It's 9:30 p.m. and I'm still here at the shop, trying to upload photos onto the website. My broadband service has decided to take a break from its busy, busy workload and has reduced online access to a trickle. A sad reality of doing business online is that you have to do business online. "Oh yes! I'll e-mail that photo to you!" I cheerily say to any interested party standing before my counter on a sunny retail afternoon. "Not sure which color you'd like? No problem. I'll e-mail 20 photos to you depicting your options and you can peruse them from the comfort of your own home!" I'm a genius, I tell myself. Until I find a moment to send the photos at the bleary-eyed (for me anyway) hour of 9 p.m. and my computer freezes. Control, alt, delete. Reboot, resend, re-freeze. And so the cycle of life continues... On to happier subjects: those Japanese papers just keep giving and giving! I decoupaged (yuck - not a good word when used as a verb.) a bunch of shadowboxes, then painted the frames white, and hung the whole group in the entryway to the store. One of these days I'll post the dimensions of the shadowboxes for your viewing pleasure, along with your options of paper with which to cover them, just as soon as my computer and I are friends again. Well, friendship might be asking too much. Just as soon as we are on speaking terms.
