writer, editor, crafty gal
At the dawn of the digital era I acquired this ridiculous device and a slew of “minidiscs”.
It still works beautifully!
My husband commandeered it because I found it clunky and weird.
Ebay’d, y’all.
So! You might recall (unlikely) that I imported my old Blogger blogs to this website. I have been retagging old posts and doing some basic back-end clean up and a weird thing happened: I discovered how frequently my blog posts from my old Roadside Curiosities blog gets views.
I have tons of pics from my roadside America pit stops that I still want to post but I figured nobody cared but me. So maybe I’ll add that back in as A Thing because that would be fun for me.
However, since this website takes the posts out of the context of the Blogger site I have seen a bizarre uptick in contacts and comments related to how site visitors might purchase concrete statuary from me. I’ve gotten at least 5 queries in the last few days! People are looking for pineapple finials, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs statues, and an unpainted Venus de Milo, among other basic questions such as “how much is shipping?” I have an entrepreneurial streak and I had to stop myself from contacting a concrete place and becoming a reseller if they would only drop ship the crap for me.
Anyway, by far the most popular post on this site is Collecting View-Master Viewers and Reels (over 600 views, pretty much it gets a couple of people stumbling on it everyday). But, with 39 views just this week, Robinson Concrete Statuary is a real comer!
So, yeah, I don’t actually sell concrete statuary. I wish I did.
I used to be an earlier adopter of technology. This is my Handspring Visor Deluxe with a weirdly high-end stylus. This is what I purchased with my George W. Bush tax rebate. Woot. A bunch of my friends had the same model and we used to play a game called Drug wars on them. Ha!
It still works, which is kind of a tiny miracle, IMO.
In other news, I’m trying to abandon my hoarder ways. And I’ll be highlighting some of my weirder and more wonderful items as I get rid of them. To Ebay!
I made this tiny “fairy garden” to put on my desk at work. The moss is dried but the little succulent clippings are the real deal.
I put instructions on how I did it on my home blog.
So my friend Lara has this website and I’ve been helping her troubleshoot some WordPress issues and it turns out I’m getting kind of good at this. I’m almost to the point of wanting to learn how to make WordPress sites actually attractive. I’m an epic fail at beautification efforts, which is why I had the super simple Wu Wei template for like two years.
The next crazy thing I think I want to tackle is importing my old blogger blogs to this site! I had Roadside Curiosities detailing my many roadside Americana side trips. I also had Bexcraft for my crafty endeavors. I wonder if I can import BOTH of them? Anyway, I think I’ll be trying to do that in the next couple of weeks so if anything looks crazy here? That will probably be the cause.
I’m importing partly because I want to see if I can and partly because I’d like all my wacky blogs under one umbrella on my website.
Edited to add: So it turns out that that was crazy easy! Ha! And it even imported all of my comments and categories. Holy crap! When I first moved from Blogger to WordPress with my husband on our old blog? It was HELLISH and took hours. Oops. Technology moved on.
I made a bunch of mason jar lanterns (in that I fashioned the wire) and posted a how-to on the site I share with my husband. Check it out:
How to fashion the wire:Â http://www.remodernranch.com/how-to-make-a-mason-jar-candle-lantern/
Got this in the mail recently! I did a copy edit on this book for Chicago Review Press a few months back.
It was a fun project. I felt like I got to put my film studies degree to use (finally).
Mom, had she helped pay for my education, would have been proud.