kimmings

Bye bye old wheels

27-03-2008

I finally swapped the old worn wheels on my K2's for the new ones I bought online.

I was dissapointed to realise that although the axles I bought were in fact K2 axles, they didn't fit correctly with the boots I have. I managed to get all 8 wheels on, though i'm not sure if they will stay on. I need to have a fine day (are you listening Mother Nature?) to test them out.

Belated Birthday Wishes

26-02-2008

It was Mum's birthday yesterday. She would have been sixty one. I was fourteen when she died. It's amazing that after so many years, days like yesterday still come along and knock me for six. It's hard to put into words the kind of emotions that I go through and even with the love and support of my family - days like yesterday never get any easier. I wish she had the opportunity to meet Bailey, Bella and Riley.

Back to earth with a bump

20-02-2008

It hasn't been long since I uploaded some of my artwork to RedBubble but I'm buzzing about all the feedback I'm getting. It's really nice to have people commenting and viewing my work so enthusiastically. It's also inspiring me to paint more - it's like being back 'in-the-day', I'm remembering why I loved to paint so much... I can't believe I let myself forget.

Sleep - please, more sleep.

31-01-2008

Jenny told me this morning that Riley woke 6 times last night. I lost count at 3 and spent most of the early hours going over everything in the entire world in the most minute detail. scrutinising every choice I had, am still to make and reviewing each outcome. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep. It's been one long slog today just to stay awake. I miss the days of Uni where staying in bed til noon wasn't a problem.

I'm supposed to be designing a new page for the website at work today... but I'm having a hard time staying on target long enough; it's been a day where I haven't stopped all day, but I'm still unsure what I've managed to achieve.

A few small changes

28-01-2008

I've been making a few changes to the website over the last few days. Ever since I discovered that the paging facility on the category/tag pages didn't work in the middle of last week. It turned out, after a only a few minutes of searching it turned out to be an error in a Mod Rewrite Regular Expression that I hadn't corrected. Fixing that then screwed up the homepage/main paging facility so I added another RegEx to catch the paging there.

I also tidied up the design a little, I wasn't totally happy with the large sans font. Although it made things easy to read - it also gave off the air of a pre school ITproject and the full width layout has never been a favourite of mine. I'm gonna add my illustrations to a new section where I can update them and add new ones with ease, including sketches - but for mow I feel a little more at ease.