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Odds and Ends

I’m feeling a little bit at odds with myself because I want to get the Prosperity Project up and running, but it feels so daunting and mind absorbing that I don’t want to start on that on father’s day morning when I have places to go and things to do later on.

I was also thinking about Meme City, and all the memes that I’ve saved that are funny and clever, but that feels tedious and boring. Not because the memes are boring, but because I struggle with how to tag them and categorize them. And of course, I can’t just do one or two… it always ends up being 10 or 15. 🙂

I also want to make more mandalas and upload more stuff to Red Bubble and Middle of the Night Art, but that feels like a mind trap. Like I’ll go into a sort of a fugue state and make a gagillion mandalas and patterns. And by a gagillion, I mean a ridiculous number of them.

So… sigh… This is what I have done so far today:

Interesting and funny that I ended up with ladybugs and bees…

Obsessing In The Middle Of The Night

So, now that I’ve started working on the Middle of the Night Art site, I am obsessing over it and I can’t stop making new mandalas out of the drawings, and I just want to upload all of it at once to my Red Bubble shop, and I am even thinking about starting another series because I am once again in love with the drawings and the concept! It’s not really ready for the main site, but here’s a sneak peak at what I have gotten done so far:

There are also a few galleries, but since there is virtually nothing in them, I’m not putting the links here. Most of my time has been spent getting the site to look how I want it to look. Not quite there yet, but almost. Go check it out if you are interested. 🙂

A Few New Posts

Not a lot is new today, as I have a “regular” job with long hours and usually don’t get much posted here on the site during my work week. However… I did manage to put up a few new things:

Have you asked the receptionist a question yet? I did. I asked her what I should post next, and she told me that was the stupidest question she’d ever heard. LOL. So much fun!

Oh, and I have been working on Middle Of The Night Art, a brand new mini-site for the Art pages. It’s no where near done, but if you happen to be interested, here’s a sneak peak at the posts that I finished today:

A New Idea

Today I am going to try to implement a new idea for site news. My thought is that so much new content gets posted but goes unnoticed because I happen to be working on a little site that doesn’t get much traffic. So… it occurred to me that maybe I would try to post links to all the new stuff here on site news, on the day I post it. I’m not sure if I’m just making more work for myself, or if this will actually be useful and helpful.

Of course, today I am super busy and probably won’t get much posted, but here’s what’s new so far:

As the day progresses, I will come back to this post and add links. So, let’s see how it goes!

Support This Site

I’m sure that my regular visitors have noticed that the site has been running really really slow lately. That’s because we have exceeded our bandwidth and our storage resources. As a result, I had to upgrade the site to a larger (and more expensive) hosting plan. So…

Happy news! The deed is done, and we shouldn’t have any problems for a quite a while. On the down side, I am now looking for ways to pay for the upgrade that do not include annoying and invasive advertising. Right now, this website is ad free… I’d like to keep it that way!

So, if you love this site, and want to support it, you can! And it’s easy. Just visit my new RedBubble  shop: Magick Mama, and even if you don’t buy anything, at least you can like or share the designs that you think are cool. The more visitors I have, the more likes I have, the easier it is for people to find my designs and if I can get a decent amount of sales, that would really help with the costs of this website.

Eye Have Been Busy!

Well, I had a bunch of days off for Thanksgiving weekend, and I spent them posting a ridiculous amount of stuff about eyes! Why eyes? Eye don’t know! But… there was so much of it, that I thought it deserved a shout out here. So… here ya go! Enjoy!

On Mandala Madness we have:

On the Coloring Pages we have:

On Hey It’s Me we have:

Current News

So, the hard drive in my lap top went south, and I lost a whole bunch of stuff I had collected to use on the various sites here at shirleytwofeathers.com. It was pretty traumatizing! Here’s the litany of loss:

  • My collection of over 100 hilarious memes that I hadn’t had time to share on Meme City yet … gone.
  • More than 60 coloring pages saved for the Coloring Pages … gone.
  • I had so many cool animated gifs… so many… now gone.
  • I had a very extensive collection of tiny icons that I use to make the templates for the mini sites … gone.
  • The templates for all the current mini sites …. gone.
  • The back up for the current static web pages … gone.
  • Seamless backgrounds for templates and web pages … I did manage to save some of them, but most of them are gone.
  • Collected information on mantras and meditation practices … gone.
  • All the pictures and information I had saved for next years projects on The Prosperity Project … gone.
  • My downloaded music … gone…. all of it… gone.

And then there’s the confusion factor. I did have a bunch of stuff saved from 2 years ago. But it wasn’t organized at all. Instead it was mixed in with stuff from 5 years ago… and beyond. So, it’s not simple anymore to know what images I’ve used and which ones I haven’t used… which tweaks my OCD in a major way because God Forbid !! I use the same picture on the same mini site twice!!

What does this all mean for the website?

Well, it means that I will have to painstakingly recreate each mini site template in order to update the sites for 2018… which means I will have to go on long exhausting searches for icons and background images… the same goes for the static web pages…. which means it will be a while before I get up the nerve and the energy to update any of them…. which means that I won’t be fixing the glitchy news feed banners anytime soon.

On a positive note!

So there is a very tiny … very slender … silver lining to all this. And that is… hmmmm…. and that is… wait, I’m thinking… something will come to me… I’m sure… Oh! OK!

On a positive note, I still do have a bunch of stuff on all my blogger blogs that need to be moved. I can still post like crazy on all the little mini sites. I did have a great reservoir of information saved over the years. And I have a library of books… and a brain… and my google search engine works just fine.

Also, interestingly… my bulging folder of cat stuff came through intact! How fun is that! I guess you could say it wasn’t a CATastrophe. LOL.

Going Batty

Looks like I’ve gone a little batty! This week I have posted quite a lot of information about bats. Here’s a list of links to the various posts. Enjoy!

New Stuff ~ Go Check It Out!

Check it out! We have a whole new page of cool new stuff. The Art Page is now open for business, and totally revamped. I love how it looks, and some fun new stuff to explore. Currently we have the following new art sites:

  • Cool Beans
    A nifty little site dedicated to all things art, art projects, and anything I find that is interestingly creative.
  • Coloring Pages
    These are the same coloring pages that are also featured on the Fun Page.
  • Go With The Flow
    A gallery of abstract art created by shirleytwofeathers.
  • Graffix
    A super cool collection of graphics, icons, banners, dividers, and seamless background textures.

I hope you find something fun and interesting!

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