Sorry for the site downtime you probably just experienced for the past 24+ hours if you came to the site.
If you didn’t know before, let me explain that the site is totally paid for by me. I have been unemployed without a steady job since September of last year and the results are starting to take affect. It is my responsibility to pay site registration and hosting monthly. Luckily, Dreamhost is really nice and let’s me accumilate about 3 months before they shut down the site. Yesterday, Craft Joint and I reached the 3-month cut-off point.
I guess the point is, if you like Craft Joint and understand what it’s like to be jobless and passionate about a self-funded project throw some money at the problem I’m experiencing with the site 
Here’s the brand new, real Craft Joint logo. There’s a site redesign and realignment of the back-end that will be launched this summer.
I would love to say the new look will launch by May 1st (in time for an official May 1st reboot), but with my schedule getting more and more crowded, mid-June or July is more realistic.
The redesign won’t just be about design, it will also bring with it a couple of really neat features like craft selling tools and at least two other totally awesome things that I can’t talk about because we don’t want to be scooped! Just know that the features you’ll see released have never been done by any online crafting community.
Exciting stuff looms. Stay with us!
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New logo
There are days when I can not take a product picture to save my life. And then there are days when the object to be photographed just defies adequate capture. Today was a combination of both.
I’ve got a facial mask that I’ve been trying to photograph in a creative fashion, because just a jar of the product is kind of boring. It has lavender and oatmeal in it, so I thought artfully arranged piles of both, with a jar of product, on oak would look cool. Sounds cool, no? No. At least, not the way I take images. I am utterly at a loss and just impossibly jealous of those people who find this sort of thing easy. Because I don’t, and I never know how to stage my product so that it doesn’t look boring or like a million other product or the opposite, which would be unbelievably fake and cheesy. Earrings are rapidly becoming my favorite objects to photograph, because they dangle and look just like they’re supposed to. Necklaces don’t do that. Neither do bracelets. And fine milled product definitely doesn’t do it. Although it might in sunlight. I tend to take pretty decent photos in sunlight. Artificial light? Not so much.
I don’t really have an end to this; I just needed to share my pain with people who might just get what I’m talking about. 
There’s a lot of stuff about running your own business no one ever warns you about. Taking product images is one of them. ::sigh::
Jenie
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