Monthly Archives: July 2008

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New painting featuring the summer issue of CityDog Magazine

I was positively delighted when Brandie sent me the photo of this amazing painting a couple of weeks ago. It’s called ‘Barkalounger’, was painted by  Washington artist Connie Townsend, and is on display over in Kirkland, Washington at the Howard/Mandville Gallery. It is for sale and I don’t know if it’s still there but you can call Pat Howard at the gallery and find out: 425-889-8212. It is of course an original one-of-a-kind and features the summer issue whose cover was shot by yours-truly. Of course, I love it because it’s a pug. Go pugs!! I get to shoot another pug tomorrow night, yippee. :-)

Update

Hi all! We’re still here! Christina and I have been busy, busy bees setting up our new office in the new studio. Friday we went to Ikea to get furniture and supplies. Drove back to Seattle with a car packed full of stuff and an upholstered chair tied to the roof. Saturday we spent the day painting. Sunday I had a shoot, and then we finished painting. Yesterday I had a shoot and then we started building furniture.

Today I will be hustling to get the Dog Book finished (sorry Jill! I plan to ship it today overnight!!), then will catch up on client work tonight- Angie Dozer’s images will (finally) go online tonight! Tomorrow and Thursday we will actually be doing the move- packing my office and moving the furniture and boxes into the new office and getting everything set up and the computers online. 

It has been a huge amount of work and pretty physically tiring. Every day I have had just enough time to take a 5-minute shower and get maybe 5-6 hours of sleep. Last night I had string cheese and applesauce for dinner because I was too sore to go out and find food. :-)

Along with setting up my new office, I have been doing loads of photography as well. Picture me covered with paint, quickly changing my clothes at the studio, then running out to do a photo shoot. That has been the story of my life the last 3 days, ha!

But I am super happy with everything and positively cannot wait to get into my new space. Fergie came and checked it out yesterday and she approves, especially since there is another dog Parker there and yet a 3rd dog Bella who is a regular visitor. 

I will get back to blogging as soon as I can- for now, photography and office stuff take priority. I will post pictures of my new studio and office this weekend!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! :-)

Christina is back!

Christina is now officially back at work, YAY!! We have spent the day trying to catch up on emails and other work. I still have a couple of phone calls to make, and about 4 emails and we will be caught up, yippee!!

And it’s a good thing too because this weekend we will be moving into our new office/studio space, which needs to be painted first. 

We are going to have a very busy next few days, and I am so very happy she is back. I don’t know how I ever lived without her these past six weeks and don’t think I’d ever like to try again. 

To our clients who have waited so patiently for products/emails/phone calls from me, thank you sincerely for being so patient. I am lucky to work with such a great group of people who love their dogs as much as I do mine.

Now we are off to the studio to take measurements and plan our Ikea shopping list, woohoo!

email is back up!

I am so happy now! 

Although it was a pretty frustrating (and unplanned) way to spend most of the day, and didn’t do anything to help me catch up with my heavy workload, the domain name, hosting and email transfers were long overdue and needed to happen anyway.

I now have all of my email addresses working flawlessly, the website back online and functioning properly, and all but one domain name and hosting account now at godaddy. 

Wanna know what I love most about godaddy? I mean, aside from their amazing customer service? All of the written tutorials and help files. I couldn’t have done all of this stuff today without them.

NOW I love technology. :-)

Now again, if you have tried to email us, please try again!

If you have called us and not received a reply, please call again!

And, my sincere apologies for any inconvenience our little technology issues (and my phonebook loss) may have caused!!

Ok, back to regular work with me, whew…

Website is back up!

Yippee! I am now on godaddy’s servers. This was long overdue as the past few months I have been paying for bandwidth overage for cowbelly.com if you can believe it. Like I am some big-name company like nike or something. I mean, cowbelly.com gets a fair amount of traffic but not THAT much, sheesh…

Now I have tons more storage, heaps more bandwidth, and (if I can get it to work) a much more reliable email setup.

Still working on the email, hopefully will get that sorted toute-suite!

Yay, happy to be live again!