I hope all of you had nice, quiet holidays and I wish you all a Happy New Years! ^o^
For us the new year starts exciting and bumpy at the same time.
My husband got a new job at a university at Bonn! Sadly the contract is limited to three years but we hope that over time it will get prolonged or even permanent.
Sadly Bonn is so far away that we'll definitely have to move and quite far, to boot. There's tons of work to do in all kinds of sections and the website has to keep cutting back.
After some steps back my leg is now quite okay. Thanks to the hurt nerve my foot still hurts a lot and after walking ~2km I need a crutch but apart from that I walk quite normally again and the surgeon was very pleased with the latest x-ray of my leg.
Although I sometimes walk for hours I still have lots of problems on the local staircase, especially when I try to carry something.
Speaing of the website - today it's is exactly 15 years since the url ephralon.de went live. Happy birthday, website! So now it's a teenager. *wipes tear away*
Actually I had plans to celebrate that but due to all the chaos of the year the plan didn't survive summer. While I updated some articles (a handful of links actually are dead right now since the articles still have to be updated and/or translated) and uploaded a giant bunch of new (doll) photos to the galleries there just wasn't more time prior to X-mas to update more - just making the gifts for our relatives took me two months! I didn't want to celebrate without having something nice for ALL topics of the website, though.
So I decided to work diligently after the move again so the website continues to grow until its 18th. Then we'll celebrate its age of consent with a giant party. ;)
Since the light situation in my current doll room is a desaster Dolltopia was on halt until I was able to buy new lamps. Hopefully I'll be able to do the photo stories with only artificial light from now on. I do test whether the project would do better as articles than as galleries, though, and the first photos have to be taken again to match the later pics in style. Dolltopia will surely continue in January.
Currently I do have quite some material up my sleeve but almost everything is about dolls, crafts or model building since those things simply happen while I finish projects prior to the move or as preparations for the first chapters of Dolltopia.
Of course I do have truckloads of other ideas and plans but I really have no idea how much I can do before the move (or shortly after). It makes me very sad but my pretty graphic tablet is still barely used. :(
Oh yeah, although I said it on the forum I better say it here too:
In the foreseeable future we will move to a new, more powerful server so the website will probably not be available for 1-3 days one day when the url gets reconnected.