Friday, February 18, 2011

ConDFW


2011 sees the tenth ConDFW science fiction and fantasy convention, dedicated to promoting the advancement of education with emphasis on sci-fi/fantasy/horror literature, publishing and writing, and science, to Dallas-Fort Worth, TX! Come join us at the Crowne Plaza Suites Hotel in Dallas from February 18-20 for a weekend of discussion, books, shopping, fun, and more!

ConDFW is brought to you by the Texas Speculative Fiction Association, a 501 (c)(3) organization. The convention features writing/publishing based programming, science programming, an excellent collection of guests, art show, a charity book swap and auction, a short story contest, and a slew of non-traditional activities such as the Sci-Fi Spelling Bee.

MORE INFO at ConDFW Website...

Thursday, February 17, 2011

More Works In Progress

Take a gander at some other goodies Emily has been working on...

A fairy and friend having a nice conversation...


By special request. ;-)


A Whole Lotta Love.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

New Dragon Sign WIP

The Dragon's Eye - A New "Burnt Offering" by Emily Dewbre-Young. Still have some finish to apply and some hardware to attach but this should be appearing soon among our offerings on Etsy. Look for it! :)




You see that empty space on your wall? You know the one I'm talking about! You should fill it with something from http://PrimalAspects.com

Monday, February 14, 2011

Burning Inspirations

We met this guy, Kyle MacConnell, who is an amazing musician by the way. He played the didgeridoo and guitar at the same time while our good friend Manda Sims danced. Anyway they were all performing at Health and Harmony House for their Valentines Day Dinner Party which we went to and thoroughly enjoyed. So Kyle passed out some informational pieces about his upcoming shows and told us about this awesome event that is coming up:

Aspire to Inspire before you Expire!


Unlimited Realities Music and Art Festival March 12th, 2011 in Fort Worth.

Visit Burning Inspirations On Facebook.

So, like, you know, you've got to be there too!

Let's see the card says 207 E. Broadway St. Ft. Worth, Texas 18 & Up. Opens 7pm Admission $10. Food 7-9 - Bring potluck if you like and b.y.o.b.

Some of the artists involved include:

Spoonfed Tribe - future primitive tribal rock
Katsuk - (I don't remember how to make that u with the two dots above it right now) lyrical bliss
Khris Lager Band
Hatch
David Rodriguez

- DJS -
Albert Martinez
Sean Sparks
D1
Sabrina Flux
John Walker

There will be live painting on stage by David Rodriguez and a glass art demo by Mad Marchand of Mad Glass.

Restricted Viewing Settings on Facebook


PLEASE READ – THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE WHO USES FACEBOOK FOR BUSINESS OR PERSONAL REASONS.

Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?
...


Don't worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can't see anything you post because the "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that, by default, is automatically set to ONLY SHOW POSTS FROM PEOPLE WHO YOU'VE RECENTLY INTERACTED WITH OR INTERACTED WITH THE MOST (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile).



So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa - you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!



HERE'S THE FIX:


Scroll down to the bottom of the Newsfeed on your HOME page and click on "Edit Options". In the popup, click on the dropdown menu next to 'Show posts from:' and select "All Of Your Friends and Pages" and then click Save.



Note: This is the fix for personal pages but I am unsure of whether or not the business pages are set up the same way.



Simply posting an update about it won't do any good because lots of your friends/fans already can't see your posts by default. You'll either have to send out a message to everyone on your list (which I'm not even sure business pages can do and is a rather tedious method) or post an event explaining the situation like this one and invite your entire fan base and/or friend list. You can also tweet about it hoping that most of your fellow facebookers are also on twitter.



PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS NOTE WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN SO WE CAN TRY AND GET EVERYONE INFORMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Anyone who isn't seeing your posts right now will never see them until they have changed their settings as explained above.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Projects In The Works

In between other projects I have been working on some of the Pay It Forward items I promised some folks on Facebook awhile back. Here are some "Work In Progress" shots of a couple of them we took during a recent photo shoot for some products in our Etsy Shop.

Raven's Nest sign by request. Almost done, just another coat of finish and some hardware to go...


Clover Hollow Sign for a friend. Shhhh, don't tell her about it. It's a surprise! ;-)