as is probably quite obvious, you can no longer access the website via madeyedesigns.net! this is because i stupidly let my subscription to my name hosting service expire, and some robot ad spam site statched madeyedesigns.net up! needless to say, this makes me pretty sad, and i'm totally mad at myself, but i'm trying to fix the problem as best i can.
so, please use either madeye-designs.net or madeye-designs.com-- they both should work.
if you know anyone that might have been a past and/or a potential future madeye visitor, please let them know about this! i certainly don't expect anyone to, but if you could even blog about this little change, then heck... that would be awesome.
also, if you have a website that links to madeye, could you please change your link accordingly? either the .com or the .net will be fine, though i think i'm going to favor the .net just because it's closer to the old address. (the .com was bought mainly so no one else would snatch it up and cause even further confusion!)
thanks & sorry for the inconvenience!
30 July 2006
24 July 2006
oh noooo!
so i inadvertantly let my ownership of www.madeyedesigns.net expire. i should have renewed it last week when i got all of the reminder emails but i was busy and it just got lost in the shuffle. i thought it wouldn't be a big deal but when i checked tonight to make sure it was okay, i discovered that the name seems to have been bought by some kind of robot ad site. you can see it by just going to http://www.madeyedesigns.net.
while the site is still accessible at its actual url, http://www.brightandbeautiful.org/madeye (madeyedesigns.net was just a referrer url), i still obviously want my domain name back since it's on all my business cards etcetera, and also is the url that i actually give people and that is linked to by most websites that link to me, and all of that jazz. also, as i discovered last summer when i first wanted to buy the name, madeyedesigns.com is actually taken already. this means all of my visitors are going to be hitting this robot site AND that i don't have any better options for other names to buy, if this one can't be bought back.
basically, i need some advice! if this has happened to you or anyone you know, what did you do? what can i do? what would you suggest? i emailed the address that came up on the "why am i seeing this site?" link on the robot page, but haven't heard back yet. if they can't tell me anything or refuse to sell it back to me, what can be done? (i already checked on one of those sites where you can "place a bid" to buy a domain name from someone that has it, but the minimum bid had to be $200 and i just don't have that kind of money!)
i appreciate any help i can get. i know this is all my fault for letting it expire, but i want to fix it asap! i feel so clueless and ridiculous for letting this happen. argh.
while the site is still accessible at its actual url, http://www.brightandbeautiful.org/madeye (madeyedesigns.net was just a referrer url), i still obviously want my domain name back since it's on all my business cards etcetera, and also is the url that i actually give people and that is linked to by most websites that link to me, and all of that jazz. also, as i discovered last summer when i first wanted to buy the name, madeyedesigns.com is actually taken already. this means all of my visitors are going to be hitting this robot site AND that i don't have any better options for other names to buy, if this one can't be bought back.
basically, i need some advice! if this has happened to you or anyone you know, what did you do? what can i do? what would you suggest? i emailed the address that came up on the "why am i seeing this site?" link on the robot page, but haven't heard back yet. if they can't tell me anything or refuse to sell it back to me, what can be done? (i already checked on one of those sites where you can "place a bid" to buy a domain name from someone that has it, but the minimum bid had to be $200 and i just don't have that kind of money!)
i appreciate any help i can get. i know this is all my fault for letting it expire, but i want to fix it asap! i feel so clueless and ridiculous for letting this happen. argh.
20 July 2006
ruffles of much frustration / formerly naked animals
here's the most recent hat i've finished, the one with the ruffles as previously mentioned. yeah, i do think i might try them again. this is pretty freaking cute, i think. oh well.
here's a woefully yellow detail of the applique. (man, my camera is apparently quite tired of taking pictures of hats these days, and appears to be refusing to take decent shots in rebellion.)
between the two of those, you might be able to discern the actual color of the yarn. i really like it, but it's quite subtle-- moreso than i'm used to, anyway. here's perhaps a better take of it:
i do think i'm going to carry the bird / disc / ruffle thing on over to some pins that i've started on lately. i really like making pins but doing flowers got soooo infernally old, so hopefully this will be a nice change.
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here are some non-madeye crochet projects i've done recently... very small ones, very simple, but the end product is so cute that i just want to share:
they're bare bears! pamela barsky makes them. they're nudie muslin bears that you can decorate however you want. these were gifts from my boss / the owner of the store where i work, to the staff, for us to decorate for display in the store. mine is the one with the hearts (the love rash, as i like to call it) and the green scarf (which i made and now want a big version of for myself). the other is by my friend & coworker denise... he's on team zissou! i made his hat. it matches his painted-on red speedo! he is spectacular.
here's a woefully yellow detail of the applique. (man, my camera is apparently quite tired of taking pictures of hats these days, and appears to be refusing to take decent shots in rebellion.)
between the two of those, you might be able to discern the actual color of the yarn. i really like it, but it's quite subtle-- moreso than i'm used to, anyway. here's perhaps a better take of it:
i do think i'm going to carry the bird / disc / ruffle thing on over to some pins that i've started on lately. i really like making pins but doing flowers got soooo infernally old, so hopefully this will be a nice change.
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here are some non-madeye crochet projects i've done recently... very small ones, very simple, but the end product is so cute that i just want to share:
they're bare bears! pamela barsky makes them. they're nudie muslin bears that you can decorate however you want. these were gifts from my boss / the owner of the store where i work, to the staff, for us to decorate for display in the store. mine is the one with the hearts (the love rash, as i like to call it) and the green scarf (which i made and now want a big version of for myself). the other is by my friend & coworker denise... he's on team zissou! i made his hat. it matches his painted-on red speedo! he is spectacular.
12 July 2006
oh, sampler! / oh, ruffles!
so i've been meaning to get on this sampler business for quite some time, but i've just never had the time / energy / inspiration. of course i always feel a twinge of sadness (jealousy?) when i see photos of others' contributions. they're usually insanely cute and, in retrospect, enough for me to put my whole life on hold just so i can whip up some crafty madeye goodness to share, on the off chance i might get in my package whatever item has just struck my fancy.
of course i do realize that i could most likely just buy whatever item of cuteness / awesomeness it is... such is the case with these fabric pendants from glue and glitter from my atlanta-buddy and sometime-kraftwork-tableneighbor, becky. i looove them and i really hope she puts them on her site so i can get one. because i loooove them.
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in other news, i actually finished a hat last night at stitch & bitch! it involved ruffles. sewing on ruffles. which i am not a fan of... but it looks so cute and ruffly now that it's done that i might have to recant last night's proclamation of "NO MORE RUFFLES EVER AGAIN!" and do some more on something else. ohhh hypocrisy, you are so bitter... but ohhh ruffles, you are so sweet!
picture coming soon!
of course i do realize that i could most likely just buy whatever item of cuteness / awesomeness it is... such is the case with these fabric pendants from glue and glitter from my atlanta-buddy and sometime-kraftwork-tableneighbor, becky. i looove them and i really hope she puts them on her site so i can get one. because i loooove them.
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in other news, i actually finished a hat last night at stitch & bitch! it involved ruffles. sewing on ruffles. which i am not a fan of... but it looks so cute and ruffly now that it's done that i might have to recant last night's proclamation of "NO MORE RUFFLES EVER AGAIN!" and do some more on something else. ohhh hypocrisy, you are so bitter... but ohhh ruffles, you are so sweet!
picture coming soon!
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