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Recently, we ran a Kickstarter program. Kickstarter.com is a place for creatives to post a project they’re trying to raise money for. There are art projects, films, books, inventions… all kinds of really cool things on there, all trying to get funding so that they can be created. The artists/writers/inventors/whatevers post a story about the project they want to do and offer “rewards” to anyone who will donate to Read the Full Story...

And helped us reach our goal, then go on to surpass it by 17% before the deadline brought pledges to a close. This exhibit would not have been possible without their generous support and we can’t thank them enough. Our spirits were greatly lifted as the pledges began coming in, so it wasn’t only funding that was needed. As a result, our first Kickstarter Project is now in the Read the Full Story...

Our first Kickstarter Project has just launched. What’s Kickstarter? It’s a new and innovative way for individuals across the globe who are interested in what an artist does, or wants to do, to fund creative projects by pledging various levels of support according to what they each can afford. Doesn’t have to be a lot. Each pledge level has rewards that the project’s backers will receive Read the Full Story...

Each year, we travel to Colorado Springs to attend the National Space Symposium. Actually, we don’t *attend*, we work. First off, we move the giant glass sculpture from it’s home at the Space Foundation corporate headquarters to where the conference is. When we’re done moving and setting it back up, we spend the rest of the week exhibiting our work in a booth in the exhibit hall with Read the Full Story...

Short time between initial plugin release and the first update but it had to be done… and quick. Downloads of the first Admin Menus Fixed version were chugging along nicely for a number of days, with no reports of bugs, etc. Then, while researching why Popular Posts was suddenly returning no results by deactivating recently updated plugins, one-by-one, to try to sort out if there were a Read the Full Story...

Over the past several months, I’ve gotten the love bug for cupcakes. My mom got me a book for Christmas that was all about cupcakes with different recipes and decorations and then my friend, Sandra Salamony, sent me her wonderful book, 1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes with glorious pictures of all sorts of different decorating ideas. Of course, I wanted to make them Read the Full Story...

I love it when things work out just right.

Ten days ago, I got a call from a lady who had seen our Baptismal Bowls website and wanted to know if we could do a custom piece for her church. The bowls on the website are large – 18 inches diameter by 5 inches deep. She needed one that was about 12 inches across by 4 inches Read the Full Story...

The Story of the Admin Menus Fixed WordPress Plugin

It all started as a hack. I use a really cool plugin authored by Ozh—his Admin Drop Down Menu. It puts a thin horizontal bar across the top of the Admin screens with drop-down menus, so you can turn off the wide column of standard menus that runs down the left side and Read the Full Story...

Admin Menus Fixed — THe HaCk

Not that they were necessarily broken… well, there is room for improvement, but I mean “fixed” in the sense of the word meaning not moving. I have long used a most excellent plugin designed to make WordPress Admin’s lives easier by consolidating the backend Admin Menu that normally runs down a column on the left side of the Read the Full Story...

A while back, I wrote a blog post about if it were better to focus on just one type of art, one technique and get really super good at it, or if it were better to focus on a number of different ones. I don’t have much of a choice but to do the many, as my mind is scattered over so many different techniques and my attention Read the Full Story...