Beaded Bezels :-)

What sort of necklaces will you be attaching them to? If it's a beadwoven necklace, I like to bead a peyote tube as a slider and attach the top of the cab to that (a bonus of doing this is that the cab can be removed and worn with a different necklace if desired).

Ok, I really like these. Especially the netted cab. I really don't have any suggestions, though, unless you try something like a beaded loop attached at the top.

Rachel T. Damn right I'm good in bed. I can sleep for days. ;)

Oh, the staff at Cafe Press were extremely helpful -- and my problems didn't seem to be their fault.

I was having an awful time uploading the large image files. First, I kept seeing my transfer rates drop like a rock: I have DSL and transfer rates should stand at about 60-85kbps and up. During these transfers, however, it was something like 14-18kbps and down. Of course, during these long, slow uploads, my connection to the Cafe Press servers would time out, my login would expire, and the upload would fail.

I successfully transferred the first, "smaller" file for the t-shirt by waiting until 5:00am EDT (Cafe Press is somewhere in California) when there was almost nobody online. It still took a couple tries, though.

The larger file for the poster turned out to be impossible to upload. I evetually had to email the file to Cafe Press' customer service who then placed it on the server for me.

Since you live in CA, Sooz, this should be less of a problem. At least, I hope it would be. Alternatively, send smaller files: Mine are heavy with color data, and need a high resolution/DPI to print out crisply. Simpler images with fewer colors don't need the high resolution and large DPI, and result in smaller files.

Note: If you use their free service, you can have only one product type (i.e., 1 t-shirt, 1 poster, 1 oval sticker, etc.) per shop. If you want to do lots of different t-shirts (for instance) you either have to open a shop per t-shirt, or use the pay service. I wouldn't use the pay service myself until (unless) I could be sure of enough sales per month (7 t-shirts per month for me) to support it.

Arondelle

Arondelle,

Those are beautiful!!! I love them!

Oh, those are great! I can't wait to see the final outcome.

I read your blog, btw. It is cool to find your 'voice', no?

Deirdre

The cool thing about a blog is that it makes what you want to say available to anyone, but no one is -compelled- to go there... so if they don't like what you think on first reading, they can vote "no" by not reading any more. You can say what you want, and those who think you are full of sh*t don't have to turn up again...

On the other hand, those who are on your wavelength can stick around, and maybe join the conversation, and build some energy through awareness that they aren't alone.

Deirdre

just shut up. ;-)

Thanks. Jan sells her cabs on eBay under jansmallstudios

Arondelle

Mary T. 8-)

Aunt Molly's Bead Street

Did you try jansmallstudio (without the "s")?

Arondelle

I just tried the above. She doesn't have anything up for bid right now.

Arondelle