Colorado Potters Guild Website is Finished

Colorado Potters Guild Screen Shot

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

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