Rough morning!

My email suddenly started acting up this morning. I have my email set up as imap, so that copy of everything stays on my web hosts' server....yeah, it makes downloading emails/pix slower, but it ensures that I always have a back-up of my business emails.

Well all of a sudden, I started getting error messages as I was trying to send emails...and it was an error I'd never seen before. The error came into play when my sent email tried to write a copy of itself to my "sent" email folder. It couldn't write to the proper folder on the server because it suddenly didn't exist!

Someone at 1and1.com deleted a folder somewhere for some reason, and it messed up my email!!

an hour and a half later with tech support, I can now send email again. All of my past "sent" emails are in a "sent items" folder, and all of my newly sent emails are not writing to the usual sent folder. but things are all segregated now and I don't like it! this was not a particularly great start to my day. Oh well, I guess I should be happy that all of my emails weren't lost.

Christmas shut-down

To get ready for Christmas, and to enjoy the holiday (and rest up before the spring rush), my studio will be shutting down starting this Saturday, the 19th. I'll get back to work on Monday, Jan 4th. I will not be making or shipping anything during this time

If you really need some questions answered during this time, feel free to call or email and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!!

Wicked Weather!

The weather forecast for today is pretty daunting with that major blizzard moving across the Midwest. It's currently 42 degrees outside, with that being the high for the day. as the blizzard moves in, we're going to have some really high winds...which have already started....but we may not get too much precipitation here in Indy. Just high winds and cold air. I'm curious if our power will go out, as that tends to happen in our neighborhood during windy spring weather (even though the neighborhood lines are buried...the lines leading into the neighborhood are not). If the power goes out, I’m not sure how much work I’ll be able to do, and it will get cold pretty quickly, but I've got to say, I wouldn't mind an excuse to have to take the rest of the day off! I'll just make sure I have a fire going in the fire place preemptively!

New travel dates

Paperwork is getting submitted again for our time over in England.  The paperwork states a start date of June 1-Nov18.  That would put us arriving in England the last week of May and heading home probably on Nov 19th.

So I think I'll be able to conduct a fairly normal spring season ...customers may need to order about 3-4 weeks earlier than they might normally, if they want any customization.  I think that I will be able to continuing offering engravings up until the start of May.  I'll keep this site and the homepage of the crown side updated with any pertinent cut-off dates.

So right now, I'm still working on creating a bunch of stock.  It's a little mind-numbing and also overwhelming all at the same time.  Also, I managed to encounter some Poison Ivy over thanksgiving, (yes, apparently you CAN get p.i. in nov/dec).  So I didn't get a whole lot of work done this week...but did get some good organizing both in the studio and online done.  I'm already working on my to-do list for Monday. 

This evening I have grand plans for trying to get more candle sets posted on the wedding candle page  (all in attempt to have pages as populated as possible for when the shopping cart debuts on Jan 1), as well as updating the wedding pictures page. 

This made me laugh...

...So still on the topic of England, and our trip being delayed until the end of Spring:  Josh received an apology from the director of his company for yanking us around with the date.  What made me laugh is that the director specifically mentioned that he realizes, also, that now we'll be leaving right during the height of the spring wedding season, and he's really sorry if that causes a problem with my business.  I couldn't stop laughing thinking about all these Aerospace engineers sitting around talking about Wedding Crowns!  So it's official, everyone at Josh's work knows what I do for a living.