Oh my sweetums, my best beloveds… Arty Life is back!
Which means SO AM I.
Did you think I abandoned you? Ran off to Aha! Baha! with some other blog? Oh noooo… that was all a misunderstanding. But I can see where you made that assumption. She had a great body but trust me…that was someone else in those pictures.
This is what really happened…
Once upon a time, a couple weeks ago, I had this blog. Seriously, THIS blog, Arty Life. Imagine that! As blogs go, I suppose it was fine but like mothers everywhere I wanted MORE for my child.
I wanted her to have some direction.
Does that sound familiar? Do you remember your mother yelling saying something like that to you? Saying, “Honey do you have ANY idea what you’re going to do with your life because your father and I are not going to be supporting you when you’re 45?”
Do you remember those conversations? Someday I’ll tell you about the one I had with FirstBorn, which is a post in and of itself. What do you expect from a boy whose only career ambition was to blow shit up? Really, we’ll talk about it. Later. But not now. Now is the time to tell you the conversation I had with Arty Life.
Me: I love you Arty Life but what the hell are you doing? All those posts I’ve sweated blood over just disappear from the front page poof…just like that and are LOST FOREVER in the great dark void of the interwebs. No one knows the genius I put into them. No one knows they could be touched by greatness just by reading what I have to say. I could be influencing lives! Saving the world! Getting a book deal!!!
Arty Life: Sucks for you, doesn’t it?
Clearly she had reached the adolescent stage of her blog life.
And like adolescents everywhere she needed understanding. And a firm hand on the backend of her WordPress.
So I sat down and got to work. This is me two weeks ago when I first began tinkering around the back parts of the blog, getting way more familiar with the inner workings of WordPress than I can discuss in polite company. Well, this is what I looked like then.
Note the calm demeanor as I sat at the computer sipping on a cuppa joe. Calm and steady. Ready to face all challenges. Focused on the task at hand.
And this is me two weeks later, after the task at hand had it’s way with me. After the coffee worked it’s magic. After I lost all focus and my butt became one with the chair and I needed, with all my heart and soul, to get up and move it move it shake it out … DANCE BREAK!!!
Ahhhh… much better. Nothing relaxes me more than dancing and jumping out of airplanes. If you look hard enough you might find me in the video. Then again, you might not.
So after drinking too much coffee, jumping out of airplanes and rebuilding the blog, what WHAT do I have to show for my absence?
A blog you can find your way around. Or lose yourself in. A blog that has a semi-rational inner compass. So if you’re interested in, ummm…, let’s say ART, just go to the art link at the top of the page. That will take you to a menu of all kinds of art posts…imagine that!
And do check out the new home page.
But Arty Life is not just about art. It’s about life. About food and family and friends. And photography. And everything else that makes a life full. This is an ongoing process. I’m still finding my way through the maze myself, finding the right slots for back and future posts. One thing for sure, I’ll be adding MORE sections, categories and features.
There will be recipes! Like Wendy’s Power Breakfast. Which is better than Wonder Woman’s magic lasso.
And new, regular features. Like a semi-weekly look at What Leland Wore. And an expanded edition of my ever popular FaceBook digital series Ponies in the Morning. And interviews! Book reviews! How tos! Guest bloggers!
Something new every day. Oh God, I said EVERY DAY…I must be out of my freakin’ mind but until I come to my senses yes, you can count on some new Arty Life tidbit every. day.
Because Arty Life is growing up. And I’m blogging with my big girl panties now.
So wander around. Explore. Enjoy. If you have an idea for a post, a recipe or an interview shoot me an e-mail, got to fill those posts with something, y’know.
And, as always, I love to hear from you in the comments below.
Wow! Go girl! It looks great. Just don’t forget to squeeze some art in around all that other stuff!
sue:)
Lots of art, Sue. Got another show coming up! Lots of info about supplies and favorites and maybe even some demos. 🙂
I did a little exploring on your new site. I shall be back. I really love the new look Susan. You did an awesome job with it. I love the ‘Bigger – Badder- Better’ look. 🙂
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Thank’s Suzanne! 🙂
This has become a beautiful expression of all your many expressions! 🙂
What a fun way of putting it, Bonnie! 🙂
Damn woman – I want some of that coffee you were drinking!
Well get some, Tammy!
Very nice rework! I love the home page slide show feature. So “pro!”
Heather Koshiol recently posted..Learn: Mandalas Are Heart’s Path Tools
Thanks, Heather. It’s the beginning….
Oh how wonderful – it’s very exciting! The new incarnation is lovely and kudos to you for all the work bringing it forward. Love your plans for daily updates.
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Thanks, Deborah. A bit of work but worth it. Now I’ve got to sit down and get a handle on those daily updates.
The music break made me LOL for real. Great fun post.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone back and watched that video, Arwen. Makes me laugh every time. 🙂
Susan your blog looks awesome! The video is great! :)Oh this blogging life can be such joyful “work”!
Belinda Rose recently posted..Love In Action
Yes it can be, Belinda! Joyful work, a labor of love…
i like it alot, i do!
go girl go:)
climb on out on that branch
and see what beautiful surprises
find you:)
cheering loudly in your corner,
Jennifer
I hear the cheers coming from your direction, Miss J, as I’m hopping along on the edge of the branch getting ready to fly 🙂
Getting the blog to look like you want and to do what you want is wonderful and definitely a hard process. Congrats. Wasn’t that you in the leopard skin suit skydiving? Thanks for the post.
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Leopard? Yes, of course, Shelia! 🙂
Your big girl panties are HOT!! and so are your updates 🙂 Nice job!
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Hot as my big green eyes, Michelle? 🙂