Links On Blog?

A silly post about nothing:

How do you put links on your blog to make it look like a website?

I'm not getting the chance to sit down and figure out the html, so anyone know a short-cut method I could use? 

That's all!

Yikes! No Posts!

My parents are visiting - they arrived Wednesday evening, and I just completely forgot about my blog, not to mention the other two I write for!

I guess family will do that to ya :)

The BabyButton is so excited to have them - truckloads more of love and attention for her, of course!

Stay tuned, though - I hope to have a blog giveaway soon!

I'm back!

It's been almost a month that I last wrote. A few things happened that just stilled my heart for the longest time, and I felt frozen. I really did. Frozen at my very core. The Mumbai attacks (read Arundhati Roy's telling article), and news reports of cruelty resulting in the death of two little girls, one in the US, one in Canada, apparently by their own mothers, were among other stories of horror and hopelessness.

How do we find it in us to inflict fellow humans, let alone children with such violence that we kill them?

Such reports numb me beyond words. And I react by withdrawing into a shell. Not a good strategy - it doesn't really help me, and it certainly doesn't help anybody else. I know what I should do is find means to fight this injustice that so enrages me, but I feel too paralyzed to do anything, and that makes me feel even more pathetic. Some day, I hope I have the courage and the composure to lend my voice to the cause of kindness and justice.

Until then, I take solace in the the thought that if the world is still surviving, then surely there is more good happening here than evil, more benevolent people walking among us than those who wish to do harm. Something, somewhere is redeeming us.

I have a bunch of post titles saved up for in between, because although I could not write I did make things now and then. Mostly I spent time with my family, finding comfort in their presence, and reminding myself how much I have to be thankful for.

So I'll be filling in the gaps soon. If you are reading this, please share how your year is ending, what you learned, and what you hope for.

Addicted2Decorating guest post

Kristi Linauer, who featured my wall treatment on Addicted2Decorating, invited me to contribute as a blogger there. I was so honored! I submitted my first post yesterday, a short note on wallcoverings.

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Good Advice

via ffffound

I'm not liking this...

...Networking.
It's depressing me.
I'm not the kind of person easily depressed
but
I hate facebook.


and I'm not liking...
this blog any more.

And I just want to paint.

I need...

a new camera
space to paint
space to paint
space to paint

There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat kit paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go your rueful way?

It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

It is that simple. What you see is what you get.


Annie Dillard
from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

RGB/CMYK

I figured out why my chairs wouldn't show up on Blogger in the right colors - they were in CMYK mode!

I changed the mode to RGB and voila!





Now if they will only upload on Etsy as well...

Two more chairs, I think

I'm not sure what's going on, but for the last three days (THREE) I've been trying to put up a couple of new paintings and I JUST CAN'T!

First, something kept going wrong with the scan, so I had to scan them mutiple times, one by one. Then Photoshop kept screwing up. Somehow the image size was always ending up wrong. If I use 1000 pixels my image size goes up to 14 inches, making the file too big. If I reduce the resolution, I lose the pixels. I am just not getting the right balance with these two. And If I leave it at a reasonable compromise. it's too big to upload on Etsy. It's not too big to upload on Blogger, apparently, but when it does, it's reversing my colors. I'm not even sure how it's managing that, since I checked and double checked, and Photoshop shows them normally.

I just cleared my cache coz it wasn't even letting me sign in to Blogger initially.

Oh, and after many adjustments, when it did upload on Etsy, the image is coming up blank with a red x in the corner, but it's not failing the upload. And Blogger is uploading other images just fine, but these two chairs are still coming up with weird colors.

I've never had so much trouble with any other pictures, and I'm not doing anything different.

Maybe I should restart the laptop and see if that helps...

Whoa! Where did Friday go?

I logged on to write another post thinking I'm doing good lately - a post a day. Got a shock when I realized we have transitioned to October 25. Where the heck did October 24 go???

I'm in so much shock I don't even remember what I was going to write about!

Now I have to go hide my head under a pillow.

BRB.

No, not really :)

Getting out there

This blog is beginning to look all mish-mashy. I'll really have to clean it up soon. There's more links coming though! Here's what I did recently:

Joined Indiepublic yesterday.

Added a couple more details to my Facebook account (generously set up for me by DaddyBoy coz I'm still so wary of Facebook and I've always avoided joining it and when I did try it looked a lot more complicated than I thought, but now I have a Page AND a Profile!)

Signed up with The Hand Made Product Directory to be included in their listings.

Created an account with Project Wonderful, and got an ad ready there if ever I start bidding.

And I joined LinkdIn.

Did I paint at all? Nope!

I don't know how people post things everywhere, and blog and reply to blogs and in general keep track of what they are doing where on line. I want to put all this in place and then concentrate on making art. But I have a feeling joining groups and websites is not going to be enough. I'll have to be out there actively participating, when really I just want to be perfecting my craft.

I hope I'll learn how to juggle it all, but right now I just want to grab a brush and get all messy with paint!