My sister needs you
My sister, as many of you know, is an artist (click the pictures to see her work full-size — especially important for the hat book below). And she’s a hard-working artist as well as a mother to a preschooler and a busy crawling baby. She paints murals, she paints furniture, she makes artist trading cards and reinvented books. She embellishes pyrex bowls, recipe boxes, and shoes. She trims purses with feathers and fur saved from vintage hats turning to dust. She adds rhinestones, glitter and sequins to light switch plates, jean jackets, greeting cards, and anything else that will hold glue. And now, my friends, my sister needs you.
She recently had a writer friend of mine pitch her story to a big shot magazine and the magazine said, “We like her stuff but she has no web site.” My sister needs someone to design her a web site as pretty as the stuff she makes and me, I can’t do it. My html skills are basic at best besides which I’m nearly as busy as my sister. (Or she’s nearly as busy as I am — we fight about who’s busier and therefore is more stressed and therefore is more deserving of a Tim Horton’s frozen cappuccino but I digress.)
If you are a talented web designer — professional or not — who can help her figure out a pretty site to showcase her work, she would like to barter with you. She says, “Do your holiday shopping early!” If you might be interested, will you email me your contact info and web site? I’ll forward it to her and then the two of you can talk. And she’s a total newbie — she doesn’t know about hosting fees and all of that so frankly, you’re going to have to go slow with her. (I said today, “Are you picturing something static that works as a showcase or something with a database that will allow you to switch out items to sell?” And I believe her response ran along the lines of, “Huh?”) But she’s really nice and what she lacks in technical knowhow she more than makes up in friendliness and creativity. (She also makes name signs, magnetic paperdolls, and of course her famous embellished, over-the-top phones.)
A blogger I read often, Very Mom, does web design and is a work-at-home mother as well. Her website is http://www.verymom.com. I think you can just email her from there.
Or, try Pattycake Designs–http://www.stinkerpie.net/pattycake/
She does trade stuff–or she did!
Can you put up a link to your sister’s Ebay stuff? Or post her userID so we can search for her stuff? When I finally get some cash I’d love to get a retro phone for my mom’s retro kitchen…
There’s a mom in the INCHES group who does web design, but of course, I remember nothing more than that. If you email Niqui and ask which mom does web design (she was at the last playgroup on 7/19 at the Westerville Park) I’m sure she could give you the details.