Scary Monsters Auction: Gwendoline

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Gwendoline has always taken up more vertical space than average and spent a considerable portion of her youth wishing that wasn’t true. Junior high was its own particular situation… all those years of slouching, shrinking, trying to fold herself into a size that felt less conspicuous and mostly just felt uncomfortable. Something shifted eventually, the way it does when you get tired of making yourself smaller for a world that was just going to be the wrong size anyway. Gwendoline stood up. All the way up. She is claiming her space now with the quiet confidence of someone who earned it the hard way and has absolutely no intention of giving it back. The view from up here, it turns out, is excellent.

X-Large Scary Monster: 14.5" x 8.25" x 6.5"

gloss glaze finish, gold luster, acrylic paint

One of a kind scary monster sculpture made with cone 6 white stoneware clay. Scary monsters are made from slabs of clay that are pushed and manipulated into their monster shapes. They are all fired in a kiln for 3 firings (thats 3 trips into the abyss of 2000+ degrees) depending on the final finish.

IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS:
- setting up an auction page:
  - duplicate this page
  - edit monster's name at the top of the page
  - edit form to set monster's slug asinput[type=hidden][name="SQF_ITEM"][value=SLUG>]
  - edit form to update submit CTA with monster's name
  - connect form to google sheet
  - add monster's slug, label, and reserve price to SlugMap in Google Sheet
  - rename first tab to FormRaw
  - change formatting for FormRaw:$D (BidAmount) from Number -> Automatic to Number -> Plain text
  - copy SlugMap from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of SlugMap to SlugMap
  - copy Normalized from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of Normalized to Normalized
  - copy PublicSummary from "Scary Monsters Auction" sheet into the new auction sheet, rename from Copy of PublicSummary to PublicSummary
  - IF CELLS ARE NOT CONNECTED: ensure tab names have "Copy of" removed and the formulas in row 2 have been refreshed (navigate to cell, hit ENTER key twice, then navigate to next column)
  - publish PublicSummary tab as TSV (Google Sheet -> File -> Share -> Publish to Web)
  - update script block with URL for TSV

TODOs:
- [x]: handle starting bid
- [x]: handle lastUpdated with no updates
- [ ]: update top bid on successful submission
- [x]: remove static content
- [x]: test multiple auctions running on same spreadsheet
- [x]: prettify page and UI
- [x]: clean up/comment out console.logging
- [ ]: test on small device/mobile

NICE_TO_HAVES:
- [ ]: user-friendly copy for error state when fail to fetch the auction bids (currently "Error loading data.")
- [ ]: prepoulate form with the current bid + increment
- [ ]: "remember" user by storing form values in a cookie
- [ ]: placeholder text/value for Current Bid while we're fetching

NOTES:
- form must be exactly the same to share a google sheet