Altered Barbie getting ready

Photo depicts "Barbie's Hood Ornament" by Leigh Radtke.
Well the Altered Barbie show is coming closer. I'm running like mad to get organized. the press release went out, the post card is at the printers I actually had some input, but mostly i fixed the issues with the logos for the sponsors in the press release.
this is just the sort of thing i'm good at. problem solving on the fly.
the first acceptances went out. there are actually some artists who don't have email and that makes it hard to contact them, snail mail is well, ... slow! so i won't publish all the names yet.
I actually made a spreadsheet - yeah i know!! this is tough for me of course with the dyslexia and all but i have to get some skills in this area. i need them for Frank Bette Center for the Arts too.

I went out and purchased the domain name for altered barbie and set it up with a real life server. there were lots of little bugs at first, several caused by my inexperience! but i worked it through with tech support.

So now i really have to update the Altered Barbie site and blog and our pnn.com interactive news site cuz so many details have firmed up. I also have to start adding artists pages and gather artists info for the book and website. Oh and the sponsers! (of which daydreaming arts is one!)

I love working on this show but i've been doing it pretty much non stop for two weeks now with just a short break to help with intake at Frank Bette last Sunday. Boy was that demanding!!! Also I did my shots but have yet to print them cuz my printer still hasn't arrived (another crazy story) and i've been working hard on helping Sarah with her dioramas. getting Barbie to stand up is really hard!!! Oh and Sarah and i were at the mall yesterday and we started planning what we will wear to the Barbie Ball, it's getting so exciting!!!!!
so i'm heading over to the blog right now.

e-mailing posts - i still have to

well i'm really not sure i understand the e-mailing posts feature. today i signed on for the first time since i sent in the e-mail posting. it wasn't posted but was saved as a draft so that i could hit the publish button today. very useful! not.
oh dear and look at that formating! what a mess. oh well.

test the e-mail posting feature

Today I''m testing 2 features. one is the ability to send the blog to
someone by e-mail. if that worked, and you know who you are, leave a
comments so i know. i've opened up commenting so you can post a comment
even if you aren't a member of blogspot.
the other feature is the ability to e-mail in my blog. with this
feature i write up my blog in my email program and hit send and we'll
see how it turns out.
I suppose this would be useful if you only had dial up.

what happens to a photo when I post it here

I've been experimenting with what happens to a photo when i post it here. I had made a large file for my daughter to print at school. it was a jpeg but i'd saved it with a resolution of 300 and kept the size at about 5 by 5. When i uploaded it here and then right click to save back on my hard drive, the fine folks here at blogspot had kept the dimensions but dripped the resolution to 72. So this is definitely not the way to share a file that you want your grandma to download and print. This is very interesting!

testing photo upload

trying to find a work around link to cancerwontkillshullady

I like this blog because I can make it look the way I want more than any other. I am testing blogs because i think that the over 50 population, like those in my digital photography class, will benefit from using blogs because the can communicate with friends and family in a creative way. I have a friend who is using a blog as a journal throughout her battle against breast cancer. It really seems to work for her both as a journalling tool and a way to keep everyone informed of her progress. For me this would be a great way to create an artist's journal, but i have a technical difficulty that i must find a work around for. The usual way to post pictures is using picasa and hello. but those only work on a windoz box. which i could manage if i had to cuz after all my dear husband has one of those machines i love to hate like the bad girl in a soap opera. but i don't want to! i take it as a personal challenge whenever i find something that won't work with a mac! I think the work around is the link aspect. If i can upload the pictures anywhere on the web i will be able to link to it and it'll show on my blog. well enough for today.