Lots of news...

January 24, 2014

I have decided that with the beginning of the new year I would do some house cleaning with regards to my basket business.

To start with I made a new e mail, however, the old one will still reach me.  The new one is EarthBaskets@gmail.com.  It is all set up and running as we speak.

Then I discovered that I cannot simply change the name on a Facebook fan page.  So I created another one...Earth Baskets of course, I have already been posting on it also.

Then I even started a new blog, all of which is terribly time consuming.  You not only have to build these sites, you also have to promote an online presence, even more time consuming.  On top of that I never have had much on-line luck, even when I had an Etsy and an Artfire and worked them every day for 2 years (as far as sales).  I have come to the conclusion that my baskets started to sell once folks could pick them up, smell and feel them.  So why am I putting myself through this??? 

I don't want to spend so much time on line that I have to fight for time to MAKE the art.  So I will keep the new email, the new Facebook and I am going to change the name of this blog to Earth Baskrts also.  Nice and uniform, easy peasy.  I just have to get them all connected and then it will only be a few minutes a day for maintenance.

Pandula Arts Creations served its purpose and all of the time and effort antics successes and failures are still readily available.  But now I want things to run in a more streamline fashion.  I hope it makes things easier for you also. 

So keep watching, and I will try to make these changes as easy as possible.

Now for a couple of pictures...only one little one and the start of another.

Social networking, blogging, tweeting...what for?

October 2, 2011

It is Sunday morning.  I am sitting with my coffee going through my usual 'waking up' routine.  

Email, check, Facebook Fan page, check, horoscope, check, Facebook personal page, check...wait, where the heck is my horoscope?  And there are no tweets on my FB page or my blog kisok.  Well, dammit, FB has screwed things up AGAIN.  Worse, I think they did away with the RSS feeds altogether...but I am not sure.  I am not a computer illiterate, but I can't seem to figure it out, again, nor do I wish to spend my morning all irritated about it.  

All of my 'fans' Avatar's have disappeared also.  Who knows what I accidentally clicked on for that to happen...sure as hell can't figure out how to undo it.  I just don't understand why in the world every few months they have to fix things that aren't even broken.  I am very very very tired of relearning how to use my own social networking page.

So communications are down with most of my fans, I can't even find half of them...what ever subscriptions are I don't seem to have many of those.  

I also gave up my Artfire shop not long ago.  It got to the point that I was spending so much time on the computer I was fighting for time to actually produce art.  Not to mention every time I sat down to do some, I had to think and think and think about what might sell.  This has actually taken a very lot of the fun out it for me. 

So, I have made a corporate decision.  Instead of all of the hoopla on Facebook, I am going to concern myself with my blog, as I always have actually, instead.  I will check e mails, and Facebook in case someone is trying to reach me there.  But it will no longer be a critical to me.  I will be spending my time here, and on Ravelry, and if I can find one I like (that makes sense) I might move over to another social netowork.  Maybe.  

I like that the blog is all up to me.  I can add kiosk's, or feeds, or widgets as I please.  And not as they make me do.  

I have been rather slack on the blog of late.  I only have one post done ahead instead of my usual month or more.  So tomorrow there will be a post as usual, and from there you may see more than the usual Monday, Wednesday and Friday posts.  This blog has kind of become a sort of diary to me.  So if my ramblings and my life/art interest you...stay tuned.  This is where I will be concentrating my efforts.  Along with my art of course.

Oh yeah!  Look what I did!

New project!

August 5, 2011

New project for the Facebook Color Challenge group.  KraftyMax started these challenges.  Not a contest, no pressure.  Just creative people doing what we do.

Every 2 wks. new colors are chosen and each person gets to post their project on the group page.  

This one is green and white.

The warp is right at 90 threads per shed = 180 threads and it is a 68 in. long circular warp.  No idea's yet for design factors.

But first...Wiggles seems to be paying quite close attention to this one.  

Gotta love the Yoda ears!

The warp.

Boy do I miss my dresser for tying up to.  This set up makes my hips hurt.  I have to keep pressure on the back of the chair to keep it from pulling into my lap.

 

 

And here you have my mark!