A Full Day's Work

Somehow this type of project always takes me all darn day. But Simon worked all day and Steve was downstairs in his office so it was very peaceful and quiet around here. Verona mostly slept on the top of my desk. Only a couple of times did she get so insistent on affection that I had to close her out of studio.

So.

These new pages are up on the Pine Tree Designs website.

Suncatchers

Framed Art

What's New

Jennifer Cards

And the Pine Tree Design Newsletter has been emailed. I've stopped using Constant Contact and gone back to my do-it-yourself version. The stats available through Constant Contact are very interesting and quite encouraging actually, in terms of percentage of newsletters opened and click-throughs (to the website), etc. but it's just not in the budget for now, not when I can do it for free, not counting my valuable time that is.

Plus, as I mentioned another time, RoadRunner does a pretty good job of filtering spam so it wouldn't let my newsletter go through. I put out the word to the 10-15 people on the list with RoadRunner addresses that they would need to subscribe themselves, but only a couple did. (Even my own family did not subscribe - hello??) So like it or not, I put those people back on the list. You people can run, but you can't hide! (Seriously, anyone is more than welcome to unsubscribe at any time - there's a link at the bottom of the newsletter for subscribing and unsubscribing.)

I've had a lot of inquiries about the suncatchers so I'm feeling good about sales of those. I took 4 down to Artisan's Alley on Friday so we'll see how they sell there as well.

Coding the pages and newsletter is tedious but fun and very satisfying. I can't tell you how nice it was to have such a big chunk of uninterrupted time to work on it.

So go take a look! Place an order! [/shameless self-promotion]