Dear Members, March 5, 2010   My dearest mentors were Roy Buzwell, Don Sheriff and "Little Hugo" Calderara. The last two being the closest and most influential. And Hugo being the more famous as he and Mike Colonna are the artists who sprung the modern look of sand carving upon the world in the 1930's.  One day "Little Hugo" and I had finished spending an entire week redecorating one of my dad's  showrooms. No small feat as I was just a kid and Hugo a midget. We had embarked on the project because St. Charles Memorials did under 2% of my Dad's monument business. We wanted to turn that around - which never happened. After we had finished our task,  Hugo and I plopped atop a couple of 1-8x2-0s and Hugo sighed, "Looks great. Now all we need is a customer."  As I mentioned in the pervious WHAT'S NEW, I am plugging away at this new FAST SEARCH project. It is really one of those impossible dreams thingies. So far I've recreated 50 pages with like 1000 yet to go - and that grows in number as new designs fill old pages. But no one has commented on FAST CONNECT. There haven't been new members (nothing new) or even a peek from staffers like James or Cathy. I'm not discouraged. I'm one of those guys who grew up awaiting results ... which seldom come. Hence forward whenever I post new designs they will be posted ONLY into the Fast Search area.  (except for the first two of  my work posted below this one last time.)          B i l l 's  Work :   roses734 M Y  W O R K:   dpolice, fixed missing design, And all of this plus. February 2, 2010 Just a quick note. I am building a completely separate website area called FAST SEARCH Doing so will slow down new designs I personally draw - this is a major project. It is being built because I am a bit tired of hearing folks say that their searches give them too many designs not of their keywords. OK, fine, we can do this one of 2 ways. Hire a PHP programmer to do keyword searches - that's like $10,000 ... Don't tell me, you're not for that, right? Or I can just do design by design and post each on web pages with like keywords - that will take the rest of my life, but that's what I'll do. Any help is appreciated and ALL COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS are encouraged and sought after. You can observe my progress at: FAST SEARCH.  This will be the icon for the new Fast Search .............. January 22, 2010   CAMERON:      truckbl, truckbu, wedbell, wedhand            B i l l 's  Work :  angelb1, angelk1, arm1a, arm1b, arm2b, bare M Y  W O R K:  Updated the Library area., updated page, a copy of cresx here,                           another copy of cresx here, updated page, updated page, AZ,                           redid page, January 4, 2010  Wow, another year. Gosh, I'm been doing this since 1981 - except for when Jimmy took over for a spell in 1988 and Sam & Lori did it for a time in 1994. Not sure if  ShelbyM ever handled the What's New page, but he sure did a lot of other things back then in the last century. Been a lovely relationship. M Y  W O R K:  angel426, angel427, angel428, angel429, angel430, angel431                             angel432, angel433, angel434, hangbow, horn, redid page,                             Major overhaul of entire symbols library, redid page, redid page,                             redid page,  updated this page and the What's New pages  CAMERON:      3lclover, stove, tree, trike, truck2     December 12, 2009 CAMERON:    roses, roses2, shj, slamb, snow, snowmob, spinbait                        B i l l 's  Work :  57cc2, amish2, ang152a, ang152a1, ang152a2, ang152a3                             ang152c, ang152c1 Sincerely Yours, Joe Auricchio - Webmaster / Curator