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I bought a new computer!! I decided my time was too valuable to struggle with my missing keys and I was making too many errors in passwords and I have a big whack of new kits to write and ....

So I bought a new computer: a Mac this time. I've been learning how to do things with my new Mac and I really am pleased. The 'help' references really do help. And they are written for people like me who have difficulty following orders. Y'know, I've never thought of myself as a person marching to a different drum but I must be one of those: instructions are so hard to follow that I try to do everything without them and refer to the instructions only when all else has failed. Hmmm.

I've been using the exercise of writing a new kit, complete with my own diagrams, to learn the ins-and-outs of Mac-dom. I think I'm rather happy: not toe wiggling happy, just garden variety 'happy.'

Now that I've written something new I have to move over to Artfire and load them up for you to buy.

And a friend of mine turned me on to VistaPrint. I've seen them on the 'net but always passed them by. But with the endorsement of my friend I decided to try them. I managed 3 lots of free business cards: each with a different design element. Now every day I get their notification of something else just brought into the 'free' category. I am awaiting a small indoor sign. That's going to help my visibility at the fall Bead Oasis Show in Toronto. My next VistaPrint project will be invitations to my 'net friends for that show: it's in September, by the way.

My sister was wearing one of my necklaces yesterday and it was being admired by one of my wholesalers, a new wholesaler, and I thought 'hmmmmm.' I'm going to try that in a spiral technique.

Yup! Right after dinner was done and the dishes put into the dishwasher I sat down and began to play. One of the things I like about beading is that you can experiment to your heart's content and reclaim the beads to try again. All you are out is some thread and that's hardly the most expensive thing in beading. Not like needlework where the threads can be very expensive. I mean the 'do I eat or do I buy thread?' kind of expensive.

Well! 2AM arrived and my eyes were willfully closing. I had to put my needle, thread, and beads down and plod to bed. This morning I think the insides of my eyelids is made of sandpaper. My back aches and I've got a headache ~~ I really don't know why I stay up so late when I know the consequences are so unpleasant. Well, maybe I'll have a nap soon. That might help.

And right after I post the new kit on Artfire I'm gonna sit down to work on the new design. No! Wait! I'm going to get my nap out of the way first.

Oh, yeah! My ads for Artfire and VistaPrint are my opinions only. I receive no compensation and neither I nor my relatives are employees of these companies. ........Helen