Reincarnations.com

Due to many factors (the rising cost of fuel and shipping, changing prices in materials and unfinished furniture, as well as abuse of our website, to name but a few), we will be drastically changing the way our artwork is priced on the site. A few of these changes are listed below:

1. Prices listed for painted furniture will be a minimum estimated price. This price will vary according to variations in the furniture being painted, customer added details, etc. In all cases, we will arrive at a final estimate for our customers, and will adhere to that final estimate.

2. We will be completely removing the paypal option for all painted furniture from our website. These are custom painted works of functional art, not fast food. Each piece is a unique work, and takes not only time, but talent to produce. Our work has been seriously under-priced (deliberately, by me, for the most part) for the last ten years, and needs to be adjusted accordingly.

3. Shipping and handling will be the combined cost of the actual shipping of the item, as well as materials and time to properly prepare the item for shipping or delivery. Other than not losing money for the time it takes to pack the item, we are making nothing in the way of a profit for shipping. This is more than fair, from our perspective, as most other companies make money on every aspect of their business (including outside advertising on our website, which we avoid due to the fact that we are not greedy capitalist pigs, but artists). We only make money on our time and talent, and though we strive to be fair, we have found ourselves the victims of those who feel that they should get five-star quality at a McDonald’s price. Again, this is something that I feel needs to be addressed immediately, lest it get out of hand.

As always, the changes I make to the site are done with the intention of making things better for our customers, and our visitors. We look forward to bringing in many more works of art to our site this year, and hope you’ll bear with us while we rewrite the site yet again.

~Namaste

The big news this month is the launch of a new section (actually the return of a very old section, but that’s another story) of our website.
The Groovy Things section is an eclectic collection of unusual and unique functional artworks. Some are contemporary in style, such as ourCustom Dartboard Cabinet, while others can be whimsical, such as the new Candyland Mirror. This section is also the home for our largest work of functional art to date, the colossal Castle Desk, an impressive bookcase and desk combination that can take up an entire wall. These pages can also be found on our site map. Well, that’s it for our webnews for the month. There’s a lot more to come, so stay tuned!

Until next time,

~Namaste

Here’s a look at our latest finished commission, a sofa table painted with a tropical reef theme.

I’ve been extremely busy of late, with new commissions and the seemingly never-ending task of rewriting the site to be W3C compliant. With luck, we’ll be seeing a lot of additions to the site over the next few months. Stay tuned!

~Namaste

Greetings everyone,

I’m wrapping up the final images on our latest commission, a tropical reef sofa table, and will have pictures of it available soon.  This project has faced several delays, from my ferret’s run-in with our resident pit bull, to a record 3 colds in 6 weeks ( I never normally get sick).  To top things off, I’ve been suffering from some nasty back and neck pain this past week, remnants from my accident back in ‘02 .  I haven’t been able to stand upright for 4 days now, and it’s starting to wear a bit on my patience.  Needless to say, this has slowed the progress of the site conversion, and the grass around my house is starting to resemble a forest from the Jurassic period, but I have managed to get some art done, and that is always a good thing.  Pictures are coming soon, so stay tuned!

Also, be sure to check out the art gallery section for our personal works and photography!

Till next time,

~Namaste

Well, I’m still tearing my hair out over reworking the site.  Apparently, to qualify for most web awards, the pages have to fit an 800×600 resolution without horizontal scrolling.  So, I have to rewrite another 150 web pages just to trim about 10-20 pixels from one edge.

Pardon me for thinking that’s insane, but I just do.

Does anyone even use 800×600 resolution anymore?  Apart from playing games, that is?  If so, maybe a new monitor is called for, maybe one built say, in the last DECADE, or isn’t powered by dinosaur.

I find it amazing that for all the rules and regulations, most of the award sites suffer from poor grammar, poorer proofreading, and sloppy content.  In fact, I’ve yet to find an ‘award site’ that is actually qualified to give awards.  Still, it’s free publicity, so I’ll continue to wade through the tedium, and try to finally get the site to a finished state.  I cannot begin to describe the frustration felt when dealing with style sheets, where one addition to the site can break hundreds of pages at once.   This has happened countless times in trying to get the site compliant to W3C standards (something that could be easier if we didn’t have to deal with idiot software vendors, such as Microsoft, and others who create conflicting standards), and will likely continue to happen as I rewrite the site.  Please be patient if you come across pages that do not render correctly; I’m working as fast as I can, but there are only so many hours in a day.

Till next time,

~Namaste

Well, as you know, I’ve been working to make our entire site W3C compliant, a task that has taught me much more about html and web design in general. I’m quite pleased with the results so far, and may even learn enough from the CSS restructure to make sense of the coppermine and wordpress skins.

This past week saw me finish tweaking the links section, and I’ve started reworking the Gifts section. It’s slow going, as I’m currently working on a sea reef table commission and only work on the webpages when I can no longer paint. I’m hoping that this year will see a number of new additions to the site, including actual items to place in the aforementioned section. We can’t give away too much right now, but with luck, we may see some prints and calendars and stuff, so STAY TUNED.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

~Namaste

We have added a new category to our artist links section. click here to see the links that have been added to this section, entitled ‘Artistic Gifts’. We created this section for artist sites that are geared toward unique and/or personalized artistic gift items. These sites usually offer a shopping cart, and are structured to sell items based on artist’s original work.
In overhauling our links section, it became necessary to move a few of the links. This section has gained more interest as time goes on, and will continue to expand and change in the future. Read the submission requirements on the links home page to find out more about our links.

Well, that’s all for this week. In the meantime, we’re working on recoding the links section to be fully W3C compliant. Till then. . .

~Namaste

You may be noticing a few quirks in our website as late.  Somewhere along the line, I was challenged by another web designer to make our site W3C compliant.   No more cheats or browser-proprietary tags or easy work arounds.   This challenge went from curiosity to obsession in the space of about 8 hours or so, and after that, I began a quest to make the entire website compliant for both HTML and CSS.

After finally solving a few coding challenges that had eluded me earlier, I finished the home page, only to find the display properties on some of the navigation menus had now changed.  This does not appear to harm the funcionality of the site in any way, but until the change is complete, you may notice some unexpected changes from time.  These will be temporary, and I will be working to correct these and any possible  future irregularities.  At the end, we will have a fully compliant website.  Yaaaay!   So bear with us, please, I’m working as fast as I can.   Just keep coding. . .just keep coding. . .just keep coding.  

~Namaste

A Very Merry Christmas, memorable Hannukah, unforgettable Kwaanza, and a Happy New Year to everyone from Reincarnations!

~Namaste

Greetings, everyone!

Not too much time for writing this week.  Lots to do with the armoire and customer orders to paint.  New photos of the armoire, plus a tropical reef sofa table coming soon!  (yes, I know I keep saying that, but it’s true. . .)   We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!

Meanwhile, I’m updating the site a bit at a time, adding a small ‘back to top’ link at the bottom of the pages, as well as reviewing the entire site for various bugs and glitches.   I correct these as quckly as possible, but if you encounter one, don’t hesitate to let me know.

~Namaste