Yesterday I had the privilege of shooting some of our kids tees with a good friend of mine, Miss Angela Smith. Check her out @ http://www.angelasmithphotography.ca/ - That shot of the lovely blue eyed baby, that's my boy Max. The other two boys couldn't be bothered with the camera, despite Angela's efforts. Max tried to poke his little head into every shot. Mama's boy.
Ange is a trooper! Anyone knows coming into this house, professionalism flies out the window, and we have to make due with our surroundings. This is her second time shooting with us, she is a glutton for punishment!
Lessons she may have learned:
1. I have no idea what I'm doing. I just pretend I do.
2. My children are a permanent fixture on my leg. More like a growth. We learn to work with it.
3. The little ones like to break things, pad your photography equipment.
4. Don't offer to help, because I will take you up on it.
All that said, she did great. And she didn't slam the door on the way out, so I think we're still friends.
Ah, we have so much to do! We were able to shoot half of the collection, the other half is still in production.
Kurt and I need to stop designing, and cap off so we can get the full shoot over with. Christmas is coming, and we need to be ready.
In the next week or two, we will be doing the outdoor shoot, with the kids in the tee's. **Remember to pack the duct tape.**
Documenting the struggles and triumphs of a husband and wife team as they try to grow their home based business.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hey HTML - you're kind of a jerk.
We are building our website. Well, we're supposed to be building our website.
We registered our domain name long ago, thinking we were rock stars. Realizing that neither one of us had the time, or any idea what to do with it, we found a friend of a friend, that knew some guy somewhere, who happened to be a web designer, on the side. He wasn't charging much.
What he sent back to us wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the gem I was hoping for. We sat with it for a while and focused on our seller sites ebay & etsy.
Fast forward.
2 babies, a few birthdays and a recession later, Kurt and I decide that now is the time to focus on our website sales, we are getting absolutely pillaged by our seller sites and their hidden fees.
Kurt tries to get ahold of our web designer, who has apparently vanished. No biggie, right? I can handle this. I will build it.
I type in www.kssmaternity.com. I click a button here and there, nothing is happening.
S: Kurt is there like a.. thing.. where you can log in?
K: A thing?
S: Ya, like on Facebook where you just, log in, and all your stuff is there.
K: You're kidding right?
S: ...Yes?
So it is slightly possible that I don't know what I'm doing. But I can figure it out. Gotta keep the bills down.
Kurt, noticing I'm starting to sweat, tells me about bigcartel.com, a really cool site building tool specifically for online stores. I signed up. Diamond package, naturally.
Hoping this is going to solve all of my problems, I sign in. There is a big, blank, empty page with very few directions. It's asking me to type in shapes, and lines, and headers, and footers.. what the h*** is a footer? Is that even a word? Do I want to know what it is?
It's HTML. It's a foreign language that computers and a select group of superhumans understand. I am pretty convinced that I fall in the superhuman category, so I give it a shot.
20 minutes later, I managed to come up with one pretty sweet letter/number/symbol combo. Clearly, I'm a genius. I upload it to our bigcartel site.
S: I knew I could figure it out, I can figure out pretty much anything.
K: Let me see it!
As it turns out, I loaded one gigantic picture, of a t shirt. All of my words and header footers just disappeared into thin air. (Check it out for yourself www.kssmaternity.bigcartel.com)
K: Babe, sometimes it's better to admit that you don't know what you're doing, and forward it to someone that does.
S: (defeated) You're right.
Currently, we have one unfinished website under our registered domain, and one giant picture of a t shirt on our second domain. We are back at square one, looking for a web designer.
html : 1
Sarah: 0
The battle isn't over.
We registered our domain name long ago, thinking we were rock stars. Realizing that neither one of us had the time, or any idea what to do with it, we found a friend of a friend, that knew some guy somewhere, who happened to be a web designer, on the side. He wasn't charging much.
What he sent back to us wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the gem I was hoping for. We sat with it for a while and focused on our seller sites ebay & etsy.
Fast forward.
2 babies, a few birthdays and a recession later, Kurt and I decide that now is the time to focus on our website sales, we are getting absolutely pillaged by our seller sites and their hidden fees.
Kurt tries to get ahold of our web designer, who has apparently vanished. No biggie, right? I can handle this. I will build it.
I type in www.kssmaternity.com. I click a button here and there, nothing is happening.
S: Kurt is there like a.. thing.. where you can log in?
K: A thing?
S: Ya, like on Facebook where you just, log in, and all your stuff is there.
K: You're kidding right?
S: ...Yes?
So it is slightly possible that I don't know what I'm doing. But I can figure it out. Gotta keep the bills down.
Kurt, noticing I'm starting to sweat, tells me about bigcartel.com, a really cool site building tool specifically for online stores. I signed up. Diamond package, naturally.
Hoping this is going to solve all of my problems, I sign in. There is a big, blank, empty page with very few directions. It's asking me to type in shapes, and lines, and headers, and footers.. what the h*** is a footer? Is that even a word? Do I want to know what it is?
It's HTML. It's a foreign language that computers and a select group of superhumans understand. I am pretty convinced that I fall in the superhuman category, so I give it a shot.
20 minutes later, I managed to come up with one pretty sweet letter/number/symbol combo. Clearly, I'm a genius. I upload it to our bigcartel site.
S: I knew I could figure it out, I can figure out pretty much anything.
K: Let me see it!
As it turns out, I loaded one gigantic picture, of a t shirt. All of my words and header footers just disappeared into thin air. (Check it out for yourself www.kssmaternity.bigcartel.com)
K: Babe, sometimes it's better to admit that you don't know what you're doing, and forward it to someone that does.
S: (defeated) You're right.
Currently, we have one unfinished website under our registered domain, and one giant picture of a t shirt on our second domain. We are back at square one, looking for a web designer.
html : 1
Sarah: 0
The battle isn't over.
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