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A shot from last night's workshop with Red Circle Tea-- We had a full workshop last night, which leaves me feeling like our transition to the refundable $10 reservation fee has been successful. So far, so good anyway, at least so far our process has been problem-free. I'll share more photos and details about the workshop next week. Just in case though, we have another workshop coming up with Red Circle Tea on March 14th from 6-8PM. Tickets will be available March 1st at 10AM.

Annnnnnndddd, this is it for the week! As I mentioned yesterday, this has been a light week of posts, but a heavy week of decisions, coding and changes. I'm taking a break from posts starting today, so I can transition MPK to the new design over the next few days. I'll be back next week (hopefully Monday!) with new posts, a new look and new features to share.

What I am working on

Tonight is our first workshop, and I am excited to kick off this new full season of skill exchange, starting with our newest collaborator, Red Circle Tea. I'm also looking forward to meeting new participants and collaborators tonight.

For last two weeks I have been battling to take more time to make things by hand, while also updating my digital portfolio with a few new client projects, while also juggling a new blog redesign, and a learning a new blogging platform. Like I said, juggling and battling here. I had a CSS brain meltdown that ended with me baking this shaker lemon pie yesterday, and I don't even like baking. The pie turned out pretty good to my surprise, and the CSS, its fine too.

On Friday I'll be taking a break from blogging, so I can migrate this old blog over to the new design. There may be some kinks along the way, but hopefully I won't lose any content in the switch. The layout is nearly done, the new logo is done, and I just need to stop making miniscule adjustments. I've dabbled for years with HTML and some gentle, easy coding, but I wanted to better understand CSS, and have more control over my blog and various other online projects.

Now, after learning, struggling, and shaking my fists at CSS, I finally feel like I have a handle on some of this code. I took on perhaps more than I needed to with this new blog redesign, but through this self-inflicted challenge I have learned a great deal. I didn't particularly enjoy the finer details of coding, but I am happy with the results, and hope I won't feel compelled to do another redesign any time soon.

What a relief to get all of that out and on the table. Done!