The Great Migration

Steep hill to climb motivation

Moving is never fun.

Moving an entire website is really NOT FUN. Though we are very excited about bringing you fabulous new projects!

NOTE: Formerly CraftAndFabricLinks.com. New site - same owners

I Can Do It!

I keep repeating this to myself. I used to code straight up html on a blank page. I like this much better (Squarespace), but there is a bit of a learning curve for doing just what I want - great navigation. In a previous life, my responsibility was to de-bug and help design menu systems. It taught me a LOT. My goal is to be sure that you can find what you need QUICKLY. I know your time is valuable. Let us know if I can improve.

I am sloooowly recreating pages from our old site to this site - plus adding lots of great new projects.

I feel like a snail about to head up that hill.

List Maker

So, how do I keep going, and keep up the momentum, while still taking care of other responsibilities? Well, to be quite honest, I wasn’t doing so well with all that in the beginning. I worked until midnight and was up at 4 each morning for several days - designing the site and posting new projects. THANK GOODNESS Aleah was on board and developed the overall site design and color scheme. She is a top notch designer. I know navigation and coding, so that lies with me.

I felt that I NEEDED to get several pages up before going live. Then I realized the cat was suffering (is that an empty dish?), we had no dinner on the table (my husband came to the rescue with take-home), and my flower pots outside were not looking so good. I needed a plan! I am a list maker, and an organizer of time. I have always planned my days by making lists. I can “let go” of the items because they are written down. I get great satisfaction from marking things off. I will even add an item already done, just so I can cross it off. I decided to plan out my days in chunks of time. Work a bit on the site (maybe a long bit), then complete an item on the list. It is much healthier to get up and move some anyway.

I still feel like a snail about to head up that hill, but I am now an organized snail who will bite off just a small piece at a time.

So - What Is Coming?

removing sparkly ceiling

Coming sooon - ish

At this point (fall 2022), I have barely begun to move old content over. While doing that, we will also be adding lots of great new content. We just remodeled a house - that provided a boat load of material! I had the fun of removing an old ceiling (tested for asbestos first of course), and tearing up old floors. Our house looked like a “Dexter” area for quite some time. Since it was Halloween, that was ok with visitors.

Article: Christina Sherrod

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