Blue Moon Atelier Journal

Not really a lot going on lately - but, it's definately starting to feel a lot more like spring, and I'm itching to start gardening. I've got some stuff on the way for planting in a few weeks time - we're going to try growing our own Strawberries this year.

We went to Richmond, VA to see Pat Metheny last week. We were fortunate enough to have a hotel within walking distance of the venue and walking distance from the Penny Lane Pub, where we spent the majority of the afternoon and where I learned that Cider with a splash of Ribena is a very good thing.

I've been playing Sims2 again lately! After reading Nene's journal and seeing her screenshots, I had to return to my Sims! The Duke and Duchess of Yarm's twin daughters, Elizabeth and Victoria, are adolescents now, and I've built them a really flash house:

Now, if I can just make lovely new clothes like Nene does! :) Just when I thought I'd figured out how to modify the files in The Sims, they go and change things around in Sims 2 just enough to make it difficult to work out how to change things!

The Big Link, parte the second.

I now have, in my possession, a Logan Model 301-M Compact Mat Cutter. Thank goodness for Michael's and their occasional 50% off coupons!

There is a fundraiser in the early planning stages for a lovely lady in Greensboro, Jinni Hoggard, who is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. I'm currently working on a painting that I hope to do a good enough job on to donate for a silent auction item, and I'll probably donate some prints or mini-prints of some existing work and maybe some stuff from Luna Grove for door/raffle prizes.

I know a good portion of you who read this blog are also artists, so I thought I'd post this and see if any of you might be interested in donating some small arty-items. If so, let me know - comment here, or in the thread at the forum linked above, or email me at mary at lunagrove dot com. I'm willing to be a collection point for anything you guys may want to send, and will pass the items along to the planners as the event planning progresses. If you're interested, let me know and I'll pass the information along and then let you know where and when to send any donations. Anyone who reads who isn't an artist - if you've got connections with businesses who like to help with these sorts of things, I'm sure the planners can use all the help they can get!

...to the pillock who was sitting next-seat-but-one from me at last night's Pat Metheny show in Richmond, VA: WOULD IT KILL YOU TO SHUT UP JUST FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS?!?!

Well, I've finally got the journal looking and functioning the way I want, so I'm "officially" opening it for 'blogging!

This journal is replacing my previous site-based journal, which will remain on-line for archiving purposes - it can be visited by clicking "Old Journal" in the Archives link over there---->.

I still plan to keep my LiveJournal as well and will probably mirror most of my posts here at LJ.

Comments are working marvelously - the main spur to getting this blogging system was that the comments function went south in the old journal after trying to update to their latest version. After 5 days of trying to fix it, searching the support forums in vain and asking for help to no avail, I decided it was time to move to a different system. Oops - I rambled a bit off course there...back to the point: comments are working marvelously - if you have a TypeKey account, you can log in and your comment should appear straight away - otherwise first comments are moderated to prevent that bloody comment spam. Once you've had a comment approved, you should be good-to-go in future.

I'm working on setting up a "notify list" option, so you can sign up if you wish to be notified when I update this thing. The default version doesn't have any "fail-safe" options - so it's too prone to abuse (someone getting mad at someone and signing them up for all sorts of mailing lists they don't want to be signed up for). I'll be using a system with a confirmation requirement and unsubscribe function.

So, welcome, and thanks for reading! I'll try not to be too boring....

THE BIG LINK, parte the first
http://truthliesandcommonsense.blogspot.com/2005/03/real-web-hunt.html

Is this thing on?