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So I was messing around with the sellit.com shopbot - love it, by the way! - and compiled a group of products from our store that would make great holiday gifts. We've got something for geeks, poker players, dog lovers, dieters, and even something a just a little bit insulting (great for a gag gift!)... so stop by and check 'em out!

Contrary to popular belief, I did not fall off the face of the planet (again - I think I may have done so a little while ago). Anyway, I've been hard at work adding new stuff to the shop.

The cooler temperatures and the fact that it's getting dark much earlier put me in the mood to work on holiday stuff. Yes, I'm insane, but for us retailers, it's that time of year. I'm currently adding new Christmas Cards - I'm not yet done so I won't post any official announcement yet (as if anything is really official!). But if you're bored, pop on over and check 'em out! And don't forget, there's more to come!

Well, it's been a long time in the works, but I've finally updated the layout of our Shop Blog to match the rest of puppytoes.net. I realize the sidebar is probably a little yucky looking yet, but I'm trying to work a little bit on that.

The whole "one style" for all of puppytoes.net came about after registering our new domain, puppytoespoker.com. In hindsight, it was an "impulse buy", like the Three Musketeers bar I had to buy yesterday while I was at the store. It was there. In the checkout aisle. Looking at me. Well, same thing with the domain name. Except the candy bar was much better tasting.

I thought it would be way too confusing to have different domain names for all of the different aspects of the puppytoes.net store - puppytoespoker, puppytoesgeek, puppytoespuppy (!?), ad nauseum. So instead, there's one entry portal - puppytoes.net. It'll take you everywhere you want to go in Cragar's world - my own personal blog, Cragar's Photo Gallery, our Shop (of course), and this wonderful and fabulous Shop Blog. That's a lot of blogs for me to update. I'll try to do my best.

You'll find our Shop hasn't been updated with the new layout. I've been torn on that front. I think I'll keep the color scheme the same, but keep the layout a little different - just for fun. Or until I get bored. Or until I realize I should really have made it the same and change it all anyway. I'm used to changing things now here in Movable Type, but I'm afraid if I start messing around too much with my Shop's layout, things will Go South quickly. And then I'll end up redesigning everything from scratch. Not too smart at this point, considering this "insomnia time" is the only time I've found to mess around with layouts and designing much since oh, the end of April or so!?

I always thought my best ideas came after midnight. Too bad I didn't think of that before plunking down money on the new hosting account.

Contrary to popular belief, I did not drop off the face of the planet.

Yes, my last post was on January 22, and I promised to resume posting once the norovirus vacated my system. Well, it took about 7 days for it to do so. Count them - seven. That was seven days of wretched misery and I haven't been sick like that since I was a kid.

Then, lucky me, I was healthy for about one and a half weeks before I came down with an upper respiratory infection. That little bastard hung around in full force for about 3 days, and I felt the after effects for another week.

But wait! It wasn't over! Fast forward another two weeks and say hello to bronchitis and a sinus infection! These little gems left me with a 102 degree fever and the feeling that I was going to cough up my lungs right there on the living room floor.

Presently I'm in the recovery stage of the bronchitis and sinus infection - still in recovery because I still need to dose myself with the lovely cough syrup with codeine so I can sleep properly at night (you know, without hacking up a lung). Hey, at least I'm well rested.

You might think that all this sickness has been the reason I've neglected posting. For the most part, it is. But, one thing being sick did was inspire me to come up with a brand new section at the puppytoes.net store.

Wait! Before you run off to check out all the new stuff - it's not there yet!

That's the other reason I've neglected posting - I've been designing, uploading images, slowly populating the new section with products, and redesigning the store's home page to include links to the new designs. I'm still working on it, but I hope to have all the great new stuff ready to roll out in about two weeks.

But what is the new stuff all about? Well, you're going to have to wait and see, but I will say - besides being great inspiration for new designs, being sick so much has had one more benefit - I can actually fit into my skinny jeans!

Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for all our new stuff!