OK, so turns out it wasn't too long a job to sort out my blog as I did have a copy of my files on my home computer. Yay. Simples.
Apologies for the blogging tardiness but I'm blaming the snow days, impending major life changes and all that that has entailed. Normal service will be resuming shortly and I have some blog posts already written, well, I say written, they're in my head waiting to be written so watch this space.
Among the many posts to come in the next week or so I will be bringing you some Freebie Friday digital freebies, shoes in fridges, happiness and an update on my 17 Again post, along with telling you my big life changing decision!
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Friday, 22 January 2010
Arrrrgggghhhh!
No idea what has happened to my blog. The only thing I can think of is I updated to the new version of Wordpress and it overwrote everything with the default styles... so annoying... and I don't have time to fix it at the moment as I have too many other things to do (more on some of this later).
First off I have to complete my tax return... I may be a while...
First off I have to complete my tax return... I may be a while...
Thursday, 31 December 2009
End Of Year Round Up
It's the end of the year and I've decided it would be fun to complete an end of year blog meme. The rules are simple - post the first line of the first post for every month.
So what does this tell me? First that I write in short sentences! And secondly I was obviously too busy to blog in July, August, September and October. What was I doing that I couldn't blog? Not even once?
Why don't you look back at the year just gone?
- January - That’s what I’m praying for us this year.
- February - Tonight, Richard and Noah were talking during the bedtime routine.
- March - The Ingrid Michaelson album Be Ok:
- April - Yes, Mother’s day was weeks ago but hey, I’m a mum, I’m busy!
- May - No.
- June - Today!
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November - Ok, so I’ve signed up to do Shimelle’s Blogging for Scrapbookers class to try and get my blogging, and scrapbooking, mojo back.
- December - So today is the day.
So what does this tell me? First that I write in short sentences! And secondly I was obviously too busy to blog in July, August, September and October. What was I doing that I couldn't blog? Not even once?
Why don't you look back at the year just gone?
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Merry Bokeh Christmas Everyone!
I have loads of things to post about but the Christmas season has just got in the way but watch this space as I will get around to telling you. Yes, I am behind in my JYC but I am still plugging away at it and hope to catch up over the holiday break. I'll upload them here in batches over the Christmas period.
Anyone I'm done, well, I say done, I'm sure there are some things still left to do but if they don't get done it's not a big deal. The presents are wrapped, the turkey is defrosting, the tree is up and decorated. I wanted to post a photo of my tree but it is so difficult to capture the look of it properly. I think it's because it is sitting in the bay window and the light coming in behind just completely throws the front of the tree into darkness, also not helped by the time of year when it feels much darker outside anyway.
So, the tree. I love our tree. It has real candles on it! I know, I know, you are probably all saying "What? Are you mad?", and yes we are probably a little but we've had real candles on our real tree ever since our first Christmas together. It's a german thing (Richard is german for those of you who haven't realised this yet...) and when we were first married we tried to combine some of his german Christmas traditions in with mine. The candles were one of them. I love them. For those of you thinking of the safety aspects... the children have grown up with real candles and know to stay away. We never light them and then leave the children in the room unattended. In fact we never leave the room unattended when the candles have been lit at all. Richard is in charge of 'candle placement'! It is his job to make sure that the tree we buy is suitable for candles (enough branches sticking out far enough to hold a candle and not burn the branch above). It's one of the reasons we take our tree buying seriously, we need to look at the tree from every angle. It can't be too bushy, it needs to be a wide triangular shape... Then once the candles have been placed it's also his job to keep a very close eye on them, the first time of lighting especially. We need to tweak their positions sometimes when they've first been lit but then they are usually OK.
I'll take a photo of the candle lit tree tonight in the meantime I've been playing with bokeh! I've taken this style of photo in the past without even realising that it was a 'style' but after reading a recent blog post by Amy I thought I'd have an attempt myself. I also did a bit of research and found out about shaped bokeh and well, let's say I stopped everything I should have been doing and had a play (click on any of the photos to enlarge them):
Anyone I'm done, well, I say done, I'm sure there are some things still left to do but if they don't get done it's not a big deal. The presents are wrapped, the turkey is defrosting, the tree is up and decorated. I wanted to post a photo of my tree but it is so difficult to capture the look of it properly. I think it's because it is sitting in the bay window and the light coming in behind just completely throws the front of the tree into darkness, also not helped by the time of year when it feels much darker outside anyway.
So, the tree. I love our tree. It has real candles on it! I know, I know, you are probably all saying "What? Are you mad?", and yes we are probably a little but we've had real candles on our real tree ever since our first Christmas together. It's a german thing (Richard is german for those of you who haven't realised this yet...) and when we were first married we tried to combine some of his german Christmas traditions in with mine. The candles were one of them. I love them. For those of you thinking of the safety aspects... the children have grown up with real candles and know to stay away. We never light them and then leave the children in the room unattended. In fact we never leave the room unattended when the candles have been lit at all. Richard is in charge of 'candle placement'! It is his job to make sure that the tree we buy is suitable for candles (enough branches sticking out far enough to hold a candle and not burn the branch above). It's one of the reasons we take our tree buying seriously, we need to look at the tree from every angle. It can't be too bushy, it needs to be a wide triangular shape... Then once the candles have been placed it's also his job to keep a very close eye on them, the first time of lighting especially. We need to tweak their positions sometimes when they've first been lit but then they are usually OK.
I'll take a photo of the candle lit tree tonight in the meantime I've been playing with bokeh! I've taken this style of photo in the past without even realising that it was a 'style' but after reading a recent blog post by Amy I thought I'd have an attempt myself. I also did a bit of research and found out about shaped bokeh and well, let's say I stopped everything I should have been doing and had a play (click on any of the photos to enlarge them):
The last 2 photos were taken in the style of shaped bokeh and, even though they aren't anywhere near perfect, I am pleased with the results. These are not photoshopped or manipulated post photo at all. If you are interested in knowing how I did this I'll post on this another time...
Finally I would just like to wish everyone who reads my blog a Merry Christmas and a fabulous 2010.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
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The degree of turn I executed on the road this afternoon!
I wanted, didn't need, but wanted to pop to the local craft shop (more on this below) and literally only got a few 100 yards down the road when the car started to spin on some black ice. I admit my first split second reaction was to panic but then I remembered that you are supposed to steer in to a skid not try to steer out of it - so I did. It was a really strange moment. No, my life did not flash before my eyes but I felt weird. Everything seemed to slow down and I was there but not there if you know what I mean.
The car was skidding to the right, so I steered to the right. It felt almost balletic as the rear end of the car swung round and I found myself stationery but facing the opposite direction on the other side of the road. I didn't hit anything, not even the curb, and no damage to myself - apart from my nerves! As I was close to home I just drove straight back. Slowly and carefully straight back. My heart was hammering.
After a few minutes I ventured out again. Not because I needed to, lol, but because I wanted to go to the local craft shop, Sparkle Dreams, and look at their newly stocked range of Ciao Copic markers! That and the new Magnolia stamps they received on Friday. This time I made sure to stick with the main roads and made it there, and back, safely.
And talking of Sparkle Dreams I have some news. From January I will be teaching a couple of classes a month, to start with anyway, at the shop, joining Solance and Sandie as part of the team. I'm really excited even though it is a break from my usual teaching of scrapbooking as I will be teaching card classes. But not just any card classes. No. I'm really going to concentrate on techniques and creating cards with a difference. Cards that are interactive or not your usual run of the mill.
If you are interested in booking a place for my class on 16th January 2010 call the shop on 01793 979101 or email to hello@sparkledreams.co.uk. I'll be posting some photos of the cards we will be doing sometime over the next couple of weeks.
Blogging will probably be a bit sporadic over the next couple of weeks as I plan to spend some family time, playing board games, watching Christmas movies, cooking, eating, drinking but I will be back with a vengeance in the new year. I've got lots planned, including some more digital giveaways, so bookmark me and watch this space.
I wanted, didn't need, but wanted to pop to the local craft shop (more on this below) and literally only got a few 100 yards down the road when the car started to spin on some black ice. I admit my first split second reaction was to panic but then I remembered that you are supposed to steer in to a skid not try to steer out of it - so I did. It was a really strange moment. No, my life did not flash before my eyes but I felt weird. Everything seemed to slow down and I was there but not there if you know what I mean.
The car was skidding to the right, so I steered to the right. It felt almost balletic as the rear end of the car swung round and I found myself stationery but facing the opposite direction on the other side of the road. I didn't hit anything, not even the curb, and no damage to myself - apart from my nerves! As I was close to home I just drove straight back. Slowly and carefully straight back. My heart was hammering.
After a few minutes I ventured out again. Not because I needed to, lol, but because I wanted to go to the local craft shop, Sparkle Dreams, and look at their newly stocked range of Ciao Copic markers! That and the new Magnolia stamps they received on Friday. This time I made sure to stick with the main roads and made it there, and back, safely.
And talking of Sparkle Dreams I have some news. From January I will be teaching a couple of classes a month, to start with anyway, at the shop, joining Solance and Sandie as part of the team. I'm really excited even though it is a break from my usual teaching of scrapbooking as I will be teaching card classes. But not just any card classes. No. I'm really going to concentrate on techniques and creating cards with a difference. Cards that are interactive or not your usual run of the mill.
If you are interested in booking a place for my class on 16th January 2010 call the shop on 01793 979101 or email to hello@sparkledreams.co.uk. I'll be posting some photos of the cards we will be doing sometime over the next couple of weeks.
Blogging will probably be a bit sporadic over the next couple of weeks as I plan to spend some family time, playing board games, watching Christmas movies, cooking, eating, drinking but I will be back with a vengeance in the new year. I've got lots planned, including some more digital giveaways, so bookmark me and watch this space.
Monday, 9 November 2009
My New Look Blog
And I'm not ashamed to admit that it's had me tearing my hair out at times! I can't count the number of times I got it 'almost' right but then there would be one little thing that just didn't look right and then I'd tweak it only to find that it had, somehow (don't ask me how) messed EVERYTHING up. I then ended up having to reinstall and start from scratch.... arrrrgggghhhh.
The hardest part was trying to find a basic theme that would allow me, with my limited CSS and HTML skills, to customise it and get it to look the way I would like it to look. I spent hours, and I mean hours, trawling the internet looking for just the right theme and guess what? It turns out that the default theme that's installed with Wordpress is just perfect. Wouldn't you know?
Anyway, here it is. Complete. The graphics side of things was sorted out in the wee hours of this morning (which was not a good idea considering I had to get up again at 7am - Jools + 5 hours sleep = not a good mix) and I've spent the better part of today trying to work out how best to fit it in with my main domain page, getting the links to work, coding up my main domain HTML and CSS to match the Wordpress blog. I still need to sort out my blogroll and other links but to all intents and purposes I'm done. This is it. For now anyway!
And who knows I may actually blog now...
The hardest part was trying to find a basic theme that would allow me, with my limited CSS and HTML skills, to customise it and get it to look the way I would like it to look. I spent hours, and I mean hours, trawling the internet looking for just the right theme and guess what? It turns out that the default theme that's installed with Wordpress is just perfect. Wouldn't you know?
Anyway, here it is. Complete. The graphics side of things was sorted out in the wee hours of this morning (which was not a good idea considering I had to get up again at 7am - Jools + 5 hours sleep = not a good mix) and I've spent the better part of today trying to work out how best to fit it in with my main domain page, getting the links to work, coding up my main domain HTML and CSS to match the Wordpress blog. I still need to sort out my blogroll and other links but to all intents and purposes I'm done. This is it. For now anyway!
And who knows I may actually blog now...
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