Disfrutes

Here’s a holding page for the Disfrut.es website – http://disfrut.es/  This was to show the association of extremaduran artisan head office in Caceres, although they had heard from the people in Llerena what we had to offer. You can scroll through and see a good selection of my work. I’m currently working on some low cost things, and I’ve decided to split the range between silver which will be premium and colored wire, which will be lower cost. From our one experience of being in the store in Llerena, it seemed that people were looking for souvenirs, so some things that are souvenir price will be good.

I had my last classes of the year yesterday, and I’m not doing any more now until the new year, although I am wondering about taking another month off in January to work on Disfrut.es. I was holding back until I knew if I was going to have my About.com contract renewed. I thought that I may have it reduced or cancelled as my site isn’t doing as well as it was. However, I think that this is more of an overall trend rather than me specifically, but I was still pleased when my contract came through for renewal yesterday on the same terms as last year. If my contract had been cancelled then I don’t think I could have stopped classes, however, we’re wondering if the time might be better working on things to put in the craft stores. I haven’t heard from the association people yet with a definitive answer or an explanation of how things work (for example I don’t know how they decide what they’ll stock and where they’ll stock it), so I’ll probably hold fire making a decision until then.

The house is looking great. Hopefully we’ll be in the position of getting the website up and running before Christmas and then Ian will contact some magazines and see if they’d like to do a feature on it. Anyway, we can start advertising it and see what happens.

Ian de-flied the animals yesterday. The weather hasn’t got cold enough to kill the fleas yet and I was aware of a few jumping around, so Ian gathered up our flea killing supplies and set to work. Unfortunately, this meant ‘shooting’ the cats with a fleaspray gun. Most were OK, however Miss Moppet who is extremely dismissive of humans at the best of time, looked absolutely horrified as Ian was chasing her around shooting her with the flea gun. She has no reason to be so grumpy. Luckily, Roland, who being blind could well have been scared, seemed a little surprised by Ian’s actions, but was still happy to come in and snuggle down on his box in the living room last night, so he wasn’t too traumatised by the process.

I had bought Dumpling a natural flea collar, but that just made her smell of lavender and didn’t seem to worry the fleas in the slightest!

Mushrooms for tea tonight – this is our second batch!