Mark your CD's carefully

[SGA]

Beforehand, and as a small disclaimer. I am not criticizing the creator of the tutorial AT ALL.


Several months ago I ordered Kevan's Making of a Goddess tut on CD. It arrived in a case with the same image on the cover as it showed on the Etsy page. I popped it into my laptop and that same day, it crashed. So I had to use a paper clip to pull the CD out. Somehow or another it didn't end up back in it's properly labeled cover.


Since then I've torn up the studio looking for this disc. As it happens, every time I look, I toss one of "my unmarked photograph back-up discs" to the side thinking... Well, it was a personal disc I've made of the kids photos.

I refused to contact Kevan because I paid for it. It was sent. And if I had said oh hey btw I lost it, what did the actual disc look like??? Well, I didn't want to imply I was asking for another copy. Either I'd feel bad because that's not what I intended to do, or she'd feel bad for either "caving in to give a second copy" or for saying "sorry, can't help". Just a bad position ya know?

And I didn't want to buy another one because it was around here dammit.

Finally, I decided today screw it. I'm going to email Kevan and ask if it had a sticky label because I'm just not sure what I'm looking for exactly. Whether or not it had the ivory goddess label or not. But before doing that, I'm curious what photos are on this CD that keeps popping up without a sticky label.

Now for what it's worth. I don't ever buy sticky labels for my CDs. So I'm not about to say "wah wah wah, it should have been labeled." It was labeled. On the cover. Besides I have several sharpies on my table in the studio. It's a hell of a lot easier for me to write "Goddess" on the disc than it is for someone to print off a sticky label and slap it on there.

Those photographs I thought I had?

They weren't photographs.

Imagine my surprise when a goddess tutorial popped up.

So: Always, always, always mark your discs.

(And Kevan, the goddess tutorial rocks. I know how to make LavenderCreek's fat bellied Venus goddesses but I was after a skinny goddess. It's perfect.)

Hope ya'll giggled. It's been that kind of week for me. Thankfully I can laugh about it.

[LynieG]

Don't you just hate that when that happens?LOL I can't tell you how many times I have forgotten to label something thinking that I would know because it was in the case! ARGGGG LOLOL

Glad you found it! And its nice to see a customer so considerate! And don't ya know? It's always in the last place you look!

[Eileen]

I hate when I keep moving something out of the way while on a search, and it turns out that what I was moving was what I was searching for all the time!
Glad you found it, and I have the tutorial too and yes it's great. I was glad of the fact that she was using raku and struck it during the tutorial too!

[Dale M.]

Dale

[LynieG]

Originally Posted by Dale M.

Dale

[2tumblingdragonz]

Sharpies work on the covers, too.....just sayin'

I'm glad your found it.

Kevan's Goddess tutorial is one of my favourites. I love that it's a video and a written.
I learned so much about forming glass, it wasn't just a Goddess tut for me, but a great beginner's how to work glass video and tutorial.

now let's see some pics!

namaste
Rowyn

[SGA]

Originally Posted by Dale M.

Dale

You'd think as many as I had laying around, that would have been my first thing to do.

[Dreamsincolor]

I still remember the answer my 4 year old had for his father when his father asked why something was always in the last place you look for it, which was that when you find it you stop looking.

Andrea

[Hayley]

It's recommended in the graphics industry to NOT use Sharpies to mark you CDs and DVDs if you want the discs to last for a long time. Some ingredients in Sharpies do corrupt the discs over time. Instead use Permanent Marker for Recordable Discs.

[Lyssa]

Smart kid!

Originally Posted by Dreamsincolor

I still remember the answer my 4 year old had for his father when his father asked why something was always in the last place you look for it, which was that when you find it you stop looking.

Andrea

[cc2]

Originally Posted by Hayley

It's recommended in the graphics industry to NOT use Sharpies to mark you CDs and DVDs if you want the discs to last for a long time. Some ingredients in Sharpies do corrupt the discs over time. Instead use Permanent Marker for Recordable Discs.

Where do you get those??