Productive Weekend

island girl hair claw
Originally uploaded by gunaoverthemoon

Three day weekends can be a real godsend.

Thursday night I ran to Michaels to get some craft supplies and managed to get home in time to do a 20-minute power cleaning of the bathroom, before Last Comic Standing.
Once that was over I spent an hour hunting down my glue gun, and when I found it, made the island girl hair claw pictured, starting at 11:00 pm--I think my creativity is nocturnal, seriously. I always start this sort of project in the middle of the damn night...

Anyway, on the fourth my parents came over, but not until about one, and I managed to finish some preliminary work for an important art project. (It's top secret for now, but sufficed to say I'm on a time crunch.) Needs some cleanup, but the basic linework is done.

Saturday I woke up and painted the kitchen and hall fixtures I've been putting off for months now. The paint was so thin I had to do four coats, but thank god that's done and over with. After that I popped in Fate Stay Night (love it, btw, but too short--I'd have liked to see better development on some of the side characters)and turned on old, neglected desktop (which is still way better for photoshop than my laptop, in spite of being 7 years old), and started working on redesigning my website again. Worked on that seamlessly until about 3 AM. (Creativity=nocturnal, remember?)
Took the weekend off of 'Girls Only', since all I need to do is editing and formatting, and don't expect that to take more than one night, tops.

Sunday I finished up Fate Stay Night and popped in Cowboy beebop while continuing the web design, so now I can proudly say I'm about 75% finished with the redesign after only 2 days of work. Sure, they were 10 hour days and I'm wearing my glasses today because my eyes are killing me, but still, pretty good progress there!

GEEK OUT MOMENT: Lovin' the PageBreeze Free HTML Editor. I was never able to get into Dreamweaver, as good as everyone says it is (just couldn't really get into the layout of the program for whatever reason), and I've been using Free Coffee Cup for years, which is a damn good program too--but I decided to try out PageBreeze when I had to reinstall the program because of the Evil Force that is Vista, and it's very slightly different, but I like the differences. It's very user-friendly with only very basic html needed to make full use of the program.

Also introduced myself to Flickr this weekend, which I think is going to make my life a whole helluva lot easier.

'Girls Only' MAY be on site by next weekend. I'll let you know.