Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Indeed - I've moved my blog over to The Wronicles of RedScot, which still has the same web address as before: http://redscot.blogspot.com/ You'll notice this blog now has the address: rredscot.blogspot.com! - complicated? Well, yes and no! I wanted to keep the address of redscot.blogspot, so I had to jiggle things around a bit - give this blog a different address and assign the real address to the new blog. The content is the same, however, should you wishes incline towards a walk down A wee bit o' this an' that's memory lane!
The poll (and thank you all for taking part with either comments, voting or personal messages) was very interesting. I apologise for ending it early, but I got rather too involved with the potential changes and went ahead with what you see below! The main change you'll notice is that black is GONE! Au revoir, noir! The readability question was the main issue noted, so the new blog has the main postings on a *gasp* white background. I've kept my favourite colours, just distributed them differently! I hope you like it!
The poll (and thank you all for taking part with either comments, voting or personal messages) was very interesting. I apologise for ending it early, but I got rather too involved with the potential changes and went ahead with what you see below! The main change you'll notice is that black is GONE! Au revoir, noir! The readability question was the main issue noted, so the new blog has the main postings on a *gasp* white background. I've kept my favourite colours, just distributed them differently! I hope you like it!
Monday, 8 September 2008
Well, it is that time of year... Why, I ask, do your annual house-cleaning ritual in Spring when it's already getting too warm for lugging furniture and upholstery around, when you can do it in Autumn, and then you don't mind so much working up a sweat and you keep warm in the cooling days into the bargain? Okay, so I've posed that as rather a rhetorical question...
I have to concede that my main reason for my cleaning stint has been to find a new place for my ever-growing stash, which was enhanced by this little lot yesterday:
I have to concede that my main reason for my cleaning stint has been to find a new place for my ever-growing stash, which was enhanced by this little lot yesterday:
Angels and Elephants! wheeeeeeeee
I know you'll be shocked to see that I have grabbed a few more skeins from the A & E dye-pots in Cornwall. Man. I really MUST MUST MUST stay away from eBay until I can actually afford such beauty, instead of mortgaging my soul to the devil for the same ends...
Here we have 'Plum Crumble' (purple, pink and olive), 'Raspberry Ripple' (pink, purple and blue), 'Candy Floss' (pink, lavender, turquoise and blue) and at the back 'Pentillie' (pale pink, lavender and green).
Aha! But I forget! Sock yarn doesn't count as stash, does it? Heh!
Gratuitous yarn shots
So to continue the Autumn cleaning angle, I am thinking about changing the layout of this blog and here, my friends, is where YOU come in!
You may have noticed the addition of :: GASP :: a poll at the top... If you have the inclination I'd love you to help me decide what to do... But before I say anything, I'm intending to keep the 3 columns, as that is one thing I do rather like!
Option 1 (to be known as Why change? It's bloody marvellous as it is!)
is to keep it as it is - colours and layout.
Option 2 (to be known as 'I'd like to be able to read this wonderful blog properly')
is to keep the same format but go with lighter colours.
is to keep it as it is - colours and layout.
Option 2 (to be known as 'I'd like to be able to read this wonderful blog properly')
is to keep the same format but go with lighter colours.
Option 3 (to be known as 'Shoogle it aboot a bit - why not?')
is to keep the same colours but arrange the columns starting from the left as BLOG POSTS, then 2 thinner columns
is to keep the same colours but arrange the columns starting from the left as BLOG POSTS, then 2 thinner columns
Option 4 (to be know as 'A change is as good as a rest')
is to change to lighter colours and arrange the columns from the left as BLOG POSTS, then 2 thinner ones.
(Lighter colours will be versions of the ones already on the blog. Purples, greens and greys...)
I seriously can't make up my mind! After polling, (presumptuous? Me?) and if you have the time and inclination, please feel free to post any comments about little tweaks that you think this page needs or, you know... anything - even just a hello!! I'm open to all hints, tricks and categorical slap-downs!
Well, almost!
is to change to lighter colours and arrange the columns from the left as BLOG POSTS, then 2 thinner ones.
(Lighter colours will be versions of the ones already on the blog. Purples, greens and greys...)
I seriously can't make up my mind! After polling, (presumptuous? Me?) and if you have the time and inclination, please feel free to post any comments about little tweaks that you think this page needs or, you know... anything - even just a hello!! I'm open to all hints, tricks and categorical slap-downs!
Well, almost!
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
AARGH!! (Translation - WHEEEEE!)
This is a nightmare. (Trans. - this is fabulous!) I can't keep away. I can't stop fiddling. I can't stop fussing. Maybe this will be the last template incarnation, and I can get on with whatever I'm actually supposed to be getting on with! And I'm supposed to be getting on with learning some Mahler, learning Santuzza's aria (what?!), re-learning the Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Rossi for the MERG dance performances, getting to grips with some new Mozart arias and finishing the Teddy for my best friend.
And not necessarily in that order.
But as addictive fun goes, I give this blogging lark 10 out of 10. (FYI - I decided to go with the black background as it's environmentally friendlier than a bright screen [less energy/power is used to show a dark screen], and it has nothing to do with my faffing about with what I think looks prettier! At all. Honest.)
So, I shall sign out, make some coffee, rev up the engine (warm-up) and start annoying the neighbours. Mind you, one of them seems to have a deep and intense need to loudly play his recordings of Romantic piano music at random times of the day, so I'm sure my screaming away will cause not an eyelid to bat.
But I might just check my emails first...
This is a nightmare. (Trans. - this is fabulous!) I can't keep away. I can't stop fiddling. I can't stop fussing. Maybe this will be the last template incarnation, and I can get on with whatever I'm actually supposed to be getting on with! And I'm supposed to be getting on with learning some Mahler, learning Santuzza's aria (what?!), re-learning the Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Rossi for the MERG dance performances, getting to grips with some new Mozart arias and finishing the Teddy for my best friend.
And not necessarily in that order.
But as addictive fun goes, I give this blogging lark 10 out of 10. (FYI - I decided to go with the black background as it's environmentally friendlier than a bright screen [less energy/power is used to show a dark screen], and it has nothing to do with my faffing about with what I think looks prettier! At all. Honest.)
So, I shall sign out, make some coffee, rev up the engine (warm-up) and start annoying the neighbours. Mind you, one of them seems to have a deep and intense need to loudly play his recordings of Romantic piano music at random times of the day, so I'm sure my screaming away will cause not an eyelid to bat.
But I might just check my emails first...
Friday, 8 February 2008
Considering I started this journal in response to my invitation to join Ravelry (hoorah!) I haven't mentioned anything about knitting except in passing. Shame on me. Well, not that I'm a fabulous knitter - I've only been doing it since June 1996 - but I am very keen, if very basic, knitter. (As I may have mentioned previously, it's all C's fault!) I'll have to write a list somewhere of all my projects so far. (Hoorah - more widget searching...) This list will be heavily weighted towards scarves and baby blankets (such is the lot of the knitting learner, but my 'L' signs are in st st!), but after a spate of making bears and bunnies for non-God-son, non-God-son's brother, oldest friend's youngest, sister's best friend's brand-new addition and myself (hey - they were too cute to give them all away!) I feel ready to tackle something a little trickier. And - hey presto - we arrive at the bag-making stage of the knitter's development! I've just started the famous 'Percy' bag with the most gorgeous purple and green yarn!
Got to show a piccie of the bears and bunnies, though... hold on while I try to figure out the adding pictures in blogs thingy works... I suspect the picture of the Tudor gown earlier may have been a fluke...
Got to show a piccie of the bears and bunnies, though... hold on while I try to figure out the adding pictures in blogs thingy works... I suspect the picture of the Tudor gown earlier may have been a fluke...
Whee - html embedding, no less! (Thank the stars for Picasa!) And there they are - SBF's newest's pink bunny (can't be arsed writing all that out again!), N-G-S's blue bunny, N-G-S's brother's brown teddy and my own pink squeezy, cuddly bunny. Did another brown bear for my OF's youngest and am currently working on another of the same for my BF's birthday because he loved the other one so much! Bless 'im! All of nearly 33, but a wee boy at heart!
I might actually get around to rubbing two sticks together later. I spent so much of yesterday re-doing this page, adding thingies (oops 'widgets') and changing everything and starting all over again (soooooo much fun, although I was starting to annoy myself with my perfectionist search for aesthetically pleasing layouts by the end) that I could only shuffle, embarrassed, past my knitting basket as I went to put the kettle on between lay-out tweaking, promising that I'd come and visit soon.
Honest.
Monday, 4 February 2008
It is now 2.22 in the morning.
It's all C's fault. She introduced me to the joys of knitting when we were playing in a Handel project in Germany. She then introduced me to the joys of the knitting website 'Ravelry'. Through that I have joined 'Librarything' to catalogue my extensive book collection and joined 'Flickr' so could upload my photos of wool and knitting projects. And I have started writing this after reading C's rather lovely and insightful blog. And this is after many an hour already spent on facebook!
And now it's 2.25 in the morning...
So, my books are all catalogued, I've uploaded and categorised my woollen things, I've joined some 'Ravelry' groups and written in response to some threads (boy, am I learning some new language options), played about with the settings and format of this particular site and spent hours with my computer photo studio making headers and footers! And there was I worried about not being able to 'share' on a blog! HAH!!
It is now 2.29 in the morning...
And I say verily again unto thee - it's all C's fault!
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