Web building... wannabe

It seems like I’ve raced through this week.  Monday Mom and I got our tickets to Switzerland ordered!  Hurray!  That makes it real.  Sue found a great place for us to stay.  So right after our Arkansas Fox family reunion, I will fly to LA, and then go with Mom and Steve and Kathy to Switzerland.  Sally and her Steve will already be there as will Sue and Steve.  So we will have a mini-sibs reunion.  Cynthia may be up to her eyeballs in the Laguna Woods city budget, and as she’s the mayor, she feels some kind of obligation to be there.  We think not, and are trying to persuade her to bail for a week.

I have been taking this website building course.  I have decided on a niche that I think will be successful. 
It is on modest teen styles.  I want to be able to showcase wardrobe planning so teens can see where they can purchase modest clothes that look cute and stylish. I also want to have pages on fabric care, why be modest, solutions to common teen problems—self-confidence, making friends, how to be happy, as well as pages on choosing your fashion personality, how to choose styles best for their figure type, and eventually move on to accessorizing, makeup and hair styles.  I want to develop a community of teens who want to be beautiful and modest.  I want it to have a spiritual side, but not LDS specific.  Christian, Jewish, Muslim all have teachings that reflect modesty. 

So I’ve been researching key words and outlining the site, and choosing what I want to write.  I’ve pulled out my old “More Beautiful You” folders from when I did color analysis and fashion coordinating.  However, I’m missing a lot of stuff.  Sigh.  Hmm.  I wonder if I can find it on the internet.  I had someone who was very fashionable who was going to help me with the fashion coordination part… but she’s too busy.  So if any of you know someone who has a good sense of fashion and style that teens can relate to, (and is computer savvy) please let me know!

I’ve decided it’s time for me to start doing more family history.  I finally got to the family history library on Thursday. We had an “in-to-lunch Bunch” lunch.  It used to be “out-to-lunch” but they figured some might want to chat and participate but couldn’t afford it.  So now we meet at the church and bring a sack lunch or potluck.  In the past it’s been mostly sack lunches.  But this time there was some really tasty pot luck. So after that I wandered down to the library. I ended up inputting names onto the new.familysearch.org.  I can actually do that from home.  And I need to scan and upload pictures that I have as well.

Thursday Tom went to a bishop’s training meeting in Branson and got home late.  Friday I went to Gift-tiques and got the website approved and moving forward.  It’s still in baby stages, but you can see it at www.gift-tiques.com.  Check it out.  You may see some familiar faces there.  Hurray!  I got my first check for copywriting!  Gift-Tiques started selling Vera Bradley.  I like it.  The colors make me smile.

I came back on Friday in time to finish making pizza for the missionaries and Barbara for lunch.  I used my new paddle and cook stone—and they turned out pretty well, even if I accidently turned off the oven.  Then I had to figure out something for the High Priest’s potluck dinner that night. I made bread sticks with the bread I’d planned for lunch.  I’d started the dough in the bread maker before I left for Gift-tiques at 8:30am with a delayed start.  Um… really delayed.  It was still sitting there just flour and water when I returned at 11.  So bread sticks sounded good.  And broccoli salad.  We played games after dinner.  Some played games. Two at our table HATED games.  So our table visited.  And it was great, too.

Saturday Tom went to the temple with the youth.  I thought I’d have all day to get lots of things done.  I weeded some.  I cleaned some things.  I fought with the website… and the website mostly won.  (I wanted to get the comments off the pages and only have them on the blog.) I wrote a couple of web pages.  About 10pm I checked my “to-do” list.  Make something for Sunday’s pot luck pre-seminary centennial event.  AKKK!  What to make???  I wanted to do something kind of healthy, but didn’t have the right macaroni for salad, and I did have a bunch of cream cheese.  So I made miniature cheesecakes.  Tom came home as they were in the oven.  Fortunately they cook quickly and we got to bed about 11pm.  Another late night.

Sunday was a busy day for Tom.  Lots to do.  One crisis after another.  Stake president was there (a good thing—helped with several events.) Combined meeting of Priesthood and Relief Society the 3^rd hour—that Tom was responsible for.  Seminary centennial broadcast and brunch, and so on.  Tom was conducting—and somehow the program had different speakers than those he’d asked.  When he slipped into the bench next to me for a few minutes he said, “Tommie’s having a werry bad day.”  Poor boy.  Then once we came home after church he had phone calls, visits to do, home teaching… and more. About this time he says, “I just want to relax.”  Maybe in the next life.