New pic & website update

I have had a couple of new pictures taken since i have applied to a couple of new (to me) shows in the area. To the left is one of the new pics - i think it came out really nice. photo by ralph gabriner, of course. he is a magician with jewelry. i'm very happy with all the pictures he takes of my jewelry. i think my jewelry looks nice with i complete it but ralph adds a special look to it - it looks larger than life, really. love it.

this necklace is pretty substantial - it's made of heavy gauge sterling silver wire (have you seen the price of silver lately???!!! out of sight...) - and gorgeous white freshwater coin pearls - lovely, yes? very drapable & fun to wear. a real attention-getter!

anyway, as you may know, i have had website issues lately. as a result, i cannot currently edit my site SO that means, my calendar is incorrect. if you are looking for where i'll be in the next few months, you can no longer find that info on my website.

i'm in the process of rebuilding my site using a site builder that i can use with any server but it is a slow process. so far, i have looked at & considered wordpress, joomla!, the inmotion pro site builder and imac. i also plan to check out sitespinner. i'm learning a lot but it's pretty tedious. most claim to be "intuitive" or at least "very simple to use" but i'm not finding that to be the case. it looks like inmotion is pretty straight forward but it's tied to the inmotion web host so that's not an ideal solution. imac looks promising - i think i can carry it where ever i may go in the future for hosting but i need to do a little more checking on that.