Stores open...finally and now I use a MAC

Hi everyone,

I finally opened my etsy store again after a long hiatus from moving, holidays and computer crash. I was given an older mac computer to borrow for now and I will move up to a newer model in October thanks to a wonderful friend of mine. My days and nights are now full with learning a new computer. I haven't been able to hook it up to the internet yet because its outdated with my security on my router...but this has given me an opportunity to release myself in my art studio instead of my computer....maybe I needed this anyways....lol I still have my hubbys pc to use to keep in contact with everyone. Blog again soon. Hugs to all!

I Know This Happens To Alot of People...But When It Happens To You!!!

Good morning everyone,

I was thinking I would warn everyone to what could happen if you didn't back up your hard drive....and to most of my lovely followers this means your art! When I came home from my vacation, I was greeted by a broken computer....I thought to myself....self, its probably just a broken fan, or just some random part that can easily be replaced by my local computer guru. My computer has been long outdated and I planned on buying one soon anyways, so I wasn't to concerned. I thought that I would just go and buy an external hard drive and copy everything onto it from my broken computer and plan to buy and new computer soon. Luckily I can use my hubbys computer till I purchase one. I took my broken computer into the shop along with my external hard drive....1 tb memory...more than I would need in a lifetime, to have him copy it for me.....well....I went back the next day to pick it up and mr guru told me my hard drive was gone......YIKES! Luckily and I mean LUCKILY hubby purchased me a small zip disk for Christmas and I copied all of my photos and most of my art onto it. But everything since Jan and most of my business files.....actually ALL of my business files are Gone!!!! I do still keep hard copies of everything in files....thank goodness, but yikes this could have been alot worse.....So note to all of you.......Back up your hard drives today....stop putting it off!!! I was lucky enough to have saved what I had.

Followup.......mr guru told me I can send out my hard drive to a recovery place, but the cost is high somewhere around the 200-500.00 and you still get charged even if they don't recover the data. I won't spend that..... luckily I have most of what I need.

Everything is going great with everything else, and this was just another setback....I'll get over it...I think I am still in shock and that the move is keeping me busy...hahaha, so I don't have time to think about it. Also, this is the best time of year to purchase a new computer....actually I am going laptop.....so if anyone has any advice as to which computer model to buy, I would Love to hear from you!

Many Thanks and have a Charming Weekend
Shelley

Back From Vacation.....Then Moved....Whew...I'm Tired!

HI Everyone,

I'm back from a glorious vacation! I came back to a move that was planned and we were pretty much packed...or so I thought...the week I returned was filled with more packing and moving from dawn till dusk and for five days straight, with the final move of furniture on Saturday. I am now unpacking boxes.....So tired! I thought I would post a little blog and a pic of my house. Its smaller than the last but so much character. This house is perfect for us!

Happy Summer!