Selasa, 12 Juli 2011

5 iPhone Apps you Need: App 4

This is the fourth post in a series of five. Look out for the fifth on Thursday, July 14th. Read the third post here.


Now that you're cooking, managing your budget, and listening to music all at the same time, it's time you took a break and traveled to Chumbe Island in Zanzibar (Where else?). Now, when someone goes to Chumbe Islands, they want to do it right. The right flights, the right hotels, and the right rental cars. All at the right price. Kayak is here to help.

From Kayak.com, this free app allows you to look for hotels, flights, rental cars, as well as keep track of your trip with their My Trips feature, although some features require a free Kayak.com account.

When you first launch the app, you see a list off features to take advantage of. You can look for hotels, flights, and rental cars, as well as look at your planned trip agenda (which you set by emailing your booking conformations to Kayak). You can also track flight times, get price alerts on rates, and call airlines directly from the airline directory.

Although Kayak does not do the booking itself, it allows you to book a hotel, flight, or rental car either directly from the company, or through a few booking services.

If you're traveling anytime soon (even if it's not to Chumbe Islands), you might want to check out Kayak. It's free, and you can learn about it from Kayak.com, or download it directly from the AppStore. Free's always good, so check it out.

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Sabtu, 09 Juli 2011

Wanna Get a Google+ Invite? PM me!

4 days ago, I was trying to get a Google+ invite but somehow Google have not open any invites yet. But today, a friend send me an invite.
Anyone interested to get a Google+ invite can send email to edoras200 at gmail.

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BOC Second Saturday State of Your Studio

Welcome to my post to join in on the Beads-of-Clay Blog post for
Make sure to swing by the blog for this monthly blog hop to look into some artists studios...

If you have a studio or creative space, you are welcome to join up on this blog hop by including a direct link for your blog post to the BOC post so that visitors can take a look into where you create. 

My creative space for clay, jewelry and office work is in my basement.
Unfortunately this is what the view into the outside looks like:
I've been trying to figure out the best time of the year to be most productive in the clay studio.
I love being in the garden from March/April until June.
Then it just becomes horribly humid and hot and I happily go into the cool basement and hang out in the clay and jewelry areas.
I managed to even get some clay-work in yesterday and made some domed cabs for my friend Teddi and some for Darlene (D7Studio).
I just love the way these domed cabs look...
I have yet to clean up the bottoms & edges with a wet sponge,
but that will be for me to do once the kids get to napping (maybe today or tomorrow).
I've also got my glaze tests underway for my next post for Beads of Clay Blog Third Friday, Cone 6 Commercial Glaze post I do every month.
I've been glazing up some pieces and firing them in my small kiln (which gets different results than my large kiln) so that I can make up a limited "glaze color selection" for some of my jewelry listings up in my Etsy shop. I did this so that I can have a faster turn around since I don't have to have quite so many pieces ready before firing the kiln. I like to try to fire a full kiln load. Firing a load almost empty is such a waste of energy...
I've been getting in a bit of photography time too.
These are the 12 glazes I decided upon for the Porcelain Clay Twirl Earrings in my Etsy shop.
I just love the tone of blue and the translucency of this new Peacock glaze.
It picks up the detail of my textures so well and shadows nicely!
And here is my jewelry making desk.
I just got a new shipment of silks in and want to spend some time pulling some for new bundles for my Etsy shop.

Also, last night I went out to see a fellow Delaware Etsy Street Team artist (Nicole Kristiana) at her opening at The Grand on the Wilmington Art Loop then went to the after loop party "re:fresh" at the newly opened World Cafe Live at the Queen… 
Words cannot explain how great it feels to go out and be around other artists.
Especially when you are an artist working alone in a house…
Standing under the staircase, looking up the interior side of the building.
And to be in such a unique building that has so much history.
I blogged about it over on the DEST Blog if you want to see more.

Don't forget to visit the Beads of Clay Blog to see what other artists studios are looking like right now…
Thanks for stopping by for a bit!

BOC Second Saturday State of Your Studio

Welcome to my post to join in on the Beads-of-Clay Blog post for
Make sure to swing by the blog for this monthly blog hop to look into some artists studios...

If you have a studio or creative space, you are welcome to join up on this blog hop by including a direct link for your blog post to the BOC post so that visitors can take a look into where you create. 

My creative space for clay, jewelry and office work is in my basement.
Unfortunately this is what the view into the outside looks like:
I've been trying to figure out the best time of the year to be most productive in the clay studio.
I love being in the garden from March/April until June.
Then it just becomes horribly humid and hot and I happily go into the cool basement and hang out in the clay and jewelry areas.
I managed to even get some clay-work in yesterday and made some domed cabs for my friend Teddi and some for Darlene (D7Studio).
I just love the way these domed cabs look...
I have yet to clean up the bottoms & edges with a wet sponge,
but that will be for me to do once the kids get to napping (maybe today or tomorrow).
I've also got my glaze tests underway for my next post for Beads of Clay Blog Third Friday, Cone 6 Commercial Glaze post I do every month.
I've been glazing up some pieces and firing them in my small kiln (which gets different results than my large kiln) so that I can make up a limited "glaze color selection" for some of my jewelry listings up in my Etsy shop. I did this so that I can have a faster turn around since I don't have to have quite so many pieces ready before firing the kiln. I like to try to fire a full kiln load. Firing a load almost empty is such a waste of energy...
I've been getting in a bit of photography time too.
These are the 12 glazes I decided upon for the Porcelain Clay Twirl Earrings in my Etsy shop.
I just love the tone of blue and the translucency of this new Peacock glaze.
It picks up the detail of my textures so well and shadows nicely!
And here is my jewelry making desk.
I just got a new shipment of silks in and want to spend some time pulling some for new bundles for my Etsy shop.

Also, last night I went out to see a fellow Delaware Etsy Street Team artist (Nicole Kristiana) at her opening at The Grand on the Wilmington Art Loop then went to the after loop party "re:fresh" at the newly opened World Cafe Live at the Queen… 
Words cannot explain how great it feels to go out and be around other artists.
Especially when you are an artist working alone in a house…
Standing under the staircase, looking up the interior side of the building.
And to be in such a unique building that has so much history.
I blogged about it over on the DEST Blog if you want to see more.

Don't forget to visit the Beads of Clay Blog to see what other artists studios are looking like right now…
Thanks for stopping by for a bit!

Kamis, 07 Juli 2011

5 iPhone Apps you Need: App 3

This is the third post in a series of five. Look out for more every Tuesday and Thursday. Read the second post here.

So, in this series we have dealt with money management, as well as cooking. Now we're heading on to something less important in everyday life, but still something done by most people in the world, and that is listening to music. There are thousands of apps in the AppStore that are designed for doing just that. Some are paid services, some you just pay for the app, and some are completely free. This one app, called Pandora, is available for free from Pandora.com, and is one of the best apps dedicated to listening to music.

Pandora allows you to type in a song, an artist, or a genre, and it will automatically create a "radio station" based on what you entered. The station might play the song you entered first, and then go on to something of a similar style, or something by the same artist, every song has a thumbs up or thumbs down button, and Pandora will learn, as you go along, what kind of music you like.

Pandora has a clean and simple interface, one that looks very iOS-like. However, the only negative of Pandora is the ads. Advertisements appear when you open a station. Audio ads also come up every few songs played. If the ads really bother you, you can sign up for a premium account, and completely eliminate the ads.

Pandora is a great, free way to listen to music, and discover new artists and tracks too. If you aren't already using it, no better time to start. It can be downloaded from the Apple AppStore. You can also find out more at its website.


There are two more posts to this series, that's two more apps, any of which can be your suggestion. Leave a comment below telling me about your favorite iPhone App, and it might make it to the next post in this series. Plus, if you leave your name, and any website you want me to plug, I'll put it in in the post. Comment below!


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Twelve Colors For My Clay Twirl Shards

All of the pieces are out of the kiln…
Marsha Neal Studio Porcelain Twirls In Twelve Colors
In all the right colors...

So now customers that are looking at this earring listing below can pick their own color right on the spot.
Porcelain Clay Twirl Earring with Sterling Silver
And I've also created a listing for anyone that wants to pick out just a pair of these twirls and make their own earrings (or whatever you can think up to use them with).

Through creating this custom listing it dawned on me that I really should have an Etsy "shop section" for all of the listings I've got for the silk and clay "you pick the color" listings.
So that is now done too…

Now if only the sun would peek out from behind the clouds so I can photograph the other two main porcelain clay shard textures I've got in these 12 colors too…

Including two NEW glaze colors:
NEW Glazes: Blood Red and Peacock
Blood Red Glaze on Chocolate Clay
Glacier Glaze on Chocolate Clay
I think there will be an Etsy shop update happening soon…
Make sure you are on my email mailing list to get the heads up on the update and any special coupon codes I may decide to run for my newsletter customers…

Don't forget, if you like to make treasuries, I'm running a "contest" for anyone using the jewelry listings with the new modeled pieces (on Claudia and Becky) that is running until July 11, 2011.
Winner gets a $25 MNS Etsy Shop gift certificate.
See the bottom of my previous post for details and to add your qualified treasury to the list.
Good Luck!!!

***After I looked over this post again when it was live, I really didn't like the way that first color choice photo looked in the center. But I did like that circle photo…
What do you think?
Is this better???

***Ok - here is the final photo update - I promise:
I just changed the positions of the labeled colored shards to match the inner photo.
I like things a bit tidy...

Twelve Colors For My Clay Twirl Shards

All of the pieces are out of the kiln…
Marsha Neal Studio Porcelain Twirls In Twelve Colors
In all the right colors...

So now customers that are looking at this earring listing below can pick their own color right on the spot.
Porcelain Clay Twirl Earring with Sterling Silver
And I've also created a listing for anyone that wants to pick out just a pair of these twirls and make their own earrings (or whatever you can think up to use them with).

Through creating this custom listing it dawned on me that I really should have an Etsy "shop section" for all of the listings I've got for the silk and clay "you pick the color" listings.
So that is now done too…

Now if only the sun would peek out from behind the clouds so I can photograph the other two main porcelain clay shard textures I've got in these 12 colors too…

Including two NEW glaze colors:
NEW Glazes: Blood Red and Peacock
Blood Red Glaze on Chocolate Clay
Glacier Glaze on Chocolate Clay
I think there will be an Etsy shop update happening soon…
Make sure you are on my email mailing list to get the heads up on the update and any special coupon codes I may decide to run for my newsletter customers…

Don't forget, if you like to make treasuries, I'm running a "contest" for anyone using the jewelry listings with the new modeled pieces (on Claudia and Becky) that is running until July 11, 2011.
Winner gets a $25 MNS Etsy Shop gift certificate.
See the bottom of my previous post for details and to add your qualified treasury to the list.
Good Luck!!!

***After I looked over this post again when it was live, I really didn't like the way that first color choice photo looked in the center. But I did like that circle photo…
What do you think?
Is this better???

***Ok - here is the final photo update - I promise:
I just changed the positions of the labeled colored shards to match the inner photo.
I like things a bit tidy...