SuperVery Sue’s Crafty Space on the the Web

Going Shopping

Ok so for a while i’ve rambled on about setting up a shop here on supervery.com. Wll tonight i’ve been making the first steps in a little test site.

For now I’m using someone else’s design. It’s the amazing Bluebird theme created by Randa Clay. Part of the reason i love this design is that it uses one of my most favourite designer’s on istockphoto Simon Oxley. I’ve brought and used his images for our Craft2.0 posters, and I am in love with everything he creates. So i knew Bluebird was for me.

For the brains behind, well when it comes to that i would be a fool to look anywhere else than The WordPress e-Commerce plugin created by the team at Instinct. The guys behind it are based in Wellington, which obviously earns them brownie points, but beynod that they are a really awesome crew. I know this becuase i’ve shared emails with them in the past, and have kept threatening to install the plugin

Plus the team use flickr to help explain things, and we all know about my flickr addiction

WP e-Commerce shopping options Tip #1

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Between the theme and the plugin, I’m feeling reasonably confident about all this.

Don’t worry i’ll let you know when everything goes live

A bit of fun

my merriment and laughter was had by all last night at the Town Hall as part of Webstock mini. At the last minute i was drafted onto the Code Blacks team and made an early decision that my best asset was to keep myself and the team happily supplied with alchool. This was due to 2 factors, my immense stage fright and not liking being a public figure of any kind. Perhaps my standing behind the white board during our presentation illustrated that best 

To be truthful, i still have no idea how we won on the night, mostly becuase even at the time i had no idea what we were pitching. Sober i would have had no idea what we were pitching, even today reading blogs about the night i have no idea what we presented.

Compared to CodeBlacks the Silicon Welly presentation was just so awesome, they had beautiful zen like music, a revenue stream that was shiny, they poked fun at themselves, their product (matingporridge.com) was a scream. They played for laughs and did it with style.

Plus Tim from PlanHQ who lead the Silicon Welly team proved why he is Mr presentation.

Randomness

on occasion i ramble around the web in search of something to make me smile, this evening i discovered something that fit the bill. And it also reminded me why i like having pay TeeVee in my house

Normally i would now have a nifty video clip, however this clip made the entire layout of SuperVery go a little wonky.
I thought i didn’t care but discovered i do, so head over to YouTube and see it for yourself.

Obviously my inabilty to post from You Tube means this delightful wee blog needs a new shiny template

oh and if are one of those people who does love the giant squids, head over to te papa on the weekend of April 27th, when they are defrosting a giant squid. Well actually it’s not a giant squid it’s a colossal squid weighing about the same as a young cow. It’s also the length of a bus.And yes i will totally be there with my camera, so expect update on my flickr stream about a month later.

a little bit about me

the folks at idealog were doing an article on Ponoko. Dave and Derek were kind enough to suggest they spoke to me about my experiences.

Now the article is online for everyone who doesn’t get idealog (and why would you not?) to see. Yes there’s bits about me, but also some great photos of creations by some friends of mine like Becky, Jeff, Yana and Hannah

Big shout out to Peter Griffin who was so amazing to talk to and who also wrote  a seriously  good article.

just a litle bit shiny

every so often instead of working hard
i noodle around on the internets for a while - ok for ages and ages
well today’s noodling found me this

Ladies Tools Online: Power And Hand Tools For Women And Girls
yes you can jump up and down and be a little tiny bit excited, becuase hello - PINK TOOLS

they even have a shiny one with Phillips screwdrivers, which i am a little bit in love with.

because just quietly in a completely irrelevant ways i sometimes get sick of all my tools being boring boy colours like black and grey, or all my swiss jewellery tools being red.
actually what is it with the swiss and red? can’t they just branch out a little, maybe experiment with some other colours?
lucky everything swiss i own is amazingly precise and unbreakable, otherwise I’d be changing my jewellery tool allegiance to another country. which country I’m not sure, but after watching the parade of countries at the Olympic games i might get back to you on my fashion flag of choice. Since i suspect no country has a panda or polar bear for a flag icon i might get stuck.

anyway pink tools
they are shiny and made me smile

Clifford Stoll

rocks the house
if only becuase he doesn’t use keynote or power point, he uses his hand

Now i want to learn how to make my own klein bottles

Isabel Allende at TED 2007

I’ve decided to try and do a weekly post of my favourite talks from TED.
I thought i would kick of with Isabel Allende , a writer whose novels and memoirs have always moved me.

Go on
take 15 minutes out of your week and listen to some pretty wise

and inspiring words, about passion, writing and women.

SHARE Festival of Digital Art and Culture

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Those are my creations on display, alongside those of the lovely dan of madebydan

and where are they?
At the SHARE Festival of Digital Art and Culture being held in torino

and what is the SHARE festival?
from their website -
“The SHARE festival, based in Torino, is an international gathering for digital art and culture. ”
“SHARE has chosen the theme “Manufacturing” for its 2008 event ”
“We therefore plan an exhibit for 2008 which will emphasize the digital manufacturing options available to artists today. Internet-based manufacturing using digital routers, as pioneered by the firm “Ponoko,” is one cheap and simple method, which is attracting much press attention”

So why are my creations there?
becuase Dave, Dan and the lovely ponoko team asked me to contribute some creations.

thanks ponoko

Listing the everything

yes it’s been a little quite here, i blame summer fair season and webstock. both of which i love and would never give up.

But over the next few weeks you’ll be seeing some changes to the site

- listing of each of my creations
- a place to find out more about ordering badges

and some other special surprises

CraftStock Bots

CraftStock Bots

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Just in time for CraftStock, I’ve come up with some new badges. I present to you the itty bitty bots.

Yes the photo is fantastically grainy, but then i just took it sitting her at my desk, and for those of you who know me, you’ll appreciate the fact that it was a miracle i even found room on said desk to take the photo.

These will debut as single badges, and also as a magnet set of 4 at CraftStock.