Still need to get caught up

I'm still lagging very far behind and of course the list of things I have to do never gets any shorte.
Now that the kitchen is basically finished, I need to do the following

• Remake my website - it's out of date and I need to just beat it into something usuable.
• make stock - I am fairly low on stock so I nee to get that made up
• make molds - I want to have a stock of mold to take with me to the casting demo next saturday
• start casting blanks. I have a bunch of wood for Fusion blanks and I need to really stock up on coffee bean blanks and make some of the pasta blanks and split pea blanks.
• Try dyeing wood. I have some really nice spalted birch that would look good dyed various colors that I really want to try.

More also need to get done but that's enough of an update for now

I need to get caught up

I am doing a casting demo at the Midwest Penturner's Gathering on April 25th.
I still need to submit a bio and make a crapload of molds to sell there.
I also need to finish a pen for a guy in Canada and ship that out.

I also needs to update my website with new pens and prices. I'm lowering prices on a bunch of the pens like the Computer pen will now be priced at $65 instead of $100
and I have quite a few finised and ready to ship right now.

Light at the end of the tunnel

I finally settled on a host and now I'm waiting for the stars to align and the DNS servers to update and www.pensbykris.com will be alive again.

Hosting issues

arrrgh, I finally have all of my dns issues resolved and now my domain points to - nowhere!

I can't seem to get a hold of ABP to set things up on the server side. i also need to setup email addresses too, I would love to have the ability to setup and administer my own email addresses/accounts/lists, etc...

I wonder about these people http://www.3ix.org/index.php
is it a too good to be true? what's the catch?

EDIT: I just found out through a fellow penmaker who is also a Hosting co. that Hostmonster and 3ix keep control of your domain if you try to move away from them.

Semi productive today

Today I did alot of casting. I cast blanks for the Coffee bean pens today, made about a dozen. I'll probably continue tomorrow depending on the weather. If it rains I can't cast, the humidity causes the resin to foam.
I've decided to start selling the cast blanks on my site, so hopefully that will bring in some extra income.

I also made a coffee bean pen to fill and order I received Saturday at the craft fair. I'm also making a desert ironwood euro pen for a customer out east. Maybe I'll get to turning that piece I was making at the craft show (a Paudauk wood with an aluminum Celtic knot.)

Still not much progress on the website domain transfer. I'm trying to figure out why it's taking so long to transfer. Also given the availability of ABP in the UP I may give up on Zarquon and just keep the hosting at the site I'm transferring out the domain to.

Website update

Major progress. www.pensbykris.com is up and running (currently on my old host) I'm waiting for the domain get transferred and then set up the new host. hopefully it'll be complete by the end of the week.

Mini show review - Palatine HS Spring Craft faire
in short - I made enough to cover the cost of the table but including the donation for the raffle I'm down. The traffic through the show was dismal, and after I setup I found out that there were two other penmakers there.

Website progress?

I think I may have founf a way to get my website back up and running again without having to pay my "friend's" account balance off.
Courtesy of UserFriendly.org I'll know over the next day or two whether it worked or not. Then I just need to get a hold of a certain ABPeed up north to get the site setup on Z

Gallery is now working

I finally got a gallery/slideshow that is functional, updatable, and portable (I don't have to change anything when I move my site to it's new permanent home

its currently here ---> Gallery



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Website issues

For those who are wondering why my website has gone M.I.A., here's the story.
A friend of mine (at the time co-worker) and I started to work on forming our own robotics company. We found a decent host and started setting things up. Since we got extra domains I set-up a domain for my pen business. Fast forward to Monday 3/9/09, I check email and get an error message for the email accounts I have at that host. Find out that the account is locked due to non-payment and I cannot get ahold of my "friend" to starighten things out. Including my pens website. This is not good, real not good. I have a show coming up this weekend and have my cards printed and everything. I'm calling the host in the morning to see if the will unlock my domain long enough for me to put it over on zarquon (finger's crossed)

So, until then, here is the temporary site/home for Pens by Kris website
Pens by Kris Website

I'll post here when I have the permanent home set up.
P.S. I know that the gallery is broken at the moment, I'm working on that too.