Thursday August 2008 Craft Shop @ the community centre

My creation
Originally uploaded by nundecreations

The Girls have been busy

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My photoshop broke

What to do?
I have been transferring data for days now from 3 hard drives to one big one. I cannot find the photoshop install disc and I am loath to buy anymore Microsoft products so I have successfully found brilliant replacements. We have 9 computers and only 2 are for my business so it gets too pricey to be reliant on MS products for them all.
I'm sure everyone has heard Open Office. It's a brilliant FREE substitute for MS Office and I have been using it for about 7 years now and I cant fault it. It also has free templates for a variety of office forms.
Photoshop was replaced with GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program and it is a brilliant program and it is FREE. Click on the name to go directly to Gimp 2.4 Download page. I know some family and friends that will greatly benefit from this program and its reducing file size abilities...yes guys, you know who I am talking to :) I am even prepared to come around and teach you how to use it for a cuppa and a bikkie (maybe some sticky date pudding mum???)
Both Websites will remain linked on my sidebar should anyone feel froggy enough to take the leap or maybe just a peak

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What's in the box?

The parcel was late , 2 weeks late, but here it is.
Drum roll!

TA DA!

(insert Toyota jump here)

Oh what a feeling!

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Is it Friday arvo yet??

So today was my admin day and what have I achieved?
nothing.
Oh the paper work was easy, but then came the forms and all the pc stuff and I learnt the following
1. switching from XP to Vista when you have 4 hard drives is as fun as running a marathon in high heels.

2. one terrabyte of space really means 1 terrabyte of mess

3 finding the original discs to re-install onto new vista ready HD is about as likely as finding the missing sock in the washing machine.

oh well, soldier on eh?

I did successfully design a functional inventory management spreadsheet workbook. Yay! I will now know what I have in stock down to the last inch of string.
Have a fab week end

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Fantastic Friday

In an attempt to manage my time I have designated Friday as my admin day. Because my paperwork is very little at present and I am still working on efficient ways to process and store nunde related information, I wont be tied to the desk for more than 3 hours. And that's including lots of fudge time. Fudge time = achieving nothing time.
In the creating of nunde I have learned a great deal about what I hadn't learned about business. My previous business was a heavy vehicle mobile mechanic business so the differences in how that one and this one run are quite different. For one thing we didn't have GST back then. There are forms that I need for nunde that I didn't need before and I find myself caught out and looking unprofessional. So today I will be rectifying that and I will endeavour to create templates of all the forms necessary. See, I really am creating nunde from scratch and I really am blogging the mundane points of doing so along the way.
Todays to do list
admin, yes yes I know already.
weekly time management chart
Forms
list work orders for next week.
Clean work area so it's fresh for the next batch of work.

Wishing you fellow crafty business like bloggers a successful and satisfying week ahead and a refreshing week end to kick it off with.
blog ya later!

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