Mixed bag.

Happy birthday to kittenpants!

Yesterday I made a birthday cake. A real birthday cake, with SUGAR. This morning, I topped it with rum-caramel sauce. triadruid came in and said, "That's a real cake, isn't it? No concessions to healthy?". Fuck yes. I can make half-ass cake for *my* birthday.

The internet is uncooperative at home for some reason. If I said hi to you last night via IM, and then dropped off the face of the planet, that would be why. Well, that and the whisky. Allegedly, someone is coming to make the internet flow again tomorrow morning.

I voted this morning. I wish that made me feel better about anything.

Mixed bag.

Happy birthday to kittenpants!

Yesterday I made a birthday cake. A real birthday cake, with SUGAR. This morning, I topped it with rum-caramel sauce. triadruid came in and said, "That's a real cake, isn't it? No concessions to healthy?". Fuck yes. I can make half-ass cake for *my* birthday.

The internet is uncooperative at home for some reason. If I said hi to you last night via IM, and then dropped off the face of the planet, that would be why. Well, that and the whisky. Allegedly, someone is coming to make the internet flow again tomorrow morning.

I voted this morning. I wish that made me feel better about anything.

Your input requested (Jewelry business)

The Hot Nurse asked me to donate a piece of jewelry to the silent auction her son's school is having as a fund-raiser. I have no problem in the world doing that, of course, but she also said, "You know, you should include your business card so it's like advertising." This is also undeniably true. However. I do not have a business card. I do not have a business card because I do not have anything to direct people to via a business card. I need a website.

There are a couple of things that block me from having a website. I'm pretty sure I could put one together, even if was just a shop on a larger site, or something I put together with somebody's e-commerce toolkit. However. In order to do that, I'd need good photographs of my work. I do not seem to be capable of producing good photographs of my work. I think it would help me to have a light-box and some sort of display platform, which I could probably build. It would also help me to use a tripod. I think I have one somewhere. But that's all I know about. If some of you other picture-taking folks could point me to some tips on taking good up-close photos of shiny things, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I would need a name for said website, and the jewelry business it would allegedly represent. Any suggestions there would also be appreciated. I've been using 'Entropic Trinity' but, of course, it's just my work, and the entropic part perhaps suggests that the things are likely to explode or disintegrate at any moment, which is not really what I want to convey.

So, what do you think?

Your input requested (Jewelry business)

The Hot Nurse asked me to donate a piece of jewelry to the silent auction her son's school is having as a fund-raiser. I have no problem in the world doing that, of course, but she also said, "You know, you should include your business card so it's like advertising." This is also undeniably true. However. I do not have a business card. I do not have a business card because I do not have anything to direct people to via a business card. I need a website.

There are a couple of things that block me from having a website. I'm pretty sure I could put one together, even if was just a shop on a larger site, or something I put together with somebody's e-commerce toolkit. However. In order to do that, I'd need good photographs of my work. I do not seem to be capable of producing good photographs of my work. I think it would help me to have a light-box and some sort of display platform, which I could probably build. It would also help me to use a tripod. I think I have one somewhere. But that's all I know about. If some of you other picture-taking folks could point me to some tips on taking good up-close photos of shiny things, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I would need a name for said website, and the jewelry business it would allegedly represent. Any suggestions there would also be appreciated. I've been using 'Entropic Trinity' but, of course, it's just my work, and the entropic part perhaps suggests that the things are likely to explode or disintegrate at any moment, which is not really what I want to convey.

So, what do you think?