I’m a couple weeks deep in summer break and I feel like I’ve been working 8 hour days. At least I’m having a good time doing (most of) this stuff… I’ve been working on wedding pictures from the Hoffman wedding a couple weeks ago. My wife and I have also shot a couple family portraits so I’ve been working on those pictures too. Whenever I need a break from Photoshop I open up Dreamweaver and work on my website. I want to update some of the image galleries and I have to finish a couple pages. Unfortunately the state of Indiana doesn’t think that I know enough about reading after being trained in Reading Recovery all of last year so I started earning a Reading Certificate to add to my license. I go to IUSB every Tuesday and Thursday for 3 hours to learn about tradebooks. And of course I should probably mow the grass pretty soon. Or maybe I’ll wait until August…
New, Look! A New Look!
Well, here it is. My blog got a facelift. Consider this a free preview to the new site that I hope to have 
in place very soon. I still have a few small details to fine-tune but this is the basic idea. It’s a lot more impressive when you see how it started (right). Now it has more of the Art by Fuzzy feel. I downloaded the atmosphere 10 theme, created by Dagon Design and played with the CSS file for a while until I finally got it pretty close to the way I want it. I think I’m actually starting to understand all this Cascading Style Sheet stuff.Â
A site update… in progress
Some fantastic news! This very site will soon be newer, faster, and more exciting than ever. I am currently hard at work on a CSS layout which should make the main part of the site lighter and faster. I also plan to update the galleries if I have time and add some other small features. I’ve got the layout pretty well set and I think I figured out the menu. Now I’m testing and adding content. It’s going to be sweet! I also updated WordPress and added a couple plugins. Maybe some day I’ll have time to activate them and try some of the cool stuff I see that’s possible with this WordPress contraption.
Summer Break at last
Technically I still have a few days to work in the computer lab. But I’m not going in this week due to some transportation issues and a wedding. My wife is using my car this week because her car’s back struts are shot. Tomorrow I will be heading to Michigan to get ready for my brother’s wedding on Friday. So the last few days have been like a preview to my summer vacation.
The school year wrapped up without too much excitement. So now I have a full year of Reading Recovery under my belt. I will probably do it again next year unless they decide we want to replace RR with a different program. Then I guess I’ll get to learn something new…. We finished the track season on a strong note, taking 2nd place at the conference meet.
After working next week I’ll get ready to shoot the wedding in Indianapolis. I hope to spend a lot of time working with clay this summer and not a lot of time mowing the grass. My wife and I might take a trip somewhere but we haven’t decided where. I also plan to update the rest of the site. I’ve been studying the art of CSS so I can eventually get rid of tables… but maybe I’ll get to that next summer….
Another day, another shelf
I added another shelf above the clay table so I had a place to put my tools. It was a little tricky getting it attached to the support beams above but I finally made it work. In the future I’ll probably add some more shelves to the walls so I have more room for pieces to dry.
I also made a nice long shelf over by the sink so I can dry my tools after I clean them.
And here are some of the current pieces that I’m working on. Just some basic items to test the mid-fire clay and glazes. I’m using Amaco’s warm brown stoneware and buff firing stoneware.
