bad and good

well i am sitting here feeling quite awful for what is happening in the South, and trying to figure out how much money i can spare to send to the relief effort. we were to go to New Orleans in just 10 days for laurice's wedding, and now that is out of the picture (happening down there, at least). it is all so very sad.

the good news is...people have been so good about helping me with this endeavor. you really just have to ask, people like to help. that's rule number one. everyone needs to visit erin at Sodafine in ft. greene, brooklyn, she just renovated her lovely shop and there are so many goodies there, i can't stand it! also she painted the walls a deep and unusual color called 'green tea' and it is awesome. i borrowed a paint roller off of her. thanks, erin!

next steps are trying to figure out the internet/credit card processor/phone situation. i really, really don't want a land line from verizon. i have earthlink cable modem plus vonage VoIP at home and we bypass verizon entirely. but, earthlink doesn't serve commercial addresses. so that leaves roadrunner who is supposed to return my call and hasn't yet. great. now i am looking at dsl. i can get 'naked dsl' which uses the physical phone line without needing phone service, speakeasy offers this. i should be able to put vonage on top of that. but then - i need to ensure that i can do credit card processing reliably without a land line. fun fun fun. if anyone has ideas about this, i'd love to hear them.

and here is some exciting, non-store related news: someone in the UK is putting together a book and wants to include my jewelry! wow! the theme is 'circles and dots' so now i have to see what applies. i will be in a book with tom dixon and paul smith, that is crazy.