To sum things up, I'm not sure this site will remain here. Unless the workaround with Yahoo's sitebuilder will finally work properly on my computer (rather than me having to uninstall, reinstall, troubleshoot compatibility, edit, close down, restart...and wow! it doesn't WORK a second time) I will have to find someplace that's a little easier to deal with. I did try Yahoo's Site Solutions, but for the appearance and ease...I'm better off just sticking with my blog. I mean, the Site Solutions pages LOOK like blog pages, not business pages, I cannot easily widen the main part of the page, cannot easily add bits of html for buttons (was just deleted from my webrings because of this), cannot easily change *parts* of the background. But I can with Blogger.
Until then, I will be here, and continue to offer my patterns also on Etsy.
I'm now a little more active socially--online anyway! I have a twitter account, and a facebook fanpage where I post updates as well as odds and ends that cross my mind. As long as they pass slowly enough for me to catch them!
What am I working on now? After a pretty long dry spell, I've had ideas pushing their way into my head, including a doily for a friend's new bakery, and some water bottle cozies/coasters for parties. How often have you thrown a kid's party, the kids all have pop cans or water bottles, and no one can tell whose is whose? So I came up with the kid-friendly version of the wine glass charm. Which is not a charm...and isn't for wine.