Well I’ve got the updates to the site running. I lost a bit of the formatting in the process so I have to go through all of the products again and do some editing to make it look pretty again.  I think everything works, but I have not processed an order with the new setup yet, so if you have any problems let me know right away.

The snow is finally almost melted… we’re being hammered by big winds after the snow melt and massive rainfall in the last 24 hours, so I’ve been watching the trees around our house very closely.  We just lost a huge one about an hour ago, luckily it was several yards behind the back yard and did not fall toward the house.  I watched it come down and snap like a twig, scary!

I am trying to get back into the swing of things after the holidays.   I took a much needed week and a half off after working 12-16 hour days that started in November getting holiday orders ready.  We enjoyed lots of good music, getting snowed in in Portland with great friends, getting home to record breaking snowfall, and spending Christmas at home being lazy in our pajamas playing video games and eating non stop.  Somewhere in between all of that, my new obsession with baking bread, learning to play guitar and keeping the household at a dull roar, I have to make the time to actually get some work done!  It’s so distracting working from home.

Well yet again, I think I have fixed the checkout.  When you click the “Make Purchase” button from the shopping cart, it will take you to a paypal log in screen.  You can either log in to your existing Paypal account on the right side of the screen, or if you don’t have an account, look closely to the left of the log in box and there is an option (that is unfortunatley very small and unobstrusive) that says “Don’t have a Paypal account?” and then there is a link to click that will take you to where you can use your credit card directly.  EASY!

After the holidays are over I am going to submerge myself in the website to update WP and the shopping cart.  Hopefully everything will go smoothly and things will fall into place.  If not, I will be looking at other options to speed things up and get the website (mostly my end) more efficient.

Happy Holidays!  Thank you to all of you that put in orders this year, especially in the last month.  I appreciate my clients spreading the word, I certainly could not have done this without you.  For those of you that missed out on getting orders in for the holidays (and those of you that just can’t stay away), keep an eye out, there’s a rumor going around that I may be having a January post-craziness sale to clear out the last of the holiday stock.