Yet more adventures in plumbing.

[ellenmillion]

So, this morning I got up early and took the sink apart.

On the plus side, our watertank fix has so far worked perfectly. There isn't a hint of a drip, and everything appears to be running smoothly. On that side of things.

But! (There's always a but...) Our sink faucet decided to choke up and do nothing better than dribble out water after we hooked everything back up.

Our best guess is that we didn't get quite all of the plastic shavings swept and vacuumed up, and there is a clog in the faucet where I nearly broke it back when we first installed it. We took the lines apart going into the sink and ran water out a couple of other places in the line to verify that the flow was good and strong until it got to the faucet.

So, today, we buy a new faucet, and install it all over again. We debated trying to get just a new lever part and cribbing it together with the parts that do work, or even cutting off the inlet line and sweating a new fitting onto it, but a) we can't be positive where the clog is, b) it will take some major work to put all the disparate parts together and c) Dude, we want to be done with this already. $150 for a new faucet versus god knows how many hours of work...

In other news, I got most of the orders out yesterday and have a few to get out today, and then I need to tackle the EMG-Zine anthology.

Speaking of... we need content! If you've got a review, or a feature, or a tutorial, we need it for May! I'm going to try to whip out something on drawing hair, and I've got a physics of light article lined up for June (sun!) and plans for a tutorial on setting actions in Photoshop for the computer theme of July, but other than that, nada. And we've had no submissions for the art gallery for June yet - the theme is sun, the deadline is May 1! (You'd think I haven't been around to nag or something!)

Much love and gratitude, ~Ellen

Comments

[littlefire.livejournal.com]

Oh Ellen, I wanted to do something for sun and even have an idea in my head, but I've been swamped with a really large commission gig the last month and so there's no way I would have it done by May 1, unfortunately. I'll try to get something together for the following month, though.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

You're a doll! :) If you think you can get it done by June 1, you can always wheedle Ren for an extension at artdirector@emg-zine.com :P

But I hear you if you can't... I haven't had anything to submit for several months and keep having good ideas I just haven't been able to tackle!

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[linda-peltola.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your trouble with the sink :( that sucks...

About EMG-Zine anthology... I've always wondered who can submit stuff for it? Is it meant for all EMG artists or just some selected few people? I'd actually have one "Sun Fairy" artwork I could submit...

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

*kicks sink*

The EMG-Zine galleries anyone can submit to! You don't even have to be an EMG artist! The material in the printed anthology then gets picked from all of the submissions to the 'zine. I would LOVE to see your Sun Fairy piece, here's the submission page: http://emg-zine.com/submitart.php

Thanks!

[linda-peltola.livejournal.com]

Great! I'll go and submit right away :) Here's a sneak peek ;) :

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/linda.peltola/images/fairy_art_sun_fairy.jpg

[jeliza]

So do you not need to have the signed contract on file with you yet to submit to EMG-Zine? Because I've got a whole series of solar work, but need to get that little piece of paper in the mail....

And I am still working on that "how to photomontage" tutorial, I've just been hella swamped.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

No indeed! Anyone is welcome to submit. :) (I particularly dig Floral System I)

Awesome!