Happy New Year!

Coffee is brewing, the sound of it is my music this morning. As soon as it is ready, I will head off to the studio to fuse a big load, slump a small load and pack up two books to ship tomorrow. Happy New Year!

As usual, I am too in-the-thick-of-it to stop and reflect on where I've been over the past (five) year(s) and to muse on where I would like to go and where I probably am going (the same place? I doubt it). But for fun (and to read back over next new years) I am going to list the big projects on tap for Siyeh Studio in 2008:

• Develop and maintain a coherent web presence that combines Siyeh Studio, Glass Incarnate the blog, Glass Incarnate the professional site, and FeSiO all in one place
  
• Work out a photo management system and set up a permanent photo area in the studio so all new work makes it right up to the website
• Finish the physical remodeling and improvement on the new studio (painting, shipping area, mudroom, gallery, etc.)
• Simplify show display shipping and storage between Vegas and Phillie
• Set up a bookkeeping system that I can update easily throughout the year so I don't have 11 months of expenses and reconciling to do the first of January
• Add Big Bettina to the kiln family
• Create and send quarterly mailings to galleries
• Develop and maintain a catalog on cd with all the Siyeh Studio and Fesio work

I could go on, but I am already beginning to scare myself. Now off to the studio!