There WILL Be Carving This Weekend!

The computer glitches continue....though chipped away at! (OK, all you grammar students may now cringe!)
The two problems haunting both the Blog-a-letter (this page) and the Gazette (the Newsletter) were resolved--momentarily!

Apparently the site for enrolling to receive automatic updates is not working properly--automatically or otherwise--though it was when you were sent a request to join.

The logos have disappeared (even though we have changed nothing) and when the sign up button logo is not present, the button doesn't function. In attempting to replace the offending, non-working culprits, I discovered I was unable to gain access to the site.

Not wanting to waste yet another day with fruitless "fix-its" we will take a break from the tech stuff and accept that if you can't sign up, for whatever reason, you must not have been meant to, (sorry again grammar students!) at least at this time.

BLOG is definitely a four letter word, an unpleasant one, in my limited cybertech vocabulary!

Since I really don't want to spend another compulsive day at the computer I will be turning it off (horrors!) as soon as this post is finished. There will be carving this weekend. This is my low tech therapy to counter to loss of control of things technical.

Look for a "proof" next week. While the carving output may never make it to rubber, it may just keep me out of the rubber room!

Thanks for listening!

Charlotte

More Apologies Are in Order!

Take a peek at the Gazette Front Page. You'll see a "nothing little piece" that stole TWO CLAY PLAY DAYS and a lot of sleep from me. And you'll get your apology for being bugged by so many update notices. I did it. I forgot that every time I touch the blog, it sends notices of "new" content. This time is wasn't "new," or even interesting, just repetitious.

I've been trying to put a tiny little slide show at the bottom of this infamous Blog....so new people can get a peak at some samples. It sounds 1-2-3 simple when you read the directions....that was two days/nights (I've got them all mixed up) ago.

Of course, I thought it was ME.........until I found a "help" section that had at least twenty people writing with questions about the same difficulties I was experiencing. Ugh! And no solutions that I could understand : (

Still don't have it resolved. But I couldn't waste ALL the work, so I found a way to put the slide show on the web site. I kind of made it up, I think, but it worked. Not, of course for the Blog, where it's needed.

Auuughhhh computers!!!

I'm so tired now I'm going to bed at a ridiculously early hour. Hopefully to get a fresh start tomorrow. A fresh CLAY PLAY start!

Goodnight.

P.S. A new quest....to see if I can make a "practice, " unpublicized blog to use to work out these confusing issues privately.

Still on A "Shakedown Cruise"

We are working with two programs...one to create and publish the latest information. This is, hopefully, going to be a more effective way to get emails to you. With more information, pictures and fun and also with the blog specific features....the most exciting one, a way for you to "answer back" directly, within the email. (That should keep me on my toes!)

The second, is a program to actually mail the blog to you.

That's not working so well. Theoretically, there is a way to mail the blog to you AS IS. So far that's not happening. It it's apparently sending the new information but not in the intended format. Using an entirely different layout. Our quest now is to find out how/why this is happening.

Also, it is only supposed to go out to you when there is new information. That way you won't be inundated with duplicate emails from gg designs. (Some of you are already irritated by this. I understand and apologize.)

My suspicion, my fear, is that everytime I edit or change anything (color, size, placement) as I try to get up and running, you receive ANOTHER copy! Please say it isn't so! BUT, please, if this is happening, write to me to let me know.

Thanks again for your patience while I try to work all this out.

Charlotte

Let the Fun Begin!

We've already gotten a few of you upset with us for so many posts....hope this isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back!

We ar trying to bring gg designs into the 21st Century......and it's a rough go, especially for someone who can't even use her cell phone reliably. And, program a VCR? Forget it!

Anyway, this is just a test post. If it works, we'll be using this vehicle to bring you news of contests, freshly carved images and other "stuff" you may need to know about......or, at least, we (gg designs) will want to tell you about.