European vacation, I’m still on the fence about where to go. I have to think of the dogs after all – one of them fasts whenever we leave for an extended period of time.
And finally, in regards to my last post about my daughter’s solar heat collector that she made for her school science fair – she won 2nd place overall for her school! Pretty cool if you ask me…. She was relieved because she didn’t want to go to District Science Fair (don’t ask me why, I never got a straight answer) and only the 1st place winner gets to go, but also pleased because she won a prize and was rewarded for all the hours she invested in the project. She was also happy because one of her best friends won 1st place which is cause for celebration. At any rate, we brought her project home and we’ve decided to do some more experiments on our own with her solar heat collectors. We saw some plans for ones with fans that are generated by mini solar photo voltaic panels – so we have some work to do. By the time it comes to make a larger version for me, we’ll be all set to go! I told you I was being a little selfish.
I’m signing off for the day to hit the studio for a tad and now that I’m finally finished with the CPG site, I’m going to install my Bamboo Fun Wacom tablet that I haven’t allowed myself to play with out of fear I would become too distracted. I made a couple of porcelain pendants the other day that I thought would be good canvases for some ceramic decals.
I hope to catch up with what everyone has been up to lately in the next week,
~Cynthia
23 Responses to “Colorado Potters Guild Website is Finished”
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I looked at the site and it looks great! I didn’t check a lot of stuff, but that is okay as the stuff I did try worked. Congrats to your daughter too!
That’s good news, Mary! There is a lot of information on the site and many pages to explore….
Congratulations! A very professional site for adorable work!
Thanks, Eva!
Congrats to your daughter! That was a way cool project!
You will love NCECA! It was a total blast when I went–partly because it was with a bunch of college buddies and we closed down the bars every night. But the pottery stuff was cool too
So glad to hear your husband is keeping his job. Now off to check out your new site.
After looking at the NCECA schedule, I’m not so sure my family should come with – but they’ve been lured by warm weather…
I am so impressed with the Guild’s site, Cynthia! That a wonderful accomplishment. I have several artist pages up to peruse.
Wonderful news all around in this post, and sounds like great plans coming up! Can’t wait to see what the Wacom tablet brings.
Thanks for the feedback, Jean – I hope the members like it. We’re all ready getting a bit of traffic and also people are signing up for invitations to our sales which is great!
Congrats on finishing, the site is looking great. It’s always nice when you get to the end of a project like that with everything as it should be. Great news about your husbands job, and also about your daughters project. The perfect outcome for her by the sounds.
I think it was a great outcome for her too – although I think the reasoning behind not wanting to go to District was because she was still smarting from her audition at DSA a couple of weeks ago.
Congratulations all round! Well done on the website, great news about your hubby’s job, and so pleased for your daughter too!
Thanks Linda!
You did a fabulous job on the potters guild website – congrats on getting it done so you can move on.
And yay for Ron keeping his job and you guys making future plans.
Thanks Lisa – I felt like we were on hold just a bit until we found out whether or not he would be looking for a job.
Cool! I gave the site a thumbs up on StumbleUpon.
What a wonderful job you’ve done on the site, so glad about you husband’s job and congratulatons to your daughter’s award too. Looking forward to your wacom tablet adventures.
Thanks Linda – all were cause for celebration!
Site looks great Cynthia. Very clean and professional looking. I’d be proud to be a member of that group if I was as presented as well as that. Well, well done.
Bravo Cynthia! The site looks great! Maybe I’ll get to meet you in person at NCECA!
Good on you, Cynthia, you’ve worked hard on this! A huge sigh of relief re: your husband’s job, and please pass on my applause to your brilliant daughter!
Seems like your new year is off to an awesome start.
Congratulations to your daughter on the award. Kudos to you for completing the big website project.
Thanks Janet – The website took way longer than I anticipated. I suppose my husband is right – I always under estimate how long it will take me to do something.