I’m having flashbacks back to when I created my website without any experience or history with that sort of thing. I ultimately did it, but it took many hours and days of frustrating dead ends and wrong turns to get there. I don’t want to use one of the easy, straight-out-of-the-can blog templates (that would be too easy!); I want to tweak it to create a look that somewhat matches my website in color, layout, fonts, etc. After much fumbling around in unknown territory, I ordered “Word Press for Dummies” from Amazon. I hope it helps!

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(Trying to recreate the last post from the previous blog!) Inspired by the wonderful Kathleen Dustin, I created some custom earwires for these new polymer clay earrings out of 20g sterling wire. Kathleen has been urging her students (and other jewelry artists) to consider the earwire as an extension of the overall design of the piece. In this instance, the elongated and slightly assymetrical polymer clay pieces wouldn’t have been nearly as interesting if merely hung from stock earwires. In fact, they might have been downright boring because of their simple design. To me, they now seem simply elegant.

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I sort of belly-flopped into the blogging pool. One of things I want to offer on my blog is a blog roll. Apparently, this is not something that just happens. A widget is required so the template selected must be “widget ready”. AAAACK! I also had a pingback notice….huh? So, I’ve spent too much of today delving into this new (for me) language.

I got frustrated and decided to start fresh so I deleted the previous blog, which had about 3 or so entries. I thought I would go back to the Yahoo! 360 blog or a Movable Type blog; however, the same problem of figuring out how to attach a blog roll popped up so I went back to Word Press.

Grrrrrr………

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